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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Newly single and unemployed Kerry Tolliver needs a second chance. When she moves back home to her family's Christmas tree farm in North Carolina, she is guilt tripped into helping her brother, Murphy, sell trees in New York City. She begrudgingly agrees, but she isn't happy about sharing a trailer with her brother in the East Village for two months. Plus, it's been years, since before her parents' divorce, that she's been to the city to sell Christmas...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Lito Macaraeg, a former chauffeur for Philippine president Corazon Aquino, reaches out to his estranged journalist son from his nursing home in Manila, offering him a scoop about a secret meeting between Imelda Marcos and Aquino, whose husband was allegedly murdered by Marcos and her husband.
63) Damned if you do
Author
Publisher
Page Street YA
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seven years ago, Cordelia Scott's abusive father left without a word, and life has been normal ever since. The seventeen-year-old spends her days stage managing the school play (which is going great, if anyone asks), pining over her best friend, Veronica, and failing one too many pop quizzes. She's never been sad that her father left, but she knows something is... missing. When her school guidance counselor, Fred, reveals during a session that he's...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Amelia Gray is used to "life on the go," but when her nomadic father suddenly decides to put down roots in a small northeastern town, she has to figure out who she is "on the stay.""--
Twelve-year-old Amelia Gray has changed schools thirty-nine times (!!!) because of her dad's job, which doesn't leave a lot of time for making friends. But that's okay. Amelia loves her "life on the go" with Dad and their adorable supermutt, Biscotti. She's been in...
Author
Publisher
Twisted Pen Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Madison Moore has been estranged from her family for years, but when her dying father summons her home, she reluctantly makes the trip back to the place that still evokes heartache. Her family's reception is lukewarm. They still hold the strict religious beliefs that cast her out. But when her father tells her about a murder years before and that he has proof the woman in prison is not the killer, Madison finds herself in the center of a decades-old...
66) Mother nature
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After witnessing her engineer father die in mysterious circumstances on one of the Cobalt Corporation's experimental oil extraction projects, Nova Terrell has grown up to hate the seemingly benevolent company that the town of Catch Creek, New Mexico, relies on for its livelihood and, thanks to the "Mother Nature" project, its clean water. Haunted by her father's death, the rebellious Nova wages a campaign of sabotage and vandalism on the oil giant's...
67) Father
Author
Publisher
British Library
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Since her mother's death Jennifer has devoted years of her life to her father, managing the family home and acting as his secretary. After the sudden announcement that he has taken a new wife, Jennifer, at 33, seizes the opportunity to lead an independent life. With a humorous tone, this novel explores the familial and societal expectations placed on single women during the interwar years.
Author
Series
Kamogawa food detectives volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by . . . The father-daughter duo are 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person's treasured memories - dishes...
Author
Series
Heart of Cheyenne volume 1
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The heart finds its way when one least expects it--even in the most unforgiving frontiers. Invited by a friend to trek west and help establish the newly formed town of Cheyenne, Edward Vogel is prepared to leave the haunting memories of his wife and son's deaths behind him. The only problem is the corrupt new railroad town wants family men who can establish law and order, and desperation leads Edward to his friend Marybeth with a proposition of marriage....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Brenda Malloy wants nothing to do with Christmas ever again. Last year, Brenda and her husband rushed their beloved dog, Tim, to the emergency vet on Christmas eve. The good news: Tim survived after the vet cleared the obstruction--a pair of women's lace undies. The bad news: the undies were not Brenda's. A year after the breakup, Brenda has put her life back together. She's trained for a marathon, is writing a children's novel, and she's found purpose...
Author
Series
Coyote Canyon volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"With her piercings, tattoos and spiky blond hair, Ellen Truesdale doesn't quite fit in with the other folks in Coyote Canyon--and that's just fine with her. She's only here to put her father out of business, as payback for abandoning her when she was young. Or is she more interested in finally proving that she was worth keeping? Either way, she's struggling to keep her rival well-drilling company afloat. And being a single woman in a male-dominated...
72) Island witch
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Being the daughter of the village Capuwa, or demon-priest, Amara is used to keeping mostly to herself. Influenced by the new religious practices brought in by the British Colonizers, the villagers who once respected her father's craft have turned on the family. Yet, they all still seem to call on him whenever supernatural disturbances arise. Now someone-or something-is viciously seizing upon men in the jungle. But instead of enlisting Amara's father's...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Daisy has realized you really can hit rock bottom when you lose your job, your boyfriend, and are estranged from your sister all at once. Seeking to claw her way out from the very definition of a bad year, her plan is to start by simply looking like she's clawing her way out of rock bottom. On Instagram. Obviously. But when she takes a stopgap job as a nanny to help a single father with his two young girls, being immersed in a close-knit, loving...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
On the last day of fifth grade, super-smart eleven-year-old Ginny learns that her father, who is a military ER doctor, is being deployed to Afghanistan, devastating news because they are already moving to another post in Maryland and Ginny depends on her father to help her manage her obsessions, panic attacks and general meltdowns; one of her obsessions is geographical facts, and somehow Ginny hopes to use her geographical knowledge to overcome her...
75) Wildflower Falls
Author
Series
Riverbend romance volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When her mother's death leaves Charlotte Simpson bereft, she hopes the Robinson clan will accept her as one of their own and help fill the void. But a startling discovery dashes her hopes and leaves her wondering if she will ever know the father she's always longed for. Horse trainer Gunner Dawson has experienced profound loss and intends to avoid it. So he lives on the move without forming close bonds or putting down roots. When Charlotte hires...
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Alejandra Kim doesn't feel like she belongs anywhere. At her wealthy Manhattan high school, her super Spanish name and super Korean face do not compute to her mostly white "woke" classmates and teachers. In her Jackson Heights neighborhood, she's not Latinx enough. Even at home, Ale feels unwelcome. And things at home have only gotten worse since Papi's body was discovered on the subway tracks. Ale wants nothing more than to escape the city for the...
77) A man's place
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"A daughter must come to terms with her formative years as she writes an unflinching portrait of her father, a cafe owner whose life has become very alien to her."--
78) Strong like you
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An impoverished fifteen-year-old linebacker grapples with ideas about strength and masculinity after the dope-dealing father he idolized goes missing"--
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