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My Blended Family is the story of a normal day in Olivia's life. When classmate Lenny visits her home, he discovers Olivia has a stepmom and four stepsiblings. Who gets her snack? All the kids! Who helps with her homework? Eve and Tiffany! Who reads her bedtime story? Nora and Dad! Lenny realizes love makes a family. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of...
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""Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write 'em in your books and show everyone who we are." So begins DéLana R.A. Dameron's stunning novel-in-stories, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Mosby spends much of her time in the care of loved ones, listening to their...
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"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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First edition.
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English
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"After a lifetime of kindly taking care of his irresistible but impossible sister and her wonderful daughter, Tom is finally ready to put himself first. Naturally, that's when his phone rings. His niece, Cecily--the real love of Tom's life, as his boyfriend reminded him when moving out--is embroiled in a Title IX investigation at the college where she teaches that threatens her career and relationship. And after decades of lying, his sister wants...
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Will her daughter's secret tear her family apart? When troubled teenager Immy disappears, she leaves her widowed mother Bea completely devastated. Bea pours her love into her six-year-old niece Phoebe, even taking her in when her single father Ewan takes a job abroad. Then Immy returns, in desperate need of her mother's help and love. But Ewan is clear: he will never let Bea see Phoebe again if she welcomes her daughter back. As Bea grapples with...
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Mystic Lore Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Second edition.
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English
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"IN THE MYSTERIOUS CÉVENNES MOUNTAINS OF LANGUEDOC, FRANCE, 1695, Jehan BonDurant, a young nobleman forcibly held in a Dominican prieuré as a child, comes of age only to inherit a near-derelict estate and his Huguenot family’s dangerous legacy of secrets. While he cherishes his newfound freedom apprenticing as an apothecary, his outrage mounts over religious persecutions led by King Louis XIV’s Intendant Basville, who is sent to enforce the...
9) Praiseworthy
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New Directions paperbook volume 1585
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New Directions
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In a small town in the north of Australia, a mysterious cloud heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors. A crazed visionary looks to donkeys to solve the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife, seeking solace from his madness, follows the dance of butterflies and scours the internet to find out how her Aboriginal/Chinese family could be repatriated to China. One of their...
11) It Takes Two
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1995.
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English
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Two identical girls have lived very different lives. The outspoken Amanda has been moving from foster home to foster home, while the quiet refined Alyssa has been raised in a world of privilege and luxury. Amanda faces adoption and the loss of Diana, her loving social worker. Alyssa faces losing her father, Roger, to an opportunistic fiancee. The two girls swap identities in a plan to bring Roger and Diana closer together.
12) Diavola: a novel
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Publisher Annotation: Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothic. Beautifully unhinged and deeply satisfying, Diavola is a sharp twist on the classic haunted house story, exploring loneliness, belonging, and the seemingly inescapable bonds of family mythology. 304pp., 75K.
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
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First edition.
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"It's the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) meets Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger inspires Mel's dawning self-awareness. But Sylvia's presence sparks fury among her neighbors and throws Mel into conflict with her mother and best friend. Decades later, in 2019, Max (formerly Mel) is on probation from his teaching job for, ironically, defying speech codes around trans identity. Back...
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Una Herencia en juego volume 4
Publisher
Molino
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
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Español
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"Grayson Hawthorne fue criado como el heredero de la fortuna de su abuelo, poniendo a su familia ante todo. Cuando parte de ella se mete en problemas, Grayson aparece para hacer lo que mejor se le da: ocuparse de ellos de manera rápida, sencilla y sin sentimentalismos de por medio. Jameson Hawthorne, en cambio, es un hombre de riesgos, de sensaciones fuertes, de juegos. Cuando su misterioso padre aparece para pedirle un favor, Jameson no puede resistirse...
15) Old Cats
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MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2010.
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Español
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Isadora discovers that her mind is quickly fading. At a relaxed dinner table, she will desperately try to hide her state from her daughter, a demanding woman who awaits any sign of senility in order to take way everything she has. Official Selection of the **Sundance Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"...this exquisite chamber piece by Chilean filmmakers Pedro Peirano and Sebastián Silva hasn’t lost an ounce...
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2024.
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"When her sister Esme leaves her high-society husband and needs a ride, Jane Conner imagines one reality where she tells Esme to crash with a friend and then 24 hours later she disappears, and another reality where she brings Esme back to Connecticut where they must reckon with an explosive secret from their past"--
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BiggerPockets Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Transform your financial future with Money for Tomorrow—a game-changing guide to creating, keeping, and growing wealth for generations to come. Most investors who are serious about scaling their wealth must learn through decades of trial and error. What if there's a more efficient way to gain an investing edge and avoid costly investing mistakes? Money for Tomorrow uncovers a four-part wealth-building strategy that makes financial freedom and generational...
18) Placeres ocultos
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Vergara
Pub. Date
2023.
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Primera edición: abril, 2023.
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Español
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Emilia, Yaya, Esther, Raquel y Camila son parte de un linaje marcado por los Placeres ocultos, por la represión sexual y por el señalamiento público. Cinco mujeres de carácter indomable que pertenecen a una misma familia, quienes en distintas épocas y circunstancias mantienen lealtades invisibles al clan, hasta que una de ellas decide enfrentar los condicionamientos heredados y romper con el karma familiar, creando así, un destino diferente...
19) Families
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Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This wordless picture book introduces children to different types of families. Provide a shared reading experience for parents and children with this book that supports early childhood literacy. Featuring lively images, young learners will be inspired to share what they see, or share a story of their own family!
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline’s (Jennifer Jason Leigh) wedding to unemployed musician Malcolm (Jack Black) at the family seaside home, Margot (Nicole Kidman) shows up to rekindle the sisterly bond and offer her own brand of “support". Nominated for Best Supporting Female (Jennifer Jason Leigh) at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards.** Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. *"Noah Baumbach's interest in...
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