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Fathers and daughters

  • Silas Marner the weaver of Raveloe
    Author:
    Eliot, George
    Summary:

    In rural nineteenth-century England, a weaver, lonely and embittered at the unjust treatment he has received from people he considered to be his friends, finds his only solace in money until he inadvertently becomes the guardian of an...
  • Silas Marner
    Author:
    Eliot, George
    Summary:

    This classic novel takes place in Lantern Yard, a slum street in an unnamed city in Northern England, during the early 19th century. There, Silas Marner, a weaver and a member of a small Calvinist congregation, is falsely accused of...
  • Shadow game
    Author:
    Feehan, Christine
    Summary:

    Dr. Lily Whitney has been recruited by her father to help conduct a government experiment studying the psychic ability of an elite group of soldiers. Blesed with the gift herself, Lily is fascinated by the study, and intensely drawn to...
  • Safe harbour
    Author:
    Kilbourne, Christina
    Summary:

    Fourteen-year-old Harbour is living in a tent in a Toronto ravine with her dog, a two-month supply of canned tuna, and an eccentric reading list. She's not homeless, she tells herself. She's merely waiting for her home - a thirty-six-...
  • Rules for life
    Author:
    Ryan, Darlene
    Summary:

    When her mother died two years earlier, Izzy thought the world would change in some identifiable way, but it didn't. It didn't even slow down. Along with constantly watching her brother, Jason, to ensure he didn't repeat his involvement...
  • Ruby
    Author:
    Snelling, Lauraine
    Summary:

    Award-winning author Lauraine Snelling delivers her first installment of the Dakotah Treasures series. Ruby, a Crossings Book Club Main Selection, is the story of a young woman who must leave behind the life she has grown accustomed...
  • Rowan Hood
    Author:
    Springer, Nancy
    Summary:

    In her quest to connect with Robin Hood, the father she has never met, thirteen-year-old Rosemary disguises herself as a boy, befriends a half-wolf, half-dog, a runaway princess, and an overgrown boy whose singing is hypnotic, and makes...
  • Rough : a novel
    Author:
    van Eck, Robin
    Summary:

    It is 2013 and Calgary's Bow river is beginning to rise. Two homeless men stand by the bank and contemplate the death of another friend?an accident? Taking cover downtown that night, Shermeto intervenes in the attack on a bar patron,...
  • River of stars
    Author:
    Kay, Guy Gavriel
    Summary:

    An epic tale of prideful emperors, battling courtiers, nomadic invasions, and of a woman at war in her own way to find a new place for women in the world. A world inspired by the glittering, decadent Song Dynasty of China. Sequel to...
  • Ride with me, Mariah Montana
    Author:
    Doig, Ivan
    Summary:

    Widower Jick McCaskill, his daughter Mariah, and Mariah's ex-husband Riley take a road trip back and forth across Montana. As Jick recounts his memories of the area, Riley and Mariah fall in and out of love--and Jick unexpectedly...
  • Remnants
    Author:
    Huyghebaert, Céline
    Summary:

    Remnants is an exploration of our relationships with family and perception, told through a profound investigation of a father's life and sudden death. Employing various voices and hybrid forms—including dialogues, questionnaires,...
  • Remembered
    Author:
    Alexander, Tamera
    Summary:

    When Véronique Girard was five, her father left for America to amass a fortune and send for his family. After 25 long years, a deathbed promise carries Véronique from Paris to Willow Springs to find her long-lost father--said to be...
  • Remember Ben Clayton : a novel
    Author:
    Harrigan, Stephen
    Summary:

    Exiled to Texas with his grown daughter, sculptor Francis "Gil" Gilheaney is commissioned to create a statue for a man who recently lost his son in WWI. But as work on the statue progresses, secrets slowly reveal themselves and Gil's...
  • Red oblivion
    Author:
    Shimotakahara, Leslie
    Summary:

    When Jill Lau receives an early morning phone call that her elderly father has fallen gravely ill, she and her sister, Celeste, catch the first flight from Toronto to Hong Kong. The man they find languishing in the hospital is a barely...
  • Reading by lightning
    Author:
    Thomas, Joan
    Summary:

    Winner, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Canada and the Caribbean, Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and On the Same Page, Manitoba Reads. Shortlisted, Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and...
  • Pure red
    Author:
    Joseph, Danielle
    Summary:

    I, Cassia Bernard, do solemnly swear to find pure red—my passion—this summer. Dad's passion is art. When he's painting, no one can reach him, not even me. My mom's passion was the ocean. She said the ocean allows you to see whatever you...
  • Pure colour
    Author:
    Heti, Sheila
    Summary:

    Here we are, just living in the first draft of creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart. In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home for school. There, she meets Annie, whose...
  • Prairie pictures
    Author:
    Matheson, Shirlee
    Summary:

    For twelve-year-old Sherri, moving is a way of life. Her family has lived in seven different places in as many years, three in the last year alone. But no place has ever been as strange as Gardin, Alberta, a ranching community right out...
  • Prairie lotus
    Author:
    Park, Linda Sue.
    Summary:

    Prairie Lotus is a powerful, touching, multilayered book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an education, becoming a dressmaker in her father's shop, and making at least one friend. Acclaimed, award-...
  • Pink smog : becoming Weetzie Bat
    Author:
    Block, Francesca Lia.
    Summary:

    When Weetzie Bat is a thirteen-year-old junior high school outcast mourning the life her family lost when their cottage in the Los Angeles hills burned down, her father leaves her alcoholic mother without telling either of them where he...

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