For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the...
Abandoned children
- Auteur:Owens, DeliaSommaire:
- Auteur:Carr, RobynSommaire:
Recently widowed, grieving Los Angeles midwife/nurse Melinda Monroe answers a small upstate town's ad for help. Nestled amongst California's giant redwoods, quaint Virgin River is host to many quirky characters--including bar owner Jack...
- Auteur:McIsaac, MeaghanSommaire:
Urgle is not a good hunter; he's not good at much of anything, particularly being a big brother to Cubby. But he has no family to fall back on: Urgle and Cubby live among the Brothers of the Ikkuma Pit. One by one, generations of boys...
- Auteur:Klune, T. J.Sommaire:
Tre anni fa, la madre di Bear McKenna se ne è andata per una destinazione sconosciuta con il suo nuovo ragazzo, lasciando Bear a crescere il fratellino Tyson di sette anni, detto anche Kid. In qualche modo ce l’hanno fatto, ma visto che...
- Auteur:Wilson, JacquelineSommaire:
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Jacqueline Wilson's favourite character, Tracy Beaker, who lives in a children's home. Ten-year-old Tracy is smart and full of energy but more than anything she wants love. In "The...
- Auteur:Ibbotson, EvaSommaire:
After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in...
- Auteur:Smith, AndreaSommaire:
In a small town in 1950s South Carolina, Bonnie Wilder's husband finds an abandoned baby by the river. After voicing her concern for local mothers who are unable to raise their children, Bonnie finds more abandoned newborns on her...
- Auteur:Fluke, JoanneSommaire:
A Small boy huddled in the dark. His mother had promised she would never leave him... not in this awful house... not in this terrivle town. But she was dead. Gone. And he was alone. Trapped. With no one to answere his desperate call or...
- Auteur:Bowen, GailSommaire:
A young woman hands her baby to a perfect stranger - the daughter of Delia Wainberg, a lawyer in the same firm as Joanne Kilbourn's husband - and disappears. One close look at the child suggests a family relationship, and soon the truth...
- Auteur:Sallis, JamesSommaire:
Sallis' novel tracks the fortunes of three men of vastly different ages, backgrounds, and ambitions. Though they never meet, a hired killer on his last job, a burned out detective, and a young boy plagued by nightmares have their lives...
- Auteur:Heneghan, JamesSommaire:
Abandoned in a department store as a baby, thirteen-year-old Tom Mullen has been shuffled from one rotten foster home to another his entire life. When he hears rumors that a mass grave has been unearthed on his school grounds, he finds...
- Auteur:Lansens, LoriSommaire:
The story of Rose and Ruby Darlen, conjoined twins born in a rural farming community in 1974. To some they are freaks, monsters or witches. But to most in small-town Leaford, they are just "The Girls".
- Auteur:Peterson, LoisSommaire:
After eight-year-old Kevin Mason's mother abandons him, he takes refuge in his fantasy of becoming Knuckles McGraw, a tough cowboy roaming the plains on his legendary horse, Burlington Northern. But instead of riding the range, Kevin is...
- Auteur:Howarth, KateSommaire:
An extraordinary story of courage and survival in the tradition of Angela's Ashes. Ten Hail Marys follows the first seventeen years of Kate Howarth's life in Sydney and country New South Wales. Raised by various Indigenous...
- Auteur:Carr, CalebSommaire:
In rural Burgoyne County, New York, adolescent boys and girls are found murdered in gruesome, ritualistic fashion. Racing against the case's mounting stakes, Trajan Jones and Michael Li defend themselves from the threats of shadowy...
- Auteur:Woods, JanetSommaire:
A married woman, pregnant with her sea-captain lover's child, dies giving birth. The child, Serafina Finn, is abandoned to an orphanage and grows up longing to feel that she belongs somewhere. Eighteen years later, her father,...
- Auteur:Wilson, JenniferSommaire:
The summer before Bliss Walker's senior year, Mama returns after six years, and Bliss meets Blake. It should be a dream come true. But Bliss now must choose between a life she longed for, and one she made for herself.
- Auteur:Kleypas, LisaSommaire:
Jack Travis leads the uncomplicated life of a millionaire Texas playboy. But 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. The...
- Auteur:Jacobson, JenniferSommaire:
Abandoned by his mother in an Acadia National Park campground, Jack tries to make his way back to Boston before anyone figures out what is going on, with only a small toy elephant for company.
- Auteur:Clayton, MelindaSommaire:
As recounted in Appalachian Justice, Jessie is an adult survivor of horrendous childhood abuse. At the age of thirteen, she was rescued by reclusive mountain woman Billy May Platte. Now forty-seven, Jessie is outwardly successful but...