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1) Emma
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Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
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Everyman's library volume 148
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This is the story of a common field laborer, Michael Henshard, who becomes a leader in a small market town and then through his own failure sinks back miserably to his humble beginnings.
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Sullivan's Crossing volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
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"When a high-risk neurosurgery procedure results in the death of a teenager, Maggie Sullivan finds herself in the middle of a lawsuit. She knows she needs to slow down before she burns out completely, and the best place she can think to do that is Sullivan's Crossing, the land that now belongs to her eccentric father, Sully. But shortly after arriving, Maggie's world is rocked once again and she must take on more responsibility than she'd planned....
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Judy Reene Singer's newest novel is a masterful story of the American experience. Between the past and present, between love and war, between the burdens of race and hope, a woman returns home to discover her father and a history she had never known...
Rachel Fleischer has good reasons not to be at her father's deathbed. Foaling season is at hand and her horses are becoming restless and difficult. Her critical mother and grasping sister could certainly...
10) Witch catcher
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Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
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236 p. ; 22 cm.
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Having just moved into the West Virginia home they inherited from a distant relative, twelve-year-old Jen is surprised that her father is already dating a local antiques dealer, but more surprised by what the spooky woman really wants.
11) Pure colour
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
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In the first draft of the world, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira?s chest like a portal?to what, she doesn?t know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and she enters the strange and dizzying dimention that true loss opens up.
14) Vanishing acts
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Life is going well for Delia Hopkins. She has a daughter and a fiance?, and with her search-and-rescue bloodhound, she helps find missing persons. But as she plans for her wedding, she is haunted by inexplicable flashbacks to a devastating time she cannot recall.
16) The family man
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A hysterical phone call from Henry Archer's ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend his well ordered life and bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. Henry is a lawyer, an old fashioned man, gay, successful, and lonely. Thalia is now 28, a hopeful actress, estranged from her newly widowed crackpot mother-Denise, Henry's ex. Hoping it will lead to better things...
17) Up!
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Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2005
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32 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
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Rhyming text and illustrations animate the feeling of "up" as experienced by a little girl with her father.
18) Smart cookie
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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296 pages ; 22 cm
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Frankie creates an online dating profile for her widower father, but discovers that finding the perfect candidate is tougher than she ever expected.
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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487 pages : map ; 24 cm
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A young woman in nineteenth-century New York City must struggle against gender and class boundaries when her father is found dead of a supposed suicide, and she believes there is more than meets the eye, so in order to uncover the truth she will have to decide how much she is willing to risk and lose.
20) The sick day
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2001
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[32] p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
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Emily's father takes care of everything the day she has a "stomach ache in her head."
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