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Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 421 p. ill. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On an icy winter night, a terrible accident forces a family divided to come together and make a fateful decision. Cara, once protected by her father, Luke, is tormented by a secret that nobody knows. Her brother, Edward, has secrets of his own. He has kept them hidden, but now they may come to light, and if they do, Cara will be devastated. Their mother, Georgie, was never able to compete with her ex-husband's obsessions, and now, his fate hangs...
2) Hug
Author
Series
BoBo books (Jez Alborough) volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002, c2000
Edition
1st large U.S. board book ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bobo the chimp seeks hugs among various jungle animals and their young, but he does not get what he wants until he is reunited with his own parent.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recently widowed Helen Ames and her twenty-seven-year-old daughter Tessa discover that money has disappeared in several big withdrawals from the Ames' retirement savings. What Helen's husband did with all their money turns out to be provocative, revelatory--and leads Helen and her daughter to embark on new adventures, and change.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Rachel Lane learns that she has inherited eleven billion dollars from her biological father, she wants nothing to do with the money, or her father's other children who insist that they be given the money they feel they deserve, even though the will states they are to get nothing.
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a guide to help parents incorporate simplicity into an otherwise complicated pace of life, with tips for slowing down, enjoying parenthood, and creating a lifestyle that fosters mindfulness, reflection, and individuality in children.
10) Whiter than snow
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a small mining town near Colorado's majestic Tenmile Range, as nine children walk home from school, a spring avalanche thunders down from Jubilee Mountain burying everything in its path. This novel of survival, redemption, and faith skillfully reveals the backstory of each family affected by this tragedy.
Author
Publisher
Book Publishers Network
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xvii, 265 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes a method of parenting based on giving up efforts at control, and changing from negating to validating children's feelings, presenting the S.A.L.V.E. formula which calls for parents to separate themselves from a child's behavior and emotions, give attention to the child, listen, validate, and empower.
Author
Series
Publisher
Contemporary Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
xv, 254 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a ten-step program for helping one's baby sleep all night without having to cry his or her way there; explains how to set realistic goals for newborns and older babies, keep a sleep log, and find a sleep plan that lets the whole family rest.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
388 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his best friend Teddy dies of an overdose on the last day of 1987, Jude Keffy-Horn finds his relationship with drugs and his parents devolving into the extreme when he gets caught up in an underground youth culture known as straight edge.
14) Infernal devices
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In the distant future, when fifteen-year-old Wren Natsworthy, bored with life in Anchorage, steals an Old-Tech book for a Lost Boy, she sets off a sequence of events that leads her parents, Tom and Hester, back into battle with old enemies and new.
15) The corrections
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Formats
Description
After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have flown the family nest to live their own lives. Desperate for some pleasure, Enid has set her heart on bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home.
Author
Language
English
Description
Dr. David Henry, forced to deliver his own twins during a snowstorm in 1964 with only a nurse to help him, makes a decision that has far-reaching effects on his life, and the lives of his wife and son, when his infant daughter is born with Down Syndrome, and in a vain attempt to protect his wife, he orders the nurse to take the baby to an institution.
17) When I miss you
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young guinea pig describes situations that make him miss his parents, how it feels to miss them, and what he can do to feel better.
18) Matilda
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different, but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull, she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It will take superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves, and Matilda may be just the one to do it!"--Jacket.
Matilda,...
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
431 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Animal rights' activist Spencer McCullough is shot with a hunting rifle by his twelve-year-old neice, Charlotte and as the family tries to come to terms with what happened, Spencer's employers file a lawsuit against the owner of the weapon.
20) The daddy book
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Celebrates all different kinds of dads and highlights the many reasons they are so special.
Represents a variety of fathers, with lots of hair and little hair, making cookies and buying doughnuts, camping out and taking naps, and hugging and kissing their children.
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