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English
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Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Brontë, was asked to pay some of the publication costs.
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's...
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English
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They are the Renegade Royals, illegitimate sons of the Royal Princes, each finding his rightful place in society--and the woman destined to be his perfect match. . .
Some men are born into scandal. Others pursue it with a passion. Griffin Steele, secret son of the Duke of Cumberland, is guilty on both counts. Yet somehow London's most notorious scoundrel has been saddled with an abandoned baby boy--and with the unflappable, intriguing spinster summoned...
3) The Guardian
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Language
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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....
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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A young woman with a knack for finding lost things and the despairing daughter of an impossible-to-please mother uncover long-held secrets about their identities and their family beliefs when they discover an abandoned newborn in the woods.
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Publisher
Amazon Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
While duck hunting one morning, childless, middle-aged Nathan McCann finds a newborn abandoned in the woods. To his shock, the child--wrapped in a sweater and wearing a tiny knitted hat--is still alive. To his wife's shock, Nathan wants to adopt the boy...but the child's grandmother steps in. Nathan makes her promise, however, that one day she'll bring the boy to meet him so he can reveal that he was the one who rescued him.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 24 cm
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...
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Publisher
Vintage Espanol, una division de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
485 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
En Linares, al norte del pas̕, con la Revolucin̤ mexicana como teln̤ de fondo... Un buen da̕, la vieja nana de la familia Morales abandona sorpresivamente un reposo que pareca̕ eterno para perderse en el monte. Cuando la encuentran, sostiene dos pequeǫs bultos, uno en cada brazo: de un lado un beb ďeforme y del otro un panal de abejas. Ante la insistencia de la nana por conservar y cuidar al pequeǫ, la familia decide adoptarlo....
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The Little Bridge Island volume Book 2
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English
Description
Broken-hearted children's librarian Molly Montgomery relocates to the Florida Kays, where the discovery of an abandoned newborn in the Little Bridge Island Public Library leads to an unexpected partnership with arrogant town sheriff John Hartwell.
14) The unadoptables
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Spending all their young lives at the Little Tulip orphanage, five clever kids plot a daring escape from a conscripting sea captain before the search for one orphan s mysterious origins leads them through back roads, alleys and canals to an old windmill housing an abandoned puppet theater.
15) Fishbone's song
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage old man has taught the boy the power of nature and how to live in it, and more importantly, to respect it. In Fishbone's Song, this boy reminisces about the magic of the man who raised him and the tales that he used to tell--all true, but different each time--
17) True heart
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
75 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
With his unicorn characteristics disguised beneath the beautiful armor created by Joseph Lequire, Moonsilver accompanies Heart on the journey to the place where Lord Irmaedith's men have taken the gypsies.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Camille, the adopted heiress of Enrico Vultusino who is head of the families that rule the magic ridden New Haven, meets the mysterious Tor, she begins to uncover the secrets of her past.
19) Castle Avamir
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
73 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a long hard winter spent with the gypsies, Heart and Moonsilver go in search of her home, Castle Avamir, whose directions are "higher than the clouds, deep in a valley, under the stars, and over the moon.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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"After unearthing a conspiracy at court, Red Sparkle Stone, the foundling orphan Empress Elisa has taken under her wing, dares to become a recruit for the Royal Guard-something no woman has done before"--
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