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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Reclusive Sally Diamond causes outrage by trying to incinerate her dead father. Now she's the center of attention, not only from the hungry media and police detectives, but also a sinister voice from a past she does not remember. As she begins to discover the horrors of her early childhood, Sally steps into the world for the first time, making new friends, big decisions, and learning that people don't always mean what they say. But who is the man...
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Penny has never met anyone smarter than her. That's par for the course when you're a savant--one of less than one hundred in the world. But despite her photographic memory and super-powered intellect, there's one question Penny doesn't know the answer to: where did her father go when he left her and her mother years ago? On Penny's 21st birthday, she receives a card in the mail from her father, just as she has every year since he left. But this birthday...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She's a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one with all the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be...
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English
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"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
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English
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"Wildly different half-sisters Maggie, Simone, and Star have hardly seen each other since their sprightly summers at Rowan Thorp, their eccentric father Augustus's home. Known for the fruitful ways in which his bustling knick-knack shop kept the tired town afloat, Augustus was loved by all and known by none, not even his daughters. Now, years later, the three estranged women are unexpectedly reunited at the reading of Augustus's will. Maggie, Simone,...
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Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Dad's hair was sick of being brushed and combed. It was tired of hanging around on his head. It wanted a life of its own. It wanted to see the world. One day, it coiled itself, and sprang. It cut along the hall to the living room, over the kitchen table, and out through the open window to freedom. But my father doesn't give up easily. He set off to get it back"--
Author
Series
Coyote Sunrise volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Almost a year after settling down in Oregon, Coyote embarks on a cross-country road trip with her dad to scatter her mom's ashes, but the journey takes an unexpected turn when she realizes the secret to the chosen resting place lies in a lost book.
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Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"After his estranged father's mysterious death, Charlie Remick returns to Seattle to help with the funeral. There, he discovers his father left him two parting gifts: the keys to the family record store and a strange black case containing four ancient records that, according to legend, can open a gate to the land of the dead. When Charlie, his sister, and their two friends play the records, they unwittingly open a floodgate of unspeakable horror....
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English
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Stunned by her recently widowed father's reckless behavior, a young woman must learn to navigate a new world--where the people she should trust the most have become strangers she cannot trust at all. Frankie Attleboro returns home to Cape Cod with thrilling news. She's met the love of her life, they're getting married and have a baby on the way. Her talented, charismatic father overshadows her with his own he's also getting married. To Frankie's best...
10) The atlas of us
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad's favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is.
11) The captive duke
Author
Series
Captive hearts (Grace Burrowes) volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Captured and tortured by the French, Christian Severn, Duke of Mercia, lost his wife, his son, and his will to live. He struggles to find a way back to the world he once knew until Gillian, Countess of Windmere, pointedly reminds him that he has a daughter who still needs him. As Christian and Gillian spend more and more time together trying to help Margaret, who was traumatized by her mother's death, their attraction slowly begins to grow"--
12) The folly
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Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Morgan always knew her father, Owen, never murdered her mother...Finally he is set free, but they can no longer live in the house that was last decorated by her mother's blood. Salvation comes in the form of a tall, dark and notorious decorative granite tower on the Cornish coastline known only as 'The Folly'...At first the Folly is idyllic, but soon a stranger arrives who acts like Morgan's mother, talks like her mother, and wears her dead mother's...
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English
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"Welcome to Stanhope. A safe neighborhood. A place for families. On the surface, William Wooler is a family man. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing. Suddenly Stanhope doesn't...
15) Single dads club
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Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Single father Rowan Quinn moves to a tight-knit coastal community in South Africa to give his son the family he never had and meets a former heiress who makes it her personal mission to induct him into the town's circle of single dads to give him the support he needs.
16) Birthday girl
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Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Jordan has nowhere else to go when her boyfriend offers to let her move in with him and his dad. Working a dead-end job, with her relationship sputtering, she jumps at the opportunity, expecting to help out around the house in exchange. What she doesn't anticipate is for her heart to race every time Pike pulls into the driveway, or to burn when their eyes meet over the breakfast table. He's kind and listens to her and protects her in a way no man...
17) Daughter
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life--and art--of her"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Minnow Hunter has always tried to lead the life her single father, Christopher, modeled - private, quiet, hardworking, apolitical. So she is rocked when a split-second decision makes her the extremely public face of a scandal in the small town where she teaches. She even loses the support of her father, who stops speaking to her when the media start harassing him too. Overwhelmed, Minnow flees to a teaching position in Paris, hoping distance and...
20) Whitney, my love
Author
Series
Westmoreland Dynasty saga volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2000], ©1999
Language
English
Description
Whitney Stone, a hot-blooded hoyden, is outraged when her bankrupt father bargains her away to the arrogant Duke of Claymore, and she is determined to remain true to her childhood love, Paul.
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