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82) Winners: a novel
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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Lily Thomas is an aspiring young ski champion training for the Olympics, a young woman with her heart set on winning the gold. But in one moment, Lily's future is changed forever, her hopes for the Olympics swept away in a tragic accident. Her father Bill has pinned all his hopes on his only daughter, and his dreams are now destroyed. Dr. Jessie Matthews, the neurosurgeon who operates on Lily that night, endures a tragedy of her own, and other brave...
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To all the boys I've loved before volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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While helping plan her father's wedding, senior Lara Jean struggles with choosing a college and questions how graduation is going to change her relationship with her boyfriend Peter.
85) The other sister
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Reunited after a twenty-year separation triggered by their mother's mysterious death, a reckless woman and her obedient sister secretly plot to kill their cold-hearted, controlling father in order to correct the past.
88) Tough customer
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Late one night Atlanta PI Dodge Hanley receives a phone call from his lost love, Houston realtor Caroline King, who asks him to come to Texas to help catch Oren Starks, a creepy over-the-top stalker who's out to kill Dodge and Caroline's 30-year-old daughter, Berry Malone. Dodge hasn't seen Berry since the day she was born. When Starks takes a shot at Berry in Caroline's house, hitting a work associate of Berry's instead, Dodge rushes to the rescue....
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After a childhood filled with poverty and neglect, Beyah Grim finally has her hard-earned ticket out of Kentucky with a full ride to Penn State. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas...
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Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
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Staying at her grandmother's house while her father is deployed overseas, Gabby is disappointed when the girl's softball season is cancelled, a situation that forces her to choose between fighting to get on the boys' team and competing in a beauty pageant.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
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When a doting father decides to make an apple pie for his beloved daughter, an enjoyable day is had by all, including the hungry farm animals who hover nearby in the hopes of getting a slice of the pie.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Feeling adrift after his wife of nearly fifty years passes away, Gene seeks to repair his relationship with his daughter and reflects on the loyalties, betrayals, and secrets that shaped the family's ties to another couple.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm
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Exhausted and rebellious after three years of working for her father and mothering her brother, eighteen-year-old Arcadia "Cadie" Wells joins two cousins who are camping their way through Florida, soon learning that one is a murderer.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 25 cm.
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A young woman returns home with her child to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the stormridden territory of southern Mississippi to find the girl who may be a savior in the apocalypse.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xv, 602 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
When the daughter of a cult horror film director is found dead in an abandoned Manhattan warehouse, investigative journalist Scott McGrath, disbelieving the official suicide ruling, probes into the strange circumstances of the young woman's death.
97) Unquiet: a novel
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Presents a genre-bending novel about time, memory, and the author's extraordinary childhood as the daughter of a genius filmmaker and his muse.
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Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
401 p. ; 24 cm.
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"A Texas serial killer called Bone Man is on the loose, choosing young girls as his prey. A high-level military intelligence officer is captured in Fallujah, and his Iraqi captor is threatening the life of his wife and daughter at home. And he appears to have a link with Bone Man"--Provided by publisher.
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The first novella recounts the story of Sarah, who is dragged to rural Montana by her neglectful parents and, at age 15, is the victim of a sexual assault that provides her with an undying thirst for revenge. The collection's second and strongest novella features a recurring Harrison character, Brown Dog, a half-Indian free spirit who cares for his ailing stepdaughter who is afflicted with fetal alcohol syndrome. The final piece presents Samuel, who...
100) Fear the worst
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When his seventeen-year-old daughter fails to return from her summer job at the local hotel, an alarmed Tim discovers that the teen never worked there and has gone missing, a situation that turns more terrifying when his initial search results in a deaththreat.
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