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c2015., Adult, Dundurn Call No: Fic Doc Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A story about one all-inclusive resort, the ghost of an unknown father, and the tragedies we can't forget. What's it like when everyone's dream vacation is your job? Ameera works at a Mexican all-inclusive resort, where every day is paradise--if "paradise" means endless paperwork, quotas to meet, and entitled tourists. But it's not all bad: Ameera's pastime of choice is the swingers' scene, and the resort is the perfect place to hook up with like-minded couples without all the hassle of having to see them again. Despite Ameera's best efforts to keep her sideline a secret, someone is spreading scandalous rumours about her around the resort, and her job might be at stake. Meanwhile, she's being plagued by her other secret, the big unknown of her existence: the identity of her father and why he disappeared. Unbeknownst to Ameera, her father, Azeez, is looking for her, and they both must come to terms with the reason why he abandoned her."--Back cover.
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2014., Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD. Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Having spent the last seven years in Texas, Border Patrol Agent Peyton Cote is returning home to northern Maine, hoping it will be a safer environment for her young son. But the criminal element has turned what was once a quiet corner of the country into an illicit trade route . . . and there's no telling what they'll do to protect their interests. When Peyton finds a baby abandoned in a frozen field near the border, she's pulled into a deadly conspiracy that puts everything her life, her career, her family at risk.
![Bitter crossing [eBook] : a Peyton Cote novel](/Library/images/~imageCT76576.JPG "Bitter crossing [eBook] : a Peyton Cote novel")
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2021., Adult, House of Anansi Press Inc. Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: As a boy, Jack Anderson was abandoned by his mother in a Glasgow movie theatre. Now living in the United States and facing his impending retirement, Jack and his wife Anne travel to Scotland to track down his long-lost sister. Their journey takes them from their home in a quiet Boston suburb to the impoverished mill towns of Ayrshire, the gray cobbled streets of Glasgow, and the majestic Scottish Highlands. Along the way, Jack gets entangled in local affairs and must confront uncomfortable truths about family, legacy, and the wife he thought he knew.
![Bonnie Jack [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT101652.JPG "Bonnie Jack [eBook]")
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2020., Adelaide Books Call No: QWF Fic Sar Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: BOOK BIN BABY is about a man whose mother was so caught up in mundane matters that she disposed of him as a baby at birth in the book bin of a library. There he is nurtured by library members, who find the library is attracting new members because of their young residents. As he grows to manhood, he adopts as his world view the notion that a moral society is based on books, which are never wrong. The novel has a comic and political undercurrent, exploring why people in power think the way they do.
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2015., Harper Avenue Call No: Fic Par Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs. Odile Church and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised amid the applause and magical pageantry of The Church of Marvels, their mother's spectacular Coney Island sideshow. But the Church has burnt to the ground, their mother dead in its ashes. Now Belle, the family's star, has vanished into the bowels of Manhattan, leaving Odile alone and desperate to find her. A young woman named Alphie awakens to find herself trapped across the river in Blackwell's Lunatic Asylum--sure that her imprisonment is a ruse by her husband's vile, overbearing mother. On the ward she meets another young woman of ethereal beauty who does not speak, a girl with an extraordinary talent that might save them both. As these strangers' lives become increasingly connected, their stories and secrets unfold. Moving from the Coney Island seashore to the tenement-studded streets of the Lower East Side, a spectacular human circus to a brutal, terrifying asylum, Church of Marvels takes readers back to turn-of-the-century New York--a city of hardship and dreams, love and loneliness, hope and danger" -- Amazon.com.
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c2014., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Ric Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Howard, Evan and Ian are inseparable as boys--so much so that one night, abandoned in the forest by the careless adults around them, and raging against society and the uncaring gods others worship, they seal their undying brotherhood with a blood bond. But soon after, a horrific accident scars each of them in a different way, testing their bonds and leaving each with a debt to be paid. As adults, seeking to rise above this debt and advance in life, each man decides upon a very different path--but over time, all three discover they are tied to each other in intricately tangled, sometimes violent, and surprising ways that none of them has been wise enough to foresee...
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By Cleeves, Ann2020., Adult, Macmillan Call No: MYS SC Fic Cle Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Vera Stanhope Volume: 9.Summary Note: On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills. Though the road is familiar, she misses a turning and soon becomes lost and disorientated. A car has skidded off the narrow road in front of her, its door left open, and she stops to help. There is no driver to be seen, so Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. But a cry calls her back: a toddler is strapped in the back seat.Vera takes the child and, driving on, she arrives at a place she knows well. Brockburn is a large, grand house in the wilds of Northumberland, now a little shabby and run down. It's also where her father, Hector, grew up. Inside, there's a party in full swing: music, Christmas lights and laughter. Outside, unbeknownst to the revelers, a woman lies dead in the snow. As the blizzard traps the group deep in the freezing Northumberland countryside, Brockburn begins to give up its secrets, and as Vera digs deeper into her investigation, she also begins to uncover her family's complicated past.
