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41) Instant mom
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Nia Vardalos firmly believed she was supposed to be a mom, but Mother Nature and modern medicine stood in her way. So she made a choice that shocked friends, family, and even herself: with only fourteen hours' notice, she adopted a preschooler. This is Vardalos's hilarious and poignant true chronicle of trying to become a mother while fielding nosy "frenemies" and Hollywood reporters. With her signature...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of Word War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and-decades later-a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma. 1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race. But when she is reassigned to work as a museum curator in Nuremberg, then forced to marry...
Author
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This book orients parents and communities of black children, including white adoptive parents, to the particular challenges and inequalities race brings to childhood. The authors present research, insight, and their own experience to guide parents to challenges related to education, health, safety, self-esteem, and community building"--
Author
Publisher
Worthy Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When Mike and Hayley set out to adopt a child from Sierra Leone, Africa, never in their wildest imaginations did they dream this venture would lead to the "Jones Dozen." This dramatically moving story will amaze and inspire any reader. Their stunning observation: "It was the least we could do!""--
"Mike and Hayley Jones set out to adopt one, or maybe two, African children. They had no idea where this chaotic, inter-continental road would take them....
Author
Publisher
W W Norton & Co Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Relates how the author and her husband adopted a six-month-old boy from South Korea and the lessons they had to learn as parents, including how to incorporate aspects of another culture and how to discuss birth parents with their son.
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"After moving to a humble cottage outside of a tiny Texas town, Debra Monroe rids herself of an abusive husband, battles sexist contractors and workers as she renovates her home, and finally, after several disheartening letdowns, is able to adopt her beautiful baby daughter, Marie. Though elated that her dream is coming true, Monroe faces trials that befall her not just as a single mother but as a white mother of a black child. In On the Outskirts...
51) Orphan
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When a family adopts Esther, a nine-year-old Russian orphan with a tragic background, mysterious and disturbing events start occurring around the family and Esther's new classmates in school.
Series
Criterion collection volume 476
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus...
Author
Series
Mayborn literary nonfiction volume no. 6
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Publisher
Sullivan Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her; Anne, now a young woman, has become a teacher and dreams of meeting her ideal man; After a series of disappointments, Anne and her husband Gilbert return to Avonlea in search of happiness, but soon face the challenges of war when newly enlisted...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"When teenager Allison Glenn is sent to prison for a heinous crime, she leaves behind her reputation as Linden Falls' golden girl forever. Her parents deny the existence of their once-perfect child. Her former friends exult her downfall. Her sister, Brynn, faces whispered rumors every day in the hallways of their small Iowa high school. It's Brynn--shy, quiet Brynn--who carries the burden of what really happened that night. All she wants is to forget...
Publisher
Family Christian Stores
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Based on Karen Kingsbury's book and produced by the Downes Brothers, the movie Like Dandelion Dust is the drama of a young boy caught between his biological parents and the only parents he's ever known. Now learn the stories behind the making of the movie, featuring behind the scenes footage from the movie, interviews with Karen Kingsbury and Kevin Downes' families, and more
58) Woman at war
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Icelandic
Appears on list
Description
50-year-old Halla, a passionate environmental activist, secretly wages war on the local aluminum industry to prevent it from disfiguring her country. She risks all she has to protect the highlands of Iceland--but discovers her application to adopt has finally been approved and there is a child in the Ukraine waiting for her.
59) Little man
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A small baby-faced criminal pretends to be an infant to hide from the police, and is found by a couple eager to become parents who take him into their home.
Series
Criterion collection volume 476
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus...
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