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Pub. Date
[2019]
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.
Pub. Date
c2002
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.
3) The jerk
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, produces some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
4) Adopted
Pub. Date
2010
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,...
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Two years after the death of her husband, Missie knows that it is time to move on. She heads home with her son to be near her parents and to return to teaching. Certain she will never find love again, Missie redirects her feelings and when the "orphan train" arrives in town, she adopts Belinda, a feisty young teenager who's arrived with a secret. As Missie struggles with raising Belinda, she finds she is falling for the local sheriff who might be...
6) Big daddy
Description
Thirty-two-year-old Sonny Koufax has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility. But when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man, he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort, Sonny adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her. She's not impressed and he can't return the kid.
Pub. Date
2010
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....
Pub. Date
[2007], c2001
Description
The Lowry family is in transition--they've recently moved from the city to a small town, and they're having a hard time adjusting. Just when their spirits need lifting, they find themselves "adopted" by a stray golden retriever named Pilot. It turns out that Pilot is not only very clever and very lovable, she's also very pregnant!
10) Stuart Little
Pub. Date
1999.
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.
11) Losing Isaiah
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A woman who has adopted an abandoned child to give it a new life has to fight for him when his birth mother shows up and wants him back.
13) Holly & Ivy
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
When Melody's neighbor, Nina, learns that her illness has returned, Melody promises to keep Nina's kids, Holly & Ivy, together. To adopt the children, she must renovate her new fixer-upper, which she does with the help of contractor, Adam.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Formats
Description
Upon being sent to live with her aunt in the small town of Doverville, 12-year-old Emma O'Conner finds herself in the middle of a 'dog-fight' with the Mayor and town dogcatcher. In order to strike down their "no-dogs" law, Emma must bring together a group of schoolmates, grown-ups and adorable dogs of all shapes and sizes.
15) Paper dream
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
When pregnancy seems beyond their reach, a couple turns to adoption.
16) Puppy love
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
When single mom Megan Nolan moves to a new town, she feels guilty for uprooting her ten-year-old daughter Caitlin. Megan decides to adopt a shelter pet for Caitlin. She immediately regrets her decision when Caitlin gravitates to the biggest, sloppiest dog in the pound, Jake. As Megan considers returning Jake, handsome ballplayer Ben shows up claiming Jake is his dog. Ben wants to take his dog and leave, until he sees that Caitlin loves Jake as much...
Pub. Date
2006
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.
19) Max
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Military dog Max returns from service in Afghanistan, traumatized by his handler's death. He's adopted by the man's family and helps the grieving family heal
20) Secrets & lies
Series
Criterion collection volume 1070
Pub. Date
[2021]
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.
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