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2010, c2008., Washington Square Press Call No: Fic Mor Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the author of "The House at Riverton" comes a story of outer and inner journeys as "Nell," abandoned as a child, leaves her adoptive parents in Australia and travels to England to trace her story, to find her real identity--a quest that ultimately leads her to Blackhurst Manor on the Cornish coast and the secrets of the doomed Mountrachet family.".
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2020., Hodder & Stoughton Call No: NEW MYS Fic Sig Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The fourth Freyja and Huldar thrillerSummary Note: On a jagged, bleak lava field just outside Reykjavik stands the Gallows Rock. Once a place of execution, it is now a tourist attraction. Until this morning, when a man was found hanging from it...The nail embedded in his chest proves it wasn't suicide. But when the police go to his flat, a further puzzle awaits: a four-year-old boy has been left there. He doesn't seem to have any link with the victim, his parents cannot be found, and his drawings show he witnessed something terrible. As detective Huldar hunts the killer, and child psychologist Freyja looks for the boy's parents, the mystery unfolds: a story of violence, entitlement, and revenge.
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-- Incredible story of a child raised by monkeysc2013., General, Greystone Books Call No: Bio C466g Edition: 1st Pegasus Books hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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Ã2018., Harper Call No: Fic Goo Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility--much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don't include marriage to the poor French boy the next farm over. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel Phoenix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents send the baby Elodie to an orphanage where she receives horrible treatment. Seventeen years later, Maggie, married to a businessman eager to start a family, cannot forget the daughter she was forced to abandon, and a chance reconnection with Gabriel spurs a wrenching choice. As time passes, the stories of Maggie and Elodie intertwine but never touch, until Maggie realizes she must take what she wants from life and go in search of her long-lost daughter, finally reclaiming the truth that has been denied them both.
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2011., Adult, Harvill Secker Call No: Fic Ged Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ten-year-old Enaiatollah has been left alone in Pakistan to fend for himself. In a book based on a true story, Italian novelist Fabio Geda describes Enaiatollah's remarkable five-year journey from Afghanistan to Italy, where he finally managed to claim political asylum.
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c2004., Little, Brown and Co. Call No: Fic Shr Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, the event forever alters the 11-year-old's understanding of the world.
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2022., Adult, Anchor Books Call No: Fic Joh Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A riveting psychological thriller about a woman forced to confront the darkest moment in her childhood in order to move on from her past and open her heart to love. One night when Jeanie King is twelve years old, her father comes home covered in blood. The next day, Jeanie wakes up alone. Her father has disappeared and he's taken her beloved twin brother, Jamie. Inevitably, this loss leads to others, as Jeanie is ripped from her life in rural Washington and her childhood love, Maddox. Twenty years later, Jeanie, now in England, keeps her demons at bay by drinking too much, sleeping with a married man, and speaking to a therapist she doesn't respect. But her past catches up to her in the form of Maddox, who shows up at her dead-end job with a proposition: he's found her father, he says; will she come with him to confront her dad and find out what really happened that night, what really happened to Jamie? At once a heart-pounding mystery and an affecting exploration of love and the familial ties that bind us, The Lost Kings is a propulsive read that will transport, move, and shock you.
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2014., Adult, Random House Audio Call No: CD Fic Blo Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Teenage half sisters Eva and Iris are disappointed by their families, Iris, the hopeful star, and Eva, the sidekick, journey across 1940s America in search of fame and fortune. Iris's ambitions take the sisters from small-town Ohio to an unexpected and sensuous Hollywood, across the America of Reinvention in a stolen station wagon, to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long Island.
![Lucky us [CD] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT76581.JPG "Lucky us [CD] : a novel")
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-- Mud womanc2012., Adult, Ecco Call No: Fic Oat Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: M.R. Neukirchen--the first female president of a lauded Ivy League institution--struggles to hold onto her self-identity in the face of personal and professional demons.
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2021., Adult, Gallery Books Call No: NEW Fic And Edition: First Gallery Books trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Umbrella Lady Volume: 4Summary Note: Out of the Rain follows Saffron Anders as she leaves the clutches of the umbrella lady and reunites with her family. But this reunion may not be as happy as it seems.
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2015., Sourcebooks Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: "Why would a mother ever abandon her child? And is an abandoned child destined to grow up and make the same mistake? These were some of Melissa Cistaro's questions after her mother drove off without explanation one summer. Decades later Melissa finds herself at her dying mother's bedside with 6 days to find answers, fearful that she could do the same to her own little girl. Then she discovers a cache of letters her mother wrote but never sent and stumbles on the answers she'd been seeking. Haunting and ultimately uplifting, Pieces of My Mother is about the choices we make and their repercussions on others"--Provided by publisher.
![Pieces of my mother [eBook] : a memoir](/Library/images/~imageCT80163.JPG "Pieces of my mother [eBook] : a memoir")