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Language
English
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Years after discovering her father's predatory double life, successful photographer Naomi Bowes struggles to hide her painful past from her fellow residents in a community thousands of miles away, a situation that introduces her to a new relationship and forces her to confront her demons.
2) Two by two
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear, and no one is more surprised than Russ when he finds every aspect of the life he took for granted turned upside...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
Author
Series
Clay Edison volume Book 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A corpse lying at the bottom of the stairs. A beautiful but troubled young woman. A brutal, decades-old murder. And the man charged with making sense of it all. Clay Edison is a former star athlete turned coroner's investigator. It's his job to care for the dead and the people they leave behind. It's not his job to solve mysteries. But some cases--and some people--can't be resisted. What he discovers will set him on a quest to overturn a hideous...
Author
Language
English
Description
When a horrific chairlift accident leaves seventeen year old competitive skier Lily Thomas paralyzed, she must come to grips with the fact that she'll not only be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life, but will never fulfill her lifelong dream of winning Olympic gold. But just as all hope seems lost, Lily meets Teddy, a young man even more badly injured than she, but as doggedly determined to live an enriching life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center a women's reproductive health services clinic its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage....
Author
Series
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
A modern retelling of "The Taming of the Shrew" follows the experiences of a preschool teacher who alienates others by speaking her mind and who is expected by her eccentric father to marry his assistant to prevent the young man's deportation.
9) Don't go
Author
Language
English
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Description
Fleeing home from his military service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in an apparent freak household accident, Dr. Mike Scanlon struggles with the tragedy, his inability to bond with his new baby daughter, and a downsizing in his medical practice.
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A once-professional killer protects his daughter from the legacy of his criminal past, an effort that is challenged by his daughter's struggles with the death of her mother and the reckoning of old enemies.
Author
Series
The Blue Sky Hill volume 1
Publisher
NAL Accent
Language
English
Description
After years of resentment and estrangement, Rebecca Macklin is forced to return to Dallas when she discovers that her aging father has been roaming the city streets alone, while his wife, Hanna Beth, has landed in a nursing home. .
Author
Series
Guardians of justice volume 3
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Kelly Warren claims her father's suicide was really murder, Detective Cole Taylor becomes embroiled in an investigation that reveals a startling secret.
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Howard Books trade paperback ed.
Physical Desc
261 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Erin Bryce leaves behind her fledgling wedding planning business to take care of her father, who has just suffered a stroke, in his cottage in coastal Oregon, where she also wrestles with her own negative feelings.
14) A double life
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gripping, intense, stunningly written novel of psychological suspense from the award-winning author of Under the Harrow. Claire is a hardworking doctor living a simple, quiet life in London. She is also the daughter of the most notorious murder suspect in the country, though no one knows it. Nearly thirty years ago, while Claire and her infant brother slept upstairs, a brutal crime was committed in her family's townhouse. Her father's car was found...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After their mother dies unexpectedly, twelve-year-old Easter and her six-year-old sister Ruby are kidnapped by their errant father Wade, an ex-minor league baseball player whom they haven't seen in years, while their court appointed guardian races against time to find them before a vengeful killer does.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Bailey moves to California to live with her father and, perhaps, finally meet an online friend and fellow film buff, but soon finds herself attracted to an annoying co-worker.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Emma Saylor doesn't remember a lot about her mother, who died when she was ten. But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the big lake that went on forever, with cold, clear water and mossy trees at the edges. Now it's just Emma and her dad, and life is good, if a little predictable, until Emma is unexpectedly sent to spend the summer with her mother's family that she hasn't seen since she was a little girl.
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
332 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Against the wishes of his business partners, a dying Chef Julien decides to publish his secret recipes, and his daughter Chloe must search for the source of her father's seasonings while avoiding trouble from the opposition.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a day with Daddy at the laundromat, Trixie quickly notices that her cherished Knuffle Bunny is missing and turns to her father to help her get him back.