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House of Tomorrow
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Claire Lorrimer |
This is the moving story of Jeanette Roberts, a young London girl who survived appalling abuse in her own childhood, and so determined to give other children in the same position the love and care sh… |
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Boardroom bride and groom
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Shirley Jump |
For gorgeous lawyer Nick Gilbert, an after-hours rendezvous with a woman usually means a romantic dinner, not a children's charity picnic. But he's game! Especially as his date is his rather prim but… |
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Success as a foster parent
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Change a child’s life!Reap the rewards of becoming a foster parent.Over 600,000 American children are in the foster care system each year—and the number is growing. So is the number of good-hearted p… |
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The Lying Game
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Sara Shepard |
I had a life anyone would kill for.
Then someone did.
The worst part of being dead is that there's nothing left to live for. No more kisses. No more secrets. No more gossip. It's enough to kill… |
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Perro Rabioso
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Dandi Daley Mackall |
Rex and the other shelter dogs at Starlight Animal Rescue try to help an angry fourteen-year-old boy who is devastated by his mother's rejection and drug addiction. |
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Home to Crossroads Ranch
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Linda Goodnight |
Finally, Rainy Jernagen has the child-filled home she's always wanted! Okay, so she still hasn't found Mr. Right, but the foster kids she's taken in fill her heart almost completely. Then handyman/ra… |
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The panopticon
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Jenni Fagan |
Like everyone else in the Panopticon, 15-year-old Anais Hendricks has been in and out of foster care practically since birth. "[B]orn in a nuthouse to nobody that was ever seen again," she had her on… |
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Lifesaving lessons
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Linda Greenlaw |
"Famed swordfish boat captain Linda Greenlaw faces her greatest battle with nature--a newly adopted teenage daughter Linda Greenlaw isn't a woman who shies away from a challenge--a nationally renow… |
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The promise of home
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Kathryn Springer |
As temporary guardian of her sister's two children, big-city magazine columnist Jenna Gardner is forced to face her past. She isn't in Mirror Lake for long before she realizes that everything has cha… |
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Bike thief
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Rita Feutl |
"Nick just wants to replace the TV his sister accidentally broke before their foster parents find out. To repay the debt, the sixteen-year-old has to steal bikes, break them down and rebuild them to … |
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Breathing fire
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Sarah Tsiang |
When Ally's mom dies, Ally is left with no family, no friends and no future. Put into foster care at the age of fifteen, she has less than $200 to her name and nothing left to lose. When Ally meets T… |
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Ten thousand truths
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Susan White |
Thireteen-year-old Rachel has been shuttled from one bad foster family to another ever since her mother died in a car accident. Now she is sent to a place that is a last resort for kids like her: a f… |
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The foster parenting manual
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John DeGarmo |
The Foster Parenting Manual is a comprehensive guide offering proven, friendly advice for novice and experienced parents alike. Distilling many years' experience into one book, this book describes wh… |
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Sanctuary Bay
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Laura J. Burns |
When Sara Merson attends the exclusive Sanctuary Bay Academy, she is thrown into a world of privilege, but soon discovers the school's dark secrets as her roommate disappears without a trace. |
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Aging out
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Alton Carter |
A true story about the perils of turning eighteen and aging out of the foster care system--written by the man who lived it. |
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Mummy's little soldier
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Casey Watson |
Casey's Unit is, as ever, full of troubled, disaffected pupils, and new arrival Leo is something of a conundrum. Thirteen year old Leo isn't a bad lad - in fact, he's generally polite and helpful, bu… |
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A stolen childhood
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Casey Watson |
"Author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she's too young to even understand. When Casey first meets Kiera, … |
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Eres el siguiente
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Gregg Andrew Hurwitz |
Mike Wingate ha tenido una infancia difícil. Lo abandonaron en un parque cuando tenía cuatro años y creció en un orfanato. Nadie volvió a por él y sólo tiene unos cuantos recuerdos dispersos de sus p… |
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Crying for help
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Casey Watson |
"Two weeks after saying farewell to her first foster child, Casey is asked to look after Sophia, a troubled 12-year-old with a sad past. Sophia's actions are disturbing and provocative and, before lo… |
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The Women Who Raised Me
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Victoria Rowell |
The story of a remarkable woman's rise out of the foster-care system to attain the American dream—and of the unlikely series of women who lifted her up in marvelous and distinctive ways Born as a war… |
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