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Adrienne Cahill cares about three things: getting into a great college; becoming a revered journalist like her idol, Sydney Declay; and making her late father proud of her. So when Adrienne is offered the chance to write an article that will get her into her dream school and debunk her foolish stepfather's belief that a legendary family of hermits is living in the Siberian wilderness, there's no question that she's going to fly across the world. But...
22) Trowbridge Road
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing...
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Rowland Sinclair novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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The black sheep of a wealthy 1930s grazier dynasty, gentleman artist Rowland Sinclair often takes matters into his own hands. When the matter is murder, there are consequences. For nearly 14 years, Rowland has tried to forget, but now the past has returned. A newly-discovered gun casts light on a family secret long kept - a murder the Sinclairs would prefer stayed unsolved. As old wounds tear open, the dogged loyalty of Rowland's inappropriate companions...
24) The beach trap
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2022.
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English
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"Two best friends torn apart by a life-altering secret. They have one summer to set the record straight. When twelve-year-olds Kat Steiner and Blake O'Neill meet at Camp Chickawah, they have an instant connection. But everything falls apart when they learn they're not just best friends-they're also half-sisters. Confused and betrayed, their friendship instantly crumbles. Fifteen years later when their father dies suddenly, Kat and Blake discover he's...
25) Blackbird fly
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Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2015]
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English
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Bullied at school, eighth-grader Apple, a Filipino American who loves the music of the Beatles, decides to change her life by learning how to play the guitar.
26) Death by water
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English
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"[Kogito Choko] returns to his hometown village in search of a red suitcase rumored to hold documents revealing the details of his father's death during World War II, details that will serve as the foundation for his new, and final, novel. Since his youth, renowned novelist Kogito Choko planned to fictionalize his father's fatal drowning in order to fully process the loss. Stricken with guilt and regret over his failure to rescue his father, Choko...
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2021.
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English
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"Our narrator, Francisco Goldberg, an American writer, has been living and working in Mexico City as a journalist for over a decade, but has recently returned to New York City in hopes of 'going home again.' It's been five years since the end of his last relationship and he is falling in love again with a new woman. Soon, though, he is beckoned back to Boston by his former high school girlfriend who was witness to his greatest youthful humiliations,...
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Nightingale Books, nestled on the main street in an idyllic little village, is a dream come true for book lovers-- a cozy haven and welcoming getaway for the literary-minded locals. But owner Emilia Nightingale is struggling to keep the shop open after her beloved father's death, and the temptation to sell is getting stronger. The property developers are circling, yet Emilia's loyal customers have become like family, and she can't imagine breaking...
29) The testament
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Bravo Shaw novels volume 1
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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After his fathers death Braverman Shaw discovers that his father belonged to a secret society, the Order of Gnostic Observatines. The Order has long protected a lost testament that could shake Christianity to its foundations.
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GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2011.
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日本語
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From the creators of Ghost in the Shell comes a wonderfully expressive and beautifully hand-drawn animated tale that combines bursts of whimsy and kinetic humor with deeply felt emotion and drama. The last time Momo saw her father they had a fight - and now all she has left to remember him by is an incomplete letter, a blank piece of paper penned with the words "Dear Momo," but nothing more. Moving with her mother to the remote Japanese island of...
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Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note from an unknown woman among their dead father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. The Sorrows of an American tells the story of the Davidsen family as brother and sister uncover its secrets and unbandage its wounds in the year following their father's funeral.
33) Dark water
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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Believing for the last twenty years that her father had vanished after embezzling a fortune, Sarah Jane Whitman is shocked when her father's body is discovered in a watery grave, prompting her to embark on a dangerous quest for truth.
35) True grit
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DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshal with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
36) The harbor
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Series
Texas Rangers (Carla Neggers) volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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Zoe returns to her Maine home to confront the past and get her life back on track, but a burned-out FBI Special Agent in town for a much-needed break believes a killer is still loose in the town--a killer who isn't happy to see her return.
37) Nightrise
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Series
Philip Dryden novels volume 6
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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When Philip Dryden is informed that his father has been killed in an accident, Dryden must discover how this could be since he knew the man to have been killed in a flood years earlier, and how this might to relate to two new unexplained cases.
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[2020]
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English
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When journalist Jessie Kegan's father is accused of espionage and treason, Jessie has no doubt he is innocent. Before Colonel Kegan can stand trial, he's found dead -- and Jessie suspects it was murder. She's determined to clear her father's name but going after the truth puts her in the cross-hairs of a killer who wants that truth to stay buried with her father. Protecting Jessie Kegan is a job bodyguard Brandon Garrett can't refuse. Jessie isn't...
39) Notes on grief
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
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The author presents a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father.
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2022.
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English
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"Ghost meets The Bold Type in this sparkling adult debut about a disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, from nationally bestselling author Ashley Poston. Florence Day is a ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem-after a terrible break-up, she no longer believes in love. It's as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man,...
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