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Author
Language
English
Description
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.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
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 death threat.
4) 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
New Americana volume 1
Language
English
Description
Hesitant to expose his daughter to the man war turned him into, Jake O'Reilly agrees to work on the ranch where his daughter is living and feels his wounds begin to heal as his friendship with his late wife's cousin becomes something more.
8) Don't go
Author
Language
English
Formats
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
Avon A
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Avon pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
297 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While mourning the death of her father, Lois receives a book called "The Manual," a gift left by her father that is filled with advice for her, along with instructions to read a chapter on each future birthday.
10) Just like you!
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Snowflake, a baby mammoth, is eager to grow up and wonders when she'll ever be big like her dad.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2004, c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
125 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the journal she is keeping for English class, sixteen-year-old Tish chronicles the changes in her life when her abusive father returns home after a two-year absence.
Author
Series
Heartland volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
184 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve years after the last time she has seen him, Amy's father visits her at Heartland, and Amy wonders if they can ever reconcile their differences.
13) Crow call
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.
14) Winners: a novel
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.
15) Bleed for me
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
A psychologist with a failing marriage and a teenage daughter who will not speak to him tries to help his daughter's friend, Sienna, who shows up at their house covered in blood and terror-stricken, but with no idea what happened.
16) Come what may
Author
Series
Heartland volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
157 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amy ignores her sister Lou's attempt to get in touch with their estranged father, deciding she does not want him back in her life, but problems with a new horse help her to forget the past and face the future with hope.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Her daddy in tow, Trixie hurries to school to show off her one-of-a-kind Knuffle Bunny. But an awful surprise awaits her - someone else has the exact same bunny!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
270 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While on vacation with her parents, Philippa Fisher befriends Robyn, a girl with sad eyes and a strict father, and while she enjoys the company, Philippa cannot help but wonder what Robyn and her dad might be hiding.
20) Mornings on Main
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jillian James lands in the small town Texas community of Laurel Springs, she's definitely not planning to stay--except to find a few clues about the father who abandoned her and destroyed her faith in family. Connor Larady is a single dad, and the only one caring for his grandmother, Eugenia, who has Alzheimer's. And now he has to close Eugenia's quilt shop. When Connor meets down-on-her-luck Jillian, he's out of options. Can he trust the newcomer...