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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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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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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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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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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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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...
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[2013]
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Discussion by judges and court officers about the project for parties involved in domestic relations cases to meet outside the court room to work out differences early in the process. A two person team one a mental health professional and one legal professional meets with the family. The team gives them a realistic expectation of what would happen in a court case. This helps the people make the decisions themselves. People are happier with the results...
20) Freedom: A novel
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IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 36
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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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