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Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Since the earliest days in her childhood, Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute, and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice versa when her parents want to communicate with other people. Getting older and more mature, she becomes interested in music and starts to play the clarinet very successfully. Since her parents are deaf, they cannot share Lara's musical career. The day comes...
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Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
This book offers readers a look at different situations they might encounter during a divorce, from a parent moving out to spending time in two different homes. Age-appropriate text helps readers understand important topics such as child custody and stepfamilies.
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Series
Wishing Tree volume 1
Description
"The Somerville sisters believe in love, but they've lost faith it will happen for them. Reggie hasn't been home since the end of the world's shortest engagement. When her parents decide to renew their vows, she buffs up her twinkle to help with the Christmas wedding. Unexpectedly, Toby, her first love, is back too, and the spark between them shines as brightly as ever. In the spirit of the season, will they let go of past hurts and greet the New...
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Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
viii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Presents solutions and proven systems for parents of children with sensory processing disorder, anxiety disorder, ADD/ADHD, autism, bipolar disorder, and OCD that bridge the gap between clinical support and practical in-home solutions.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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After adopting three children, a couple finds themselves in over their heads.
When Pete and Ellie choose to start a family, they stumble headfirst into the world of foster care adoption. After they learn their perfect foster child comes with two other siblings, Pete and Ellie find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight and must hilariously learn the ropes of instant parenthood if they hope to become a real family.
7) About a boy
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Will Freeman may have discovered the key to dating success: If the simple fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women, women who would not ordinarily look twice at Will might not only be willing, but enthusiastic about dating him, then he was really onto something. Single mothers, bright, attractive, available women, thousands of them, were all over London. He just had to find them. SPAT: Single Parents Alone Together. It was a brilliant...
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Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father--a former concert pianist and teacher--moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father--until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. An unforgettable story of love on many...
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""How can you not love a children's author who sees so clearly from her reader's point of view?"--Julie Bowen, actress, Modern Family"This book provides, through honest language and evocative imagery, a uniquely realistic view of how children experience divorce. While neither softening or white-washing this difficult topic, Higginbotham offers an ultimately comforting message to parents and children experiencing separation and divorce."-Lisa Spiegel,...
11) The house
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After Scott and Kate Johansen lose their daughter's college fund, they become desperate to earn it back so she can pursue her dream of attending a university. With the help of their neighbor Frank, they decide to start an illegal casino in his house.
12) Imperfect birds
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Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. But as the school year draws to a close, there are disturbing signs that the life Rosie claims to be leading is a sham, and that Elizabeth's hopes for her daughter to remain immune from the pull of the darker impulses of drugs and alcohol are dashed. Now, Elizabeth is forced to confront the fact that Rosie has been lying to her, and that her deceptions...
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"A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together."--Amazon.com....
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"An extremely useful parenting handbook... truly outstanding ... strongly recommended."
—Library Journal (starred review)
"A tremendous resource for parents and professionals alike."
—Thomas Atwood, president and CEO, National Council for Adoption
The adoption of a child is always a joyous moment in the life of a family. Some adoptions, though, present unique challenges. Welcoming these children
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Publisher
Workman Pub
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xvi, 671 pages ; 23 cm
Description
How to Care for Aging Parents is an authoritative, clear, and comforting source of advice and support for the ever-growing number of Americans{u2014}now 42 million{u2014}who care for an elderly parent, relative, or friend. And now, in its third edition, it is completely overhauled and updated, chapter-by-chapter and page-by-page, with the most recent medical findings and recommendations. It includes a whole new chapter on fraud; details on the latest...
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Publisher
Umbriel Editores
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
93 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
"El amor por mis padres me ha llevado a escribir este libro, que es una balada al infinito. Una forma de deciros, a los que aun los teneis vivos, que no perdais ni una sola ocasion de estar con ellos ni de darles todos los abrazos que yo me estoy perdiendo, porque:"Si yo tuviera padres, les daria la mano y me iria con ellos al mercado para hablar del precio de las verduras, nos tomariamos juntos un aperitivo y les contaria que me siento orgullosa...
18) One fine day
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Description
When their kids miss a field trip, two single parents babysit in shifts for a day while juggling their jobs as an architect (Pfeiffer) and a journalist (Clooney).
19) Weekend dad
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""This home is home because my dad is here, and it's nothing like home because my mom isn't here," thinks the boy in this story when he enters his dad's new apartment for the first time. His dad moved out on Monday and now it's Friday night, the start of his weekend with his dad. The boy and his dad follow their normal weekend routine -- they eat eggs for breakfast, play cards and spend time at the park. And then they do the same things on Sunday....
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Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
28 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
After reluctantly talking with her parents about their upcoming divorce, a young girl discovers that there will be some big changes but that their love for her will remain the same. Includes an afterword for parents on helping children through such a change.
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