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A girl's perfect life falls apart when her mother is arrested for a white collar crime in this novel School Library Journal calls "realistic yet positive."
Carly Wheeler lives a charmed life. Her mother is a stylist for the soap opera Lovelock Falls, she lives in a nice house, and goes to an excellent private school. But when her mom is arrested and charged with embezzlement, everything starts to unravel. There are shocking stories about her mother's...
82) Œil du Pouvoir
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Considérez-vous qu'il existe une prédétermination, un destin ? Et si vous n'aimiez pas votre destin ? Pour quelle raison vous vous en accommoderiez ? Qu'est-ce qui vous fait avancer dans une vie que vous pouvez renoncer sans remord ? Qu'est-ce qu'un homme et qu'est-ce qu'une femme ? Comment les distinguer ? Et qu'est-ce qu'une famille ? Si vous pouvez y répondre, alors pouvez-vous aussi répondre à « pourquoi sont-ils ma famille ? » Est-ce...
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En busca de Emma is the moving story of two fathers that overcame all obstacles to bring their daughter into this world. A personal story of the building of a 21st century family. A universal story of love. This is the first book from the Editor-in-Chief of People en Español.
As the Editor-in-Chief of People en Español, the highest circulated Spanish-language magazine in the USA, Armando Correa knows a thing or two about glitz, celebrity, and glamour....
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Our life is full of problems and challenges that affect our way of seeing the world and prevent us from living in peace and harmony with ourselves. Happiness, satisfaction and our own growth depend on us; but, essentially, they require spirit and a harmonious mind. In light of this, we present these 7 tips that will help you reach much-desired happiness.
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To procreate or not to procreate: that is the question.
The choice, in itself, is a big conversation in society, and often something that is highly judged. Even the relationships we have with our own parents are expected to fit a norm that doesn't actually exist.
The Keeping It Under Wraps anthology series provides a safe space to change the narrative, to speak openly about individual experiences, and in the end to understand that while each experience...
86) Pride Colors
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Through gentle rhymes and colorful photographs of adorable children, Pride Colors is a celebration of the deep unconditional love of a parent or caregiver for a young child. The profound message of this delightful board book is you are free to be whoever you choose to be; you'll always be loved.
Celebrated author Robin Stevenson ends her purposeful prose by explaining the meaning behind each color in the Pride flag: red = life, orange = healing,...
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Everyone's family is unique--and good! From sprawling extended families and close-knit units to adopted and chosen families, A Family Like Ours celebrates all those important connections we build over the years. Regardless of what yours looks like, family is a place for support, safety, growth, and inspiration. What is special, surprising, or sensational about your family? Everyone's family is unique--and good! From sprawling extended families and...
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Bonedread has escaped and he's on a mission to get paid one way or another.
The first order of business is to auction off Celadine and get as much money as he can for the elder dwarf's daughter.
Max, Milo and the twins cannot leave Merrihaven and are being closely guarded by an army of pixies. Time is running out. Three stones have been found, but four more are out there and no way to get to them.
With a little help from Roanin, the search for Celadine...
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Notre vie est confrontée à des problèmes et défis qui affectent notre vision du monde et nous empêchent de vivre en paix en harmonie avec nous-mêmes. Le bonheur, la satisfaction et notre croissance dépendent beaucoup de nous, mais, essentiellement, ils exigent une harmonie entre l'esprit et la tête. Pour cela, nous vous présentons 7 conseils qui vous permettront de trouver le bonheur si désiré.
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Trouble du spectre Autistique & Narcissisme En français Trouble du spectre Autistique:Ce livre est un résumé très instructif, facile à lire, clair et simple de ce que les parents doivent savoir sur l'autisme, les troubles du spectre autistique, l'Asperger et les défis comportementaux et émotionnels qui les accompagnent.
La sensibilisation à l'autisme est à un niveau record, et les concepts présentés dans les travaux majeurs sont résumés...
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Families blend together for a variety of reasons. Widowed or divorced parents choose to remarry. An ailing or elderly relative can no longer live alone and moves in with his son's family. A family chooses to adopt a child. Economic circumstances force family members to combine households. Regardless of why it happens, creating a blended family is a process of transition that takes time, patience, humor, compassion, and a whole lot of conversation....
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The Foster Factory deals with the experiences of David Learmont and his wife Marsha once they retired and started working again as Foster Carers. David claims that if he had written this book as a novel, the characters in it would have been considered 'too outlandish to be credible.' How the elderly couple dealt with egomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, tractor-maniacs, and children who stabbed him and burned down their house are just some of the tales that...
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Con la agencia viene el personal de su tío: un zombi que apenas puede mantenerse unido, un zombi del tamaño de una cabina telefónica y con un coeficiente intelectual de un solo dígito, un profesor loco y Ronnie, que tiene la capacidad de hacerse invisible.
Skullenia parece ser el último lugar que necesitaría una agencia de detectives. Al menos eso es lo que piensa Ollie, hasta que el Conde Jocular lo encarga para ayudar a resolver una serie...
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Everyone's family is unique--and good! From sprawling extended families and close-knit units to adopted and chosen families, A Family Like Ours celebrates all those important connections we build over the years. Regardless of what yours looks like, family is a place for support, safety, growth, and inspiration. What is special, surprising, or sensational about your family? Everyone's family is unique--and good! From sprawling extended families and...
96) Rejected
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After destroying the facility inside Deliverance, Ahna thought The Delivery Company was close to defeat. When her group reaches the Rocky Mountains, she realizes the truth–The Delivery Company is far from finished. In fact, they are rebuilding, creating new and improved Elite, and preparing to finish what they started: complete control.Now that resources are running low, relationships are falling apart, and Wallers show up at every turn, Ahna and...
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¿Consideras que hay alguna predeterminación? ¿Algún destino? ¿Y qué haces si no te gusta este destino? ¿Si para reconciliar, eso por qué? ¿Porque seguir esa vida si la puedes tirar a la basura sin reproches? ¿Qué es un hombre y que es una mujer? ¿Como distinguirlos del otro? ¿Qué es una familia? ¿Y si puedes resolver esta pregunta, entonces porque son familia? ¿Es lo mismo lo que tienes en tu vida que lo que quieres tener? ¿Y si no...
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Cet ouvrage de la célèbre spécialiste du célibat, Bella DePaulo, regroupe plusieurs écrits, parmi lesquels des articles précédemment publiés dans les magazines Time et Quartz, une rubrique extraite d'un ouvrage scientifique, ainsi que de nouveaux écrits de l'auteure. Il représente le second tome d'une paire d'ouvrages sur les familles non traditionnelles.
Alors que beaucoup pourraient être tentés de considérer les célibataires sans...
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In the autumn of 2018 I took a transgender boy I had met only once out to lunch, anticipating becoming an adult friend and mentor to him as he worked his way through college and his transition. I ended up being his mother. I didn't anticipate going to lunch and getting another child, but both Jayce and I are the sorts of people To Whom Things Happen, and so here we are. We often say we were meant to be together as mother and son; we are eerily alike.
This...
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Grandparents have many different characteristics, but they all share one thing in common. This book about grandparents features bright illustrations that work with the simple text to help beginning readers understand the story and build foundational reading skills. Provide a shared reading experience for parents, children, and grandparents with this book that supports early childhood literacy.
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