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301) Dziennik Noel
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Series
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Polish
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Miliony fanów, noce w luksusowych hotelach, podróże pierwszą klasą. Życie Jacoba Churchera, uwielbianego autorka, przypomina piękną powieść. Lecz mężczyzna jest samotny i tęskni za prawdziwej miłości. I tylko w snach nawiedza go tajemnicza kobieta. Gdy Jacob dowiaduje się o śmierci matki, musi wrócić tam, skd pochodzi. Zagracony rodzinny dom oprócz rupieci kryje bolesne wspomnienia i prawd o przeszłości pisarza. To przed nimi...
304) Liebestraum
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English
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"What begins as a passionate crusade to save a landmark building turns into a passionate love affair with dire consequences. Nick, a professor of architecture who's come home to visit his dying mother, knows he must preserve a cast-iron building marked for demolition by Paul, a ruthless developer and former friend. But when he falls for Paul's wife, Jane, Nick unwittingly tempts fate with his own life. For buried within the walls of the landmark lies...
Series
Reading rainbow volume 89
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English
Description
LeVar explores the variety of ways families are created: the Harris family has 2 children, both adopted; the Peck family is a single mother and 9 adopted children; the Abney family is a set of parents, 2 brothers and an adopted sister. Viewers learn that families are really created by love. The read-aloud book, Through moon and stars and night skies, by Ann Turner is about a young boy's memories of coming to America to be adopted. Follow up activities...
306) Finding family
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English
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This is Richard Hill's true and intensely personal story of how he pieced together the long-kept secret of his own origins. It's an engrossing account of an adoptee trying to reclaim the biological family denied him by sealed birth records. This fascinating quest, including the author's landmark use of DNA testing, takes listeners on an exhilarating roller-coaster ride and concludes with a twist that rivals anything Hollywood has to offer.
309) Relative strangers
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English
Description
Dr. Richard Clayton has it all: Ellen, his loving fiancée, two wonderful, supportive parents, a successful career as a psychiatrist and a self-help book on anger management climbing the best seller list. Everything in his life is right on course. That is until his jealous brother tells Richard he was adopted. A private investigator locates his birth parents. Frank and Agnes Manure are a couple of crude, unrefined and offensive Carnies. Frank and...
311) Mujeres errantes
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Español
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Greta Meier, famosa escritora suiza afincada en Londres, regresa a su tierra natal en un ultimo intento por detener la deriva de sus dias. Sorprendida por la inesperada enfermedad de su progenitora, decide compensar sus prolongadas ausencias y aparcar los reiterados enfrentamientos, permaneciendo a su lado hasta el fatal desenlace. Sin embargo, sus ultimas palabras siembran una duda demoledora, dejando entrever en el ultimo suspiro el gran secreto...
313) Mansfield Park
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Español
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La joven tímida Fanny Price es enviada a vivir con parientes adinerados en Mansfield Park, donde de sus cuatro primos solo Edmund le muestra algo de amabilidad. Cuando el rico y coqueto Henry Crawford y su vivaz hermana Mary llegan al vecindario, el mundo de Fanny se desmorona. Edmund cae bajo el hechizo de Mary mientras Henry declara su amor por Fanny, pero el camino hacia la felicidad no transcurre sin problemas.
Shy young Fanny Price is sent...
315) En tus brazos
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Español
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Arial knows the rules that keep her safe. She's been following them since she was a little girl: Do not tell. Do not show. But in a moment of terror, facing an attacker intent on taking more than just her life, Ari has no choice but to unleash the psychic powers she's been hiding since childhood. Now, with her abilities revealed, a bigger threat looms -- something that makes her question everything she thought she knew about her parents and her secretive...
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English
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"An identity that spans the globe. In this astonishing memoir, Graci Harkema revisits her experience growing up as an adoptee from the Congo in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She traces her path to claiming and living her own story, becoming a successful consultant on diversity, equity and inclusion, racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, and women in business. Born amid civil unrest in a mud hut in the Congo and weighing a mere three pounds, Harkema was left...
319) Hayden & her family
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English
Description
"Jud and Elizabeth Curry are raising seven biological children and five adopted ones with special needs from China and Vietnam. Hayden & her family is a documentary that gives an intimate, nuanced look into the Curry's adoption journey -- struggles, joys and unique parenting philosophy. It explores themes of alternative parenting, challenges of special needs adoption and the motivations that drive the to transform lives of others. By making a case...
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