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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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The problem with discovering your roots is that the more digging you do, the dirtier you can get. Adopted into middle-class urban respectability, but with origins deep in the heart of a dramatic rural landscape, BRONCLE is a personal journey of discovery intrinsically linked to the bloody past of Ireland; a true story of smuggling, heartbreak, betrayal, adultery, and lifetime of deception and secrecy.
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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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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.
6) 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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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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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...
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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...
12) 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.
À PROPOS DE L'AUTRICE
Martine Jolly, enseignante et assesseur au Tribunal pour enfants, a créé le...
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AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"This is the story of my childhood in Brazil, about the culture shock I experienced when I arrived in the forests of northern Sweden and about the loss of the people I loved most. It's about what I remember of my childhood in the Brazilian wilderness, on the streets of São Paulo, in the orphanage. And it's about my early days in Sweden, when I found myself dropped into a place and life that couldn't have been in sharper contrast to what I had known"--Back...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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Growing up in an orphanage, Nica's imagination burned with fantastical stories. When she's adopted, Nica thinks she's leaving the orphanage, and her world of otherworldly tales, behind her. That is, until Rigel - as mesmerising and handsome as he is troubled - joins the family. It isn't long before their shared hardships spark something magical between them. But before their fantasies for a brighter future can become reality, they'll have to face...
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Muse Literary
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Belonging Matters supports the adoption community while creating a conversation with those not directly touched by adoption. The collection explores the pursuit of identity and the boundaries of family and kinship. It challenges the reader to embrace all of who we come to be, and to discern with whom and where we belong. Because belonging defines the human experience, and it is what nourishes our spirit, fuels us with purpose, and compels us to soar...
16) Lucky dogs
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
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One day, Ruth and her mom are in the park and see a pet adoption fair. Ruth is drawn to a cute little dog, but they are moving soon and can't adopt. However, they can foster for a couple of months, and that's how they wind up with Ginger. Then Daisy. Then Cody, a special-needs dog with injured hind legs. Can Ruth help Cody find his forever home?
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Love Inspired
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[2024]
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"To expose a crooked adoption agency, military investigators Thalia Renner and Phillip Campbell pose as a married couple at a mountain resort. But when they become the target of unknown enemies and deadly assaults, they wonder if their cover has been blown. As they investigate, they learn the truth is far more sinister...and the consequences could cost them their lives"--
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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"Twenty years ago, a nine-year-old boy was swept away by powerful waves on a remote Oregon beach, his body lost to the sea. Only a stone memorial remains to mark his tragic death. For most of her life, Amanda Dufresne had no idea she had an older brother named Dennis Owens, or that he had died. Adopted as a baby, she learned about him while looking into her late birth mother, and is curious to know more about this lost sibling. A solitary young woman,...