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81) A Modern Family
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When Liv, Ellen, and Håkon, along with their partners and children, arrive in Rome to celebrate their father's 70th birthday, a quiet earthquake occurs: their parents have decided to divorce. Shocked and disbelieving, the siblings try to come to terms with their parents' decision as it echoes through the homes they have built for themselves, and forces them to reconstruct the shared narrative of their childhood and family history. A bittersweet...
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[2024]
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English
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Sent to her grandmother's estate in Trinidad, Rika meets a group of kids with elemental powers called Minders, who reveal that her long-lost mom is in danger, sending Rika on a magical adventure where she must learn to believe in herself to destroy evil.
83) Custody
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Français
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A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center in this thrilling domestic drama. Miriam and Antoine Besson have divorced, and Miriam is seeking sole custody of their son Julien to protect him from a father she claims is violent. Antoine pleads his case as a scorned dad whose children have been turned against him by their vindictive mother. Unsure who is telling the truth, the appointed judge rules in favor of...
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"A scandalous divorce years ago means Cynthia Bauer dreads seeing her ex-husband, Russ Shaw. But when Diane, their only daughter, gets engaged, she's adamant she wants her father to give her away at her wedding, despite Cynthia's objections. So, after twenty-five years, Russ is returning to town, determined to do just that. There's no way Cynthia and Russ can avoid each other, but could it be that staying away from one another is the last thing either...
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Chesapeake Shores novels volume 5
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English
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Single mom Heather Donovan's dreams of home and family are seemingly within reach when she settles in Chesapeake Shores. The welcoming arms of the boisterous, loving O'Brien clan embrace her and her son. But accepting their support seems to further alienate her son's father, Connor O'Brien. His parents' divorce and his career as a divorce attorney have left him jaded about marriage. Then everything changes. Will the possibility of a future without...
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Sally Montgomery anticipated a romantic weekend getaway. What she got instead was a nightmare of unrelenting terror. The murder of her companion and the torching of their cabin sends Sally into hiding-from the police, who believe she's a suspect . . . and from the killer, who wants her dead.
Desperate and alone in the woods, Sally has nowhere to run and nowhere to turn-except to her ex-husband, former NYPD detective-turned-private investigator Pete...
87) Crashing in love
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2021.
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English
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"Since her parents divorced, twelve-year-old Peyton has known that to achieve happier outcomes in her life, she's got to focus on eliminating her flaws--and on making sure her first boyfriend is truly right for her. Guided by her collection of inspirational quotes and her growing list of ideal boyfriend traits, Peyton is convinced that this summer will be the perfect summer, complete with the perfect boyfriend! But when she discovers a boy lying unconscious...
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"Ryan wakes up to find his contractor dad building walls to turn their big old house into a duplex. The family that moves into the other side includes Bizzy Horvat, the pretty girl he has a crush on at school. Bizzy claims her mother is a witch with the power to curse people with clumsiness or, in Bizzy's case, astonishing beauty. When a bee gets caught in Bizzy's hair, Ryan acts so quickly and radically to save her from getting stung that he attracts...
89) Behind the plate
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Danny has been the star catcher on his baseball team for three years, but this year his feelings about his parents' divorce seem to be effecting even routine plays.
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Alaska is no treat for a Southern California girl like Gabi, whose father moved them there after the divorce from her movie-star mother, but handsome, half-Tlingit Kai has proved to be a major compensation--but when Kai disappears, apparently seeking to find his father, whom he still believes is alive, Gabi and Hunter, Kai's twin brother, set off to find him, because it is November and winter is setting in.
91) Rebound time
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Twin girls Sarit and Allie have always been coached in basketball by their father, but now that their parents are divorced and he has moved away, Sarit is unhappy playing on the school team, and resentful that her sister still enjoys the game.
92) Genius Jolene
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Eight-year-old Jolene enjoys a long road trip with her truck driver father, as she does every year, but this year it is different because her parents have separated and her father is with another man.
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In the chaos of New York, true love can be hard to find, even when it's been right under your nose all along ... Love has never been a priority for garden designer Frankie Cole. After witnessing the fallout of her parents' divorce, she's seen the devastation an overload of emotion can cause. The only man she feels comfortable with is her friend Matt -- but that's strictly platonic. If only she found it easier to ignore the way he makes her heart race...
94) Power play
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Ninth-grade hockey player Kyla Woodson is hoping to win a spot on the varsity team mid-season--but she has at least one serious rival for the coveted position, and her supressed anger over her parents recent divorce seems to keep getting in the way.
95) Dream on, Amber
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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 that seem to come from their father.
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This debut novel tells the story of a WASPy, old-Boston family coming face to face with an America much larger than the one it was born in. Caroline Dunlap has written off the insular world of the Boston deb parties, golf club luaus, and WASP weddings that she grew up with. But when she reluctantly returns home after her college graduation, she finds that not everything is quite as predictable, or protected, as she had imagined. Her father, the eccentric,...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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First edition.
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English
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"Mila is lying in her bed in Mommy's house. It's dark all around her. Very dark. Mommy forgot to check if there were any monsters! Daddy always checks, but this is Mommy's house. Does Mommy have someone to chase away the monsters? Who could that be?"--
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[2016]
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English
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"A paradigm-shifting model of parenting children in two homes from an internationally recognized expert. A researcher, therapist, and mediator, Robert Emery, Ph. D., details a new approach to sharing custody with children in two homes. Huge numbers of children are affected by separation, divorce, cohabitation breakups, and childbearing outside of marriage. These children have two homes. But their parents have only one chance to protect their childhood....
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[2006]
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Special edition.
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English
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Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s. The patriarch of an eccentric Brooklyn family claims to once have been a great novelist, but ultimately decided to settled into a teaching job. When his wife discovers a writing talent of her own, jealousy divides the family. The two teenage sons are forced to forge new relationships...
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David Sheff's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view, a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. Before meth, Sheff's son, Nic, was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who stole money from his eight-year-old brother and lived on the streets. With haunting candor, Sheff traces the first warning...
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