Twelve-year-old Mila travels with her father to upstate New York to visit friends and family, who may lead them to clues to the whereabouts of her father's best friend, who has gone missing.
Fathers and daughters
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Author:Rosoff, MegSummary: -
Author:Friend, NatashaSummary:Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.
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Author:Balzac, Honoré deSummary:At the shabby boarding house in the rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève, petty Madame Vauquer and her tenants wonder at the plight of the aging resident Goriot. Once a well-heeled merchant, Goriot was--at first--afforded special treatment from...
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Author:Mejia, Tehlor KaySummary:Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the sequel to Tehlor Kay Mejia's critically acclaimed own-voices novel about science-obsessed Paola Santiago. "Paola is a brilliant, furious girl who often trusts her brain but trips...
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Author:Springer, NancySummary:King Solon the Red attempts to capture his runaway daughter Ettarde and force her into marriage with a rival king who has been threatening his reign.
- Author:Fuller, ClaireSummary:
Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize for Best First Novel. "Both shocking and subtle, brilliant and beautiful, a poised and elegant work that recalls the early work of Ian McEwan in the delicacy of its prose and the way that this is...
- Author:Box, C. J.Summary:
As Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett races against time to save an endangered species, he finds himself plunged into a deadly mystery that soon threatens his family and the life he loves.
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Author:Morrow, JamesSummary:Rejoice! A new messiah has come, and her name is Julie. Born to Murray Katz, the solitary (and celibate) keeper of an abandoned lighthouse on the Jersey shore, our protagonist arrives on Earth boasting supernatural abilities evocative...
- Author:Harris, RosieSummary:
Life seems to be one step forward, two steps back, but Katie never gives up hope. When she is only a girl, her handsome but wicked father, Lewis, is imprisoned for theft, leaving Katie and her mother homeless and penniless. When Lewis...
- Author:Lainoff, LillieSummary:
In 1655 sixteen-year-old Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de...
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Author:Testa, MaggieSummary:Father asks Olivia for help with a model house he is trying to sell. Will Olivia's special touch be enough to impress the client.
- Author:Adichie, Chimamanda NgoziSummary:
From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father. Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope,...
- Author:Pessl, MarishaSummary:
Brilliant, haunting, breathtakingly suspenseful, Night Film is a superb literary thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of the "blockbuster debut" (People) Special Topics in Calamity Physics. On a damp October night,...
- Author:Hooper, EmmaSummary:
Elles étaient neuf dans le ventre de leur mère, sept au jour de leur naissance, et bientôt il n'en reste plus que cinq. Adoptées dans diverses familles du petit village voisin de la maison où elles ont vu le jour, les sœurs...
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Author:Quintero, IsabelSummary:When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold...
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Author:Wearing, AlisonSummary:Moments of Glad Grace is a moving and witty memoir of aging, familial love, and the hunt for roots and belonging. The story begins as a trip from Canada to Ireland in search of genealogical data and documents. Being 80 and in the early...
- Author:Collins, JoanSummary:
Venetia and Atlanta, daughters of Greek billionaire Nicholas Stephanopolis and Hollywood star Laura Marlowe, could not be more different, with Venetia inheriting her mother's beauty and high spirits, and Atlanta a shy, plain...
- Author:Toten, TeresaSummary:
La vie est presque… disons… potentiellement parfaite pour Sophie Kandinsky. Il s’avère en effet que les Blondes ont été tout aussi éblouies par elle que celle-ci par ces dernières. Sophie entre en dixième année au collège Northern...
- Author:Quintero, IsabelSummary:
Cuando Daisy Ramona va zumbando por su barrio con Papi en su moto, ve a la gente y los lugares que conoce desde siempre: ¡la tortillería! ¡La iglesia de Abuelita! ¡Franky, el labradoodle que ladra! También ve una comunidad que está...
- Author:Goupil, MylèneSummary:
D'où je viens, il faut dire comme tout le monde ou bien se taire. Et ton père, ce n'est pas quelqu'un qui sait se taire. Ni quelqu'un qui aime dire comme tout le monde. Alors on a eu des ennuis. Pourtant, depuis qu'il est arrivé dans...
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