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on1356620793 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20230419120514.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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221208t20232023nyu b 000 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2022053344 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
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DLC |
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BDX |
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TOH |
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YDX |
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TXL |
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OCLCQ |
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MBT |
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IH9 |
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JAS |
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GL4 |
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ILC |
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MDB |
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OCLCF |
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WSL |
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YU6 |
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NFG |
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1310771180 |
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1311073371 |
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1311157445 |
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1311235871 |
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1311266556 |
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1311358493 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780374602291 |
| Qualifying information |
(hardcover) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0374602298 |
| Qualifying information |
(hardcover) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1356620793 |
| Canceled/invalid control number |
(OCoLC)1310771180 |
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(OCoLC)1311073371 |
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(OCoLC)1311157445 |
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(OCoLC)1311235871 |
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(OCoLC)1311266556 |
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(OCoLC)1311358493 |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
n-us--- |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
364.1523 |
| Item number |
A818 |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
NFGA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Asgarian, Roxanna, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1987- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
We were once a family : |
| Remainder of title |
a story of love, death, and child removal in America / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Roxanna Asgarian. |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
Story of love, death, and child removal in America |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
2023. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
©2023 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiv, 297 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
21 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content Type Term |
text |
| Content Type Code |
txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media Type Term |
unmediated |
| Media Type Code |
n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier Type Term |
volume |
| Carrier Type Code |
nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-294). |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Preface -- Prologue -- "Every time I see you, you take me away" -- A safe place -- The good ol' boys club -- Big-time small-time living -- Across state lines -- "If not us, who?" -- Playing the food card -- "Is it because I'm bad?" -- Dichotomy -- "Kiss your mama" -- "The last little hope I had" -- "Why didn't they call me?" -- "Something I could love unconditionally" -- "Death at the hands of another" -- Best interests of the child -- A final resting place -- Epilogue. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children--and a searing indictment of the American foster care system"-- |
| Assigning source |
Provided by publisher. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff beside the Pacific Coast Highway. Investigators soon concluded that the crash was a murder-suicide, but there was more to the story: Jennifer and Sarah Hart, it turned out, were a white married couple who had adopted the six Black children from two different Texas families in 2006 and 2008. Behind the family's loving facade, however, was a pattern of abuse and neglect that went ignored as the couple withdrew the children from school and moved across the country. It soon became apparent that the State of Texas knew very little about the two individuals to whom it had given custody of six children. As a journalist in Houston, Asgarian became the first reporter to put the children's birth families at the center of the story. We follow the author as she runs up against the intransigence of a state agency that removes tens of thousands of kids from homes each year in the name of child welfare, while often failing to consider alternatives. Her reporting uncovers persistent racial biases and corruption as children of color are separated from birth parents without proper cause. The result is a riveting narrative and a deeply reported indictment of a system that continues to fail America's most vulnerable children while upending the lives of their families. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Murder-suicide |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Children |
| General subdivision |
Crimes against |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
232132 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Children |
| General subdivision |
Institutional care |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Adopted children |
| General subdivision |
Crimes against |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
African American children. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
156232 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Interracial adoption |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
74261 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Foster children |
| General subdivision |
Care |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Foster home care |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
107730 |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
True crime stories. |
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lcgft |
| 9 (RLIN) |
9557 |
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C0 |
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NFG |
