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Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife, and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind her small daughter, husband, and the animals to which she devoted her life. All signs point to abandonment ... or worse. Still Jenna -- now thirteen years old and truly orphaned by a father maddened by grief -- steadfastly refuses to believe in her...
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244 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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"The story of a young woman who takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable but unfulfilling life in Manhattan, hurtling herself into the unknown, testing fate by hitchhiking, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers and sleeping in fields, forests or public parks"--
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1 videodisc (approximately 82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Meet Josephine, Reena, Marie, Jeanette, Lou, and Terry. These intelligent and articulate women once had secure, active and fulfilling lives. That is until one day when everything unraveled. Now living out of their cars or in cheap hotels, they exist entirely under the radar, too proud to go to shelter or to even receive public assistance.
4) Oh my stars
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Ellery novel volume 5
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311 pages ; 21 cm.
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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....
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237 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Español
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"¿Has tenido la impresión de que estás marchando sin rumbo en tu trayectoria personal? ¿Te ha sucedido que vuelve a surgir un problema que ya considerabas resuelto? Es posible que no estés caminando por el sendero correcto. Esta nueva edición de Las 5 heridas que impiden ser uno mismo, tan precisa, clara y concreta como siempre, demuestra que todos los problemas de orden físico, emocional o mental con los que cargamos provienen de cinco heridas...
6) Abandoned
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Max Revere volume 5
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viii, 338 pages ; 25 cm.
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"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...
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396 pages ; 20 cm
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"Abandonada por su marido, Emily Coleman vive con su hijo Cody en un rancho aislado en medio de una tierra violenta y despiadada, acosada por las deudas y por los hombres que codician sus tierras. Si quiere sobrevivir, tendra que cruzar Kansas para vender su ganado en la peligrosa Dodge City. Para ello, espera contar con el auxilio de tres hombres: el viejo Kirk, su amigo de la infancia, Nube Gris y el inquietante Douglas. Pero la verdadera ayuda...
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224 pages ; 22 cm
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The Kid doesn't know where her parents are. They left with a promise to come back months ago, and now their seventeen-year-old daughter is stranded on Swan Island. Swan isn't just any island; it is home to an eccentric old age separatist community who have shunned life on the mainland for a haven which is rapidly sinking into the ocean. The Kid's arrival threatens to burst the idyllic bubble that the elderly residents have so carefully constructed...
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292 pages ; 22 cm
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In Lydia Kiesling's debut novel, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent--her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a "processing error"--Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home left to her by her grandparents in hopes that the quiet...
10) Lola
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Lola is a young mother abandoned by the rock singer who fathered her daughter. Lonely and feeling trapped in a life she did not choose, she evades her responsibilities as a parent. Guilt causes her to try to be a better mother, but eventually she reverts back to irresponsible ways."--Container.
11) Monica
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106 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story -- actually, stories -- of its title character. Clowes calls upon a lifetime of inspiration to create the most complex and personal graphic novel of his distinguished career. Rich with visual detail, an impeccable ear for language and dialogue, and thrilling twists, Monica is a multilayered masterpiece in comics form that alludes to many of the genres that have defined...
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