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Summary: Blending rigorous naturalism with the precise construction of a thriller, this Cannes award-winning drama from Cristian Mungiu sheds light on the high stakes and ethical complexities of life in contemporary Romania. As his daughter nears high-school graduation, Romeo, an upstanding doctor, counts on her winning a competitive scholarship that will send her to university in England.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRA

Ruths, Mitali Banerjee

Summary: At her mother's request Priya is planning a surprise anniversary party for her father, but she is finding it hard to keep it a secret from her inquisitive dad.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE RUT

Hickey, Caroline

Summary: On the last day of fifth grade, super-smart eleven-year-old Ginny learns that her father, who is a military ER doctor, is being deployed to Afghanistan, devastating news because they are already moving to another post in Maryland and Ginny depends on her father to help her manage her obsessions, panic attacks and general meltdowns; one of her obsessions is geographical facts, and somehow Ginny...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIC

Covell, David

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024

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Wishingrad, Alysa

Summary: "Monsters are still lurking on the island of Barrow's Bay. Dare Coates is sure of it. No drifter or ruffian could have killed her father, the Captain of the Guard, while he was on patrol. But everyone insists that monsters have been gone for years now. Dare's mother. Her classmates. Even the governor, who swiftly marries her mother just months after her father's death. Dare's suspicions grow...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WIS

Larson, Kirby

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC LAR

Summary: Silas Marner was a man who had everything, until he lost it all. Falsely accused of theft and driven out of his town, Silas starts life anew. One day, upon arriving home, he discovers a child asleep on the hearth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SIL

Fipps, Lisa

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIP

Lee, C. B.

Summary: 1826. The legendary Dragon Fleet, the scourge of the South China Sea, is no more. Xiang has grown up with stories about the Dragon Fleet and its ruthless leader, a woman known only as the Dragon Queen. Desperate to set sail and explore, Xiang mainly wishes to find her father, a crew member of the Dragon Fleet. Her only memento of him is a simple but plain piece of gold jewelry. The pendant's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEE

Sala, Felicita

Summary: As a young girl seeks reassurances to more elaborate what-ifs, her father's reassurances paint a picture of infinite care, showing her there is no limit to the love he has for her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2024

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Stohler, Lauren

Summary: After a long, itchy, uncomfortable day in clothes, a slew of fuzzy friends and her understanding Dad convince Cody that not all pajamas are bad.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STO

Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

Summary: "A National Book Award Finalist with five starred reviews! A New York Times Notable Book * Publishers Weekly Flying Start * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice of 2017 (Top of the List winner) * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * BookPage Best YA Book of the Year American Street is an evocative and powerful...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZOB

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ZOB

Summary: The story of a master chef and his three adult daughters, all of whom are seeking love and happiness in different ways.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EAT

Donovan, Sam

Summary: "Daddy is the Mystery Reader at Tori's school today, and he's coming dressed as Miss Rita! Tori helps Daddy gloss, glitter, glamour, and glimmer to get ready. It takes time--because sparkle is serious business! Tori loves helping Daddy become Miss Rita. But will the other kids at school love Miss Rita like Tori does? Luckily, a last-minute idea helps Daddy and Tori find a way to make story time...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022

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Summary: In pre-World War II France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with a dashing air force pilot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WEL

Walton, Jessica

Summary: Maisie is on her way to her first fancon and she can't wait to meet her idol, an action star who had an above-the-knee amputation, just like Maisie. But then she meets Ollie. Ollie is a cute volunteer working the show, and they geek out about nerd culture, just as much as Maisie does. After spending the day together, Maisie notices feelings for Ollie that she's never had before. Could Ollie...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WAL

Gemeinhart, Dan

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Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers 2024

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Johnson, Anna Rose

Summary: "Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse- keepers -- and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOH

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JOH

Summary: Jamie is a preacher's daughter whose self-confidence doesn't depend on the opinions of others. Landon is skating through high school on looks and bravado. But when events thrust him into Jamie's world, he begins an unexpected journey he will never forget. The remarkable steps to a life changed involve trust, hope, goals, faith and unconditional love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Walk 2007

Lewis, Kayvion

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Ross Quest, a master thief, enters the Thieves' Gambit, a competition consisting of dangerous, international heists, in order to save her mother's life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAW

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEW

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC LEW

Summary: Lambeau Fields is an out-of-luck coach trying to lead a ragtag team of fumbling footballers to victory before his long-suffering wife leaves him and his sexy gymnast daughter gets herself bent out of shape.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COM

Khan, Shubnum

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KHA
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KHA

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 ACE

Hallberg, Garth Risk

Summary: "When 13-year-old Jolie Aspern drops her phone onto the subway tracks in the springtime of 2011, how can she imagine it might bring her estranged dad, Ethan, crashing back into her life? Ethan is an ex-con and recovering addict who even in his more honest moments has difficulty seeing outside himself. But now he's starting to fear that Jolie's in the kind of trouble her mom, Sarah, could never...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HAL
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

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