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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 11
Language
English
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When her mother's remarriage takes her family into a much wealthier neighborhood, thirteen-year-old Kristy finds herself surrounded by snobbish girls who compare clothes, make fun of the Baby-sitters Club, and insult her aging dog.
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Language
English
Description
"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A woman's dream to forge a new life for herself on the great American plains becomes a test of her pioneering spirit, her inner strength, and her undying faith. It was Marty Claridge's dream to build her new life on the frontier with her husband. But when the courageous pioneer woman is suddenly widowed, she's offered a new opportunity-- to marry a widower in a marriage of convenience. What they did not expect was that the marriage would lead to love....
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Mohammad joyfully returns to his tiny village on summer vacation from the Institute for the Blind, unaware of his father's intentions to disown him. Engaged to be married, the widowed man has kept Mohammad a secret from his fiancee, certain the boy's disability will destroy his only chance for happiness. With the wedding swiftly approaching Mohammad's future hangs precariously in the balance as his father struggles against his destiny, unable to see...
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English
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After losing her husband, Derrick, in what appears to have been a random street crime, thirtysomething Emma has built a new life with widower Tom, who is kind, and successful. Emma is finally able to feel safe again, both in her relationship with Tom and in the home they've made together on the Connecticut shore. Then one day a homicide detective shows up at Emma and Tom's door asking questions. Though Emma had been cleared of her husband's murder,...
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Language
English
Description
At the age of thirty-five, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne has left her philandering husband in San Francisco to set sail for Belgium, with her three children and nanny in tow, to study art. It is a chance for this adventurous woman to start over, to make a better life for all of them, and to pursue her own desires. Not long after her arrival, however, tragedy strikes, and Fanny and her children repair to a quiet artists' colony in France where she can...
Author
Series
[Violet Mackerel series] volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Violet finds a special way to cope with moving to a new home after Mama marries Vincent.
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Language
English
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Despite her parents' divorce, her father's coming out as gay, and his plans to marry his boyfriend, ten-year-old Bea is reassured by her parents' unconditional love, excited about getting a stepsister, and haunted by something she did last summer at her father's lake house.
Author
Series
Love comes softly volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Love Comes Softly introduces the characters of Marty and Clark Davis, whose tragic circumstances brought them to a "marriage of convenience" on the frontier prairies during the mid 1800s. Clark's patient, caring love mirrored that of the heavenly Father, drawing Marty to faith and to love.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Q and fifteen-year-old Angela know their lives will become complicated when his mother and her father, wildly popular musicians, marry, but soon the teens are involved with spies and terrorists in Philadelphia.
Author
Series
Critter club volume 5
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Amy so looks forward to meeting her future stepsister, Chloe, that she is not prepared when Chloe first ignores her than is downright mean.
Author
Series
Amber Brown volume 10
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Amber is nervous and excited about her mother's wedding to Max, but Amber's father makes things complicated.
Series
Criterion collection volume 263
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Swedish
Description
Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately...
17) Oh. My. Gods
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
When her mother suddenly decides to marry a near-stranger, Phoebe, whose passion is running, soon finds herself living on a remote Greek island, completing her senior year at an ancient high school where the students and teachers are all descended from gods or goddesses.
Author
Series
Amber Brown volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amber's parents are divorced, her father now lives in France, her best friend has moved away, and her mother is now deciding whether to remarry.
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