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Creating a family in the 21st Century presents certain challenges: career couples are waiting longer and discovering infertility issues and gay & lesbian couples are becoming parents through various methods. The authors share their 5 year story, struggles, and success of creating a family. This book is designed to aide others who are going through the process of creating a child through alternative means, with a specific intent of providing short...
522) The Little Princess
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Six-year-old Darby arrives on Casey's doorstep terrified and hysterical. As Casey tries to soothe the little girl she realizes that this is likely to be one of the most difficult placements she had ever had to deal with... Casey is shocked to answer the door on a Sunday afternoon, the week before Christmas, to find John Fulshaw on her doorstep - unannounced and looking very serious. John explains why's he's come, and the Watsons sit and listen, shocked...
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Minna wishes for many things. She wishes she understood the quote taped above her mother's typewriter: Fact and fiction are different truths. She wishes her mother would stop writing long enough to really listen to her. She wishes her house were peaceful and orderly like her friend Lucas's. Most of all, she wishes she could find a vibrato on her cello and play Mozart the way he deserves to be played. Minna soon discovers that some things can't be...
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Shalita O'Neale embraces the little girl inside, Muffin, to help others navigate through their healing journey; regardless of the type of trauma suffered. Through childhood and early adulthood, Muffin endures abuse, false perceptions, losses, and more that stripped away the security of self-awareness. Through this story and guide, the reader will nestle up to Muffin and learn how to recover their pure selves, develop healthy coping mechanisms, spiritual...
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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...
526) Carabelle
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Twelve-year-old Carabelle can't wait to spend the summer with her best friend, Gracie, swimming all day and watching movies all night. While Carabelle's single mom works, the pair of besties dive into their adventures. But when a tragic accident tears Carabelle from her home and everyone she loves, she no longer knows where she belongs. Carabelle finds herself trapped in a foster home with the school bully, Drake Duff, and becomes a prisoner to her...
527) Your Child
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What does a typical three-year-old think about and feel? What can you anticipate from your five-year-old about to begin school? What does it mean that your eight-year-old seems to lie regularly?
Your Child takes you step-by-step through the developmental milestones of childhood, discussing specific questions and concerns and examining more troublesome problems. From choosing your baby's doctor to dealing with steep problems, from helping a child...
528) Saving CJ: A Novella
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What great things will you do if you discover a time portal?
Will you save children from their imminent deaths, change your fate, and change history? Will it affect the present or make another past?
Journey with Dr. Daniel Wallace and Willie Lincoln as they travel through time in Saving CJ-a story with a wonderful blend of friendship, history, and time travel.
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Crime . . . Poverty . . Racism. George rose above it all. His journey through Foster Care was at times difficult, at times touching and at times very funny. His story will inspire anyone working with young people. Especially those in Foster and Adoptive Care, from Foster Parents to Youth, Social Workers and Foster Care Agencies. While his story begin with crime, poverty and racism, it ends with love, belonging and hope. Love . . . Belonging . . ....
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Comment réaliser son désir de paternité lorsqu'on est un couple d'hommes ?
Un automne à Madison est un récit autobiographique racontant le périple d'un couple d'hommes pour devenir parents. Coparentalité avortée, passage devant un juge d'instruction, mêlés malgré eux à une affaire explosive, ils finiront par faire le choix d'une GPA aux États-Unis, dans l'état rural du Wisconsin.
Un automne à Madison, c'est l'histoire d'une famille...
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The Journey of Hope - presents the authors struggles to uncover personal history long hidden by the Tennessee Childrens Home Society (TCHS). Beginning chapters describe why she was taken from her mother and handed over to Georgia Tann at TCHS in 1936 at the age of four.
Early memories include riding in the "big black car" that took her from Memphis to Odessa, Texas to a family that added the name Patricia and gave her a new life.
In 1987 she decides...
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"Five Tickets to Kansas is a fantastic narrative of anguish and redemption. It makes us see once again that there are no divine impossibilities." - Valerie Quesenberry, Author of Reflecting Beauty: Embracing the Creator's Design
Born to an impoverished family in Nova Scotia, Canada, Susan Carter's earliest years held more pain, rejection, and betrayal than most of us face in a lifetime. Yet, as she looks back on those years and the ones that...
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Philomena meets Lion in this captivating memoir, the story of an orphan abandoned on Christmas Eve by her young, unwed mother and the journey undertaken to find her.
Between 1945 and 1973, about 350,000 unmarried Canadian mothers were coerced or forced into giving their babies up for adoption. Many babies, like Nadean Stone, were illegally given away, like a puppy at the pound, for a nominal donation to the church.
“No Stone Unturned”, follows...
534) The Ape Star
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In this award-winning chapter book about prejudice and justice, an orphan girl is adopted by a gorilla who lives in a junkyard. Their growing friendship defies all odds. Now an animated movie.
Jonna lives in an orphanage whose manager is strict and obsessed with cleanliness. Like all the other children, Jonna has only one dream: to be adopted by a well-dressed mother who smells of perfume. But one day, a beat-up old car pulls up. The door opens...
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Gib might have finally found the family he's always wanted. Will he be adopted for good? No child wants an extended stay in the Lovell House Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys. And in the sequel to Gib Rides Home, Gib, a smart, resourceful eleven-year-old orphan, returns to the Thornton family's ranch, hoping for a much happier experience this time. Instead of the farm labor that most orphans his age are forced to do, he gets the benefits of being...
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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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In Search of a Family: A Story of an International Adoption takes the reader inside a personal journey through the unknowns of an international adoption. This true story takes place in the ex-Soviet bloc country of Ukraine. As they travel through this young, independent republic, Kevin and Ginger Carlisle encounter numerous obstacles that could derail their hopes of achieving their dream of creating a new family. Braving Ukrainian election tensions...
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Philomena meets Lion in this captivating memoir-the story of an orphan abandoned on Christmas Eve by her young, unwed mother and the journey undertaken to find her.
Between 1945 and 1973, about 350,000 unmarried Canadian mothers were coerced or forced into giving their babies up for adoption. Many babies, like Nadean Stone, were illegally given away, like a puppy at the pound, for a nominal donation to the church.
No Stone Unturned follows debut...
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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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