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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Living in an igloo of ice and trash bags half a year after a cataclysmic nuclear disaster, Emily, convinced that she will be hated as the daughter of the drunken father who caused the meltdown, assumes a fictional identity while protecting a homeless boy.
2) The innocent
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
3) Father's day
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old runaway Reagan has always wanted a place to belong. She's never had a real home of her own, but perhaps she could borrow someone else's. Under an assumed name and identity, she moves to Harmony, Texas, but keeps her distance from the welcoming townsfolk. Until prairie fires threaten Harmony--and Reagan learns the true meaning of family, friends, and home" -- from publisher's web site.
5) Jumper
Author
Series
Jumper volume 1
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Blessed with the ability to "jump"--to teleport himself to any place on Earth that he has been to before--Davy is determined to locate others like himself, but interference from the government could prevent him from doing so.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Little River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a run-down motorhome, flunking out of school, and picking up shifts at the local diner. But when April realizes she's finally had enough-enough of her selfish, absent father and barely surviving in an unfeeling town-she decides to make a break for it. Stealing a car and with only her music to keep her company, April hits the road, determined to live life on her own terms. She manages to scrape...
7) Runaway
Author
Series
Starlight animal rescue volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dakota doesn't want to warm up to her new foster family; in fact, she plans to run away as soon as she gets the opportunity. Just as her plans to escape unfold, she falls in love with a horse that others have just about given up on. She accepts the love of her new family as well as the love of God through a series of events"--Publisher's website.
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Language
English
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"The hero-narrator of this novel is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he...
9) Standoff
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on vacation, TV reporter Tiel McCoy becomes involved in a hostage situation involving two runaway teenagers attempting to rob a convenience store.
10) Crossroads
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A young classically trained guitarist learns the blues from an old bluesman who supposedly got his talent to play the blues from the devil.
11) Mama Ruby
Author
Series
Mama Ruby novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Othella--the daughter of the town tramp in Shreveport, Louisiana--convinces her to give her baby away, 15-year-old Ruby Jean Upshaw runs away to New Orleans where nothing can erase the memories of the child she lost or quell her simmering rage at Othella for persuading her to let her baby go.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
One phone call destroys all hope Becca Morrow has for a life beyond the shame of her past. Further discredited by the death of her elderly, ailing patient--the mother of the influential businessman, Isaac Hughes--Becca's new life is shattered and her longing for love slips away. Working to clear her name, Becca must learn to see the beauty in the ugliness of dying, to accept the precious tenderness in forgiveness, and--at last--discover that where...
13) Bad company
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A roguish group of runaways living by their wits in the rough West of the 1860s emerge older and wiser for their journey and friendship.
14) Family honor
Author
Series
Sunny Randall mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
PI Sunny Randall of Boston searches for a rich man's daughter who ran away to be a prostitute. After finding her Sunny must guard her because the girl is on a hit list. She witnessed a conspiracy involving state government.
16) Roseborough
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Roseborough is a poignant tale about fragile family bonds. When her 14-year-old daughter runs away, Mary Lou, a recent widow, signs up for a single-parenting class. Before long, she begins a comical, touching quest to find her daughter.
17) High on a hill
Author
Series
Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Anabel Lee and her father have made a middle-of-the-night move from their former home to a remote hilltop house. When a young boy calls to the house, he brings trouble for Anabel and her father.
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't...
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