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1) Pieces of Me
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Maddie is living on the streets, trying to protect herself and make enough money to get a place to stay and find a way to go back to school. When she meets Q, she is wary but welcomes his friendship. And then she meets Dylan, a six-year-old boy, living on the streets with his family. When Dylan's father asks Maddie to watch the boy for a while, she is happy to help. But Dylan's parents don't come back; and Maddie and Q are left looking after him....
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Calvin is the smallest guy in his high school, and a perfect target for Rozelle and her girl gang. His mother is dead, his father is long gone and his only remaining relative, his grandmother, is getting too sick to run her dry cleaning business. The only time Calvin feels in control is when he's working his yo-yo. When he takes up street performing, Rozelle demands a cut and insists on being his manager. To get media attention, she markets him as...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
Después que la tía de Emily muere, Emily se entera de que todo en lo que ella siempre ha creído es una mentira, y su mundo se desmorona. Obligada a enfrentarse al hecho de que su madre no es quien ella pensaba que era, Emily intenta encontrar la verdad acerca de su pasado y dar sentido a su futuro. Se envuelve en el graffiti y el vandalismo como una manera de lidiar con su ira, ella se da cuenta de que hay más de una familia que comparte ADN.
After...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
If there are two subjects that are universally fascinating and rife with controversy, they are sex and fat. Though our culture is obsessed with both, the two commingling are sometimes seen as offensive, obscene, or even grotesque. Fat people are not viewed as sexual beings. Of course, this perception is far from accurate. Fat people have normal and peculiar sex lives, just like everyone else. A compilation of true stories, cultural references, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Linda is a young, hardworking single mom struggling to get by from paycheck to paycheck. When she learns that her son Dre needs a kidney transplant, her family's already precarious financial situation takes a turn for the worst. Then she discovers that the only one who can help Dre is his half-brother LeVon, a drug-dealing gangbanger who thinks only of himself.
Somehow Linda must get through to LeVon in order to save her son. Though she is deathly...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
BASED ON ACTUAL EVENTS - My name is Cassidy Connor and my parents hate me. Well, they can go to hell. After yet another fight with my manipulative lawyer father and bible thumping mother, I disappear onto Hollywood Blvd among the other street kids. Or so I thought. The cops pick me up for a BS crime I didn't commit, and Dad announces the only way I can avoid charges is to voluntarily admit myself into Oak Dale, a psych ward for crazy teens. I don't...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Kat is a tough, independent woman who makes her living as a professional poker player. She is single, childless and happy about it. But when her best friend, Josie, commits suicide, she names Kat as the temporary guardian of her ten-year-old son, David, until his father can come for him. In the few weeks that David is with her, Kat finds herself changed in ways she had never thought imaginable. With the old poker adage "bet with your head, not your...
8) Welcome Home
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Welcome Home collects a number of adoption-themed fictional short stories, and brings them together in one anthology from a diverse range of celebrated Young Adult authors. The all-star roster includes Edgar-award winner Mindy McGinnis, New York Times best-selling authors C.J. Redwine (The Shadow Queen) and William Ritter (Jackaby), and acclaimed YA authors across all genres. The full list of contributors includes: Adi Alsaid, Karen Akins, Erica M....
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Families only."
Those who were killed on September 11, 2001 left behind more than family members. They left thousands of friends who are often forgotten and ignored: co-workers, first responders, neighbors and survivors who struggle to find a way to grieve the friends killed when the World Trade Center towers fell.
In Friend Grief and 9/11: The Forgotten Mourners, you'll learn how they adjust to life without their friends, and find ways to honor...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"They were killing my friends."
That was how Medal of Honor recipient Audie Murphy justified his heroic actions in World War II. As long as there have been wars, men and women in the military have watched their friends die. Experts warn that delaying our grief will complicate our lives. But what about those who have no choice but to delay it until the battle is over?
In Friend Grief and the Military: Band of Friends you'll meet military and non-combatants...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
It happens all the time. A business owner gets served with divorce papers then tries to convince the court that business is suffering. Stories vary, but the argument is the same: there is no money to pay for spouse and child support. In this book, Mark Kohn draws upon 25 years of professional experience as a forensic accountant to show readers how to detect when a spouse is hiding income — and how to find it. In this book, readers will learn: What...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"It's not like they're family."
Sound familiar? If you're grieving the death of a friend, you've probably heard that from people who just don't get it. And if it made you angry, well, you're not alone. In the first of a series on grieving the death of a friend, Friend Grief and Anger: When Your Friend Dies and No One Gives A Damn, you'll meet people who also struggled with anger after their friend died. And they'll help you answer the question "Okay,...
13) Spirit Horses
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In the hills of Tennessee, Shane Carson, a gifted, nationally-recognized horseman, is living the good life. When a mysterious mustang shows up on his farm, Shane doesn't know how--or why--the horse appeared, but the horse's distinctive brand identifies her. She is one of the Spirit Horses, a rare, wild herd that runs free on the Shoshone reservation in Wyoming. Watched over for centuries in the tribe's ancestral valleys, these exquisite horses, according...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It's been likened to a plague, but A.I.D.S. was never just a health crisis.
The second in a series on grieving the death of a friend, Friend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Burying Our Friends revisits a time when people with A.I.D.S. were also targets of bigotry and discrimination. In stories about Ryan White, ACT UP, the Names Project, red ribbons and more, you'll learn why friends made all the difference: not just caregiving or memorializing,...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Jenna Cooper was only a few days old when her father was murdered and her family was shattered. Now 15, she daydreams of a picture-perfect sitcom family as she struggles with the gritty realities of her life. When Jenna finds out that Travis Bingham, the man who shot her father, has been released from prison, she becomes obsessed with tracking him down and confronting him. But her search reveals that there may be more to her father's murder than she...
16) Kicked Out
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Dime is 15 and angry all the time. Her parents don’t like the way she dresses, her boyfriend, her attitude. Her older brother Darren was paralyzed in an accident she walked away from, and Dime is sure her parents wish she were the one in the wheelchair. When the fights and accusations finally become too much, Dime moves in with her brother. At first she is overjoyed with the change of scenery and lack of parental control. But when her troubles follow...
17) Rules for Life
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When her mother died two years earlier, Izzy thought the world would change in some identifiable way, but it didn't. It didn't even slow down. Along with constantly watching her brother, Jason, to ensure he didn't repeat his involvement with drugs, Izzy has managed to get through school and the rest of her life using her mother's endless "rules" as guidance, even making up some of her own as she goes along. When her father starts dating again and...
18) Baygirl
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in a picturesque Newfoundland fishing village should be idyllic for 16-year-old Kit Ryan, but living with an alcoholic father makes Kit's day-to-day life unpredictable and almost intolerable. When the 1992 cod moratorium forces her father out of a job, the tension between Kit and her father grows. Forced to leave their rural community, the family moves to the city, where they live with Uncle Iggy, a widower with problems of his own. Immediately...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Dylan has never met her father. She knows that her parents were just teenagers themselves when she was born, but her mother doesn't like to talk about the past, and her father, Mark, has never responded to Dylan's attempts to contact him. As far as Dylan is concerned, her family is made up of her mother, Amanda; her recently adopted younger sister, Karma; and maybe even her best friend, Toni. And then, out of the blue, a phone call:...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Two violent deaths. Separated by time, but with a fatal connection… A man loses his father. A young woman loses her mother. Both in tragic circumstances that lead, when they meet, to surprising revelations from the past. Louisa needs to find the father she has never known, to warn him of possible danger - for them both. Her search takes her from England to Guernsey. Malcolm's journey is more tortuous: conceived in Guernsey, he travels to Canada...
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