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1) The beloved
Author
Series
Black dagger brotherhood volume 22
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Nalla, the blooded daughter of Zsadist, has led a sheltered life. Protected by her father and the Brotherhood, kept away from the deadly war with the Lessening Society, she is chafing against the walls of the very safety that has ensured her survival. One night, she gives in to her restlessness... and finds herself face-to-face with a male whose inner darkness rivals even that of her sire's horrific origins. Nate is a fighter with nothing to lose--and...
Author
Series
Coyote sunrise volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Almost a year after settling down in Oregon, Coyote embarks on a cross-country road trip with her dad to scatter her mom's ashes, but the journey takes an unexpected turn when she realizes the secret to the chosen resting place lies in a lost book.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In New York City, newly single Caroline is stumbling her way through the recent implosion of her life. After a surprise breakup leaves her with no job, no apartment, and no backup plan, she's unsure of what to do next. That is, until Caroline's father, Leo, injures himself in a bad fall and asks her to move home to the Jersey Shore suburb she'd always been desperate to escape. But Leo doesn't want his daughter to be his caretaker; he needs her to...
4) Gut reaction
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Tess Medina is dealing with the loss of her beloved father, a new school, and the troubling fact that the thing she enjoys most in life, baking, seems to be making her increasingly ill--something she is trying to hide from everybody.
Author
Publisher
Page Street YA
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The western wood is where Ro's father built their garden, taught her to forage, and told her tales of the faeries who live there how to summon them, how to protect herself, and warnings of what they are capable of. Now, her father is gone, the garden has withered, and their family is struggling. Her mother and sister want to move into town, but Ro doesn't want to give up the memories of her father and his stories or the charming village girl who...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Penny has never met anyone smarter than her. That's par for the course when you're a savant--one of less than one hundred in the world. But despite her photographic memory and super-powered intellect, there's one question Penny doesn't know the answer to: where did her father go when he left her and her mother years ago? On Penny's 21st birthday, she receives a card in the mail from her father, just as she has every year since he left. But this birthday...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"On the remote isle of Rosevear, Mira, like her mother before her, is a wrecker, one of the seven on the rope who swim out to shipwrecks to plunder them. Mira's job is to rescue survivors, if there are any. After all, she never feels the cold of the frigid ocean waters and the waves seem to sing to her soul. But the people of Rosevear never admit the truth: that they set the beacons themselves to lure ships into the rocks. When the Council watch lays...
9) Girl abroad
Author
Publisher
Bloom Books, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When nineteen-year-old Abbey Bly gets the opportunity to study abroad for a year in London, it's the perfect chance to finally slip out from under the thumb of her beloved but overbearing retired rock star father. She's ready to be free, to discover herself--but first off, to meet the girls she's rooming with. That is, until she arrives at her gorgeous new flat to discover those roommates are actually all boys. Charming, funny, insufferably attractive...
Author
Publisher
Viking Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"A Lucía le encanta ver la migración de las monarcas desde su casa en México con papá. Pero este año, el viaje de las monarcas al norte tiene un peso extra; Papá también se dirige al norte en busca de trabajo. Él le promete que cuando "el clima se vuelva frío y las monarcas regresen, nuestros ancestros alados me guiarán a casa". Entonces, mientras él pasa los meses de verano cosechando productos en granjas lejanas, Lucía observa...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Highly sought-after writer and speaker shares her heartbreakingly beautiful narrative to inspire you to believe that the messy, muddy parts of life are just the first mile on the road to redemption"--
Author
Publisher
Two Hats Creative Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Two years have passed since Elayne returned from the magical world in the Cloisters Museum of New York, but when she hears of a two-headed snake caught in the city's sewers, Elayne knows that she must return to Goloth. Upon her return everything seems to have changed. The land is torn by bloody civil war, poverty and plague, and the prospect of romance emerges from the most unexpected of places. Elayne must join forces with old enemies and journey...
13) Ripple Grove
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
""Are fairies real?" a young girl asks her father. As the two walk through a forest that is magical enough to help us all believe, they tell one another a fairy tale he's been building for her for a long time: Moomjean the fairy battles General Crag of the Trelfs to protect the fairy lands of Ripple Grove. Father and daughter finish their hike and return home, full of magic and wonder of both the forest and the fairies."--
14) House: Hausu
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
日本語
Description
Tokyo teenager Gorgeous is upset with her long-widowed father - he wants to marry his new girlfriend Ryoko. Seriously miffed, Gorgeous hits the road to visit her aunt in the country, bringing along her best girlfriends Sweet, Melody, Fantasy, Prof, Mac, and Kung Fu. The titular house belongs to the wheelchair bound aunt, whose large white cat has been immortalized in artwork throughout. Things soon start to go very badly for the teenagers. While there...
15) Gather round
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In this gorgeous picture book, a girl and her father build a campfire together to keep the cold at bay. But as they welcome passing travelers -- from musicians to animals -- they create a community, fostered by a crackling fire and its comforting warmth.