On the wild moors of Yorkshire, childhood friends Catherine and Heathcliffe form a passionate bond that threatens all around them. Jealousy, vengefulness, unspeakable cruelty — this is Gothic fiction at its best. Published to mixed...
Foundlings
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Author:Brontë, EmilySummary: -
Author:Turnage, SheilaSummary:Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyone's business is fair game and no secret is sacred. She washed ashore in a hurricane eleven years ago, and she's been making waves ever...
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Author:Braffet, KellySummary:Judah is a foundling born with a special gift, and was raised alongside Gavin, the son and heir to an empire. They share an unnatural bond that is both the key to her survival and possibly her undoing.
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
When Beatrix finds an abandoned infant, Captain Woodcock and Dimity care for the child as Beatrix and her furry and feathered friends search for its mother.
- Author:Smith, AndreaSummary:
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...
- Author:Coulter, CatherineSummary:
Barnaby should have been killed but instead was left on the steps of the church, supposedly an orphan. A decade later, Grayson Sherbrooke discovers Barnaby's father, but their reunion is fraught with danger.
- Author:Halls, StaceySummary:
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her newborn, Clara, at London's Foundling Hospital, young Bess Bright returns to reclaim the illegitimate daughter she has never really known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care,...
- Author:Stedman, M.L.Summary:
The years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Spielberg's DreamWorks is "irresistible... seductive... with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page" (O, The Oprah Magazine)....
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Author:Moriarty, LianeSummary:Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one who got away. He was the perfect boyfriend, but on the day he was going to propose, she broke his heart. A year later he married his travel agent, while Sophie has been...
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Author:Wilde, OscarSummary:In Wilde’s masterful farce, two aristocratic young Londoners create a great deal of confusion when they independently fabricate intricate double lives in order to escape oppressive social obligations.
- Author:Fielding, HenrySummary:
A foundling of mysterious parentage, Tom Jones is brought up by the benevolent and wealthy Squire Allworthy as his own son. Tom falls in love with the beautiful and unattainable Sophia Western, a neighbor's daughter, whose marriage...
- Author:Lewis, BeverlySummary:
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.
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Author:Heitz, MarkusSummary:Abandoned as a child, Tungdil the blacksmith labors contentedly in the land of Ionandar, the only dwarf in a kingdom of men. Although he does not want for friends, Tungdil is very much aware that he is alone - indeed, he has not so much...
- Author:Uss, ChristinaSummary:
A determined 12-year-old girl bikes across the country in this quirky and charming debut middle grade novel. Introverted Bicycle has lived most of her life at the Mostly Silent Monastery in Washington, D.C. When her guardian, Sister...
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Author:Brenner, JamieSummary:Ruth Cooperman arrives in beautiful beachside Provincetown for her retirement, renting the perfect waterfront cottage while she searches for her forever home. But when she finds a baby girl abandoned on her doorstep, Ruth turns to her...
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Author:Eliot, GeorgeSummary:In rural nineteenth-century England, a weaver, lonely and embittered at the unjust treatment he has received from people he considered to be his friends, finds his only solace in money until he inadvertently becomes the guardian of an...
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Author:Eliot, GeorgeSummary:This classic novel takes place in Lantern Yard, a slum street in an unnamed city in Northern England, during the early 19th century. There, Silas Marner, a weaver and a member of a small Calvinist congregation, is falsely accused of...
- Author:Wilde, LoriSummary:
New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde returns to Twilight, Texas, with a love story filled with the magic of the season, about a couple who discover an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve-Eve. It's Christmastime in Twilight, TX...
- Author:Cabot, MegSummary:
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....
- Author:Black, CaraSummary:
Cara Black has earned a devoted international following for her gripping mysteries set in France and starring the indomitable Aimée Leduc. Here, Aimée faces her greatest challenge when she assumes guardianship of an abandoned infant all...
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