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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ingrid, a smart, free-spirited, and somewhat narcissistic artist kills her deceitful lover in a crime of passion. Even while serving a prison sentence, she exerts control over her adoring teenage daughter, Astrid, who's forced to spend her teenage years in a series of foster homes before becoming her own person. Explores the strange relationship of Ingrid and Astrid, and includes Astrid's relationship with her foster mothers. At first merely an appendage...
2) Night road
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
"For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children's needs above her own, and it shows: her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly becomes Mia's best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. Jude does everything to keep her kids on track for college...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 369 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
"Isabel Gallegos is only a handshake away from living her dream life. After years of putting everyone else's needs before her own, she's selling her family's vineyard and moving to a quiet cottage on the California coast. But just as she's about to seal the deal, a letter arrives from Argentina with shocking news: Her beloved cousin has died and Isabel is now the sole guardian of three young children."--P. [4] of cover.
Series
Criterion collection volume 646
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (87 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
Cyril, almost 12, has only one plan: to find the father ... who left him temporarily in a children's home. By chance he meets Samantha ... who runs a hairdressing salon and agrees to let him stay with her at weekends. Cyril doesn't recognize the love Samantha feels for him, a love he desperately needs to calm his rage.
7) Separated by the border: a birth mother, a foster mother, and a migrant child's 3,000-mile journey
Author
Publisher
IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Gena Thomas tells the story of five-year-old Julia, whose harrowing journey with her mother from Honduras to the United States took her from cargo trailer to detention center to foster care. Weaving together the stories of birth mother and foster mother, this book shows the human face of the immigrant and refugee, the challenges of the immigration and foster care systems, and the tenacious power of motherly love"--
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