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Tooke, Hana

Summary: In all the years that Elinora Gassbeek has been matron of the Little Tulip Orphanage, not once have the Rules for Baby Abandonment been broken. Until the autumn of 1880, when five babies are left in outrageous circumstances; one in a tin toolbox, one in a coal bucket, one in a picnic hamper, one in a wheat sack, and finally, one in a coffin-shaped basket. Those babies were Lotta, Egg, Fenna,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TOO

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Summary: Rising War Office star Mycroft Holmes persuades his brother, Sherlock, to volunteer at a friend's orphanage, where the suspicious death of a street urchin and a mysterious Chinese woman lead the brothers into the London opium trade's dark underside.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABD

Riggs, Ransom

Summary: Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They'll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2015

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD-YA FIC RIG

Irving, John

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Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000

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Stewart, Trenton Lee

Summary: Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict, an orphan afflicted with an unfortunate nose and with narcolepsy, is sent to a new orphanage where he encounters vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances, and a mystery that could change his life forever.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012

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Rundberg, Johan

Summary: It's 1880, and in the frigid city of Stockholm, death lurks around every corner. Twelve-year-old Mika knows that everyone in her orphanage will struggle to survive this winter. But at least the notorious serial killer the Night Raven is finally off the streets...or is he?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing Kids 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RUN

Riggs, Ransom.

Summary: A horrific family tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of an old orphanage that was home to children who were more than just peculiar, but possibly dangerous--and who may still be alive. Illustrated with vintage found photographs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIG

Riggs, Ransom

Summary: "The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he and Noor are back in his grandfather's house. Jacob doesn't know how they escaped from V's loop, but he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned. Risen from the Library of Souls, Caul and his apocalyptic agenda seem unstoppable. Only one hope remains--deliver Noor to the meeting...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIG

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIG

Shirai, Kaiu

Summary: "Emma and her new allies have successfully taken down many of the demons of Goldy Pond. The last one standing in this demonic hunting ground is Leuvis, but he's the most powerful of them all. None of the children's tactics seem to work on him, but some unexpected last-minute help may turn the tide of the battle. Can the children of Goldy Pond finally put an end to their despair?"--Page 4 of cover

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2017

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 PRO

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC PRO

Gabhart, Ann H.

Summary: "Widow Rose Meadows eagerly accepts her brother-in-law's offer for her and her two daughters to live on his farm after her treatments in a sanatorium finds them needing a home. But is this scarred and reclusive man ready for all the changes these women will bring to his life?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2022

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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

Riggs, Ransom.

Summary: After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2011

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3 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIG

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC RIG

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC RIG

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Riggs

DiLouie, Craig

Summary: "They call him Dog. Enoch is a teenage boy growing up in a rundown orphanage in Georgia during the 1980s. Abandoned from the moment they were born, Enoch and his friends are different. People in the nearby town whisper that the children from the orphanage are monsters. The orphanage is not a happy home. Brutal teachers, farm labor, and communal living in a crumbling plantation house are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIL

Stewart, Trenton Lee

Summary: Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict, an orphan afflicted with an unfortunate nose and with narcolepsy, is sent to a new orphanage where he encounters vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances, and a mystery that could change his life forever.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STE

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STE

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Stewart 2012

Shirai, Kaiu

Summary: "Life at Grace Field Home is good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they have to take are tough, their loving caretaker provides them with delicious food and plenty of playtime. But perhaps not everything is as it seems... With the demons of Goldy Pond finally defeated, Emma and the other children now focus on their next task--finding the Seven Walls. But it...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2019

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 PRO

Grainger, Jean

Summary: "Carmel Sheehan was raised in an orphanage in Dublin, and always believed what she was told, that her unmarried mother abandoned her as a newborn. Forty years later, living in rural Ireland, in an unfulfilling marriage, and she has no reason to suspect that version of her past was untrue, until she gets a Facebook message one day from a stranger claiming it was all lies. Carmel begins a journey...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grainger

Shirai, Kaiu

Summary: "Life at Grace Field House is good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they have to take are tough, their loving caretaker provides them with delicious food and plenty of playtime. But perhaps not everything is as it seems ... The search for the mysterious Minerva has led Emma to a secret room within Goldy Pond. Heeding Minerva's clues, Emma and the other...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2019

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 PRO

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC PRO

Hart, John

Summary: At the Iron Mountain Home for Boys, there was nothing but time. Time to burn and time to kill, time for two young orphans to learn that life isn't won without a fight. Julian survives only because his older brother, Michael, is fearless and fiercely protective. When tensions boil over and a boy is brutally killed, there is only one sacrifice left for Michael to make: He flees the orphanage and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Gist, Deeanne.

Summary: From the day she arrives at the Biltmore, Tillie Reese is dazzled--by the riches of the Vanderbilts and by Mack Danvers, a mountain man turned footman. When Tille is enlisted to help tame Mack's rugged bahavior by tutoring him in proper servant etiquette, the resulting sparks threaten Tillie's efforts to be chosen as Edith Vanderbilt's lady's maid. After all, the one rule of the house is no...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIS

Oke, Janette

Summary: "So much has been accomplished. Lillian Walsh has stepped out courageously beyond what she'd ever dreamed of being able to achieve. She and her newly rediscovered sister, Grace, have settled three children from England into new Canadian homes and are prepared to place two more just after the New Year, when it happens--another painful disruption. A white lie the sisters used to protect some...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OKE

Riggs, Ransom

Summary: "With his dying words, H---Jacob's final connection to his grandfather Abes's secret life--entrusts Jacob with a mission: Deliver newly contacted peculiar Noor Pradesh to an operative known as V"

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: FIC RIG

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIG

Irving, John

Summary: Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--obstetrician and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Clouds. It is also the story of his favorite orphan, Homer, who is never adopted.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IRV

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC IRV

Hart, John

Summary: Julian survived at the Iron Mountain Home for Boys only because his older brother, Michael, was fearless and fiercely protective. When tensions boiled over and a boy was brutally killed, Michael fled the orphanage. Now, two decades later, Michael is an enforcer in New York's world of organized crime, but the life he's fought to build unravels when he meets Elena. He wants a fresh start with...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAR

Yamanaka, Lois-Ann

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAM

Laurens, Stephanie.

Summary: Penelope Ashford, Portia Cynster's younger sister, has grown up with every advantage --wealth, position, and beauty. Yet Penelope is anything but a typical ton miss --forceful, willful and blunt to a fault, she has for years devoted her considerable energy and intelligence to directing an institution caring for the forgotten orphans of London's streets. But now her charges are mysteriously...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2008

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LAU

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