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From early poems re-imagining Bible stories to new work influenced by her travels through Asia, award-winning poet Jane Williams' keen interest in the connections between people pervades.
Days Like These offers readers familiar with her work a treasured collation and to those coming to it for the first time a tantalising introduction.
Here you will find sorrow and joy inextricably linked in a captivating verse that is ultimately a celebration...
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Beloved Robert Munsch stories with text adapted for beginner readers, including a note from the author, reading tips, and reading activities.
Tyya is grocery shopping with her dad, but he's not letting her pick any of the good stuff like cookies, ice cream, or candies. When she holds still and is mistaken for the best, most lifelike doll in the supermarket, an argument at the till leads her dad to buy something good after all.
This high -interest...
4) Little Ricky
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Ricardo and Dorothy are a young couple who live an irresponsible life, but they are happy. Their happiness is soon shattered when little Ricky appears in their life. Little Ricky doesn't filter his comments, causing one incident after another in both families. Ricardo and Dorothy's families are from different backgrounds and hostile to one another. Ricky adds fuel to that fire until a terrible incident brings an unexpected end to the story.
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Son dos sentimientos que están latentes en las mujeres. Unas quieren hijos y otras no.Por una parte, vas a aprender todo sobre la maternidad: Cuidados necesarios durante los 9 meses, nutrición con recetas y ejercicios permitidos semana a semana para un embarazo saludable.ESTE LIBRO, OFRECE UN BUEN SENTIDO DE CÓMO CUIDARTE DURANTE EL EMBARAZO POR DENTRO Y POR FUERA, ADEMÁS DE UNA LISTA DE RECOMENDACIONES POR TRIMESTRE, PARA QUE TU BEBÉ CREZCA...
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A Place to Belong is the fifth book of the Charity series. It is about a boy named Noah who was placed in foster care due to neglect and abuse. He so desperately wanted a place to call home. Charity comes on the scene and witnesses how God prearranged a connection between Noah and his teacher. Charity desires that every child recognizes that God loves them and that they are never alone.
7) Samantha Jean's Rainbow Dream - A Young Foster Girl's Adventure Into the Colorful World of Fruits &
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SAMANTHA JEAN'S RAINBOW DREAM - A Young Foster Girl's Adventure into the Colorful World of Fruits & Vegetables A real-life inspired heartwarming, fun-filled adventure into hope, acceptance, love, perseverance, and the benefits of eating fruits & vegetables! Will the young fruit & veggie hating Samantha Jean finally find the Forever Family she's been dreaming of? How will her new foster parents react when she blurts out "YUCK" at the dinner table?...
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A powerful and honest account based on three decades of true-life experience Award-winning The Branches We Cherish weaves together thought-provoking, joyous, and poignant reflections of four birth parents, birth grandmothers, adoptive parents, and two adopted children. In 1992, Linda and David long to have a child. They decide to adopt a baby and learn they can only do so under an open arrangement where the biological parents and the adoptive family...
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"A botanical illustration of a butterfly, a missing baby, and a twisty mystery fifty years in the making. 1868, Morpeth. Theodora Breckenridge, still in mourning after the loss of her parents and brother at sea, is more interested in working quietly on her art at the family's country estate than she is in finding a husband in Sydney society, even if her elder sister Florence has other ideas. Theodora seeks to emulate prestigious nature illustrators,...
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Amelia: young, naive, in love. Geoff: charming, narcissistic, intelligent. In a decidedly European affair, a young couple consummates a courtship destined for differences. The resultant pregnancy provides a haunting yet charming backdrop for the challenges of love and its often unwanted decisions.
In the first person and in a creative journal style, author Abigail Calkin explores three choices that Amelia can make-give birth, give the baby up for...
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Vous qui aimez les poètes, haïssez-les !Ce titre, ne vous dit-il rien? Ne vous rappelle-t-il pas les cris d'espoir noyés dans le désespoir? Dans ce livre, l'Auteur voit les maux s'affecter. Le jour au jour, ils s'empirent. Il n'y peut rien. Pourtant, il peut faire quelque chose. L'Auteur songeait à faire ce qu'il pouvait, mais il n'a pu rien. Les yeux levés vers le ciel, il ne pouvait que prier. Il se confiait et passait tous ses jours à contempler...
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After adopting her son from a Chinese orphanage, Chris Prange-Morgan and her husband soon realized that the picture-perfect family life they had envisioned was not to be. Abandoned, severely neglected, and malnourished, their son had suffered profound trauma in his earliest years that no amount of love or affection could remedy. His deep emotional wounds manifested as challenging behaviors that strained family relationships and thwarted well-intentioned...
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Little Jimmy Brown never knew the warm embrace of a mother's arms while he grew up. When he was just a babe, his momma passed on to the great beyond, leaving him all alone in this harsh world. The poor boy was shipped off to an orphanage, where he spent the next nine years surrounded by cold walls and stern caretakers instead of a loving family. At the orphanage, Jimmy found solace in caring for the animals and tending the garden. Though the work...
14) Instant Mom
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"Some families are created in different ways but are still, in every way, a family."
Writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Nia Vardalos firmly believed she was supposed to be a mom, but Mother Nature and modern medicine had put her in a headlock. So she made a choice that shocked friends, family, and even herself: with only fourteen hours' notice, she adopted a preschooler.
Instant Mom is Vardalos's poignant and hilarious true chronicle of...
15) Fenêtres
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"Les fenêtres" s'ouvrent sur le tragique destin de Piotr/Pierre, un enfant victime de la misère, qui traverse une vie marquée par la maltraitance et la délinquance. Son adoption par des parents bienveillants permettra-t-elle, après un parcours judiciaire tumultueux, de refermer le récit sur la rédemption ? Cela reste à découvrir.
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Martine Jolly, enseignante et assesseur au Tribunal pour enfants, a créé le...
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