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Acevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "CAMINO RIOS lives for the summers, when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this year, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. ... In New York City, YAHAIRA RIOS is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACEBlaedel, Sara
Summary: "Already widowed by the age of forty, Ilka Nichols Jensen, a school portrait photographer, leads a modest, regimented, and uneventful life in Copenhagen. Until unexpected news rocks her quiet existence: Her father--who walked out suddenly and inexplicably on the family more than three decades ago--has died. And he's left her something in his will: his funeral home. In Racine, Wisconsin....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BLAClinton, Bill
Summary: "Matthew Keating, a onetime Navy SEAL--and a past president--has always defended his family as staunchly as he has his country. Now those defenses are under attack. A madman abducts Keating's teenage daughter, Melanie--turning every parent's deepest fear into a matter of national security. As the world watches in real time, Keating embarks on a one-man special-ops mission that tests his...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CLINewton, Heather
Summary: Famed puppeteer and master manipulator Walter Gray surprises his three daughters by announcing there is a fourth at his 80th birthday party. An incomplete paternity test, and a will that places a condition on each daughter's inheritance, suggest that the missing daughter isn't a figment of his dementia. Jane, the eldest, is tired of her father's eccentricities. She remembers the scarcity of her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC NEWReid, Taylor Jenkins
Summary: "Malibu: August 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC REIWalls, Jeannette
Summary: Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Westerfeld, Scott
Summary: In a world that is rapidly descending into chaos, Frey and Rafi are twin sisters, but few people know of Frey's existence, because she has been raised to be her sister's body double and lethal bodyguard, while Rafi has been raised to further the family's political power--but when their father sends Frey in her sister's place as collateral in a tricky deal, Col, the son of a rival leader, gets...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018