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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Evaluating his life on the eve of his death, atypical canine Enzo considers the sacrifices his master, Denny Swift, has made in his pursuit of becoming a professional race car driver, and the dog's own efforts to preserve the Swift family.
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Series
Language
English
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"Merry Gentry, ex-private detective, now full-time princess, knew she was descended from fertility goddesses, but when she learned she was about to have triplets, she began to understand what that might mean. Infertility has plagued the high ranks of faerie for centuries. Now nobles of both courts of faerie are coming to court Merry and her men, at their home in exile in the Western Lands of Los Angeles, because they will do anything to have babies...
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Language
English
Description
"Custody and Support: Get the Answers You Need When you’re getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for yourself and your children if you work with the other parent to agree on a custody plan and child support. If you can’t resolve these issues, you’ll have to head to court and ask a judge to decide for you. Either way, Nolo’s Essential Guide to Child Custody & Support can help. You’ll learn how to: •...
4) Killer
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 29
Language
English
Description
"The City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant Dr. Alex Delaware. Despite that, Constance Sykes, a sophisticated, successful physician, hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear. Then, at the behest of the court, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre child custody dispute initiated by Connie against her sister and begins to realize that there...
5) Gifted
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn, whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
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Language
English
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Emma Trimpany is just seventeen when she assists at the harrowing birth of the Dionne quintuplets: five tiny miracles born to French farmers in hardscrabble Northern Ontario in 1934. Emma cares for them through their perilous first days, and when the government removes the babies from their francophone parents, making them wards of the British king, Emma signs on as their nurse. Over six thousand daily visitors come to ogle the identical "Quints"...
7) Lover's lane
Author
Series
Twilight Cove trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
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English
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Description
"From one of Australia's most prolific writers comes the engrossing, definitive chronicle of an infamous true-crime saga, about a father suspected of murdering his three sons, the trial that gripped a nation, and the brutal spectacle of Australia's criminal justice system On the evening of September 4, 2005, Father's Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy, in rural Australia. His car veered...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Set against a backdrop of the glossy magazine and advertising worlds of 1960s London, follows a harrowing courtroom custody battle between Eliza, who gave up her writing job to marry, and her ex-husband, Matt, an edgy working-class man.
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In this “moving condemnation of the U.S. penal system and its effect on families”, award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein takes an intimate look at parents and children―over two million of them―torn apart by our current incarceration policy (Parents’ Press). Well researched and smoothly written, Bernstein’s book pumps up awareness of the problems, provides a checklist for what needs to be done and also cites organizations like the Osborne...
18) Fade to clear
Author
Series
Allen Choice novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books?St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Korean-American PI Allen Choice reluctantly takes on the case of his ex-lover Linda, who hires him to find her missing niece, and gets in over his head when his investigation unearths links to drugs, money laundering, and murder.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Sharing details of his own contentious divorce litigation, the award-winning actor discusses the heavy toll of divorce--financial, psychological, and emotional--on non-custodial parents, offering practical guidelines on such topics as prenuptial agreements, how to select an attorney, custody and visitation strategies, and more.
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