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1) The guardian
Author
Series
Home to Hickory Hollow volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Classic novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern England, recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the story remains as poignant and compelling today as it was when first published in 1847.
Author
Series
Little Bridge Island volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Little Bridge Island Public Library's head of children's services, Molly Montgomery hopes the messiest thing in her life will be her sticky-note covered desk. But fate, in the form of a newborn left in the restroom, has other ideas. So does the sheriff who comes to investigate the "abandonment."
Author
Series
Foundlings volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw solves clients' genetic puzzles, while hers remains shrouded in mystery. Now she suspects that the key to her birth parents' identities lies in an unexpected connection to a stranger who's hired her to find his long-lost daughter. Bracing herself for a shocking truth, Amelia is blindsided by a deadly one. NYPD Detective Stockton Barnes had walked away from his only child for her own good. He'll lay down his...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"England, 1970. On the one-year anniversary of the Harrington family's darkest night, their beautiful London home goes up in flames. Mrs. Harrington, the two children, and live-in nanny Rita relocate to Foxcote Manor, ostensibly to recuperate. But the creeping forest, where lost things have a way of coming back, is not as restful as it seems. When thirteen-year-old Hera discovers a baby girl abandoned just beyond their garden gate, this tiniest, most...
Author
Series
Rock Harbor series volume 5
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mysterious crying in the night leads a woman to an abandoned baby. Against objections from her husband, she takes in the baby and every thing she thought she knew about her life is turned upside down.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"For Amish widow Naomi Ropp, moving back to her parents' Bliss Valley home--with her boisterous twin toddler boys--is a chance to start over and bury the painful secrets of her marriage forever. But her life is turned upside down once again when she learns she's not the only one hiding things. The parents she believed were always open and honest have been keeping a secret her whole life. And now her only confidant is her father's new employee--a handsome...
11) Dead silence
Author
Series
Foundlings volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An investigative genealogist and a NYPD detective find their work intertwining in the case of a mute child.
12) Silas Marner
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
A miser finds redemption through caring for an abandoned child.
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents Henry Fielding's 1749 comic novel in which Tom Jones, abandoned as an infant, is adopted by Squire Allworthy and amuses himself with amorous escapades until the day he decides to leave home and seek his fortune and real identity. Includes an introduction, a chronology, a glossary, explanatory notes, and an appendix on Fielding's revisions.
Author
Series
Bride ships volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1863, Upon discovering an abandoned baby, Pastor Abe Merivale cares for the infant along with Zoe Hart, one of the newly arrived bride-ship women. With mounting pressure to find the baby a home, they hastily marry - but soon realize their marriage of convenience is not so convenient after all"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Apple Creek dreams volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Jerusha Springer has spent months making the most beautiful quilt anyone in Apple Creek, Ohio, has ever seen, and she knows it's going to take first prize at the Quilt Fair in Dalton. The prize will be her ticket out of the Amish way of life-- away from the memories of her dead daughter and her tormented husband. But on the way to the Fair, the driver crashes their car, and Jerusha finds there is a greater prize to be won than money and blue ribbons....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
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...
17) Stars of Alabama
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When two Depression-era migrant workers, Paul and Vern, find an abandoned baby in the woods, they take it upon themselves to care for the mysterious child. When fifteen-year-old Marigold, reviled by her family after an unwanted pregnancy, loses her baby in the forest, her whole world is painted black. She's still fraught with despair when she discovers what seems to be a miraculous power within her. Coot, a child preacher on the Kansas plains, escapes...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's Christmastime in Caerphilly and Meg, full of holiday spirit, is helping out with the town's festivities. While directing a nativity pageant and herding the children participating in it, she finds a surprise in the manger: a live baby. A note from the mother, attached to the baby girl's clothes, says that it's time for her father to take care of her--and implicates Meg's brother, Rob, as the father. And while a DNA test can reveal whether there's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When, while organizing the living Nativity, best friends Joel and Jana find a baby in the manger, they decide to take the child home. And as they begin to fall in love with the precious bundle, they realize that their relationship goes far deeper than friendship.
20) The lost orphan
Author
Publisher
Mira/Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"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 taken her little girl--and why....
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