Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them meets Neil Gaiman in this thrilling novel about an Iranian American girl who discovers that her father was secretly a veterinarian to mythical creatures--and that she must take up his mantle,...
Orphans
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Author:Monsef, KiyashSummary: -
Author:Strutt, LesleySummary:On the Edge tells the story of Emerald Lake Visser, an unhappy fourteen-year-old who came to live on her aunt and uncle's farm when she was orphaned at age five. A misfit in her community and at school, her only real friend is an...
- Author:Smith, LeeSummary:
On Agate Hill is set in North Carolina in the years from 1872 to1927, and also in the present. The novel evokes the South in Reconstruction from an honest female perspective. It is the exuberantly romantic and episodic story of Molly...
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Author:Maugham, W. SomersetSummary:The author of The Razor's Edge explores the longing for love and freedom in this coming-of-age story-"a novel of the utmost importance" (Theodore Dreiser). Born with a clubfoot and orphaned at an early age, Philip Carey has long felt...
- Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:
This stunning audiobook from the survival story master, set along a rugged coastline centuries ago, does for the ocean what Hatchet does for the woods, as it relates the story of a young person's battle to stay alive against the...
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Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:Shortlisted for the SYRCA 2013 Diamond Willlow Award, selected as an American Library Association 2012 Notable Children's Book, a Booklist Editors’ Choice, nominated for the OLA Golden Oak Tree Award, and a finalist for the Ruth and...
- Author:Jiles, PauletteSummary:
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture Starring Tom Hanks National Book Award Finalist--FictionIn the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this...
- Author:Warner, Gertrude ChandlerSummary:
The Aldens visit their mysterious Aunt Jane at her run-down ranch and make a surprising discovery!
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Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:Cady has always wanted to be a reporter, like her hero Nellie Bly, so after a fire burns down the orphanage she lives in, she's ready to leave small-town Ontario and make her mark as a newspaperwoman. A crumbling newspaper clipping...
- Author:Sawyer, Kim VogelSummary:
Kim Vogel Sawyer, ACF Book of the Year winner for Waiting for Summer's Return, delivers historically rich tales with unforgettable characters. After an 1886 fire kills their parents, three children are split up. Keeping her parents'...
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Author:Davis, Susan PageSummary:Journey now to Tuscon, Arizona, and into the Superstition Mountains of 1866, where... A Chance for Escape Takes Two Unlikely Allies on a Romantic Adventure Along a Desert Trail Since orphaned at age twelve, Carmela Wade has lived a lie...
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Author:Hunt, SamanthaSummary:After years of absence, Ruth leads her niece Cora on an odyssey across the entire state of New York. Where is Ruth taking them? Where has she been? And who--or what--is she hiding? In an ingeniously structured dual narrative, two...
- Author:James, EldridgeSummary:
Des cris et des hurlements sortaient de l’intérieur et de l’extérieur de la salle, mais Billy Joe courait déjà aussi vite que ses jambes pouvaient le porter. Puis un autre coup de feu retentit, et il sentit une balle lui déchirer sa...
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Author:Tracey, ScottSummary:Moonset, a coven of such promise... Until they turned to the darkness. After the terrorist witch coven known as Moonset was destroyed 15 years ago—during a secret war against the witch Congress—five children were left behind, saddled...
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Author:Harrell, RobSummary:In a fantastical 1860s England, every quiet little township is terrorized by a ferocious monster--much to the townsfolk's delight! Each town's unique monster is a source of local pride, not to mention tourism. Each town, that is--except...
- Author:Bates, MarniSummary:
Après avoir suivi Mackenzie dans le premier tome de la série, Miss Malaise, les lecteurs s’attacheront cette fois à Holly qui a elle aussi le don de se mettre les pieds dans les plats! Passer les vacances de Noël sur un bateau de...
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Author:Isabelle DoréSummary:Pour Mathilde Brabant, c'est le début de la fin. Orpheline, atteinte de nanisme et maintenant âgée, elle vient d'emménager dans une maison de retraite avec son amie Rachel et envisage sérieusement de se laisser dépérir...
- Author:Cravens, ClaudiaSummary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A thrilling, raucous, and gloriously queer debut about a scrappy orphan bent on making her own luck in the American West-and finding friendship, romance, and her true calling along the way, now in paperback....
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Author:Watson, JudeSummary:When Alfie McQuinn, the notorious jewel thief, is killed on a job, his last words to his son, March, are to "find jewels" and this instruction leads the boy to Jules, the twin sister he never knew he had--and the perfect partner to...
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Author:Alcott, Louisa MaySummary:Jo, everyone’s favorite headstrong tomboy, has used her inheritance from Aunt March to found a progressive boys’ school. This charming book lets us peek into six months in the lives of the school’s young pupils.
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