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"Twenty years ago, a nine-year-old boy was swept away by powerful waves on a remote Oregon beach, his body lost to the sea. Only a stone memorial remains to mark his tragic death. For most of her life, Amanda Dufresne had no idea she had an older brother named Dennis Owens, or that he had died. Adopted as a baby, she learned about him while looking into her late birth mother, and is curious to know more about this lost sibling. A solitary young woman,...
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"A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, but little attention has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish infants for private adoption. Relinquished reveals adoption to be a path of constrained...
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From early poems re-imagining Bible stories to new work influenced by her travels through Asia, award-winning poet Jane Williams' keen interest in the connections between people pervades.
Days Like These offers readers familiar with her work a treasured collation and to those coming to it for the first time a tantalising introduction.
Here you will find sorrow and joy inextricably linked in a captivating verse that is ultimately a celebration...
5) Lies I Told
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Grace Fontaine has everything: beauty, money, confidence, and the perfect family. But it's all a lie.
Grace has been adopted into a family of thieves who con affluent people out of money, jewelry, art, and anything else of value. Grace has never had any difficulty pulling off a job, but when things start to go wrong on the Fontaines' biggest heist yet, Grace finds herself breaking more and more of the rules designed to keep her from getting caught...
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In the thrilling sequel to Lies I Told, Grace learns that the most difficult thing about pulling off the perfect crime is living with the consequences. Fans of Ally Carter, Cecily von Ziegesar, and Gail Carriger will love this thrilling, high-stakes novel, which deftly explores the roles of identity and loyalty while offering a window into the world of the rich and fabulous.
Grace Fontaine was trained to carry out perfect crimes. But when a mistake...
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Beloved Robert Munsch stories with text adapted for beginner readers, including a note from the author, reading tips, and reading activities.
Tyya is grocery shopping with her dad, but he's not letting her pick any of the good stuff like cookies, ice cream, or candies. When she holds still and is mistaken for the best, most lifelike doll in the supermarket, an argument at the till leads her dad to buy something good after all.
This high -interest...
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Ollie Otter is an orphan from Michigan who is guided to a new Otter family. Robbie Racoon is raised by his grandmother in California's Redwood Forest. Wally Wallaby is from Australia, adopted by a mama wallaby looking for a child of her own. Pauly Penguin is from Chile, alone inside his egg in freeing temperatures, until Papa Penguin discovers the abandoned egg and brings warmth and life. This is a story about rescue, critters being given a second...
9) Little Ricky
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Ricardo and Dorothy are a young couple who live an irresponsible life, but they are happy. Their happiness is soon shattered when little Ricky appears in their life. Little Ricky doesn't filter his comments, causing one incident after another in both families. Ricardo and Dorothy's families are from different backgrounds and hostile to one another. Ricky adds fuel to that fire until a terrible incident brings an unexpected end to the story.
10) Know My Place
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A teenager's longing for family and a place to call home is poignantly portrayed in this heartfelt and ultimately uplifting story of life in the foster-care system. A teenager's longing for family and a place to call home is poignantly portrayed in this heartfelt and ultimately uplifting story of life in the foster-care system from bestselling author Eve Ainsworth. Feeling betrayed when her long-term foster placement breaks down, Amy is sent to live...
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Son dos sentimientos que están latentes en las mujeres. Unas quieren hijos y otras no.Por una parte, vas a aprender todo sobre la maternidad: Cuidados necesarios durante los 9 meses, nutrición con recetas y ejercicios permitidos semana a semana para un embarazo saludable.ESTE LIBRO, OFRECE UN BUEN SENTIDO DE CÓMO CUIDARTE DURANTE EL EMBARAZO POR DENTRO Y POR FUERA, ADEMÁS DE UNA LISTA DE RECOMENDACIONES POR TRIMESTRE, PARA QUE TU BEBÉ CREZCA...
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A Place to Belong is the fifth book of the Charity series. It is about a boy named Noah who was placed in foster care due to neglect and abuse. He so desperately wanted a place to call home. Charity comes on the scene and witnesses how God prearranged a connection between Noah and his teacher. Charity desires that every child recognizes that God loves them and that they are never alone.
13) Samantha Jean's Rainbow Dream - A Young Foster Girl's Adventure Into the Colorful World of Fruits &
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SAMANTHA JEAN'S RAINBOW DREAM - A Young Foster Girl's Adventure into the Colorful World of Fruits & Vegetables A real-life inspired heartwarming, fun-filled adventure into hope, acceptance, love, perseverance, and the benefits of eating fruits & vegetables! Will the young fruit & veggie hating Samantha Jean finally find the Forever Family she's been dreaming of? How will her new foster parents react when she blurts out "YUCK" at the dinner table?...
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A powerful and honest account based on three decades of true-life experience Award-winning The Branches We Cherish weaves together thought-provoking, joyous, and poignant reflections of four birth parents, birth grandmothers, adoptive parents, and two adopted children. In 1992, Linda and David long to have a child. They decide to adopt a baby and learn they can only do so under an open arrangement where the biological parents and the adoptive family...
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Amelia: young, naive, in love. Geoff: charming, narcissistic, intelligent. In a decidedly European affair, a young couple consummates a courtship destined for differences. The resultant pregnancy provides a haunting yet charming backdrop for the challenges of love and its often unwanted decisions.
In the first person and in a creative journal style, author Abigail Calkin explores three choices that Amelia can make-give birth, give the baby up for...
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Vous qui aimez les poètes, haïssez-les !Ce titre, ne vous dit-il rien? Ne vous rappelle-t-il pas les cris d'espoir noyés dans le désespoir? Dans ce livre, l'Auteur voit les maux s'affecter. Le jour au jour, ils s'empirent. Il n'y peut rien. Pourtant, il peut faire quelque chose. L'Auteur songeait à faire ce qu'il pouvait, mais il n'a pu rien. Les yeux levés vers le ciel, il ne pouvait que prier. Il se confiait et passait tous ses jours à contempler...
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Travel across the years in this inspirational and unique lyrical collage memoir, I Must Have Wandered. Post-World War II South Carolina was replete with military bases and unwanted children. A childless couple stationed at an air base and an abandoned infant girl are united by chance and choice in a closed, state-sealed contract, and a Catholic adoption. However, primal severance and stressful family separations complicate her childhood. Throughout...
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Little Jimmy Brown never knew the warm embrace of a mother's arms while he grew up. When he was just a babe, his momma passed on to the great beyond, leaving him all alone in this harsh world. The poor boy was shipped off to an orphanage, where he spent the next nine years surrounded by cold walls and stern caretakers instead of a loving family. At the orphanage, Jimmy found solace in caring for the animals and tending the garden. Though the work...
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After adopting her son from a Chinese orphanage, Chris Prange-Morgan and her husband soon realized that the picture-perfect family life they had envisioned was not to be. Abandoned, severely neglected, and malnourished, their son had suffered profound trauma in his earliest years that no amount of love or affection could remedy. His deep emotional wounds manifested as challenging behaviors that strained family relationships and thwarted well-intentioned...
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A collection of inspiring and emotive real-life short stories from foster cares Casey Watson and Rosie Lewis.
Sarah, a baby born to a crack-addicted mother on a freezing cold night in December.
Charlie, who fell from the second-floor window of his tower block home while his mother is busy shooting up in their dirty council flat.
Angell, left barely clothed beneath a park bench on a freezing cold day in winter.
Hope, abandoned as a newborn by a...
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