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Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After adopting three children, a couple finds themselves in over their heads.
When Pete and Ellie choose to start a family, they stumble headfirst into the world of foster care adoption. After they learn their perfect foster child comes with two other siblings, Pete and Ellie find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight and must hilariously learn the ropes of instant parenthood if they hope to become a real family.
2) Adopted
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
For hundreds of years, Africa has existed in a state of despair. Famine, civil wars and rampant disease have left the continent without hope, but for the efforts of Western do-gooders. At first, they arrived with food, bibles and the magic of penicillin; more recently they have hosted rock concerts and sent plane loads of grain. And in the last decade of the 20th century they arrived and took babies home with them. First there was Angelina, then Madonna,...
3) Stellaluna
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Three women's lives share a common core. They have all been profoundly affected by adoption. At age fourteen, Karen placed a baby for adoption, and has been haunted ever since by the daughter she never knew. Elizabeth grew up as an adopted child. Even though she is a bright and ambitious lawyer, she is a flinty loner in her personal life. Lucy and her husband are just embarking on the adoption odyssey, hoping for the opportunity to become parents....
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Olivia is an artist, but recurring dreams pull her toward the daughter she was forced to give up as a young girl, bringing urgency to her work. Natalia has just commanded her first magazine cover as a photojournalist, but an aching to know what happened to the subject of her cover leads her on a new direction in life. Catherine, despite being an accomplished cellist, is consumed with lingering emotional pain. She is wavering unsteadily as she disappears...
8) Paper dream
Publisher
American Family Studios
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When pregnancy seems beyond their reach, a couple turns to adoption.
Publisher
Columbia/Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The Little family adopts an spunky boy named Stuart who looks a lot like a mouse. Mr. and Mrs. Little adore their new son, but their older son George isn't so sure what to make of his new brother and devises a plan to get Stuart out of the house.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A popular husband-and-wife entertainer team, making their move from radio to television, believe their lives will be complete when they can start a family. When they decide to adopt, they face problems and disappointments and are ultimately rewarded with an overabundance of babies.
11) The future
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The story of a thirtysomething couple whose decision to adopt a cat changes their perspective on life, literally altering the course of time and testing their faith in themselves and each other.
Pub. Date
19uu
Language
English
Description
John Sayles' Casa de los Babys tells the tale of a half-dozen American women who travel to Latin America in order to pick up their adopted children. They all stay at the same motel while they each wade through the bureaucracy. Sharing with each other their fears, hopes, dreams, and frustrations at the thoughts of becoming mothers comprises the majority of the drama in the film. The cast includes Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daryl Hannah, Marcia Gay Harden,...
13) Secrets & lies
Series
Criterion collection volume 1070
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Hortense begins the search for her birth mother as an adult, the revelation that a lonely white factory worker gave up a black baby for adoption sends shock waves through the family.
15) Paperdream
Publisher
American Family Studios
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
For as long as she can remember, Christy Davis has wanted to be a mom, but things haven't worked out the way she imagined them. When hopes of getting pregnant fall through, she and her husband Matt turn to adoption, but will that be enough to fill their longing for a child? American Family Studios is proud to present a story of hope in the midst of difficult circumstances. Do unfulfilled dreams define who we are, or is God enough to give us fulfillment?...
16) Clover's luck
Author
Series
Magical Animal Adoption Agency volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Clover, who wants to change her bad luck, accepts a volunteer position at a pet adoption agency unlike any other and soon finds herself in a world of fairy horses, dragons with temperamental snouts, wizards, princesses, and, unfortunately, witches.
18) Nobody's baby
Publisher
Artisan
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
When two escaped cons find an orphaned baby, their lives go from the state pen to the playpen. Billy Raedeen and Buford Dill are on the run from the law, but they never counted on getting a new little partner in crime. Soon, they join forces with a crazy group of trailer park folks, and the two outlaws find themselves doing something they've never done before-- the right thing.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Cesar Millan decides, out of three candidates, who is the best pack leader to adopt a dog after testing them in a series of challenges over two days. The goal is to make the right match and place these difficult dogs in the most compatible home. Cesar's mission: save abandoned dogs from incarceration and euthanasia and raise awareness of the desperate situation these dogs live in around the world.
Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Callie and son : Callie has just become a teenage mother. Unprepared, she gives up her child for black-market adoption. When Callie becomes discontent in later years, she decides to find her son. Treasure of Jamaica Reef : A group of divers are on the hunt for a Spanish galleon that sank over 200 years ago carrying hoads of treasure. Greed inhibits teamwork to reclaim the treasure.