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22) The Daddies
Author
Series
Social fictions volume 28
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Daddies is a love letter to masculinity, a kaleidoscope of its pleasures and horrors. The question "Who's your Daddy?" started showing up in mainstream cultural references during the 1990s. Those words can be spoken as a question, or a challenge, as a flirtation, a joke, or a threat. It's all about inflection, intention, and who's asking. Apparently, we have so much shared cultural meaning about "Daddy" the speakers and listeners can simply intuit...
24) Maine: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
Three generations of women converge on the family beach house in this wickedly funny, emotionally resonant story of love and dysfunction.
Author
Language
English
Description
Leopold Bloom King, the narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death. Eventually he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors that includes friends Sheba and Trevor Poe,...
26) Instant Karma
Author
Series
Hart's Ridge volume 5
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
n the small town of Hart's Ridge, danger is never far away, as Deputy Taylor Gray knows all too well. Even as she hopes for a respite after a recent wave of crime, a stranger arrives in town and threatens the safety of one of its residents. With her instincts honed by years of law enforcement experience, Taylor jumps into action to protect one of their own.
But as Taylor works to uncover the truth behind the stranger's motives, her sister Jo faces...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
The true story of 2 year-old Anna, abandoned by her natural parents, left alone in a neglected orphanage. Elaine and Ian had travelled half way round the world to adopt little Anna. She couldn't have been more wanted, loved and cherished. So why was she now in foster care and living with me? It didn't make sense. Until I learned what had happened. ... Dressed only in nappies and ragged T-shirts the children were incarcerated in their cots. Their large...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ashley Blaker has six children, three of whom have an SEN diagnosis. Between endless meetings, countless therapists, public humiliations, failed playdates, surreal monologues and occasional violence, it's certainly not what anyone would call a 'normal' household - but would he want it any other way? Normal Schmormal is part-memoir, part how-to guide, highlighting the many challenges, as well as the hugely rewarding elements, of parenting children...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When I married my husband nearly 20 years ago, I had no idea I was marrying an alcoholic. Nor that I was being conscripted into a lifestyle steeped in shame and secrecy with a noticeable lack of support and guidance. For all the resources available to the alcoholic, it seems the medical and recovery communities are remiss in what they offer the alcoholic's wife. Viewed with a skeptical eye--how is SHE contributing to HIS drinking--it seems the alcoholic's...
30) Lucy in the Sky
Author
Series
Hart's Ridge volume 2
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Lucy Gray doesn't always start trouble, but it's sure to be there when she arrives. This time, when she runs from her hometown, she's determined to undo her biggest mistake yet and finally hits some good luck. But her sister, Taylor, has always told her that if it looks too good to be true, it probably is. This time, she might be right.
Deputy Taylor Gray grew up wanting to solve crime, but she never dreamed of taking on a case that could change...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When an evangelical preacher in Tennessee offers shelter to two gay men after a catastrophic flood, he's met with resistance by his wife and congregation, and eventually loses custody of his son. He decides to kidnap his son and flee to Key West, where he suspects his estranged gay brother is living"--
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
In Pardonable Lies, the third novel of this bestselling series from Jacqueline Winspear, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot's death.
A deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator
34) How to walk away
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Happiness for Beginners comes an unforgettable love story about finding joy even in the darkest of circumstances. Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she's worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fianc�e she adores, and the promise of a picture perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When a new baby comes home to a family, it means huge changes in everyone's life. A new baby brother or sister will need lots of attention from Mom and Dad. That's where you come in, discover some of the things you can do to help out and learn more about what will happen at home"--
Author
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
This story was created with love for a certain little girl and a certain little boy by their Colorado grandmother and her Colorado friend to help their little hearts understand the whats and whys and hows of living a military life, especially when duty calls to take their daddy far aways.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Are you ready to have kids? More and more gay men are turning to adoption and surrogacy to start their own families. An estimated two million American LBGTQ people would like to adopt and an estimated 65,000 adopted children are living with a gay parent. In 2016, The Chicago Tribune reported that 10 to 20 percent of donor eggs went to gay men expanding their families via surrogacy, and in many places the numbers were up 50 percent from the previous...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Dispelling the myth that you are alone, Open-Eyed Adoption takes a look at the importance of self-kindness and shows the way to get the support you need. Revealing interviews--from doctors, therapists, adoptive parents, adult adoptees, and birth moms--shed light on the origins of trauma, how different DNA really does have an affect, and the affect of hidden emotions like "Will you leave, too? Is there something I could finally push you away? If my...
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