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821) Find me
Author
Series
Inland Empire volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Convicted serial killer Benjamin Fisher has finally offered to lead San Bernardino detective Daniel Ellis to the isolated graves of his victims. One catch: he'll only do it if FBI profiler Reni Fisher, his estranged daughter, accompanies them. As hard asit is to exhume her traumatic childhood, Reni can't say no. She still feels complicit in her father's crimes."--
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
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
360 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Twelve-year-old Ning doesn't know where she belongs. The daughter of a Chinese woman and American man, Ning doesn't fit in in 1870s Shanghai, where her American features and unbound feet make her stand out. When she receives news that her father will be visiting from America, Ning excitedly hopes that her parents will become a family. Instead, she learns that her father is taking her back with him to America. Ning wonders if being American will finally...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Physical Desc
212 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Novella Carpenter picks up the phone one day to receive some disturbing news: her father is officially missing. Carpenter's father, George -- a back-to-the-land homesteader and troubled Korean War veteran -- has spent decades battling his inner demons while being absent from his children's lives. Though George is ultimately found, Carpenter is forced to confront the truth: her time with her dad -- now seventy-three years old -- is limited, and the...
827) Whippoorwill
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In rural New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Clair and her eighteen-year-old neighbor, Danny, fall into an unlikely relationship as they work to save Wally, a loveable but mistreated dog kept chained in a junk-filled yard by Danny's cruel father.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
For Sally Diamond, people are confusing, unpredictable, and hard to read. She has always preferred routines to spontaneity, silence to noise, and forthright communication to small talk. Adopted at the age of seven by a psychiatrist, she cannot remember any details of her childhood before that age. Now forty-three, Sally finds the truth coming into sharp focus when her past becomes headline news: she endured something unthinkable as a child, and now...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Sarah Waters meets Red Clocks in this searing novel, set at an all-girl school in 19th century Massachusetts, which probes the timeless question: who gets to control a woman's body and why. The year is 1871. In Ashwell, Massachusetts, at the farm of Samuel Hood and his daughter, Caroline, a mysterious flock of red birds descends. Samuel, whose fame as a philosopher has waned in recent years, takes the birds' appearance as an omen that the time is...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxi, 359 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Description
"The powerful and affirming story of a father's journey with his teenage daughter to the far reaches of Alaska. Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. So when James Campbell's cousin Heimo Korth asked him to spend a summer building a cabin in the rugged Interior, Campbell hesitated about inviting his fifteen-year-old daughter, Aidan, to join him: Would she be able to withstand clouds...
831) My sailor, my love
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Howard is a widowed sailor living alone on the coast of Ireland. His daughter, Grace, hires Annie, a lovely older woman to help around the house. Initially resistant to this support, Howard is soon charmed by Annie's gentle care, and the two fall in love. This new romance illuminates the hurt within Howard's relationship with Grace, tearing at Howard and Annie's seaside love story.
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1946
Physical Desc
vi, 470 pages, 1 leaf ; 22 cm
Description
" ... are the small freeholders of the Icelandic countryside--operators of the one-man, one-family farm got by inheritance or puchase and held with grim tenacity against all connivances of nature and man by folk whose ruling passion is to be their own masters on their own acres." [Dust jacket]
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite froman emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California desert to escape a cloud of sorrow-both for her father in the ICU and a disabled husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides,...
834) The game plan
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Superstar quarterback Joe Kingman has an ego bigger than a football field. Joe is getting ready for a run at the big championship game when the 8-year-old daughter he never knew existed shows up at his not-so-family-friendly bachelor pad. As the big game gets closer, he begins to realize the most meaningful win he can achieve is the heart of the one little fan who counts the most.
835) Winds of change
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
9 CDs (9 hr., 19 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two classics about not letting your best-laid plans get in the way of life or love. Island Of Flowers - Laine Simmons has traveled halfway around the world to make amends with her estranged father not defend herself against his infuriating business partner. Untamed -Straitlaced lawyer Keane Prescott has no interest in his late father's circus, until he meets lion tamer Jovillette Wilder.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A 12-year-old girl leaves Chicago to search for her single father, who has gone to Washington State to look for work during the Great Depression. Along the way, she forms a close bond with two traveling companions, a protective wolf and a hardened drifter.
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...
838) Telephone: a novel
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Zach Wells, a laconic geologist-slash-paleobiologist, has the trappings of a comfortable life, yet is not contented. He's expert in the geological history of a cave in the Grand Canyon, but less so where his wife and daughter are concerned. And when hisdaughter develops unusual vision problems and has a seizure, the world of this family of three crumbles. Powerless in the face of his daughter's slow deterioration, Wells finds a note asking for help...
839) Prairie lotus
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
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Description
In Dakota Territory in the 1880s, half-Chinese Hanna and her white father face racism and resistance to change as they try to make a home for themselves. Includes author's note.
840) The atlas of us
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm .
Description
Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad's favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is.
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