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1) So big
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2010, c1924
Physical Desc
252, 28 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1925. After losing her father and her husband, Selina Peake is left to raise her only son on the farm that was left to her. Dirk Peake, a tenacious boy who grows up to be a successful bond salesman, must come to terms with his own regrets later in life after he decides not to pursue architecture, a passion that both he and his mother shared. This classic novel about family, immigration, and the role of...
2) Western lane
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 20 cm
Description
After the death of her mother, eleven-year-old Gopi, who has been playing squash since she was a small child, is enlisted in a quietly brutal training regimen by her father, and soon the game becomes her world as she slowly distances herself from her sisters in hopes of becoming the best.
Gopi has been playing squash since she was a small child. After the death of her mother, she is enlisted in a quietly brutal training regimen by her father. Soon...
3) Break: Break
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers, Harper Alley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Description
"Spring Break is full of possibilities...but not for Olive. This year, Olive is leaving her friends and all of their exciting vacation plans behind to visit her dad at his new apartment in the city. Goober is thrilled to spend a whole week with their father and has a long list of activities for their time together. Olive, on the other hand, still remembers the hurt of their dad moving halfway across the world. She would rather spend time with her...
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 21 cm
Description
When an at-home DNA test reveals the truth about her father, Summer Sutherland, meeting him for the first time, settles into his Carmel home, ready to get to know her instant family-and pursue a romance with his business partner, which could tear their lives apart.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
This ode to the power of imagination and sky-high courage takes readers on an out-of-this-world adventure as Joe and his dad put their heads and hearts together to reach for the stars--a tireless quest to reach the unreachable.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Daisy has realized you really can hit rock bottom when you lose your job, your boyfriend, and are estranged from your sister all at once. Seeking to claw her way out from the very definition of a bad year, her plan is to start by simply looking like she's clawing her way out of rock bottom. On Instagram. Obviously. But when she takes a stopgap job as a nanny to help a single father with his two young girls, being immersed in a close-knit, loving...
Author
Series
The Sutherland volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"After the tragic death of her mother and a long period of isolation under the thumb of a cruel grandfather, young Caroline Brady has little to hope for in her life in the foreboding Southerland mansion. Her only companion, her enigmatic cousin, Simon, may be a wolf in sheep's clothing and is not to be trusted. But when Caroline's estranged father suddenly resurfaces with news of a new wife and stepchildren in Hawaii that she'll finally be allowed...
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Physical Desc
x, 561 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Exploring the day-to-day life of a young Black child and her family, this lyrical picture book centers around Olivia, who, worrying about her father while he's at work, anxiously awaits his return, knowing that when he gets home, the evening will be fullof love and fun.
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A woman with a secret past returns to the wilds of her youth to face the most dangerous man she's ever met: her father. Helena's seemingly ordinary life hides a dangerous truth: her estranged father is the infamous Marsh King, the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. When he escapes from prison, Helena is forced to confront her past, and--knowing that he will hunt for her--find the strength to outmaneuver the man who...
15) Angela's glacier
Author
Publisher
Neal Porter Books / Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
"A girl grows up visiting Sn�fellsj�okull, the glacier near her home, but when preteen life throws her off-center she must reconnect with her icy old friend"--
17) Match point!
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
248 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"Rosie Vo is at odds with her dad. He pushes his racquetball hobby on to her to the point that she dreads ever spending time with him. Thankfully, new kid Blair moves to town and becomes fast friends with Rosie. She's cool, a great listener, and even better, the best distraction from the tension Rosie feels at home. Rosie's convinced Blair is the answer to all her dad-problems. If only Blair could be the racquetball genius Rosie's dad has always wanted!...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
169 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
"Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse-keepers-and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking."--
19) Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
"From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were an existential threat to republican virtues....
20) Mercy road
Author
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"After committing an impulsive, vicious crime while searching for his missing daughter, a frantic father goes on the run from law enforcement and soon begins receiving chilling calls from an unknown entity claiming to know her whereabouts. As he faithfully follows the callerb2(Bs increasingly unhinged instructions, he is driven perilously close to the edge of sanity while discovering exactly how far he is willing to go to save his child"--
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