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Series
Travis family romances volume 3
Language
English
Description
Jack Travis leads the uncomplicated life of a millionaire Texas playboy. He makes no commitments, he loves many women, he lives for pleasure. Until one day, a woman appears on his doorstep with fury on her face and a baby in her arms. It seems Jack is the father and this woman is the baby's aunt.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Having been abandoned as a newborn and found and raised by Pastor Ezekiel Freeman in the small California town of Haven, Abra Matthews feels like she doesn't belong and at the age of seventeen runs off to Hollywood, becoming starlet Lena Scott.
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English
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Lost at sea while sailing with his wealthy owners, a Yorkshire terrier washes up, nearly dead, in a village on Prince Edward Island where he is nursed back to health by a lonely widow and is befriended by a fox and an abandoned waif who is also struggling to find a home for herself somewhere.
9) Lost & found
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Follows a shared encounter between an abandoned 7-year-old, a widowed shut-in and a nursing home escapee, who embark on a road trip across Western Australia to find the child's mother.
10) Street dreams
Author
Series
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
On a stifling Christmas Eve in 1967 the lives of the four McDonald children changed forever when their mother abandoned them. Forty years later they struggle to come to terms with their mother's reappearance, while at the same time their beloved father is progressing into dementia.
12) Every day after
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A young girl fights to keep her mama out of the mental ward, her home away from the bank, and herself out of the orphanage after her father abandons her and her mother in depression era Alabama"--
13) The match
Author
Series
Wilde (Harlan Coben) volume 2
Language
English
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"Wilde follows a tip that may finally reveal the truth behind his abandonment--only to end up in the sights of a ruthless killer. After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he's known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life. Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde closer to his past than he's ever...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
1929. Four-year-old Etty and eight-year-old Dorothy are abandoned at Blakely Hall orphanage by their mother, never to see her again. With no other family to speak of, the sisters worship their beloved mam--and they are confused and hearthbroken to be deserted by her when they need her the most.
15) Midnight cab
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
An adopted young man's searches for his biological mother and the diabolically violent killer who tracks his every move through the snowy streets of Toronto into Canada's dark and dense backwoods.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Tillie's husband is away on business, the boxes in her new home aren't unpacked, and the telephone isn't even connected yet. Though she's not due for another month, sudden labor pains force Tillie to reach out to her estranged father for help-- a choice that means facing the painful memories she's been running from since she was a child.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old over the course of a single summer, as she tries to make sense of her new life with her estranged grandfather and sister after the death of her father and disappearance of her mother"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Ole Mbatian Jr., a Maasai warrior; Kevin, his sort-of-son; Agneta, a wronged and penniless ex-wife; and Johan, an unscrupulous Stockholm ad-man whose company specializes in revenge services. As Agneta and Kevin seek revenge against the gallery owner who has wronged them, this funny and philosophical novel takes off on a madcap journey that spans five continents and whirls around a colorful cast of characters, including a goat called Molly and...
Author
Series
Cyrus Haven novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A girl is found hiding in a secret room in a house being renovated after a terrible crime. For weeks she has survived by sneaking out at night, stealing food for herself and two dogs that are kept in the garden. She doesn't appear on any missing person's file, or match the DNA of any murder victim. Six years later, still unidentified, the same girl is living in a secure children's home with a new name, Evie Cormac, when she initiates a court case...
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