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2) The bear hug
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Cubby loves spending time with Grandpa Bear, especially when Grandpa gives him the Bear Hug.
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"Once, in a tiny village in India, there was a young boy who loved to paint. He lived with his grandfather, who taught him to paint with his fingers, to make paints from marigolds and brushes made from jasmine flowers. Sometimes, the village children would watch them painting together, and the boy's grandfather would invite them to join in. They didn't have much, but they had each other. After his grandfather dies, the boy notices a little box wrapped...
5) Heidi
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An adaptation of the beloved tale of an orphan sent to live with her grandfather who learns to love both the the old man and the Swiss Alps and is homesick when she goes to to the city to be a companion to an invalid.
10) Being Frank
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Frank's finds out that that his policy of total honesty is better when mixed with a little tact.
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2015.
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In Holt, Colorado, widower Louis Waters is initially thrown when the widowed Addie Moore suggests that they spend time together, in bed, to stave off loneliness, but soon they are exchanging the confidences and memories. They are soon exchanging the confidences and memories of lives now empty of family, and their hopes for the imminent future.
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Camp Grandma reveals how a successful businesswoman merged her working career with her role as grandmother--and offers grandparents fun and creative ideas for enriching their relationships with their grandchildren while teaching the children valuable life skills that will help them grow strong and think critically. Readers will be introduced to a compelling, sometimes humorous, and totally unexpected twist on a role people often take for granted--as...
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Appalachian blessings volume 3
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Perla Phillips has carried a secret for over sixty years. When she sees her granddaughter, Ella, struggling in life, Perla decides to share her story--then suffers a debilitating stroke before she can do so. As Ella and her aunt begin to look into their grandmother's past, they'll learn more than they expected about Perla, faith, and each other.
16) The wrong bus
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"Jack loves and misses his bus-driving grandfather. When Grandpa Nod died, Jack's mother said Jack was too young to go to the funeral. One day after school, Jack gets on the wrong bus. To his surprise, he discovers Grandpa Nod is in the driver's seat of the empty bus. By the end of the ride, Jack has had the chance to tell his grandfather how much he misses him"--
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"As young Awâsis searches for the ingredients to make Kohkum's world-famous bannock recipe, [she runs] into a variety of other-than-human relatives that help [her] along in [her] journey. Includes a pronunciation guide and Kohkum's ... bannock recipe at the back of the book"--
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2016
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After four decades as a reporter, Lesley Stahl says the most vivid and transforming experience of her life was not covering the White House, interviewing heads of state, or any other of her stories at 60 Minutes. It was becoming a grandmother. She was hit with a jolt of joy so intense and unexpected, she wanted to 'investigate' it, as though it was a news flash! And so, using her 60 Minutes skills, she explores how grandmothering changes a woman's...
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