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"In Brooklyn, New York, in 1927, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love.Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law to marry him. Little did they know how difficult their first year of marriage would be, in a faraway place with little money and few friends. But Carl and Annie come to realize that their greatest sources of strength, loyalty, and love, will help them make it through."...
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Chaos reigns over Beefeater Balthazar Jones's life at the Tower of London as he watches his marriage fall apart, loses his beloved pet tortoise, and is assigned the task of housing the queen's assortment of animals.
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It's 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that devastated the land and the economy. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters from starvation or die at the hands of an abusive husband. Retta is navigating a harsh world as a first-generation freed slave, still employed by the Coles, influential plantation proprietors who once owned her family. Annie...
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Milkweed Editions
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Dalton, North Dakota. September. 1951. It has been years since George and Margaret Blackledge lost their son James when he was thrown from a horse; months since his widow left with their only grandson and married another man. Margaret is resolved to find and retrieve her beloved grandson, while George, a retired sheriff, is none too eager to stir up trouble. Unable to sway his wife from her mission, George takes to the road with Margaret by his side,...
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From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about family. Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul-the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's...
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Commission on Families in the Colorado Courts
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2002.
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Mitford years volume 3
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Father Timothy Kavanagh, married for the first time at the age of sixty-something, struggles to deal with the upheaval and delight of having a wife, while also presiding over the triumphs and troubles of the people of the small town of Mitford, North Carolina.
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Center for Policy Research
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2007.
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The Colorado Parenting Time Project was designed to assess whether identifying parents with visitation problems in the child support caseload and providing services aimed at resolving them improves parent-child contact and the subsequent payment of child support.
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Colorado Juvenile Court Denver
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2015.
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The Family Integrated Treatment Collaborative (FITC) is a special program designed to help you and your children get back together or stay together. To reach that goal, this program will help you recover from challenges you and your family may be facing. The team will refer you to services that will meet your family's needs and monitor your progress. The FITC team will also help to make sure that while you or your child are in treatment; you stay...
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OMNI
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2009.
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Colorado Division of Child Support Enforcement conducted a three-year project, Partner Up, aimed at delivering services and identifying policies that support healthy relationships and healthy marriage. The overall goal of the federal initiative was to influence the three-decade trend of declining marriage rates and the increasing rates of single-parent households in the United States.
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Sourcebooks
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2006
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SPEND THIS TIME ENJOYING LIFE-NOT WORRYING ABOUT THE FUTURE Admit it. Growing older has some perks. Special discounts and exclusive benefits are just a few of the things you can now take advantage of. There are also several programs and government regulations that now play a bigger role in your life. Have you explored all the options available to you for a secure future? Seniors' Rights is designed to help you make the most of everything you are...
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Colorado Supreme Court Standing Committee on Family Issues
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2010.
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In January 2010, the Chief Justice charged the Standing Committee on Family Issues (Family Issues Committee) to study the quality assurance and oversight of Child and Family Investigators (CFIs) and Parenting Coordinators (PCs) in domestic relations cases. The Family Issues Committee has preliminarily identified that changes to the current Chief Justice Directives and statutes will likely be required to achieve system improvement and will continue...