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"Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies...
3) Ginny Moon
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Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager--she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class. But Ginny is autistic ... After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and moved around to different homes, Ginny has finally found her 'forever home'--a safe place with parents who will love and nurture her. This is exactly what all foster kids are hoping for,...
5) You're next
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Mike Wingate, left at a playground at the age of four and raised in foster care, grows up to marry Annabel, the woman of his dreams, with whom he has an eight-year-old daughter, Kat, and with his construction business taking off it looks as though he has created the life he always wanted, but problems arise when menacing characters from a past he does not even remember begin threatening Mike and his family, and with the police unwilling to help, he...
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Hogarth
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Like everyone else in the Panopticon, 15-year-old Anais Hendricks has been in and out of foster care practically since birth. "[B]orn in a nuthouse to nobody that was ever seen again," she had her only successful foster placement with a prostitute later stabbed to death (Anais found the body). She's been sent to this facility, where the inmates are under constant surveillance, because she had a bad history with a policewoman who has been bludgeoned...
7) What I carry
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"Growing up in foster care, Muir has lived in many houses. And if she's learned one thing, it is to Pack. Light. Carry only what fits in a suitcase. Toothbrush? Yes. Socks? Yes. Emotional attachment to friends? foster families? a boyfriend? Nope! There's no room for any additional baggage. Muir has just one year left before she ages out of the system. One year before she's free. One year to avoid anything--or anyone--that could get in her way. Then...
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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What happens when falling in love makes everyone around you go bonkers? Amber Nicholls, Lachlan McCarthy, and Raffaele Wright grew up as foster kids in Teddy Penhaligon's seaside home and have forged a bond tighter than glue. When they get the news that Teddy's met someone while on vacation, they'll do anything to protect him from a presumed gold-digger--even if she seems lovely and charming. Is she fooling them all? Or is she spurring them to uncover...
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2022.
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"A debut novel about an odd assortment of residents living in a crumbling apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest"--
The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, commonly known as the Rabbit Hutch, a number of people now reside quietly, looking for ways to live in a dying city. Apartment C2 is lonely and detached. C6 is aging and stuck....
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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"From the author of the international bestselling 'The sweetness of forgetting' comes a novel that's 'Sliding doors' meets 'P.S. I love you'. A woman who lost her husband is ready to move on, but her subconscious won't let her. Is she dreaming of her late husband? Or slipping through to the life she should have had?"--
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. This box set includes: THE AMISH MIDWIFE'S BARGAIN by Patrice Lewis After a tragic loss, midwife Miriam Kemp returns to her Amish roots and vows to leave her nursing life behind--until she accidentally hits Aaron Lapp with her car. Determined to make amends, she offers to help the reclusive Amish bachelor with his farm. Working together...
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THE CONCLUSION TO THE FAN FAVORITE SERIES FROM LYNETTE EASON After making a new life for herself and her infant daughter in Rose Mountain, widow Maggie Bennett thought they were safe. Getting caught in the middle of a bank robbery changes everything -- and introduces her to policeman Reese Kirkpatrick. He seems to be everything her abusive late husband wasn't ... just the man she needs to help her through the growing list of sinister occurrences....
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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From acclaimed author Alyssa Cole comes the tale of a city Cinderella and her Prince Charming in disguise . . Between grad school and multiple jobs, Naledi Smith doesn't have time for fairy tales ... or patience for the constant e-mails claiming she's betrothed to an African prince. Sure. Right. Delete! As a former foster kid, she's learned that the only things she can depend on are herself and the scientific method, and a silly e-mail won't convince...
15) Night road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Jude Farraday is worried about her twins, high school seniors Mia and Zach, after they become close to Lexi Baill, a former foster child who has recently moved to the neighborhood, and when Jude's worst fears come true, the family is torn apart and Lexi loses everything.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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Fourteen-year-old Sarah Crane, coping with the untimely death of her mother, ends up in foster care after her alcoholic father is jailed for killing a man in a bar fight and injuring her in a car accident, and is befriended by a schizophrenic boy and an art teacher who help Sarah hone her psychic abilities.
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Harlequin Heartwarming brings you a collection of four new wholesome reads, available now! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: A GIFT FOR SANTA A Northern Lights Novel by Beth Carpenter Years ago, Chris Allen blew his chance to marry the woman he loved, Marissa Gray. But a snowless December, a dinosaur-loving seven-year-old foster child and Santa’s reindeer bring them together once again. EVERY SERENGETI SUNRISE From Kenya, with Love by...
18) Lethal Intent
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"If they expected silence, they hired the wrong woman. Caroline Bragg's life has never been better. She and Brandon Lancaster are taking their relationship to the next level, and she has a new dream job as legal counsel for Praecursoria--a research lab that is making waves with its cutting-edge genetic therapies. The company's leukemia treatments even promise to save desperately sick kids--kids like eleven-year-old Bethany, a critically ill foster...
19) We must be brave
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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In the disorderly evacuation of Southampton, England, newly married Ellen Parr finds a small child asleep on the backseat of an empty bus. No one knows who little Pamela is. Ellen professed not to want children with her older husband, and when she takes Pamela into her home and rapidly into her heart, she discovers that this is true: Ellen doesn't want children. She wants only Pamela. Three golden years pass as the Second World War rages on. Then...
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Secrets of Neverwood volume 1-3
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Three foster brothers are called home to Neverwood, the stately Pacific Northwest mansion of their youth. They have nothing in common but a promise to Audrey, the woman they all called motherthat upon her death, they would restore the house and preserve it as a home for troubled boys. But going home is never easy. Cal struggles to recover from past heartbreak, while Danny fears his mistakes are too big to overcome. Devon believes he may never break...
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