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1) Bleak House
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67
Language
English
Description
"In Bleak House, competing claims of love and inheritance--complicated by murder--have given rise to a costly and decades-long legal battle that one litigant refers to as 'the family curse.' The insidious London fog that rises from the river Thames and seeps into the very bones of the characters symbolizes the pervasive corruption of the legal system and the society that supports it, targets of Dickens's satirical wrath."--P. [2] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. Their relationship and its fallout, played against a backdrop of a lost America will haunt Helen for the rest of her life.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When single attorney Steven Creed becomes guardian of an orphaned five-year-old boy, he trades his big-city law firm for a ranch near his McKettrick kin in the close-knit community of Stone Creek, Arizona. Steven takes on the pro bono defense of a local teen and meets his match in the beautiful county prosecutor Melissa O'Ballivan.
5) The guncle
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), loves his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for visits. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children, Patrick is honestly out of his league. So when tragedy strikes and Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick's brother has a health crisis, Patrick finds himself taking on the role of primary guardian. Quickly...
7) The proposal
Author
Series
English garden series (Lori Wick) volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Cameron Shaw knows exactly what he's doing when it comes to coaching high school boys on the football field, but caring for a six-year-old girl is a whole different ballgame. When a gorgeous, highly opinionated woman shows up with his niece in tow and claims he's Piper's new guardian, Cameron's first response is "hell no." But he can't abandon a little girl who just lost her mother...
9) Fin & Lady
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books; Farrar,Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the Greenwich Village of 1964, eleven-year-old Fin moves in with his glamorous, careless older sister, and it's hard to tell who's raising whom.
Author
Series
The little season volume 3
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It's the kind of vow often made on the battlefield. Darby Travers, Viscount Nailbourne, never imagines he'll have to honor it. Yet here she is on his doorstep -- his late comrade's young daughter, and Darby's new ward. Worse, she comes with the most overprotective, mistrustful, bothersome chaperone -- the child's aunt, Sadie Grace Boxer. Darby is quite sure that behind her lovely facade, the woman is guarding a secret.
11) Handle with care
Author
Series
Veteran movers volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Evan Griffith has had many careers in his life. But who knew working for his family's moving company would hold just as much action as his stint in the Marine Corps? On an unforgettable job, Evan finds himself taken by a teenage conman and confronted by a woman wielding a knife - and promptly falls head over heels for her. Kenzie Sykes is doing her best to raise her little brother and keep him out of jail - all while dealing with her own broken heart...
13) Forbidden love
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2013, c1997
Language
English
Description
Megan Kinkead returns to her family's estate in rural Ireland, much to the surprise of her childhood guardian, Justin Brant, Earl of Weston, who must struggle to stay true to his role as protector-- and as husband to another woman.
Author
Publisher
Brandeis University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Guardianship, sometimes called conservatorship, is an ever-growing phenomenon. Some of these arrangements are truly beneficial, but countless others are unwanted, unnecessary, and violate constitutionally protected human rights. Award winning journalist, Diane Dimond, dissects the mysterious, ever-expanding, and complicit cottage industry of individuals who profit off the confinement of others"--
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A no-holds-barred comedy that gives new meaning to the phrase dysfunctional family. Mickey is an unapologetic degenerate, who suddenly finds herself stuck in affluent Greenwich, CT, raising her spoiled niece and nephews. She may discover it₂s not the buzzkill she always thought it would be.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Emily March's new novel set in her beloved Eternity Springs, a woman who has given up on dreams of a family meets a man who needs her to complete his own. Town physician Rose Anderson hides a well of sadness behind her cheerful and capable professionalism. Heartbreak has only reinforced her belief that marriage and children aren't in her future. Yet she's a woman with a pulse, and when sexy, brooding artist Hunt Cicero shows up at her office with...
17) Heirs and graces
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
While in the Australian Outback grooming Jack Altringham, a newfound heir, for high society, Lady Georgiana Rannoch finds herself investigating the murder of the Duke who was found with Jack's hunting knife in his back.
18) Primrose Lane
Author
Series
Harmony Harbor volume 3
Publisher
Forever/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Olivia Davenport has finally gotten her life back together. She's left her painful past behind, started over in a new town, and become Harmony Harbor's most sought after event planner. But her past catches up with her when Olivia learns that she is now guardian of her ex's young daughter. With her world spinning, Olivia must reconcile her old life with her new one."
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
He knows all about women, or so he thought... Dexter Yates leads a charmed existence in London, with money, looks, and girlfriends galore. Life's fantastic until Dex's sister dies and his world changes overnight. Astonishing everyone, including himself, Dex leaves the city behind, takes charge of his eight-month-old niece Delphi, moves to a beautiful Cotswolds village, and sets about working on his parenting skills. His neighbors, including cartoonist...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Although constantly pulled between enjoying her lavish new lifestyle and trying to control three monstrous children who have unlimited lines of credit, Mickey is now in it for the long haul. With the help of her on-again, off-again boyfriend and the kids live-in housekeeper, Mickey is determined to make it work, or, at the very least, black out during the parts that don't.
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