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401) Welcome Home
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Welcome Home collects a number of adoption-themed fictional short stories, and brings them together in one anthology from a diverse range of celebrated Young Adult authors. The all-star roster includes Edgar-award winner Mindy McGinnis, New York Times best-selling authors C.J. Redwine (The Shadow Queen) and William Ritter (Jackaby), and acclaimed YA authors across all genres. The full list of contributors includes: Adi Alsaid, Karen Akins, Erica M....
402) Scorpion's Tail
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An adopted son seeking his biological mother in Mexico uncovers a horrific family secret, His wife might be a sister he never knew he had.
In the 1970s, Mormon Bishop Edwin Youngblood tried to link abandoned barrio children and childless couples in the States, while establishing a church mission in Durango, Mexico. People he trusted to run a charitable operation turned it into a black market adoption ring, with babies bought and even kidnapped. None...
404) Your Constant Star
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Faye is the "good" adopted Chinese daughter. Bev is the wild child. Mannie is the unambitious stoner. What brings them together-and tears them apart-is a need to move beyond the clichés and commit to something-anything-that will bring meaning and joy to their lives.
When Faye's long-lost childhood neighbor, Bev, turns up out of the blue, wanting something from her old friend, Faye goes along with Bev's plan. But Mannie, the joyriding daddy of Bev's...
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Read along with Disney! When Bob tells the pups they're going to help out at the local pet adoption event, Adopt-a-palooza, Bingo and Rolly can't wait to go. But when an energetic little puppy runs away, Bingo and Rolly make it their mission to bring him back...and then help him find the perfect pet owner to call his own!
406) One Child's View
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One Child's View is Book 1 of the Family of Secrets and Lies series. It tells the true story of a little girl who is placed lovingly in a temporary, informal foster home at the age of three years old, immediately following a major family crisis. She is later thrust into the chaos of the New York City foster care system, which becomes a long-term situation for her.
One Child's View also shows how caseworkers and supervisors are so overwhelmed that...
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Klasse: Lukas und der Schlunz nehmen mit der ganzen Familie an einer Freizeit teil, die auf einer geheimnisvollen Burg stattfindet. Da gibt es natürlich jede Menge zu erleben: Ein verschollener Geheimgang soll von der Burg bis runter ins Dorf zur alten Kirche führen. Und in der Kirche wurden neulich etliche der goldenen Geräte gestohlen. Ob die Kinder dem ""unsichtbaren Wächter"" auf die Spur kommen, der nachts durch die Flure spuken soll? Lukas...
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Instructions Not Supplied is the account of one family's experience in adopting three children, each of whom turned out to have special needs, and the challenges they have faced along the way. Some of the difficult situations they have faced are simply part of a family life; others are as a direct result of the children's disabilities and difficulties, including autism, attention deficit hyper-activity disorder, fetal alcohol syndrome, attachment...
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Indigo is a boy with a dream. He wants to be a famous artist when he grows up, but he's never had a real family or a home. He spends his nights in a shelter and his days working odd jobs to buy new art supplies.
Jade is his best friend who has helped feed him and keep him safe. When she is arrested for shoplifting, Indigo sets off on a journey where he finds new people, and the courage to pursue his dreams.
Follow Indigo on a journey that teaches...
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All the Sweeter tells the stories of families who have adopted one or more children from the US foster care system. Each of the twelve families interviewed has a dedicated chapter in which at least one representative tells their family's adoption story. Woven through these stories are topical chapters that explore the common challenges these families face, including the complications that accompany transracial adoptions, helping children understand...
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Young and old alike will cheer and sing along with this heartfelt picture book about pet adoption based on a new song by Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie.
In this tender and moving picture book, a puppy is looking for someone to love him. Will the girl who rescues him convince her parents to let her keep the little dog? Buffy Sainte-Marie advocates "putting the songs to work" and, like her other lyrics, Hey Little Rockabye...
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LA FERTILITÉ APPRIVOISÉE répond à des préoccupations courantes
sur la fertilité humaine. Certains ne veulent pas l'actualiser maintenant,
quoiqu'insatisfaits de la contraception choisie, surtout hormonale.
D'autres s'étonnent de ne pas obtenir une grossesse quand vient
le moment o ils la désirent.
Ce livre s'adresse aux couples, femmes, hommes qui s'intéressent à
l'approche naturelle de la fertilité, façon de l'apprivoiser pour éviter
ou...
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Fraugh and the Surprise Sibling Situation
Fraugh is amazing. Fraugh is adventurous. Fraugh is adopted. If you asked Fraugh, his family is just like every other family. Fraugh never thought much about being adopted, until the day his parents came to him with some really BIG news. How could he possibly share his family with another child? How could he love someone so different? What will Fraugh say? What will Fraugh do?
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The Adventures of Henry the City Cat series is about a tuxedo cat named Henry, and written from Henry's perspective. The series begins with Henry's adoption, and moving to an apartment in the city. Henry stands on the arm of the sofa to look outside. He spots other kittens and cats playing outside and begs "mom" to let him go outside to play, hunt, and do what the other kittens and cats are doing. However, Henry is too young to play outside by himself;...
415) COMFREY, WYOMING
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If little Marcela Crow had not been born to a body identical to her twin brother's...
Would a young potter, who as a child lost her family to a house fire, have found the strength to parent her own child? Would a metallurgist have managed to forgive himself for betraying his brother, and fall in love again? Would a talented, heavily-scarred Shoshone chef have continued on his path to redemption? And, if the Crow family had not moved to Comfrey,...
416) The bullet
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"From NPR correspondent Mary Louise Kelly comes a heart-pounding story about fear, family secrets, and one woman's hunt for answers about the murder of her parents. Caroline Cashion, a professor of French literature at Georgetown University, is stunned when an MRI reveals that she has a bullet lodged near the base of her skull. It makes no sense: she has never been shot. She has no entry wound. No scar. When she confronts her parents, they initially...
417) The last fallen star
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After thirteen-year-old Hattie Oh casts a dangerous spell so her adopted sister, Riley, will get a share of her inherited magic, Riley must undertake a near-impossible quest to save Hattie from death.--
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The story every mother in America needs to read. As featured on NPR and the TODAY Show. All moms have to deal with choosing baby names, potty training, finding your village, and answering your kid's tough questions, but if you are raising a Black child, you have to deal with a lot more than that. Especially if you're a single Black mom... and adopting.
Nefertiti Austin shares her story of starting a family through adoption
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"Pine Hollow has everything Ally Gilmore could wish for in a holiday break. Then she learns some Grinch has pulled the funding for her family's rescue shelter, and now she has only four weeks to find new homes for a dozen dogs! But when she confronts her Scroogey councilman nemesis, Ally finds he's far more reasonable--and handsome--than she expected. As the guardian of his dog-obsessed niece, Ben West feels guilty about the shelter closing. So he...
420) Martian child
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David is a widowed science fiction writer who adopts Dennis, a young boy who claims to be from the Red Planet. David believes the child acts strangely in order to process the difficulty he has had in his young life, but soon both David and his sister, Liz, begin to wonder if the boy might be telling the truth.
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