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61) It's Not Pizza!
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On the surface, the children's storybook, It's not pizza! is a tale of a family that undertake a baking project together. By employment, John was a baker. He surprises his two siblings with a different kind of baking project.
Both of John's siblings, Joyce and Jack, willingly and joyfully follow their brother in the surprise baking project. All are both surprised and delighted with the outcome. Fun was not the only objective, however.
Beneath the...
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Ruairi has a talent for expression. He is able to tell us about the enormous impact of living in an emotionally abusive and neglectful home. Ruairi's poetry is full of difficult emotions and it is not an easy read. Hearing a child's so directly may be uncomfortable because then we have to recognise that our child care and mental health systems support the child well enough.
Ruairi was adopted at four and a half and this book shows just how much children...
63) Gods of Bruising
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What they have left are the shoes, the
suits and the photos. Now Dominic pushes to keep promises made to his
father. His sister, Diallo, grapples to reconcile memories and recall
her mother's ways. Standing with them is a colourful band of
friends and neighbours. Life comes at the twins with the shocks we
feel are just not supposed to happen – banditry, betrayal, loss. It
is up to them to reclaim their stories.
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When they were young, Susan and Edna, children of Holocaust refugee parents, were inseparable; Edna was Susan's first love and constant companion. But as they grew up and Edna's physical, and mental challenges altered the ways she could develop, a gulf formed between them. Susan's life became even more complicated when, just short of her sixteenth birthday, she learned that she'd been born without a uterus and would never menstruate or give birth...
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In a parallel universe, Rhea's husband-to-be Andrew dies on their wedding day, falling from a cliff while her best friend Luke watches. She is besieged by grief, unanswered questions, and the swirling hurricane of demands Andrew's parents make on her, ordering her to restore a family treasure.
A widow in one reality and seeking normality in another. But she is drowning in memories of her mother, who died when she was a teenager. She resists the smothering...
66) Larkrigg Fell
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When her life is thrown into disarray, can she remember what matters most?
Beth Brandon and her twin sister, Sarah, are polar opposites in every way, except in their love of their home, Larkrigg Hall. Beth is the romantic one, with dreams of an idyllic life in rural Lakeland, while Sarah is willing to take risks to achieve the lifestyle she craves.
When tragedy strikes, and both sisters are thrown into chaos, they are forced to come to terms...
67) A Sapling Grows
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Judith and Kali have left behind their hidden world in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness. With Paul by her side, Judith faces adjusting to life on the "outside." It's a whole new world to still mute Kali, who finds that she loves hamburgers and fries, and learns what it's like to have a friend her age. Paul's parents take them in, and the girls are comforted by being part of a family again. The girls experience a constant stream of new experiences as they...
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Nostalgia reaches into the past to grasp what is already gone and likely never will be again. Legacy reaches into the past with one hand to grasp what is teachable and passes it forward with the other hand to the next generation. Family legacy comes to the surface when an author from rural Star, Mississippi, recounts his childhood stories and the significance of the values that he later realized that those stories contained. Lines in the Gravel will...
69) Palazzo: a novel
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"A captivating new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers. After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family's haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice and care for her...
70) Lemon Twist
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At ten years old, Aaron loses his older brother to leukaemia. This profound loss creates tremendous instability in the family for years. The bereaved parents suffered from intense depression and eventually separate. After that, Aaron comes to believe that he is not the child his family looks to for leadership. This realisation fills him with bitter indignation and hatred towards his parents. Devastated by the haunting emotions of the long-buried grief...
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Entrez dans un instant de vie familial empli de rebondissements !
Avez-vous des frères et sœurs ? Non ? Alors reposez ce roman sans l'ouvrir. Par contre, si vous en avez un, deux ou même sept, alors vous vous êtes sûrement déjà demandé comment vous pouviez être parfois si différent d'eux alors que vous avez grandi sous le même toit. C'est de cela dont il est question dans ce livre, de sœurs devenues adultes mais qui partent en vacances...
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Between each birth, the family undergoes a reshaping. The experiences of a first child or an only child are very different from those of a youngest child with three siblings. This book explains how birth order affects the type of person you are, the type of spouse you choose, and the type of employer or employee you make.
73) Keep on Dancing
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Can she find the strength to carry on without him?
Rosie Curtis is distraught when her brother Tommy is viciously murdered after dabbling in the criminal underworld. Life at home isn't the same and without Tommy's support, her dreams of becoming a dancer are shattered.
Powerless to avenge her brother's death, Rosie throws herself into saving a local music hall from closure and plans a musical spectacular, despite the misgivings of her family. But...
74) A Sister's Story
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FINALIST FOR THE 2021 STREGA PRIZE
From the internationally acclaimed author of A Girl Returned, a spellbinding story about family, memory, love, and the relationships that define us.
It's the darkest time of night. Adriana, a baby in her arms, hammers on her sister's door. Who is she running from? What uncomfortable truth is she carrying with her? Like a whirlwind, Adriana upends her sister's life bringing chaos and cataclysmic revelations.
Years...
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She learned at a young age that love and heartache walk hand-in-hand.
Ambitious twenty-three-year-old law student Gemma Ellsworth seems to have it all. Living her best life in New York City, no one would guess that beneath her polished surface, she's riddled with anxiety and guilt.
Raised by a loving Mom and Grandmother, Gemma and her twin spent their childhood running barefoot through the golden fields of rural Indiana until one fateful night left...
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Beautifully written and affecting, this is the true story of a young man caught in a world he can't control and how he finds a way to survive.
Hey mate, Pete and Steve have been talking to some people who live around the national park where Mark lives... nobody has seen him for months... We're about to head into the gorge... I'll let you know what we find...
In 1972 Mark May is eighteen. He is bright, beautiful and has a scholarship to study law....
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The inheritance of a lifetime... with a catch
When Sophie's uncle leaves her a castle in the Italian Riviera in his will, she can't believe her luck. The catch? She and her estranged sister, Rachel, must live there together for three months in order to inherit it.
Having worked in Rome for four years, Sophie's excited to revisit to Italy, even if it reignites memories of a cheating ex who soon learns of her return and wants to rekindle their spark....
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Set your child up for success with simple strategies to develop executive function in kids 4 to 12.
Parenting a child who struggles with executive function-the skills that help us stay focused, manage our emotions, and plan ahead-can be a challenge, whether or not they have an official ADHD diagnosis. This book is filled with expert advice and actionable strategies that can help your smart but scattered child build the skills they need to thrive...
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"Don't get me wrong. I loved my sister. I never, not once, wished her dead." Brady and Sabine Wilson are sisters born eleven months apart, but they couldn't be more different. Popular Sabine, the head cheerleader dating the high school hunk, seems to have all the luck, while her younger, artsy sister "Brady Brooder" is a loner who prefers the sidelines to the limelight. After Sabine dies in a horrific cheerleading accident, grief unravels Brady and...
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Transister is the story of a family in transition. Not a prescriptive narrative but an affirming one. A raw, honest, sometimes humorous account of author Kate Brookes' journey as her young child grapples with gender identity and becomes her authentic self.
Brookes has longed to become a mother for as long as she can remember. And for almost as long, she has harbored a fierce determination to parent her children differently-better-than her own mentally...
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