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Series
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series, Inc
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A simple explanation of divorce reassures youngsters that they are not responsible for their parents' breaking up and that their parents still love them even though they no longer live together.
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"Based on the author's own experience as a parent with an addicted child, Victoria provides straight-talking self-preservation tools and techniques for parents of addicts in and out of recovery. An essential book to help parents navigate this confusing and uncharted landscape..."--www.Amazon.com.
63) Mrs. Doubtfire
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A divorced father who wants to spend more time with his children disguises himself as a British nanny and applies for a housekeeping job in his ex-wife's home. Free to be the "woman" he never knew he could be, he soon creates a whole new life with his entire family.
64) Then came you
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
The plans of four women--including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter--are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman's husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby's guardian.
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"A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of empathy and forgiveness, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robert Jones Jr. and Alice Walker As Jacob lies dying, he begins to write aletter to his only son, Isaac. They have not met or spoken in many years, and there are things that Isaac must know. Stories about his ancestral legacy in rural Arkansas that extend back to slavery....
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Before she passes, Miss Janie enlists the help of her nephew to find her two foster daughters, but after they return home and confront the tensions of the past, Teresa and Kayla come to realize that they both need to be there for her as she was for them.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
350 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
In telling the story of caring for her own aged and ailing mother, the author, a "New York Times" journalist offers indispensable advice on virtually every aspect of elder care. Here are just a few of the vitally important lessons in caring for your aging parent and yourself. As painful as the role reversal between parent and child may be for you, assume it is worse for your mother or father, so take care not to demean or humiliate them. .
Author
Publisher
Pinter and Martin
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Pride and Joy is full of stories, advice and real-life experience from LGBT parents and their children. Sometimes funny, sometimes moving, sometimes surprising, every story sheds new light on what it's like for LGBT people raising children in the UK and Ireland today. Pride and Joy is positive and practical. It covers everything from starting a family, dealing with schools, talking with children about different families, and maintaining an LGBT identity...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
Twelve-year-old Henna loves living with her two papas and cultivating her beloved plants on the tiny island of Earth’s End—until Papa Niall grows seriously ill. Now Henna is determined to find a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, even though the search means journeying all the way to St. Basil’s Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house seeds of every plant ever grown. At St. Basil’s, Henna is surrounded...
71) Ask me anything
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Struggling with limited prospects in the years after her father's abandonment, Daisy uses smart devices to organize care for her aging mother, unaware that the devices are secretly working to transform her family's happiness.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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Description
"In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard takes on the topography of the heart - a landscape of grief, reconciliation, forgiveness, and the way the mistakes of parents are passed down through generations, to fester, or to be healed"--
73) Rogue
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
464 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Description
Blake, a millionaire dot-com entrepreneur and Maxine a psychiatrist specializing in childhood trama and adolescent suicide are divorced. Maxine is about to marry Dr. Charles West when a devastating earthquake strikes near one of Blake's palatial foreign homes and he sees hundreds of orphaned children in need of shelter. Now Blake wants Maxine in his life again, as a partner in a humanitarian project that could change countless lives.
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Citing the challenges posed by parenthood on otherwise strong marriages, a reference based on the advice of hundreds of families makes recommendations for such topics as the division of labor, sexual frustration, and grandparent management.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; cm
Description
"In the tradition of The Promise of a Pencil and Kisses from Katie comes an inspirational memoir by the founder of Comfort Cases about his turbulent childhood in the foster care system and the countless obstacles and discrimination he endured in adopting his four children"--
78) Daddy and Dada
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"A little girl explains how families, including hers, come in many shapes and sizes--some with a mom and a dad, some with two dads, some with two moms, and more"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
432 pages
Description
"May you always feel at home. After their decision not to have a biological child, Sarah Sentilles and her husband, Eric, decided to adopt via the foster care system. Knowing that the goal is reunification with the birth family, Sarah opens their home to a flurry of social workers who question, evaluate, and ultimately prepare them to welcome a child into their family--even if it most likely means giving them up. After years of starts and stops, a...
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