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Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In January 2010, founder of ArtLeadHer Mashonda Tifrere and music producer Swizz Beatz finalized their divorce. When Swizz married award-winning singer/songwriter Alicia Keys, a new dynamic was born--three adults who loved and were deeply committed to raising Mashonda and Swizz's four-year old son Kasseem. ...Tifrere draws on the insights they gained from their journey as well as advice from family therapists, parenting experts, and other blending...
2) Friction
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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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
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Claire Raphael, primary breadwinner in the family since the failure of her husband's company, stages the fight of her life when she returns home from visiting her dying mother to find that her husband is suing her for divorce, and is demanding alimony, the house, and their children.
5) Dark water
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
When Dahlia's strained separation turns into a bitter custody battle, her situation takes a turn for the worse: her new apartment seems to have a life of its own.
Publisher
Gaiam
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After the death of their mother, two young girls are forced to leave their life in the city and live with their estranged father, Mac, who is a rodeo cowboy. Though hostilities and challenges arise at first, Mac is determined to give it his best shot. Just as father and daughters are beginning to bond, Aunt Gayle steps in determined to gain custody.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In this moving story, Jack and Molly Campbell are enjoying a wonderful life with Joey, their four-year-old adopted son. But their world is soon shattered when they learn Joey's biological father is out of prison and wants to begin a new life with his son. And when a judge orders them to surrender Joey, the Campbells desperately consider taking their son and disappearing-just like dandelion dust.
10) Gifted
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn, whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
11) Lover's lane
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For six years, Carly Nolan has built a secretive life for herself and her son Christopher. Nobody in the quiet little beach community of Twilight Cove, California, suspects she is running from the tragic memory of her fiancé Rick and his unexpected death--and from his rich, powerful parents, who want to take away her child. She has carefully concealed her troubled past from the folks in the isolated cove. Until now.
Private investigator, Jake Montgomery,...
12) After the fire
Author
Language
English
Description
Hyacinth's idyllic marriage ends in divorce and she loses custody of her children when, in an act of jealousy, she burns her husband's office building to the ground, killing a worker.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Jane, a budding writer and Jane Austen fan, discovers the true secret to writing when a famous author and her cute, but annoying, son come to her small coastal town and play seemingly unwitting roles in affecting the custody battle between Jane's Hollywood mother and marine biologist father"--
17) One summer
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Jack, terminally ill, is helpless when his wife Lizzie is killed in a car accident and his three children separated, sent to live with family members across the country, but a miraculous turn of events puts Jack on the road to recovery and he sets out to put his family back together over the course of a summer spent at Lizzie's childhood home in South Carolina.
18) The attorney
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2000
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.
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