In 1885 young Rose Edwards, widowed and penniless but fiercely independent, begins an odyssey to revisit the land of her childhood. But the old ways are disappearing, and Rose becomes a reluctant hero of an indigenous population as she...
Fathers and daughters
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Author:Zimmer, MichaelSummary: -
Author:Marshy, LeilaSummary:Nadia Eid doesn't know it yet, but she's about to change her life. It's the end of the '80s and she hasn't seen her Palestinian father since he left Montreal years ago to take a job in Egypt, promising to bring...
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Author:Malfi, Ronald DamienSummary:They call it Wanderer's Folly--a disease of delusions and nightmares. After two years of creeping decay, David Arlen woke up thinking that the worst was over. But by midnight his wife is dead, and he's on the run with his daughter--who...
- Author:Meyers, Randy SusanSummary:
When her mother throws her father out, young Lulu is told never to let him in again. But Lulu disobeys, and the consequences are heartbreaking. Lulu's mother ends up killed, and Lulu and her sister Merry are orphaned. Now, as the...
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Author:Dessen, SarahSummary:During her last summer at home before leaving for college, Emaline begins a whirlwind romance with Theo, an assistant documentary filmmaker who is in town to make a movie.
- Author:Penny, LouiseSummary:
"...listeners will be able to sense the benevolent heart and soul of a careful investigator amidst choices that cause deadly consequences." — Booklist "Robert Bathurst's narration is calm, collected, and earnest, reflecting the blend of...
- Author:Johnson, TyrellSummary:
A riveting psychological thriller about a woman forced to confront the darkest moment in her childhood in order to move on from her past and open her heart to love. One night when Jeanie King is twelve years old, her father comes home...
- Author:Hadley, TessaSummary:
Paul leaves his family to search for Pia, his daughter from his first marriage. He finds her pregnant and living in less than ideal conditions--but with an outlook on life that's strangely compelling. Paul decides to start a new life...
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Author:Shah, LondonSummary:At the end of the twenty-first century, the world has changed dramatically, but life continues one thousand feet below the ocean's surface. In Great Britain, sea creatures swim among the ruins of Big Ben and the Tower of London,...
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Author:Sparks, NicholasSummary:Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her...
- Author:Ward, CatrionaSummary:
Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read listen for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House . "The new face of literary dark fiction." -Sarah Pinborough, New York Times...
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Author:HARRISON, KathrynSummary:In this extraordinary memoir, one of the best young writers in America today transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman's life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter that began when...
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Author:Christopher, LucySummary:Emily Shepherd's dad, a former soldier suffering from PTSD, emerges from the woods carrying the broken body of Ashlee Parker and finds himself accused of murder. Emily must uncover truth before he is convicted. Does Ashlee's...
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Author:Braem, Meg, Gladstone, AmielSummary:After Samantha's baba dies, her fractured family is summoned to pick through the house full of belongings and trash, leaving taped notes on whatever they want to take. Between old napkins, a closet full of ketchup packets, and a...
- Author:Holland-Batt, SarahSummary:
With electrifying boldness, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father's Parkinson's Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling...
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Author:Hughes, SusanSummary:Moving with her father to a remote island off the coast of nineteenth-century Nova Scotia after the death of her mother, Ellie struggles with grief and loneliness in spite of a new friendship until she bonds with a wild stallion whose...
- Author:Palahniuk, ChuckSummary:
A father's decades-long search for a missing daughter.A young woman about to perfect the darkest art.The most dangerous secret Hollywood has ever kept. Gates Foster lost his daughter, Lucy, seventeen years ago. He's never...
- Author:Dunning, JohnSummary:
A mysterious photograph unlocks a Pandora's Box of Jim Ryan's memories and lures him on a terrifying journey toward the shocking truth about the mother of his daughter, about himself, and about a past experiment in terror.
- Author:Cleeves, Ann.Summary:
The Heron's Cry is the second novel in the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling series featuring detective Matthew Venn, from the creator of Vera and Shetland, Ann Cleeves. North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking...
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Author:Klages, EllenSummary:In 1943, eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan lives with her scientist father in Los Alamos, New Mexico, as he works on a top secret government program, and befriends an aspiring artist who is a misfit just like her.
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