A startling, moving magic realist debut. Almost immediately upon Julie Bird's return to the small port town where she was raised, everyday life is turned upside down. Julie's Gulf War vet father, Marty, has been on the losing side of a...
Fathers and daughters
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Author:Neale, Jen, McArthur, Sera-LysSummary: -
Author:Richardson, Kat.Summary:Treading the thin line between the living and the dead, PI Harper Blaine is on a search for a valuable clue about her past when her killer is himself murdered. To find his ghost, she will have to navigate many supernatural dangers--but...
- Author:Houck, ColeenSummary:
Un battement de cœur passa, puis un autre, et le moment sembla à la fois chaud et glacial. Puis il sourit, et il y eut du soleil et de la chaleur et des promesses tacites enveloppées dans une simple expression.
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Author:Krisher, TrudySummary:In 1961 fifteen-year-old Pert, who lives with her mother in Kinship, Georgia, meets her long-absent father and discovers the true meaning of home.
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Author:Shakespeare, WilliamSummary:First performed about 1805, King Lear is one of the most relentlessly bleak of Shakespeare's tragedies. Probably written between Othello and Macbeth, when the playwright was at the peak of his tragic power, Lear's themes of filial...
- Author:Chase, PaulaSummary:
Marigold Johnson is looking forward to a future full of family, friends, and fashion--but what will she do when it all explodes in her face? When she discovers that her entire life is a lie?
- Author:Reid, AvaSummary:
From highly acclaimed, bestselling author Ava Reid comes a gothic horror retelling of The Juniper Tree, set in another time and place within the world of The Wolf and the Woodsman, where a young witch seeks to discover her identity and...
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Author:Brontë, CharlotteSummary:Jane Eyre is alone in the world, orphaned and living off the charity of reluctant relatives. Hired as a governess, she enters a society of high glamour and dark family secrets. Possibly the world’s most romantic book about child abuse,...
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Author:Summers, GillianSummary:After squelching an evil plot by a rotten fairy, Keelie Heartwood is ready for fun at the upcoming Wildewood Renaissance Faire. Getting to know her elf dad has been great, but camping out in his homemade R.V. while acting out the 16th...
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Author:Funke, Cornelia CarolineSummary:Imagine it were possible to bring the characters from a book to life. Not like when you listen to an audiobook with such enchantment that the characters seem to jump off the pages and into your bedroom ... but for real. Imagine they...
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Author:Tacon, Claire, Kyswaty, Laura, Lam, Richard, Mallozzi, Melanie, Mieli, MilesSummary:When Henry Robinson's first daughter, Starr, is born with Williams Syndrome, he swears to devote his life to making her happy. More than twenty years later, we find Henry working at Frankie's Funhouse, where he repairs the...
- Author:Callender, KherynSummary:
Twelve-year-old Caroline is a Hurricane Child, born on Water Island during a storm. Coming into this world during a hurricane is unlucky, and Caroline has had her share of bad luck already. She's hated by everyone in her small...
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Author:Hood-Caddy, KarenSummary:Robin is distraught over losing her mother and angry at her father for moving the family to a town in cottage country where her eccentric grandmother lives. She claims not to care about anything, but after her dog falls through the ice...
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Author:Elkeles, SimoneSummary:In this sequel to How to Ruin a Summer Vacation, EVERYTHING in 16-year-old Amy Nelson Barak’s life is going wrong! Her mom got married and moved to the suburbs, and now they are going to have a baby. Amy moves in with her dad in Chicago...
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Author:Elkeles, SimoneSummary:Y.A.L.S.A. 2007 Teens’ Top Ten "A breezy read." —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books “Fresh, fun and fabulous! Guaranteed NOT to ruin your summer vacation!” —Mari Mancusi, author of Boys that Bite How To Ruin a Summer Vacation...
- Author:Sontag, RachelSummary:
Traces the author's journey of recovery after a childhood marked by her mentally ill father, a respected suburban doctor with an obsessive need for control that caused him to torture his wife and children about the most minute details...
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Author:Steel, DanielleSummary:Top hotelier Hugues Martin takes over a small, run-down hotel in New York. He transforms it into a beautiful boutique hotel of impeccable elegance - the Hotel Vendome. But when his wife leaves him, Hugues must be both father and mother...
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Author:Dakers, DianeSummary:Fiona’s dad comes home after sixteen months and eight days in jail. Along with her mother and family friends, she awkwardly welcomes him home. Uncle David is there, because he picked Dad up at jail. Dad’s best friend Simon, his wife May...
- Author:Herne, Ruth LoganSummary:
A cowboy romance with a heart of gold, in Home on the Range author Ruth Logan Herne returns readers to the Double S Ranch where God and family are first, but love is certain to follow the Stafford menfolk. Nick made all the wrong...
- Author:Robinson, MarilynneSummary:
Glory Boughton has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain. Brilliant, lovable, and...
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