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Mackler, Carolyn

Summary: Willa lives on the upper West Side of Manhattan with her divorced father and her younger brother and attends fifth grade with her best friend Ruby, and she likes things to be a certain way, because it makes life manageable even with her Sensory Processing Disorder; she certainly does not like surprises, and her father has just thrown her a big one: he has been dating Ruby's mother, and suddenly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MAC

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

Córdova, Zoraida

Summary: Eleven-and-a-half-year-old Valentina Salazar grew up as a monster protector until her father's loss, but when a video of a mythical egg appears, Valentina convinces her older brother and sister to help her find and save it--all while avoiding the monster hunters who want to destroy it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Mosley, Walter

Summary: After serving time in Rikers Island solitary for assault, Joe King Oliver, who is an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to investigate.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOS

Patterson, James

Summary: NYPD Detective Michael Bennett finds the body of a college student in the Hudson River. As the killer extends his spree, a pattern emerges that Bennett's own daughter fits to a disturbing degree.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PAT

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PAT

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC PAT

Straub, Emma

Summary: "When Alice wakes up on her fortieth birthday somehow back in 1996 as her sixteen-year-old self, she finds the biggest surprise is the forty-nine-year-old version of her father with whom she is reunited, and, armed with a new perspective on life, wonders what she would change given the chance"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STR

Cavanagh, Steve

Summary: When wealthy businessman Leonard Howell's daughter is kidnapped, the police jump on it straight away. But Howell knows this won't be straightforward - he needs someone willing to break the rules. Once a con artist, now a hotshot lawyer, Eddie Flynn's learnt that fast talk and sleight of hand are just as important in the courtroom are they are on the street. Knowing what it's like to lose a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orion Books 2019

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Mosley, Walter

Summary: Ten years after serving time at Rikers Island for assault, Joe King Oliver, an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to find out who on the police force wanted him out. He also agrees to help a radical black journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOS

Patterson, James

Summary: Aboard a police boat on the Hudson River, Detective Michael Bennett casts a wary eye into the cold, rough water. NYPD is searching for a murder victim-a young college student. They find her tossed in the dark waves, dressed for a night out in a sparkly black gown. The gruesome sight fills Bennett with the dread only a father could fathom. As the obsessive killer extends his spree, a pattern...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PAT

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Sekaran, Shanthi

Summary: Twelve-year-old Boomi accidentally travels back in time to 1986 Thumpton-on-Soar, England, where she meets her late father as a child, changing her life forever.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SEK

Friedman, Aimee

Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Aimee Friedman comes an inventive novel about fate, family secrets, and new love, told in split narrative. In this absorbing new novel, Summer makes a choice that changes the whole course of the season ahead of her. When her story divides, Summer finds herself alternately face to face with a longtime crush and worlds away. She is both living amid secrets...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Audiobooks 2016

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Isaacs, Susan

Summary: "When Corie Geller asked her parents to move from their apartment into the suburban McMansion she shares with her husband and teenage daughter, she assumed they'd fit right in with the placid life she'd opted for when she left the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the FBI. But then her dad gets a call from genial and slightly nerdy film professor, April Brown--one of the victims of the case he was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ISA

Manfredo, Lou.

Summary: "Brooklyn cop Joe Rizzo is ready to retire and spend the rest of his days with his wife, doting on their grown-up girls. But when his youngest daughter Carol decides to follow her dad onto the force, Joe decides to stay on until she's settled, calling infavors to get her assigned to the easiest house, the best training officer-- anything to protect his baby girl. And while there, he's expected...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAN

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Ferguson, Jenny

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriend-whose kisses never made her feel desire, only discomfort-and her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word. But when she gets a letter from her biological father--a man she hoped would...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Lapena, Shari

Summary: William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing. Suddenly Stanhope doesn't feel so...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAP

Lapena, Shari

2 holds on 5 copies

Summary: "Welcome to Stanhope. A safe neighborhood. A place for families. On the surface, William Wooler is a family man. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books, Viking 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAP

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAP

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAP

Parrish, Christa.

Summary: Following her mother's death and her father's abandonment, infant Sarah Graham was left to be raised by her emotionally distant grandmother. As a child, she turned to music for comfort, but an unplanned pregnancy and the birth of a stillborn baby put a screeching halt to her potentially brilliant career. Now twenty-seven, Sarah lives hard in an attempt to escape her past. But when her estranged...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PAR

Mason, Susan Anne

Summary: "At the renowned Irish Meadows horse farm in New York, 1911, sisters Brianna and Colleen O'Leary struggle to reconcile their own dreams with their father's plans for the farm and his demanding marriage expectations"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publisher Group 2015

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mason 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: P MAS

Donnelly, Jennifer.

Summary: A young woman in nineteenth-century New York City must struggle against gender and class boundaries when her father is found dead of a supposed suicide, and she believes there is more than meets the eye, so in order to uncover the truth she will have to decide how much she is willing to risk and lose.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Howrey, Meg

Summary: "A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York City during the AIDS crisis, and present-day Los Angeles. Carlisle Martin dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer just like her mother, Isabel, a former Balanchine ballerina. Since they live in Ohio, she only gets to see her father Robert for a few precious weeks a year when she visits...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOW

Harvey, John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Spooner, Meagan

Summary: Follows the experiences of an aristocrat's daughter, Yeva, who tracks a mysterious woodland creature her father has become obsessed with and that stands at the center of his failing sanity.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION SPO

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