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1) Friction
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Crawford Hunt wants his daughter back. Following the death of his wife four years ago, Crawford, a Texas Ranger, fell into a downward spiral that left him relegated to deskwork and with his five-year-old daughter Georgia in the custody of her grandparents. But Crawford has cleaned up his act, met all the court imposed requirements, and now the fate of his family lies with Judge Holly Spencer. Holly, ambitious and confident, temporarily occupies the...
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 9
Language
English
Description
Virgin River is abuzz with the news that a stranger bought the town's abandoned church on eBay. The buyer, a young widowed reverend, is a little like the building itself: in need of some loving care. Noah Kincaid arrives ready to roll up his sleeves and revitalize his new purchase, but he's going to need some help. An ad in the local paper brings an improbable candidate his way. "Pastor's assistant" is not a phrase that springs to mind when Noah meets...
Author
Series
Paul Madriani novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Defense attorney Paul Madriani takes on his most challenging case yet, one pitting a negligent mother against her daughter's newly rich grandfather in a nasty child custody tug of war that leads to murder.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Downś syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline,...
5) One summer
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each other and sent to live with family members around the country. Just...
Author
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lindsay and Kerrie Ann are sisters who have known hardship from an early age. Without guidance from their neglectful mother, their only aid came from an unlikely source, a retired exotic dancer by the name of Miss Honi Love. When the girls' mother was sent to prison, Miss Honi tried unsuccessfully to save them from being separated and sent into foster care. Thirty years later, Lindsay is still trying to reconnect with her sister. The owner of a bookstore...
7) Bag of bones
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
529 p.
Language
English
Description
Story of grief and a lost love's enduring bonds, a new love haunted by the secrets of the past, and of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire.
Author
Series
Folly Island volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
383 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Allen Carmichael is a man, himself much wounded by life, who rescues abused women and their children, protects them, and finds them safe shelter. In Keeping Watch, he rescues twelve year-old Jaimie O'Connell and takes him to safety, only afterward beginning to wonder if the child is as innocent as he appears.
9) Tune it out
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lou Montgomery's life has been centered on her mother's terrifying plan to make her a singing star, but a crisis reveals Lou's sensory processing disorder and people determined to help her address it.
10) What Maisie knew
Publisher
Millenium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a vicious custody battle between her parents.
Author
Series
Haggerty novels volume 2
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
348 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Beth Middleton's fiance dies in a traffic accident on the day of their wedding, Beth makes the decision to shut herself away from society -- to simply exist from day to day. In time, however, Beth begins the journey back to a normal life, but finds that nothing comes easy. When she accepts a job as a court-appointed evaluator for a local, high-profile attorney and his five-year-old daughter, Beth finds herself embroiled in a trial that could...
Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 9
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105, 12 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
When Chen's estranged wife reappears asking for a divorce and custody of their daughter, the musician girl decides she will live with whoever can provide her with a piano. Chen's struggle thus begins. When efforts to borrow money and even steal a piano fail, Chen concocts a preposterous plan to make a piano from scratch. He persuades a bunch of reluctant, but loyal, misfit friends to help him forge the instrument in a derelict factory from a heap...
Author
Series
Highland falls volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
461 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Can the magic of mistletoe bring together two busy single parents? Mallory Maitland knows all too well what it's like to feel abandoned, which is why she's sworn never to give up on her two stepsons -- her late husband's children. But when the teens land in hot water, she's got a whole new problem: how to resist the caring and incredibly hot Chief of Police Gabriel Buchanan. All Mallory wants is to give the boys a magical holiday. She doesn't need...
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When you're getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for your children (and yourself) if you work with the other parent to draw up a custody plan and agree on child support. Doskow shows you how negotiation and mediation can keep costs down; where to find your state's child support guidelines; how to enforce and change custody and support orders; what military families need to know, and much more.
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