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3) The guardian
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English
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After schoolteacher Jodi Winfield finds a little girl on the side of the road, she delves into the isolated community of the Lancaster Old Order Amish to find answers.
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English
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Ray Bradbury, America's most beloved storyteller, has spent a lifetime carrying readers to exhilarating and dangerous places, from dark street comers in unfamiliar cities and towns to the edge of the universe. Now, in an extraordinary flight of the imagination a half-century in the making, he takes us to a most wondrous destination: into the heart of an Eternal Family.
They have lived for centuries in a house of legend and mystery in
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How far will a mother go to save her child?
Ten-years ago, Ruby Leander was a drifting nineteen-year-old who made a split-second decision at an Oklahoma rest stop. Fast forward nine years: Ruby and her daughter Lark live in New Mexico. Lark is a precocious, animal loving imp, and Ruby has built a family for them with a wonderful community of friends and her boyfriend of three years. Life is good. Until the day, Ruby reads a magazine article about...
6) The convent
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W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Mother Superior Maria Ines finds a baby nestled in a suitcase on the doorstep of her convent where six women are devoted to God, solitude, and silence, but taking the baby in opens the door for Maria's romantic past to come back to haunt her.
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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First comes baby ... then comes love? In this Amish County Courtships romance Amish store clerk Tessa Fisher isn't ready for marriage or a family -- until a baby girl is abandoned on her doorstep. Now Tessa and her gruffly handsome landlord, Turner King, must mind the baby together. And soon Turner and the sweet-cheeked kind are burrowing into Tessa's heart. But with secrets between them, can the temporary family find a way to stay together forever?...
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Wings and Co volume 1
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"When Emily Vole inherits an abandoned shop, it is up to her to battle a fairy-snatching witch and get to the bottom of Operation Bunny"--Page 4 of cover.
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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A breathtaking epic fantasy of love, war, rebirth, and magical destiny based on the haunting folklore of England, Ireland, and Scotland unfolds across a vivid landscape of wonder and peril In The Ill-Made Mute, a wretched, nameless mute awakens without a memory in a lofty tower upon whose battlements winged horses and flying ships make landfall. The amnesiac longs to escape and roam the wild landscape in search of a past, a name, and a destiny. But...
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Bitterbynde volume 1
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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In a dark and perilous realm, an outcast without a name or a memory seeks a voice, a past, and a future in the first installment of a modern classic fantasy trilogy In all of Erith, there is perhaps no one as wretched as the nameless mute foundling confined to the lowest depths of Isse Tower. Abused by many and despised by all, the pathetic creature lives without memories in the shadows. The amnesiac longs to escape-to roam the wild landscape in search...
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MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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""Fantasy at its most sublime."--Erin Morgenstern, NYT bestselling author of The Night Circus A penetrating tale of magic, faith and pride... The Unwilling is the story of Judah, a foundling born with a special gift and raised inside Highfall castle along with Gavin, the son and heir to Lord Elban's vast empire. Judah and Gavin share an unnatural bond that is both the key to her survival...and possibly her undoing. As Gavin is groomed for his future...
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Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Linda Broday's heroes step right out of her books and into your heart. -- JODI THOMAS, New York Times bestselling author He'll do whatever it takes To keep them safe Duel McClain has lost everything he's ever loved: his wife, his son, his sense of self. But when a strange twist of fate--and a poker game he'll never forget--leaves an innocent little girl in his care, Duel vows to defend his new family to his very last breath. If only he knew a single...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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A brilliant amalgam of Tom Jones, Moll Flanders,and Fanny Hill, Erica Jong's Fanny is a wonderfully inventive, deliciously bawdy picaresque novel featuring an irrepressible heroine you won't soon forget In eighteenth-century England, life begins somewhat ignobly for Fanny Hackabout-Jones. Abandoned as an infant on the doorstep of Lord and Lady Bellars's grand Wiltshire manor, she contemplates the literary life as she grows to ripe young womanhood...
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MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"A Sunday Times bestseller! Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything... London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the daughter she has never known. Dreading the worst, that she has died in care, she is astonished to discover someone pretending to be Bess has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has...
15) Summer longing
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Ruth Cooperman arrives in beautiful beachside Provincetown for her retirement, renting the perfect waterfront cottage while she searches for her forever home. After years of hard work and making peace with life's disappointments, Ruth is looking forward to a carefree summer of solitude. But when she finds a baby girl abandoned on her doorstep, Ruth turns to her new neighbors for help and is drawn into the drama of the close-knit community. The appearance...
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Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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Paris computer expert Aimee Leduc, altered by an anonymous phone call to look in her courtyard, finds an abandoned infant, and her search for the baby's mother leads her into a plot involving espionage, environmental degradation, and murder.
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Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Lochiel Ogle was born with a red-wine birthmark -- and it put her life in jeopardy from the moment she entered the world. Mountain folks called it "the mark of the devil," and for all the evil that has plagued her nineteen-year existence, Lochiel is ready to believe that is true. And the evil surely took control of the mind of the boy who stole her as an infant, bringing her home for his mother to raise. Abused and abandoned by the only people she...
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English
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Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Sean Dietrich-also known as Sean of the South-weaves together a humorous and heartfelt tale about the dignity of humanity and the value of enduring hope. One child preacher traveling across the plains. One young woman with a mysterious touch. Two old friends, their baby, and their bloodhound. And all the stars that shine above them. When fifteen-year-old Marigold becomes pregnant amid the Great Depression, she is rejected by her family and forced...
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
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