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Summer longing / by Brenner, Jamie,1971-author.;
"When a baby girl is left on the doorstep of a beach house on Cape Cod, an unlikely group of women come together to save the child, and end up saving themselves: the newest heartwarming story from USA Today bestselling author Jamie Brenner"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Foundlings; Motherhood; Female friendship; Mothers and daughters; Communities;

Wuthering Heights / by Brontë, Emily,1818-1848,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Classics; Literary; Foundlings; Rejection (Psychology); Rural families; Triangles (Interpersonal relations);

The bookshop girl / by Bishop, Sylvia.; Bernatene, Poly.;
Property Jones and her family are in dire straits when they win a drawing for the greatest bookstore in England but the previous owner was hiding something nearly as big as Property's secret.LSC
Subjects: Bookstores; Families; Literacy; Secrecy; Swindlers and swindling; Foundlings;

No offense : a novel / by Cabot, Meg,author.;
As Little Bridge Island Public Library's head of children's services, Molly Montgomery hopes the messiest thing in her life will be her sticky-note covered desk. But fate, in the form of a newborn left in the restroom, has other ideas. So does the sheriff who comes to investigate the "abandonment."
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Chick lit.; Recipes.; Women librarians; Children's librarians; Single women; Sheriffs; Divorced men; Foundlings; Man-woman relationships;

Brightburn [videorecording] / by Yarovesky, David,film director.; Alan-Williams, Gregory,actor.; Hagner, Meredith,1987-actor.; Banks, Elizabeth,1974-actor.; Denman, David,1973-actor.; Dunn, Jackson A.,actor.; Jones, Matt,1981-actor.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Matt Jones, Meredith Hagner, Gregory Alan Williams.Troubled adolescent Brandon Breyer (Jackson A. Dunn) was finally tipped to the truth that his farmer parents (Elizabeth Banks, David Denman) withheld from him--that he possessed strange and superhuman abilities because he was a foundling from another world. Unfortunately, this young sociopath is less about truth, justice, and the American way than violently bending mankind to his will.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R; for horror violence/bloody images, and language.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.
Subjects: Horror films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Adopted children; Antiheroes; Human-alien encounters; Extraterrestrial beings; Good and evil;
For private home use only.

The girl from the Metropol Hotel : growing up in communist Russia / by Petrushevskai͡a︡, Li͡u︡dmila.;
Introduction: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's War / by Anna Summers -- The Girl from the Metropol Hotel -- Family Circumstances : The Vegers -- The War -- Kuibyshev -- Kuibyshev : Survival Strategies -- How I Was Rescued -- The Durov Theater -- Searching for Food -- Dolls -- Victory Night -- The Officers' Club -- The Courtiers' Language -- The Bolshoi Theater -- Down the Ladder -- Literary Sleep-Ins -- My Performances : Green Sweater -- The Portrait -- The Story of a Little Sailor -- My New Life -- The Hotel Metropol -- Mumsy -- Summer Camp -- Chekhov Street : Grandpa Kolya -- Trying to Fit In -- Children's Home -- I Want to Live! -- Snowdrop -- The Wild Berries -- Gorilla -- Dying Swan -- Sanych -- Foundling."The prizewinning memoir of one of the world's great writers, about coming of age and finding her voice amid the hardships of Stalinist Russia. Like a young Edith Piaf, wandering the streets singing for alms, and like Oliver Twist, living by his wits, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up watchful and hungry, a diminutive figure far removed from the heights she would attain as an internationally celebrated writer. In The Girl from the Metropol Hotel, her prizewinning memoir, she recounts her childhood of extreme deprivation, made more acute by the awareness that her family of Bolshevik intellectuals, now reduced to waiting in bread lines, once lived large across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel. As she unravels the threads of her itinerant upbringing--of feigned orphandom, of sleeping in freight cars and beneath the kitchen tables of communal apartments, of the fugitive pleasures of scraps of food--we see, both in her remarkable lack of self-pity and in the more than two dozen photographs throughout the text, her feral instinct and the crucible in which her gift for giving voice to a nation of survivors was forged"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Petrushevskai͡a︡, Li͡u︡dmila; Petrushevskai͡a︡, Li͡u︡dmila; Petrushevskai͡a︡, Li͡u︡dmila; Hotel Metropol (Moscow, Russia); Authors, Russian; Communism; Coming of age;

