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When heart-broken Sarah Quinn is left to care for her father and siblings when her mother dies, it’s hard to watch their loving dad, Fred, drift into drink and despair. With money tight, Sarah is determined to keep the family together. But they receive a shock when Fred Quinn announces he is to marry Mavis Swindel, the landlady of a boarding house on the edge of the moors. Mavis seems to offer the answer to the family’s problems, and soon they are all moving into her shabby lodgings. It quickly becomes clear that their stepmother has plans for her new family.

A man travels to his son's school to deal with the fallout of a violent attack and to make sure his son will not lose his college place. But what exactly has his son done? And who is to blame? A young woman trying to make it in LA, working in a clothes shop while taking acting classes, turns to a riskier way of making money but will be forced to confront the danger of the game she's playing. And a family coming together for Christmas struggle to skate over the lingering darkness caused by the very ordinary brutality of a troubled husband and father.

Decades ago, after the death of his wife, Texas ranch hand JT Tucker took his three small daughters to California to start a new life. With almost no money, a will of iron, and hard work, he eventually built the biggest ranch in California. But when he dies suddenly at the age of 64, the ranch is inherited by his three daughters - each of them finding it impossible to believe that this larger-than-life figure is gone from their lives.

It's back to a new school term for the kids. Their mums - Gemma and Becky - are breathing a huge sigh of relief and reaching for the gin bottle. Except for the fact that Becky appears to be accidentally a little bit pregnant.... But that's not the first shock for the parents in the playground. Over the summer, part of their beloved Redcoats Primary has burned down. The school needs to raise thousands of pounds to stay open - and Gemma and Becky have been forced on to the fund-raising committee (just to add to the millions of messages from their online parent groups).

Left to care for her late sister's baby, Mia D'Angelo goes on a secret mission to find out if the missing father would make good daddy material. But when she tracks down Adam Chase at his beachfront mansion, her plan spins out of control and they're soon dating! It isn't long before the reclusive billionaire realizes Mia's keeping a huge secret about the child he never knew he had. Can this guarded man learn to trust Mia after her initial deception...and trust himself around this incredibly sexy woman?

Oliver Watson har alt, hvad han ønsker sig: et godt job, en fantastisk kone, tre vidunderlige børn og et dejligt hjem. Men hans liv ændres brat, da hans kone forlader ham for at fortsætte sine studier på Harvard. Tilbage står Oliver med problemerne, både de praktiske og de følelsesmæssige. Men enhver forandring er en udfordring, der skal tages op, og det gør Oliver med held. Han bliver forfremmet og flytter til Los Angeles med børnene, hvor han møder den smukke skuespiller Charlotte, som han forelsker sig i.

صاحب الظل الطويل أو أبي طويل الساقين، هي رواية للكاتبة الأمريكية جين ويبستر. تدور أحداث القصة حول فتاة يتيمة اسمها جودي أبوت، التي تحصل على منحة للدراسة في مدرسة لينكولن الثانوية من قبل شخص لا تعرفه، اسمه المستعار هو جون سميث وقد ابتكرت له اسم "صاحب الظل الطويل" فهي لم تستطع أن تراه وتشكره، فقط رأت ظله الطويل. المقابل الوحيد الذي اشترطه سميث على جودي مقابل المنحة هو أن تقوم بمراسلته مرة واحدة كل شهر.

Weihnachten steht vor der Tür und ausgerechnet jetzt meldet sich Jaxons Ex, weil es Probleme mit demgemeinsamen Sohn Tristan gibt. Nun bleibt Jax nichts anders übrig, als sein Partyleben beisei-tezuschieben, um sich um einen Teenager zu kümmern, den er seit Jahren nicht gesehen hat. Es wird Zeit, Verantwortung zu übernehmen. Ausgerechnet jetzt begegnet er Sophie und möchte nichts dringender, als dass sie seinem Charme er-liegt. Sophie, die ihren jüngeren Bruder Adam alleine aufzieht, hat allerdings gerade ganz andere Sorgen.

Una niña enfervorizada espera a su padre, un mafioso dominicano al que idolatra y que siempre llega sin avisar, como los monstruos en las películas de terror. Papi aparece, desaparece y reaparece, cargado de dólares y un sinfín de coches, novias y regalos. Encarna, como ha señalado el crítico Juan Duchesne Winter, al «neomacho global» y triunfador de los trópicos, que provoca alucinaciones en todos los que lo rodean.

Authored with the idea that too many families, especially children, are losing loved ones without a clue of what is happening and why, the author explains in story form what happens when 10-year-old Mason is told his daddy has a highly advanced lung cancer that will bring about his death in less than a week.

Overflowing with pathos and humor, The Daddy Diaries is a memorable take on contemporary fatherhood and a clear-sighted look at how the upending of traditional marital roles can affect the delicate balance of familial love. In his third and best novel to date, Joshua Braff vividly evokes the unpredictable dance that families do and captures how they similarly ebb and flow.

Single mom Lachez Baker is a ghetto-fabulous mother of three who seems to have it all, thanks to money from her children’s fathers. But soon, her life of designer clothes, endless parties, and steady cash collides with the man who’s been the target of her carefully crafted paternity fraud. From author Pat Tucker comes a drama-filled tale of lies, schemes and consequences as these men discover the importance of knowing the paternity laws in your state.

After discovering that the father she'd been told was dead is, in fact, alive, 13-year-old Rayne Houston runs away. She takes along her new friend, the Timinator, aka Tim, a young boy she found hiding behind a garbage can in her hometown of Las Vegas. Tim needs a daddy, too, so the two of them hop a bus to Illinois and begin The Daddy Quest. Nicole Houston is frantic when she discovers her daughter is gone. Her lies are coming back to haunt her, but when she told them, she believed she was doing the right thing for everyone.

Ex-military man Derrick Richmond: Solitary and satisfied... until little Timmy was dropped into his lap and Derrick had to learn to be somebody's daddy. Schoolteacher Anna Maxwell: Fate might have denied her a family of her own, but Anna still had plenty of love to give, if only someone would notice. The Solution: Anna would teach Derrick all he needed to know about kids. Father and son would give Anna some precious memories. Then the schoolteacher and the single dad would go their separate ways. Unless one little boy figured out a way to make Miss Maxwell become his mom!

"Your daddy killed Chris!" When Nikki heard her little cousin utter these four words, she had no idea they would change the course of her young life forever. Had no idea that her beloved father would be ripped away from her, drawn into a protracted legal battle. Had no idea that she would be forced to flee her home and go into hiding with her mother and siblings.

Enter the world of Mr. Vunck. Some of this story is based on true events. Some is fiction. Find out why he grew up thinking expelling gas from his rear end was an acceptable practice. Granny was a true wind-breaker. And as a little boy Vunck picked up that habit and what follows is a hilarious ride on the farside. Good humor for adults and juveniles. True poetic humor will get you laughing.