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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Finn Easton, sixteen and epileptic, struggles to feel like more than just a character in his father's cult-classic novels with the help of his best friend, Cade Hernandez, and first love, Julia, until Julia moves away.
22) Just like a man
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Hannah Frost is used to being surrounded by cute, sweet, troublemakers. After all, she's the principle of Indiana's upper class private elementary school, a popular repository for kids who "don't fit in" at public school. But even though she's been single since dinosaurs roamed the earth, what is interesting Hannah these days isn't her worst student's his father, What she can put her fingers on? Michael Sawyer, aka Raptor, former FBI computer specialist,...
23) Kid owner
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"When Ryan learns his estranged father left him the Dallas Cowboys in his will, it is all Ryan can do to keep his dad's other son from snatching the team away"--
24) Ordinary heroes
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Stewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he'd been told how he rescued Stewart's mother from the horror of the Balingen concentration camp. But when he discovers, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiance?e, and learns of his father's court-martial and imprisonment, he is plunged into the mystery of his family's secret history and driven to uncover the truth about this enigmatic, distant man who'd...
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Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a bar called the Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole of the northern Montana town of Gros Ventre. Tom also has a son named Rusty, whose mother deserted them years ago. An odd kind of family, they manage just fine. Until the summer of 1960, when Rusty turns twelve. Change arrives in the person of Proxy, a taxi dancer Tom knew back when, and her beatnik daughter, Francine.
30) Sons of Texas
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Ambushed in 1816 Texas for trying to capture wild horses, the sons of murdered veteran and farmer Mordecai Lewis are eventually permitted to resettle in Texas, where they are treated as horse thieves by Spanish patrolmen.
31) Just like you
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Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
A baby bear describes the ways in which he wants to be like his father when he grows up.
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"A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of empathy and forgiveness, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robert Jones Jr. and Alice Walker As Jacob lies dying, he begins to write aletter to his only son, Isaac. They have not met or spoken in many years, and there are things that Isaac must know. Stories about his ancestral legacy in rural Arkansas that extend back to slavery....
33) Papi
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Publisher
Candlewick Pr
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Description
¡Papi hace cosquillas! ¡Papi canta! ¡Papi acurruca! Bebé comparte un poema cariñoso y divertido dedicado a un papá muy especial.
34) Curious notions
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Series
Crosstime traffic volume 2
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In a parallel-world 21st-century San Francisco where the Kaiser's Germany won World War One and went on to dominate the world, Paul Gomes and his father Lawrence are secret agents for our timeline, posing as traders from a foreign land. They run a storefront shop called Curious Notions, selling what is in our world routine consumer technology-record players, radios, cassette decks--all of which is better than anything in this world, but only by a...
35) The good father
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm
Description
An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his 20-year old son.
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
The tragic death of thirty-three-year-old Russ forces his girlfriend and wily aunts to confront painful truths about his father's abandonment, stepmother's blackmailing practices, and brother's unwillingness to forgive the past.
38) Flying!
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Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
A boy's simple questions about why he cannot fly lead to an imaginative journey with his father.
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Pub. Date
2010
Description
Tom Bedford has put his past behind him--until his son Danny is charged with murder. In the chaos of war, Danny has been caught in a violent skirmish gone bloodily awry, and the Army needs someone to pay for the mistake. Shocked into action, Tom confronts the violence in his past and fights to save the son he'd let slip away.
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"In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the...
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