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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Centering around celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh, who was lauded in public but was carelessly selfish at home, three generations of McDaragh women must contend with inheritances—poetic wonder, abandonment and a sustaining love—in this intricately woven tapestry of longing, betrayal and hope.
Author
Series
House of Falconer volume 3
Language
English
Description
Returning from The Great War a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental, James Falconer, determined to make amends to his daughter, Leonie, now a grown woman who wants nothing to do with him, works toward healing his body, soul and family.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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 the neighborhood doesn't feel so safe. And William isn't the only one on his street...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
This lyrical picture book centers around Olivia, who, worrying about her first-responder father while he's at work, anxiously awaits his return, knowing that when he gets home, the evening will be full of love and fun.
5) Obsessed
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When a killer becomes obsessed with his oldest daughter, Detective Michael Bennett will do anything to keep his family safe as he races against time to crack this superstitious killer's code.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House UK
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Erik Amdahl and his spirited daughter, Sofia, have embarked on a cross-country ski trip deep into Norway's arctic circle. For Erik, it's the chance to bond properly with his remaining daughter following a tragic accident. For Sofia, it's the proof she needs that her father does care. Then, far from home in this snowbound wilderness, with night falling and the mercury plummeting, an accident sends them in search of help. Nearby is the home of a couple...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When their Alaskan tourist ship rescues a woman claiming to have been kidnapped, Beth Rivers befriends the woman, who reveals she’s been in Juneau under witness protection, and teams up with police chief Gril who believes this complicated case is connected to another kidnapping.
Author
Series
Party diaries volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At her mother's request Priya is planning a surprise anniversary party for her father, but she is finding it hard to keep it a secret from her inquisitive dad.
Author
Language
English
Description
Moving into Akbar Manzil, a ruined mansion off the coast of South Africa, Sana stumbles upon the long-forgotten story of Meena, the original owner’s second wife who died there tragically 100 years ago, awakening a grieving djinn, an invisible spirit who has haunted the mansion since Meena’s mysterious death.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. This stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her strict Rastafarian upbringing ruled by a father whose rigid beliefs, rage and paranoia...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A young woman working at her father's exterminator company in Manhattan must clear his name after heading to a solo job in a Park Avenue apartment building where she discovers the body of an elderly resident, partially eaten by rats.
Author
Language
English
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Description
During World War II, Sophia Alexander, after her mother dies and her father is sent to a concentration camp, becomes increasingly involved in the resistance and while working with the convent nuns, the Sisters of Mercy she risks everything to help those in need—no matter what the cost.
14) Wyoming wild
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Hearts collide when a sheriff's daughter asks a hardened US Marshal to join her fight for justice and rid a small town of her corrupt father"--
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
New to Cincinnati, where her father is now coach of the University basketball team, eighth-grader Aurora (called Rory) finds herself isolated by the heated team rivalries--especially when it turns out her new friend Abby's father has a mysterious feud with Rory's father that threatens her new friendship.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When the police found the first body, left on a bonfire in the fields, they worried it had the hallmarks of a serial killer. Now, as they find the second, they know for sure. Panic about the "bonfire killer" quickly spreads, and constant vigilance is encouraged among the local residents. But single mom Aisling Cooley has a lot to distract her: two beloved teenage sons and a quest to find her long-lost father. After much debate she decides to upload...
Author
Publisher
Crown Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, seventeen-year-old Jane rails against her family's Vietnamese culture and struggles with a perpetually angry father, whose traumatic journey to the United States as an eleven-year-old refugee is revealed in flashbacks.
19) Out there
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Julia goes on a self-discovery-filled road trip with her UFO-obsessed father to chase a meteor shower"--
20) Harlem at four
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two stories about Harlem; the first chronicles the adventures of a four-year-old Black girl named Harlem, and the second describes the history of the New York neighborhood of Harlem and the start of America's Great Black Migration.
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