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Coach's challenge
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"Presents the life experiences that molded ESPN college football analyst Mike Gottfried into a strong advocate for fatherless boys and chronicles his time coaching Murray State, Cincinnati, Kansas, a… |
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The wish maker
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Ali Sethi |
A major new international voice debuts with a sweeping story of love, friendship, and family ties that brings to life the turbulent world of modern Pakistan.The unforgettable story of a fatherless bo… |
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CrashBoomLove
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Juan Felipe Herrera |
After his father leaves home, sixteen-year-old Cesar Garcia lives with his mother and struggles through the painful experiences of growing up as a Mexican American high school student. |
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The other family
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Joanna Trollope |
A topical and utterly compelling contemporary novel from the number one bestselling author.Chrissie always believed that Richie loved her, had loved her for all the twenty-three years they'd been tog… |
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When you reach me
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Rebecca Stead |
Miranda is an ordinary sixth grader, until she starts receiving mysterious messages from somebody who knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet. Each message brings her cl… |
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The secret
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Elizabeth Gill |
1944, London. A young man is killed in an air-raid, leaving a wife and two children and a secret. Ailsa, Margaret and Luke are persuaded by Jamie's brother to return to his hometown where, despite th… |
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What Jamie saw
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Carolyn Coman |
Having fled to a family friend's hillside trailer after his mother's boyfriend tried to throw his baby sister against a wall, nine-year-old Jamie finds himself living an existence full of uncertainty… |
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Sea glass winter
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JoAnn Ross |
High school physics teacher and basketball coach Dillon Slater finds himself drawn to Claire Templeton, the mother of the troubled fifteen-year-old boy he is working with and a new arrival in town th… |
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Dream on, Amber
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Emma Shevah |
Amber's Japanese father left when she was little, and her sister Bella was just a baby, so now she fills in the frustrating gap in her life with imagined conversations, and writes letters to Bella th… |
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Walk with me
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Jairo Buitrago |
A little girl imagines a lion taking the place of her father who no longer lives with her family, an animal that keeps her safe on her travels from school to home. |
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The reappearance of Sam Webber
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Jonathon Scott Fuqua |
Since his father's disappearance and his move from a safe neighborhood, eleven-year-old Sam gets help from his new school's janitor and other adult friends in dealing with frightening new experiences. |
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The book of tomorrow
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Cecelia Ahern |
Tamara Goodwin has always got everything she's ever wanted. Born into a family of wealth, she's always lived in the here and now, but then suddenly her dad is gone and life for Tamara changes forever. |
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Divas don't knit
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Gil McNeil |
Jo Mackenzie needs a new start. Newly widowed with two young sons and a perilous bank balance, she has to leave London to take over her grandmother's wool shop. They arrive in the pouring rain and Br… |
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Sea glass winter
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JoAnn Ross |
"As an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist, Dillon Slater had one of the most dangerous jobs in the military. Now, he's enjoying the pace of life in Shelter Bay, where he teaches high school physi… |
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Wadi de xiao hao
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Sami Michael |
Coming of age during the 1982 Arab-Israeli conflict, fatherless sisters Huda and Mary, Christian Arabs living in the Jewish city of Haifa, find their lives impacted by their new neighbor Alex, a trum… |
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Polly Oliver's problem
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Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin |
Pauline Oliver, in Polly Oliver's Problem, chafes against spending the rest of her life helping her mother run a boarding house--then must take charge when the Widow Oliver suffers poor health and mu… |
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Alice-By-Accident
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Lynne Reid Banks |
Nine-year-old Alice must write about herself for an assignment in her London school, and in doing so, she sorts out her feelings about her somewhat prickly single mother, the father she has never met… |
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Child support and public policy
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Judith Cassetty |
Pesquisa realizada nos eua sobre a assistencia a criança, em especial ao filho de pais divorciados e mães solteiras. |
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Eggs
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Jerry Spinelli |
Nine-year-old David has recently lost his mother to a freak accident, his salesman father is constantly on the road, and he is letting his anger out on his grandmother. Sarcastic and bossy 13-year-ol… |
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Hannah's hope
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Karen Kingsbury |
Kingsburgy offers the final installment in her Red Glove series--the heartwarming tale of a girl whose only wish is to be held by the father she never knew. |
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