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Deacon's family volume 2
Language
English
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A new teacher in Stoney Ridge takes on the challenge to help find homes for foster children in Lancaster County. Her effort brings hope to two young girls, but complicates her budding romance.
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English
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"Only one thing matters to Caleb O'Malley: his daughter. Framed for his wife's murder, Caleb's only wish is to see his little girl. But Noelle Whitman, his daughter's foster mother, isn't buying his plea of innocence until bullets start flying and they're running for their lives. Staying one step ahead of the real killer proves nearly impossible, but former SWAT cop Caleb will risk everything to keep them safe. Because now there is nothing more important...
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English
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"Calla Hammond has always been a loner-a product of the foster system and avoided by others because of a skin condition. When doctors discover her immune system holds the key to curing cancer, she struggles to advance lifesaving research in a world that sees her only as a means to an end. Yet along the way, Calla gains the one thing she has always longed for: a chosen family. When a group of unscrupulous people join forces to sell Calla's blood to...
6) The boys
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Language
English
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"When introverted Ethan Fawcett marries Barb, he has every reason to believe he will be delivered from a lifetime of solitude. She fills his world with a sense of adventure, expanding his horizons beyond his comfortable routine. Because Ethan fears becoming a father, one day Barb brings home two young brothers, Tommy and Sam, for them to foster, and Ethan immediately falls in love with the two boys. When the pandemic hits, he becomes obsessed with...
7) Night road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Description
After a string of foster homes and the death of her heroin-addict mother, Lexi Baill is taken in by a newly discovered great-aunt who lives a spartan life near Seattle. Lexi soon meets Mia and her loving twin brother, Zach. The friendship flourishes, and Mia's mother draws Lexi into the family circle. A slowly growing attraction between Zach and Lexi begins, but then Lexi, Mia, and Zach collectively make a bad decision that results in a tragedy with...
8) Below zero
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's teenage daughter, Sheridan, receives a text message with a staggering implication: that April, the foster daughter thought to have died 6 years ago in a massacre, is still alive. If it really is April who's texting, she's in danger, and for Pickett, the only thing worse than losing her the first time would be losing her again. Pickett must negotiate FBI politics, recruit his fugitive friend Nate Romanowski, and take...
Author
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
x, 323 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Separated in childhood and sent to foster homes after their neglectful mother's imprisonment, sisters Lindsay and Kerrie Ann are reunited in adulthood and help each other through the fiercest battles of their lives despite their differences.
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
As children in foster care, Cecilia and Robin vowed they would be the sisters each had never had. Now superstar singer-songwriter Cecilia lives life on the edge, but when Robin is nearly killed in an accident, Cecilia drops everything to be with her. Robin set aside her career as a successful photojournalist to create the loving family she always yearned for. But gazing through a wide-angle lens at both past and future, she sees that her marriage...
13) The risk of us
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A poignant, dazzling debut novel about a woman who longs to be a mother and the captivating yet troubled child she and her husband take in"--
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Out there is chaos, the collapse of society, and so much to be afraid of. All that matters is freedom. That's what Remy Blake has been taught by his survivalist father. Raised off the grid in the middle of nowhere, his own survival skills not yet honed, Remy is days shy of his eighth birthday when his father unexpectedly dies...He is found--near feral, silent, and terrified--in the small rural town of Blaire. To Anne, a nurturing mother of two adopted...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
viii, 336 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"During a terrible heat wave in 1991--the worst in a decade--ten-year-old Anton has been locked in an apartment in the projects, alone, for seven days, without air conditioning or a fan. With no electricity, the refrigerator and lights do not work. Hot, hungry, and desperate, Anton shatters a window and climbs out. Cutting his leg on the broken glass, he is covered in blood when the police find him. Juanita, his mother, is discovered in a crack house...
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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Foster sisters Krystal and Nichole have always been there for each other, so when Nichole is committed to a psychiatric hospital after trying to kill her husband, Krystal drops everything to defend her. Scarred by a hard upbringing, Nichole and Krystal managed to construct comfortable lives for themselves. Krystal became a respected lawyer, and Nichole was happily married to an architect-until Nichole starts raving that her husband isn't her husband,...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 353 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A modern take on the classic coming-of-age novel, inspired by Anne of Green Gables In the grand tradition of Anne of Green Gables, Bridget Jones's Diary, and The Three Weissmanns of Westport, Andi Teran's captivating debut novel offers a contemporary twist on a beloved classic. Fifteen-year-old orphan Ana Cortez has just blown her last chance with a foster family. It's a group home next-unless she agrees to leave East Los Angeles for a farm trainee...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the international bestseller The Sweetness of Forgetting, named one of the Best Books of Summer 2012 by Marie Claire magazine, comes a captivating novel about the struggle to overcome the past when our memories refuse to be forgotten. In this richly told story where Sliding Doors meets P.S. I Love You, Kristin Harmel weaves a heart-wrenching tale that asks: what does it take to move forward in life without forgetting the past?...
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