Star Wars. [graphic novel] / by Barnes, Rodney,author.; Caramagna, Joe,letterer.; Cummings, Steven,illustrator.; Faucher, Wayne,illustrator.; Jeanty, Georges,illustrator.; Rosenberg, Rachelle,colourist.; Story, Karl C.,illustrator.;
What secrets does the child hold? The Mandalorian continues his long journey with the child called Grogu, trying to return the foundling to the Jedi--but the galaxy is a dangerous place in the wake of the Galactic Empire's collapse, and new enemies lurk on every planet. Thankfully, allies both familiar and unexpected will aid them on their travels! But is there another Mandalorian operating on Tatooine? Can Din Djarin grant safe passage for a Frog Lady and her precious eggs with an ever-hungry Grogu on board? Can they both survive encounters with remnants of Imperial forces, spider-like creatures and a krayt dragon?Rated T.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Science fiction comics.; Grogu (Fictitious character); Mandalorian (Fictitious character); Bounty hunters; Extraterrestrial beings; Life on other planets;

The girl on the cliff / by Riley, Lucinda,author.;
Why has a secret from 1914 caused a century of heartache? Troubled by recent loss, Grania Ryan has returned to Ireland and the arms of her loving family. And it is here, on a cliff edge, that she first meets a young girl, Aurora, who will profoundly change her life. Mysteriously drawn to Aurora, Grania discovers that the histories of their families are strangely and deeply entwined. From a bittersweet romance in wartime London to a troubled relationship in contemporary New York, from devotion to a foundling child to forgotten memories of a lost brother, the Ryans and the Lisles, past and present, have been entangled for a century. Ultimately, it will be Aurora whose intuition and remarkable spirit help break the spell and unlock the chains of the past. Haunting, uplifting and deeply moving, Aurora's story tells of the triumph of hope over loss.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Families; Family secrets; Man-woman relationships;

Sharpe's assassin : Richard Sharpe and the occupation of Paris, 1815 / by Cornwell, Bernard,author.;
Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man with a reputation. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he joined the army twenty-one years ago, and it's been his home ever since. He's a loose cannon, but his unconventional methods make him a valuable weapon. So when, the dust still settling after the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington needs a favour, he turns to Sharpe. For Wellington knows that the end of one war is only the beginning of another. Napoleon's army may be defeated, but another enemy lies waiting in the shadows - a secretive group of fanatical revolutionaries hell-bent on revenge. Sharpe is dispatched to a new battleground: the maze of Paris streets where lines blur between friend and foe. And in search of a spy, he will have to defeat a lethal assassin determined to kill his target or die trying ...
Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Sharpe, Richard (Fictitious character); Assassins; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Revolutionaries; Soldiers;

The night women / by Blædel, Sara,author.; Chace, Tara,translator.; Macki, Erik J.,1969-translator.; translation of:Blædel, Sara.Aldrig mere fri.English.; Blædel, Sara.Farewell to freedom.;
"Detective Louise Rick returns in Sara Blaedel's #1 internationally bestselling series! ... A journey to a new life or a prison of despair and death? A shocking murder on Copenhagen's idyllic streets and an abandoned child reveal a perverse criminal underworld that crosses international borders. A young woman's body is found on the street with her throat slit, and the media is clamoring for the grisly details. Detective Louise Rick is investigating the gruesome murder when her friend Camilla Lind calls. Louise assumes it is because Camilla, a crime reporter, wants to be the first to hear of any juicy new developments. Instead, her distraught friend reveals that her ten year-old son found an abandoned baby on his way to school. As Louise digs deeper into the murder and the mysterious foundling, every clue uncovered points to organized human trafficking from Eastern Europe, run by ruthless gangsters who won't hesitate to kill anyone who gets in their way ..."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Human trafficking; Murder; Policewomen; Women detectives;

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