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"I've got the love to give. Now how can I get my stepchild to accept it?" Does that question sound familiar? Whether you are presently a stepparent, a dating single parent, or in the courtship stage before marriage, the challenge of blending families is one of the most difficulty you will ever face. Winning the Heart of Your Stepchild is a hands-on guidebook for today's men and women who face the special challenge of blending families. Because children...
Author
Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
An inspirational story; one child's courage to survive.
12) Nop's Hope
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Follows Penny Burkholder, grieving over the deaths of her husband and daughter in an automobile accident, as she and her border collie, Hope, make their way along the sheepdog trail circuit.
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Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
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The author presents letters from children to her confiding their concerns with friendships, families, illness, sexuality, and other problems; and in return, Ms. Blume shares similar moments from her own life, both as a child and as a parent.
Author
Publisher
iUniverse
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
This book takes you inside the mind of a struggling father who is challenged with the guilt, pain, and incredible responsibility of taking care of his severely disabled son, Marcus. While attempting to live a full and productive life, the author finds that involving Marcus presents challenges that more often than not leave him emotionally drained. Further, the knowledge of his son's short life-expectancy leaves many unanswered questions. The disabled...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student....
18) The talk
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that--to paraphrase Toni Morrison--does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't play with a white friend's realistic...
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Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"FAR FROM THE TREE follows families meeting extraordinary challenges through love, empathy, and understanding. This life-affirming documentary encourages us to cherish loved ones for all they are, not who they might have been. Based on Andrew Solomon's award-winning, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling non-fiction book "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity."--Container.
