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Dreaming dangerous / by DeStefano, Lauren.;
At Brassmere Academy for the Extraordinary, twelve-year-old Plum and her best friends share adventures in dreams each night, but when Artem disappears they discover alarming secrets about Brassmere and its intentions.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Best friends; Friendship; Dreams; Ability; Schools; Orphans;
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Boy kills world [videorecording] / by Benjamin, H. Jon,actor.; Copley, Sharlto,1973-actor.; Dockery, Michelle,1981-actor.; Gelman, Brett,1976-actor.; Janssen, Famke,1964-actor.; Koji, Andrew,1987-actor.; Mohr, Moritz,film director,screenwriter.; Mustafa, Isaiah,1974-actor.; Rothe, Jessica,actor.; Skarsgård, Bill,actor.; Smith, Tyler Burton,actor.; Videoville Showtime,publisher.;
Bill Skarsgård, Famke Janssen, Jessica Rothe, Michelle Dockery, Brett Gelman, Isaiah Mustafa, Sharlto Copley, Andrew Koji, H. Jon Benjamin.Bill Skarsgård stars as "Boy" who vows revenge after his family is slaughtered by Hilda Van Der Koy, the deranged matriarch of a corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty that left the boy orphaned, deaf and mute. Driven by his inner voice, one which he chose from his favorite childhood video game, Boy trains with a mysterious shaman to become an instrument of death and is set loose on the eve of the annual culling of rebels. Chaos ensues as Boy commits bloody martial arts mayhem, inciting a wrath of butchery and bloodletting. As he tries to get his bearings in this rambling realm, Boy soon falls in with a desperate resistance group, all the while squabbling with the apparent ghost of his rebellious little sister.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films.; Apocalyptic films.; Deaf; Mute persons; Families; Martial artists; Orphans; Revenge;
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Ten tiny breaths : a novel / by Tucker, K. A.(Kathleen A.),1978-;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Love stories.; Drunk driving; Orphans; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Self-realization in women; Sisters;
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Pippi Longstocking [sound recording (CD)] / by Lindgren, Astrid,1907-2002; Benson, Esther.;
Read by Esther Benson.Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village.
Subjects: Longstocking, Pippi (Fictitious character); Girls; Orphans; Children's audiobooks; Humorous fiction;
© p1998., Random House Audio,
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Alone in the wild / by Armstrong, Kelley,author.;
"The hidden town of Rockton is about to face a challenge none of them saw coming: a baby. Every season in Rockton seems to bring a new challenge. At least that's what Detective Casey Duncan has felt since she decided to call this place home. Between all the secretive residents, the sometimes-hostile settlers outside, and the surrounding wilderness, there's always something to worry about. While on a much needed camping vacation with her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, Casey hears a baby crying in the woods. The sound leads them to a tragic scene: a woman buried under the snow, murdered, a baby still alive in her arms. A town that doesn't let anyone in under the age of eighteen, Rockton must take care of its youngest resident yet while solving another murder and finding out where the baby came from--and whether she's better off where she is"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Duncan, Casey (Fictitious character); Women detectives; Sheriffs; Murder; Infants; Orphans;
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Paradise on fire / by Rhodes, Jewell Parker.; Malyon, Serena.;
Bronx middle-grader Addy, who struggles with a family tragedy by drawing maps and studying mazes, joins other city youngsters on a wilderness adventure in California that turns deadly when wildfires erupt.LSC
Subjects: African Americans; Orphans; Wilderness areas; Wildfires; Survival;
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The secret garden [sound recording (CD)] / by Burnett, Frances Hodgson,1849-1924; Boyd, Carole;
Read by Carole Boyd.A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
Subjects: Orphans; Gardens; Physically handicapped; CD Talking books;
© p2002., Isis Audio,
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Wandering souls : a novel / by Pin, Cecile,author.;
"A boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, expanding into a luminous meditation on ancestry and love. After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh, and Minh begin a perilous journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left orphaned, and sixteen-year-old Anh becomes the caretaker for her two younger brothers overnight. In the years that follow, Anh and her brothers resettle in the UK and confront their new identities as refugees, first in overcrowded camps and resettlement centers and then, later, in a modernizing London plagued by social inequality and raging anti-immigrant sentiment. Anh works in a clothing factory to pay their bills. Minh loiters about with fellow unemployed high school dropouts. Thanh, the youngest, plays soccer with his British friends after class. As they mature, each sibling reckons with survivor's guilt, unmoored by their parents' absence. With every choice they make, their paths diverge further, until it's unclear if love alone can keep them together. Told through lyrical narrative threads, historical research, voices from lost family, and notes by an unnamed narrator determined to chart their fate, Wandering Souls captures the lives of a family marked by war and loss yet relentless in the pursuit of a better future. With urgency and precision, it affirms that the most important stories are those we claim for ourselves, establishing Cecile Pin as a masterful new literary voice"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Immigrants; Orphans; Siblings; Vietnamese;
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A Christmas deliverance : a novel / by Perry, Anne,author.;
"A courageous doctor and his apprentice fight to save London's poor--and discover that the hearts of men can be colder than a winter chill--in this gripping holiday mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. Scuff has come a long way from his time as a penniless orphan scraping together a living on the banks of the Thames. Now he's studying medicine at a free clinic run by Dr. Crowe. Lately Crowe has grown distracted after witnessing an altercation between a former patient of his named Ellie--a woman he not only treated but grew to love--and her controlling fiancé. It seems someone is forcing Ellie to marry the man, and as Crowe's emotions come flooding back, he sets out to uncover the troubling connection between Ellie, her father, and her betrothed. With Crowe engrossed in his investigation just weeks before the holidays, Scuff is left to fend for himself, performing surgery after surgery on London's poor and vulnerable. He is desperate for help, so when a needy young girl named Mattie comes to the clinic for treatment, Scuff offers her a place to live in exchange for assistance with his medical work. Together, Scuff and Mattie must not only run the clinic but also fend off the police, who are growing suspicious of Crowe's amateur sleuthing. Will Crowe be able to help Ellie, and will Scuff and Mattie ensure all of their patients--and they themselves--can manage to have a peaceful Christmas?"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Christmas fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Man-woman relationships; Orphans; Physicians;
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The lonely hearts hotel / by O'Neill, Heather,1973-author.;
Set in Montreal and New York between the wars, a spellbinding story about two orphans whose unusual magnetism and talent allow them to imagine a sensational future, from the bestselling, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted author. Exquisitely imagined and hypnotically told, The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with the power of legend. Set in the early part of the 20th Century, it is an unparalleled tale of charismatic pianos, invisible dance partners, radicalized chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians, brooding clowns, and an underworld whose fortune hinges on the price of a kiss. In a landscape like this, it takes great creative gifts to escape one's origins. It might also take true love. Two babies are abandoned in a Montréal orphanage in the winter of 1914. Before long, their true talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy; Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing for the rich, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen. Separated as teenagers, both escape into the city's underworld, where they must use their uncommon gifts to survive without each other. Ruthless and unforgiving, Montréal in the 1930's is no place for song and dance. But when Rose and Pierrot finally reunite beneath the snowflakes, the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed, and they'll go to extreme lengths to make those dream come true. After Rose, Pierrot and their troupe of clowns and chorus girls hit the stage and the alleys, the underworld will never look the same. With extraordinary storytelling, musical language, and an extravagantly realized world, acclaimed author Heather O'Neill enchants us with her best novel yet -- one so magical there is no escaping its spell.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Circus performers; Orphans; Man-woman relationships;
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