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Library of America 362Steel, Danielle
Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STESteel, Danielle
Summary: "When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steel 2018Steel, Danielle
Summary: "When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print in association with Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEWelford, Ross
Summary: Twelve-year-old Al Chaudhury discovers his late dad's time machine and travels back to 1984 with his pet hamster to prevent the go-kart accident that killed his father.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD WELWelford, Ross.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Al Chaudhury discovers his late dad's time machine and travels back to 1984 with his pet hamster to prevent the go-kart accident that killed his father.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WELFujiwara, Kiyo.
Summary: "With the sudden appearance of his long lost father, Rakuto must deal with a whole new world of emotions--feelings of betrayal and abandonment followed by anger. For a guy used to keeping himself on a thight leash, these emotions may be more than he can cope with. Will Sachie be able to help him keep it together?"--p. [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WILLupica, Mike.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LUPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Lupica 2010Ōe, Kenzaburō
Summary: "[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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OECumming, Charles
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUMTaylor, Sam
Summary: In a world nearly destroyed by catastrophic floods one family has been spared. Many years ago, as the waters rose, a father and his three children took to their ark and drifted to the safety of a small island. Life there is a succession of quiet days of music and farming --young Alice, Finn, and Daisy are grateful for their salvation --until the day a stranger swims ashore and threatens to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYAraton, Harvey.
Summary: "In times of change, American novelists return to old themes. In Cold Type--as in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman--a son and his father struggle to hold onto what they think is right. It's mid-1990s; and "cold type" technology, a.k.a. computerized typesetting, wreaks havoc among workers in the newspaper industry. A fabulously wealthy Briton buys the New York City Trib and immediately...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Consortium Book Sales & Dist 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARAHijuelos, Oscar
Summary: The first Latino novelist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Hijuelos (1951?2013) wrote rich and radiant novels that brought the Cuban American immigrant experience into the heart of American literature. "I marveled," recalls Juan Felipe Herrera, at "how meticulous he was and how deep he got into the lives of Latino and Cuban Americans in the United States." Hijuelos launched his career...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIJGrimes, Nikki
Summary: A grieving son follows a treasure map his late father left him through the woods they used to explore together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRILewis, Phillip (Phillip E.)
Summary: "Just before Henry Aster's birth, his father -- outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow -- reluctantly returns to the small Appalachian town in which he was raised and installs his young family in an immense house of iron and glass perched high on the side of a mountain. There, Henry grows up under the writing desk of this fiercely brilliant man. But when tragedy tips his father...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lewis 2017Rickstad, Eric
Summary: Wayland Maynard is just eight years old when he sees his father kill himself, finds a note that reads I am not who you think I am, and is left reeling with grief and shock. Terrified, Wayland keeps the note a secret, but his reasons for being afraid are just beginning. Eight years later, he makes a shocking discovery and becomes certain the note is the key to unlocking a past his mother and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RICSammartino, Alexander
Summary: "The owner of a gun store embarks on a scheme to avoid bankruptcy by using his son's resurrection from a near-fatal drug overdose to create what he believes is the greatest television commercial anyone has ever seen"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Summary: Samuel Xavier Adams is stunned to learn that his long-absent father, a shadowy employee of the U.S. government, had been seen coming out of his mother's hospital room shortly before she died, and embarks on a quest to uncover his father's secrets.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2002