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Rob Henderson was born to a drug-addicted mother and a father he never met, ultimately shuttling among ten different foster homes in California. When he is adopted into a loving family, he hopes that life will finally be stable and safe. Divorce, tragedy, poverty, and violence intervene, propelling Henderson to join the military upon completing high school. Troubled recounts Henderson's expectation-defying young life and juxtaposes his story with...
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Oprah's book club volume 2022
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION KINGSOLV
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CD FICTION KINGSOLV
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD FICTION KINGSOLV
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CD FICTION KINGSOLV
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Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Video
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DVD H
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Raised on hip-hop and foster care, defiant city kid Ricky gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. He quickly finds himself at home with his new foster family: the loving Aunt Bella, the cantankerous Uncle Hec, and dog Tupac. When a tragedy strikes that threatens to ship Ricky to another home, both he and Hec go on the run in the bush. As a national manhunt ensues, the newly branded outlaws must face their options.
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Ashley spent nine years in foster care after being taken away from her mother. She endured many caseworkers, moving from school to school and manipulative, humiliating and abusive treatment from one foster family. See how she survives and eventually thrives against the odds.
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Memoir and Biography
B NIETFELD
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B NIETFELD
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"A brilliant, funny, generation-defining memoir about the double bind of crafting perfect adversity narratives for highly selective institutions, while fumbling through the far murkier reality of actual life in foster care and inpatient mental health treatment As a child, Emi Nietfeld was caught between a hoarder mother who got her put on antipsychotic medication, but was also the only person to believe she was exceptional, and a state system exemplified...
6) Commitment
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION SIMPSON
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FICTION SIMPSON
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"The story of a family whose single mom, fighting mental illness, slowly becomes unable to raise her family, told from the perspective of each of the three children. As the novel opens, a mother drives her eldest son Walter from their home in Los Angeles to the University of California at Berkeley. It will be her last fully responsible act before breaking down completely and being committed to a mental hospital, leaving her children behind. Holding...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION SCHMIDT
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TEEN FICTION SCHMIDT
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION SCHMIDT
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TEEN FICTION SCHMIDT
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"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"-- Provided by publisher.
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION FRANCIS
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FICTION FRANCIS
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When Dahlia decided to become a foster mother, she had a few caveats: no howling newborns, no delinquents, and above all, no girls. A harrowing incident years before left her a virtual prisoner in her own home, forever wary of the heartbreak and limitation of a girl's life. Eleven years after they began fostering, the Moscatellis are raising three children as their own and Dahlia and Louie consider their family complete, but when the social worker...
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION BENWAY
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TEEN FICTION BENWAY
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Grace, adopted at birth, is raised as an only child. At sixteen she's just put her own baby up for adoption, and now is looking for her biological family. She discovers Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio twin sister who was also adopted ; and Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother after seventeen years in the foster care system. Grace struggles between cautious joy at having found...
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Having shared so many foster homes that they are unable to trust that the family that has adopted them will last, Flora and her brother, Julian, are assisted by their new mother on a journey to resolve their past so that they can build a future.
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Kids
J FICTION ARANGO
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J FICTION ARANGO
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Kids
J FICTION ARANGO
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J FICTION ARANGO
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Kids
J FICTION ARANGO
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J FICTION ARANGO
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Kids Audiobooks
J PLAYAWAY FICTION ARANGO
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J PLAYAWAY FICTION ARANGO
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When a lost dog helps Laura find a way home to her family, they discover family in each other along the way.
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When eleven-year-old foster kid Mo finds a handmade cookbook filled with someone else's family recipes, she collects the stories behind them and builds a website to share them, secretly hoping a long-lost relative will find her and give her a family recipe all her own.
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Kids
J FICTION LUCAS
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J FICTION LUCAS
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"Brian has always been anxious, whether at home or in class or on the basketball court. His dad tries to get him to stand up for himself, and his mom helps as much as she can, but after he and his brother are placed into foster care, Brian starts having panic attacks. And he doesn't know if things will ever be 'normal' again ... Ezra's always been popular. He's friends with most of the kids on his basketball team--even Brian, who usually keeps to...
14) What I carry
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION LONGO
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TEEN FICTION LONGO
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION LONGO
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TEEN FICTION LONGO
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"Growing up in foster care, Muir has lived in many houses. And if she's learned one thing, it is to Pack. Light. Carry only what fits in a suitcase. Toothbrush? Yes. Socks? Yes. Emotional attachment to friends? foster families? a boyfriend? Nope! There's no room for any additional baggage. Muir has just one year left before she ages out of the system. One year before she's free. One year to avoid anything--or anyone--that could get in her way. Then...
15) Age out
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Video
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DVD A
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"Fresh out of foster care at age eighteen, Richie Wincott collides with the perils and temptations of a life apart. Becoming a prime suspect in a botched robbery, he discovers an impossible love in an unlikely friend"--Container.
