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020			_a9780375502231
082	0		_aFIC QUI
100	1		_aQuindlen, Anna
245	1	0	_aBlessings _b: a novel _c/ Anna Quindlen
260			_aNew York _b: Random House _c, c2002.
300			_a226 p. _c; 25 cm.
520			_aLate at night, a teenage couple drives up to the estate owned by Lydia Blessing and leaves a box. In this instant, the world of the estate called Blessings is changed forever. The story of Skip Cuddy, the Blessings caretaker, who finds a baby asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep her, and of matriarch Lydia Blessing, who, for her own reasons, decides to help him, Blessings explores how the secrets of the past affect decisions and lives in the present; what makes a person, a life, legitimate or illegitimate, and who decides; the unique resources people find in themselves and in a community.
650		4	_aWomen landowners _v--Fiction
650		4	_aFoundlings _v--Fiction
655			_aDomestic fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c241507 _d241507