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Zorrie : a novel / by Hunt, Laird,author.;
Cast adrift in the Depression-era West after the last of her relatives pass away, Zorrie survives by working at a radium processing plant before finding love, community and unexpected loss upon returning to her small Indiana hometown.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Orphans; Young women; City and town life;
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Gilt frame [graphic novel] / by Kindt, Margie Kraft,author.; Hilmes, Sophia,letterer.; Kindt, Matt,author,illustrator.;
A classic whodunit murder mystery that spans the globe from Paris to Hawaii to Montenegro as we hustle to keep up with the most unlikely murder-solving duo in the history of murder-solvers. Sam, who is in his early twenties, is an orphan, taken in when he was younger by his well-off Aunt Merry who has an eccentric taste for antiques and travel. Together, Sam and Merry have solved some of the most notorious murders in the world. And true to form, their Parisian vacation is cut short when they stumble upon a murder scene so bizarre that only a raging psychopath could have produced it. But to solve the crime, they have to wrestle with jewel thieves, art forgers, gun-runners, a lost puppy, and a master French detective who may just solve the crime before they do.
Subjects: Detective and mystery comics.; Graphic novels.; Orphans; Aunts; Murder;
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Louisiana's way home / by DiCamillo, Kate.;
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Subjects: Grandparent and child; Orphans; Moving, Household; Blessing and cursing;
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Delirium / by Oliver, Lauren,1982-;
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.LSC
Subjects: Science fiction.; Dystopias.; Teenagers; Orphans; Government, Resistance to; Dating (Social customs); Interpersonal relations;
© 2012, c2011., HarperCollins,
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Dreaming of flight : a novel / by Hyde, Catherine Ryan,author.;
"Never knowing his parents, eleven-year-old Stewie Little and his brother have been raised on a farm by their older sister ... And every day Stewie goes door to door selling fresh eggs from his wagon--a routine with a surprise just around the corner. It's his new customer, Marilyn. She's prickly and guarded, yet comfortably familiar ... Marilyn has a reason for keeping her distance: a secret no one knows about ... But whatever difficult times lie ahead, Stewie learns that although he can't fix everything for Marilyn or himself, at least he's no longer alone"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Boys; Farm life; Friendship; Grandmothers; Intergenerational relations; Loneliness; Orphans; Secrecy;
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Her chance at family / by Dicken, Angie,author.;
"Getting left at the altar wasn't in Elisa Hartley's planner--but neither was gaining custody of her two orphaned nieces. Determined to be the best guardian possible, Elisa moves them into a newly renovated house. When landscape architect Sean Peters arrives to fix up her yard, he might just be able to heal her heart, too. Except Sean's got a secret ... and revealing it could throw a wrench in their happily-ever-after."--Back cover.
Subjects: Christian fiction.; Religious fiction.; Novels.; Guardian and ward; Landscape architects; Man-woman relationships; Nieces; Orphans;
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The Magic Misfits / by Harris, Neil Patrick,1973-author,narrator.; Azam, Alec,author.; Marlin, Lissy,illustrator.; Findaway World, LLC.;
Read by Neil Patrick Harris."Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons"--Grades 3-6.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Children's audiobooks.; Book plus audio.; Dyslexia-friendly books.; Magic; Orphans; Carnivals; Brigands and robbers; Conduct of life; Magic tricks; Orphans; Carnivals; Robbers and outlaws; Conduct of life;
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The haunting of Bly Manor [videorecording] / by Ainsworth, Benjamin Evan,actor.; Eve, Amelia,actor.; Jackson-Cohen, Oliver,1986-actor.; Kohli, Rahul,1985-actor.; Miller, T'Nia,actor.; Pedretti, Victoria,1995-actor.; Sharif, Tahirah,actor.; Smith, Amelie Bea,actor.; Thomas, Henry,1971-actor.; Paramount Television,distributor.;
Henry Thomas, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Amelia Eve, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Rahul Kohli, T'Nia Miller, Victoria Pedretti, Tahirah Sharif, Amelie Bea Smith.The next highly-anticipated chapter of The Haunting anthology series, set in 1980s England. After an au pair's tragic death, Henry Wingrave hires a young American nanny to care for his orphaned niece and nephew who reside at Bly Manor with the estate's chef Owen, groundskeeper Jamie and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. But all is not as it seems at the manor, and centuries of dark secrets of love and loss are waiting to be unearthed in this chilling gothic romance. At Bly Manor, dead doesn't mean gone.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Haunted house television programs.; Horror television programs.; Television mini-series.; Television programs.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Family secrets; Haunted houses; Haunted places; Orphans; Supernatural;
For private home use only.
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Once a monster / by Dinsdale, Robert,1982-author.;
London, 1861: Ten-year-old Nell belongs to a crew of mudlarks who work a stretch of the Thames along the Ratcliffe Highway. An orphan since her mother died four years past, leaving Nell with only broken dreams and a pair of satin slippers in her possession, she spends her days dredging up coals, copper and pieces of iron spilled by the river barges - searching for treasure in the mud in order to appease her master, Benjamin Murdstone. But one day, Nell discovers a body on the shore. It's not the first corpse she's encountered, but by far the strangest.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Minotaur (Greek mythological character); Magic; Orphans;
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The mystery of the wild west bandit / by Warner, Gertrude Chandler,1890-1979.; VanArsdale, Anthony.;
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Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Boxcar children (Fictitious characters); Brothers and sisters; Orphans; Wild west shows;
© 2014., Albert Whitman,
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