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This program includes a bonus interview with the author.
One morning, Kim Brooks made a split-second decision to leave her four-year old son in the car while she ran into a store. What happened would consume the next several years of her life and spur her to investigate the broader role America's culture of fear plays in parenthood. In Small Animals, Brooks asks, Of all the emotions inherent in parenting, is there any more universal or profound than...
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Fifteen-year-old Macy, officially labeled "disturbed" by her school, records her impressions of her rough neighborhood and home life as she tries to rescue her brother from Child Protective Services, win back her overachieving best friend after a fight, and figure out whether to tell her incarcerated father about her mother's cheating.
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Wyatt Hunt novels volume 1
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English
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A federal judge and his mistress are found murdered. What looks at first like a simple case of jealousy and revenge becomes deeper and more dangerous as Inspector Devin Juhle and his friends uncover unsuspected connections.
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David Pelzer trilogy volume 1
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English
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An inspirational story; one child's courage to survive.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"By official count, more than one out of every six American children live beneath the poverty line. But statistics alone tell little of the story. In Invisible Americans, Jeff Madrick brings to light the often invisible reality and irreparable damage of child poverty in America. Keeping his focus on the children, he examines the roots of the problem, including the toothless remnants of our social welfare system, entrenched racism, and a government...
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Crown
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[2023]
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English
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"At the dawn of the twentieth century, a bright new age for children appeared on the horizon, with progress on ending child labor, providing public education, ensuring food and drug safety, combating abuse and neglect, and creating a juvenile justice system. But a hundred years on, the promised light has not arrived. Today, more than eleven million American children live in poverty and more than four million lack health insurance. Each year, we prosecute...
12) B-mother
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Thorndike Press
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2007
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English
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A birthmother copes with her decision to give her son up for adoption.
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J.C. Pater
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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What if you could save a child’s life? Each year, almost 700,000 American children are abused. Between four and seven kids die every day as a result of abuse or neglect. Child protective services, paralyzed by bureaucracy and relying on underpaid and overworked personnel, often do not intervene on time. Foster parents, the unsung heroes of the system, fight a lonely battle which they frequently lose. Children are tortured, starved, imprisoned,...
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[publisher not identified]
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[2020]
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English
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An abandoned child of drug-addicted parents and Florida’s broken child-welfare system, Kenisha E. Anthony was left to wonder if anyone would ever want her. As a young girl, desperate for love and belonging, she bounced from one unstable home to the next, packing only resentment, abandonment, and heartbreak to take with her. Still, Kenisha found her way, ultimately breaking barriers and shattering statistics. Against advice to “just get a...