Mo'Nique
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Secret Sisterhood focuses on the lives of three women who share one painful truth: they can't have the children they so desperately desire.
Shelby Tomlinson works as a registered nurse in an infertility clinic, which makes it even more difficult to deal with her own inability to conceive a child. Her husband, Phillip, avoids the subject like the plague, and Shelby feels she has no one she can confide in. When she starts experiencing anxiety attacks,...
Shelby Tomlinson works as a registered nurse in an infertility clinic, which makes it even more difficult to deal with her own inability to conceive a child. Her husband, Phillip, avoids the subject like the plague, and Shelby feels she has no one she can confide in. When she starts experiencing anxiety attacks,...
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"Minister Phillip Tomlinson and his wife Shelby have overcome marital problems of their own, and now they're bringing together three couples whose marriages are on the brink of disaster. During the exclusive marriage retreat, the couples seek spiritual intervention and guidance, but when secrets are exposed, everything hits the fan. Phillip realizes his own past problems are nothing compared to the couples he's trying to help. Journey with these people...
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"Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school. Black girls represent 16 percent of female students but almost half of all girls with a school-related arrest....
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A New Look at Thanksgiving Using Children's Literature
Diverse books - Native Americans, American Indians, First Nations, and Indigenous Peoples Around the World
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Diverse books - Native Americans, American Indians, First Nations, and Indigenous Peoples Around the World
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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An evocative picture book intended to foster reconciliation among children and encourage them to show each other love and support.
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A New Look at Thanksgiving Using Children's Literature
Diverse books - Native Americans, American Indians, First Nations, and Indigenous Peoples Around the World
Sky Bear 2023
Diverse books - Native Americans, American Indians, First Nations, and Indigenous Peoples Around the World
Sky Bear 2023
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"This dual-language book that celebrates happiness and invites children to reflect on the little things in life that bring them joy. In English and Plains Cree."--
11) The rumor
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News travels quickly through a small village when a wolf is seen in the hills, compelling animal friends to warn one another and, in the process, turn hearsay into an increasingly inaccurate rumor.
12) For the record
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"Twelve year old Justine's parents are recently divorced and she and her little sister, Bea, go back and forth between their parents homes in Montreal. Because her mother (whose anxiety manifests itself as the need to control) believes that their father and beloved half-sister are a bad influence on Justine and Bea, she enlists Justine's aid in collecting evidence that would lead to sole custody being granted to her. Justine goes along with this plan,...
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When a flood destroys Gavin Weald's home, tearing apart his family and his way of life, he doesn't know how to continue. A year later, he returns to his rebuilt home and tries to start again, but when the new rainy season arrives, so do his daughter's nightmares about the torrents, and life there becomes unbearable. So father and daughter - and their dog - embark upon a voyage to make peace with the waters. Their journey will take them far from their...
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Three women tell the story of their time with Lafcadio Hearn, a globetrotting writer best known for his books about Meiji-era Japan. Their accounts witness Hearn's remarkable life but also seek to witness their own existence and luminous will to live unbounded by gender, race, and the mores of their time.
20) The sugar child
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When a child made of marzipan candy mysteriously comes to life her loving parents and friends shelter and protect her, but there comes a time when she must risk herself for a friend.