For six years, Reginald Brooks--slick Disney marketing VP--has pulled off the perfect scam. He has juggled two families without the other one finding out. He stays two weeks in Miami with his wife and two young adult daughters and the...
Fathers and daughters
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Author:Black, MilleniaSummary: - Author:Bolan, ChelseaSummary:
Just shy of her fifteenth birthday, Gabriela is cast out of the house for tarnishing the family honour. Furious at her father and desperate to find Gabriela, her older sister Lucy leaves their small Mexican town, coming face to face...
- Author:Sneed, Madeline KaySummary:
Emmy Quinn is West Texas through and through. She loves her community, but she knows that when she comes out as a lesbian, she may not be able to call Steinbeck--which is steeped in the Southern Baptist tradition--home anymore. Her...
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Author:Shreve, Susan RichardsSummary:Julie MacNeil feels threatened both in the family and on the soccer field when her widower father begins to date the mother of her arch-rival Benji True.
- Author:Mustian, KellySummary:
Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds...
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Author:COX, JosephineSummary:Leonard Mears is a powerful and successful businessman with a hard heart. Ruthlessly presiding over his wife and children, he shuts them away from the outside world and brutally punishes them for any disoberdience. He is also a man with...
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Author:Lawrence, IainSummary:When her eight-year-old neighbor is stricken with polio in 1955, eleven-year-old Laurie discovers that there is power in her imagination as she weaves a story during her visits with him and other patients confined to iron lung machines...
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Author:Baity, CameronSummary:When twelve-year-old Phoebe Plumm and her father are abducted by his employer, The Foundry, a corporation holding a monopoly on metal production and technology, and taken to a savage world of living metal that is rising up against its...
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Author:Harrison, JimSummary:Literary legend Jim Harrison's collection of novellas, The Farmer's Daughter, finds him writing at the height of his powers, and in fresh and audacious new directions. The three stories in The Farmer's Daughter are as different as they...
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Author:Kroll, BobSummary:A dark and suspenseful debut. Detective T.J. Peterson has a problem, and it's not just how much he's drinking or the daily, silent, tormenting video calls from his estranged daughter. A Catholic priest has been bludgeoned to death in...
- Author:Merino, GemmaSummary:
From the award-winning Gemma Merino, author of the iconic The Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water (over half a million copies sold worldwide), The Dragon Who Didn't Like Fire is a deeply funny story about acceptance, difference and...
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Author:Eddie, ChristineSummary:An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013. Roman was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. At 18, he leaves his family for a home in the forest, learning to live off the land rather than his family’s wealth. Éléna flees a house of blood and...
- Author:Radecki, BarbaraSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Gemma's life on a small New Brunswick island with her father, Jonah, is not an exciting one. Her mother ran off when she was an infant, and Jonah, an amateur scientist, spends most of his time conducting...
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Author:Karasik, DanielSummary:Every day after school, seventeen-year-old Timothy waits at the neighbourhood crosswalk where years earlier his older sister disappeared. Every day he crosses the street with Jim, the elderly crossing guard. It's a ritual Timothy thinks...
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Author:Curry, CandiceSummary:When Candice Curry was a little girl, she put her hand in her father's back pocket so that she wouldn't get lost in large crowds. Little did she know that as she followed him, he was plying his trade: conning people. Her family drove...
- Author:Evans, Richard PaulSummary:
This holiday season, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Noel Collection returns with another heartwarming story of secrets, heartbreak, forgiveness, and the true meaning of Christmas. On the night of her high school...
- Author:Fairbrother, AlisonSummary:
Twentysomething Ellie thought she was her father's favorite child; she was sure he would leave her his most prized possession, a baseball with which they played catch, and which sat on his desk, as a kind of inspiration: her poet...
- Author:Shepherd, PengSummary:
Nell Young discovers a strange map in her deceased father's belongings. The map holds a secret that leads her on an adventure to discover the truth about her family's dark history.
- Author:Shepherd, PengSummary:
From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret?one that will lead her...
- Author:Capetta, Amy RoseSummary:
Teodora di Sangro is used to hiding her magical ability to transform enemies into music boxes and mirrors. Nobody knows she's a strega--and she aims to keep it that way. The she meets Cielo--and everything changes. A strega who can...
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