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"India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards and a hell of a lot of talent, she goes from awkward 16-year-old to Broadway ingenue to tv star. But while promoting her most recent project, a film about adoption, India does what you should never do - she tells a journalist the truth: it's a bad movie. Like so many movies about adoption, it tells only one story, a tragic one. But India's an adoptive mom herself and...
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"Carly Harris is trying to adjust to life as a single mom after the unsolved murder of her husband. When her grandmother suggests renovating the family home into a bed-and-breakfast, Carly discovers family secrets in the attic--including a treasure possibly worth millions of dollars. She reaches out to her next-door-neighbor, who is also a police officer, for advice, but Lucas Bennett gets more than he bargained for as burglars, and even assassins,...
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"The rules of summer book club are simple: No sad books. No pressure. Yes, wine! Besties Laurel and Paris are excited to welcome Cassie to the group. This year, the book club is all about fill-your-heart reads. Since Laurel's divorce, she feels like the Worst Mom Ever. Cassie has an unfortunate habit of falling for ridiculous man-boys. Paris is still reeling after chasing off the only man brave and foolish enough to marry her. Inspired by the heroines...
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Harper, and imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling Joanna Ho, of Eyes that Kiss in the Corners, and award-winning educator Liz Kleinrock comes a powerful companion picture book about adoption and family. A young girl who is a transracial adoptee learns to love her Asian eyes and finds familial connection and meaning through them, even though they look different from her parents'. Her family bond is deep and their connection is filled with love. She wonders about her...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"A renowned doula and co-founder of Moms in Color shares powerful lessons on healing and thriving through the murky seasons of life in this moving, intimate guide to self-care, identity, mental health, and radical joy. Safe spaces, communion, knowing that we are loved--these are the things we long for. Brandi Sellerz-Jackson found them when she started exploring her encounters with loss and trauma as a way to confront her own grief, and she ended...
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Les presses de la cité
Pub. Date
janvier 2024.
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Français
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"La mort d'une mère. La quête d'une fille. Une vengeance implacable. Papa a tué maman. Rouen, avril 1983. Ophélie a - presque - tout vu, du haut de ses sept ans. Mais son père n'est pas le seul coupable. Un autre homme aurait pu sauver sa mère. Dès lors, Ophélie n'aura plus qu'un but : retrouver les témoins, rassembler les pièces du puzzle qui la mèneront jusqu'à la vérité. Et, patiemment, accomplir sa vengeance... Enfant placée en...
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Inspira
Pub. Date
2023.
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Russian
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"I'm Dr. Emily Lindman, psychotherapist. Fifteen years ago, the police asked me to conduct sessions with eight-year-old Tom, who had witnessed the brutal massacre of his father. The shock blocked the boy's memories of the moment of the murder, and I had to unlock them. I did it: Tom admitted that his mother committed the murder. She received twenty-five years. And today my daughter brought her fiance Michael. I couldn't believe my eyes: Michael looked...
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