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Author
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"As a divorce and single mama survivor, Betsy St. Amant Haddox shares her own raw, unfiltered story of what happened when the romance author got dumped, complete with plenty of what-not-to-do's she learned on her bumbling journey toward wholeness. Turn the pages with Betsy as she navigates the abandonment by her husband, the seeming silence from heaven, dating as a single mom (which, by the way, is the equivalent of hula-hooping barbed wire), and...
2) Abandoned
Author
Series
Max Revere novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Investigative reporter Max Revere has cracked many cases, but the one investigation she's never attempted is the mystery from her own past. Her mother abandoned her when she was nine, sending her periodic postcards, but never returning to reclaim her daughter. Seven years after the postcards stop coming, Martha Revere is declared legally dead, with no sign of what may have happened to her. Until now. With a single clue--that her mother's car disappeared...
3) Oh my stars
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Like most things in Ellery, Tennessee, this year's Drive Thru Nativity is a little unconventional. The Dollar General parking lot doubles as a Bethlehem stable, and widowed writer Ivy Long, who's been roped into playing Mary, sure as heck isn't a virgin. But then comes an unexpected development: a genuine, real-life baby left in the manger, with only a brief note. And somehow, in the kerfluffle that follows, Ivy finds her life is about to change....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from England as a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
"Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
It is 1970 in a small town in California. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother Charlotte, a woman "who found something wrong with every place she's ever lived," takes off to find herself, leaving her girls enough money to last a month or two. When Bean returns home from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz decide to take the bus a bus to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A kaleidoscopic, emotionally charged debut about a tight-knit community of Mexican and Filipino families on the Texas coast. Unflinching, lyrical, and singular, The Last Karankawas is a portrait of America rarely witnessed, where browning palm trees and oily waters mark the forefront of ecological change. It is a deeply imagined exploration of familial inheritance, human perseverance, and the histories we assign to ourselves, establishing Kimberly...
Author
Series
Raven's shadow volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vaelin Al Sorna was only a child of ten when his father left him at the iron gate of the Sixth Order. The brothers of the Sixth Order are devoted to battle, and Vaelin will be trained and hardened to the austere, celibate and dangerous life of a warrior of the Faith. He has no family now save the Order. Vaelin's father was Battle Lord to King Janus, ruler of the Unified Realm. Vaelin's rage at being deprived of his birthright and dropped at the doorstep...
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