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2) Father Stu
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 videodisc (approximately 120 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization...
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[2003]
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4 videodiscs (675 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The future is nothing like you've imagined. Neither are its heroes. Five hundred years in the future, after a universal civil war, a lone organization known as The alliance controls the world, except for a small band of people running a transport ship called Serenity.
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The eleventh memoir and latest title from the internationally bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass. This book tells the true story of Cathy's adopted daughter Lucy. Lucy was born to a single mother who had been abused and neglected for most of her own childhood. Right from the beginning Lucy's mother couldn't cope, but it wasn't until Lucy reached eight years old that she was finally taken into permanent foster care. By the time Lucy is...
6) Nobody's Son
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When Cathy is asked to foster Alex, aged 7, she questions why he can't stay with his present carers. But the present carers are expecting a baby and aren't coping, so Alex goes to live with Cathy. He settles easily and the introduction to his adoptive family goes well. But Alex is only with them for a week when problems begin. What happens next is both shocking and upsetting;
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The Duke of Portsmouth offers an impecunious relative a job as his young son's nanny. What he quickly discovers is that he wants her, badly. He also learns that she isn't at all what she seems.Evangeline de Beauchamp is in way over her head. She has far more to cope with than a nineteen-year-old should. To top it all off, she must play an experienced widow with a man who knows women as well as he knows horses-or so he thinks.Phillip and Sabrina Mercerault,...
8) Girl Alone
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This is the true story of Joss, 13 who is angry and out of control. At the age of nine, Joss finds her father's dead body. He has committed suicide. Then more recently her mother remarries and Joss bitterly resents her step-father who abuses her mentally and physically. Cathy takes Joss under her wing but will she ever be able to get through to the warm-hearted girl she sees glimpses off underneath the vehement outbreaks of anger that dominate the...
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The heartbreaking true story of a young, troubled mother who needed help. The sixteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass. It is the first time Laura has been out since the birth of her baby when Cathy sees her in the school playground. A joyful occasion but Cathy has the feeling something is wrong. By the time she discovers what it is, it is too late. This is the true story of Laura whose life touches Cathy's in a way she could never have foreseen....
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When her ten-year marriage to Alistair ends with his infidelity, Kate Easton vows she will not make the same mistake twice. She will never put herself - or her two children - through a relationship again. Then Alistair announces that his new wife is pregnant and he intends to cut his financial support to Kate. To keep her home she must divide it up and make way for a lodger. Enter Davis Calder, a glamorous and charismatic tutor with a failed marriage...
11) Run, Mummy, Run
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When Aisha spots an ad for a 'personal introductory service for professionals' in the newspaper, she could never have guessed it would lead to such a perfect marriage. But you should be careful what you wish for. Soon she is trapped in a cycle of horrific abuse and imprisonment. And with two young children to protect, Aisha must draw on what strength she has left to find an escape.
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Little Beth, aged 7, and Derek, her father, clearly love each other very much and Derek spoils his daughter, treating her like a princess. But when he is suddenly admitted to hospital with psychiatric problems, Beth is taken into care and arrives at Cathy's. There is something bothering Cathy about their relationship, something she can't quite put her finger on.
Events take a dramatic turn for both Beth and Cathy and her family; as Cathy strives...
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Charlotte Cartwright has never forgotten Roland Temple's contemptuous rejection of her hand in marriage. And she's not about to forgive either, even if Roland, the new Earl of Amerleigh, is now older, wiser, and ten times as handsome! Roland has returned home from the wars to find much has changed, including his spitfire of a neighbor. He's soon determined to right the wrongs of the past, and this time the hoyden will be his bride.
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East Germany may have been-until now-the most perfected surveillance state of all time. In Stasiland Anna Funder tells extraordinary stories of ordinary people who heroically resisted the communist dictatorship, and of those who worked for its vicious secret police, the Stasi.
She meets Miriam, who as a sixteen-year-old was accused of trying to start World War III. She visits the regime's cartographer, a man obsessed to this day with the Berlin Wall,...
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Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive, and has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass. From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author. At the Social Services office, Cathy (an experienced foster carer) is pressured into taking Jodie as a new placement. Jodie's challenging behaviour has seen off five carers in four months. Despite her reservations, Cathy decides to take...
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A fresh and practical guide to successfully managing children's behaviour - from babies to young adults. Cathy Glass has been a foster carer for over 20 years, during this time fostering more than 50 children, as well as bringing up three of own. Many of these children have had severe behavioural difficulties and have come to Cathy as a last resort, when their parents or carers were no longer able to cope. Drawing on a combination of years of training...
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An Impossible Decision is the true story of Faye, a wonderful young woman who may never be able to parent her unborn child. Faye is 24, pregnant, and has learning difficulties as a result of her mother's alcoholism. Faye is gentle, childlike and vulnerable, and normally lives with her grandparents, both of whom have mobility problems. Cathy and her children welcome Faye into their home and hearts. The care plan is for Faye to stay with Cathy until...
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