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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

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

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

Tinti, Hannah

Summary: After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter, Loo, to Olympus, Massachusetts. There, in his late wife's hometown, Hawley finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at school and grows curious about her mother's mysterious death. Haunting them both are twelve scars Hawley carries on his body, from twelve bullets in his criminal past, a past...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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

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

Sumner, Jamie

Summary: When thirteen-year-old Ellie reluctantly agrees to enter a beauty pageant with her best friend Coralee, the director seems determined to feature Ellie and her wheelchair, so she must find a way to participate on her own terms, all while saving her friendship and forming a better relationship with her divorced dad.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023

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

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

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

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACE

Marks, Janae

Summary: "Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MAR

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

Evans, Richard Paul

Summary: On the night of her high school graduation, Richelle Bach's father gives her and her identical twin sister, Michelle, matching opal necklaces. "These opals look identical," he tells them, "but the fire inside each is completely unique--just like the two of you." Indeed, the two sisters couldn't be more different, and their paths diverge as they embark on adulthood. Years pass, until--at their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVA

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1 available in Holiday Fiction, Call number: FIC EVA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EVA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVA

Steel, Danielle

Summary: Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember. After years of hardship, exploitation, and abuse, her big chance finally comes to do what she loves. But Iris still has to fight every step of the way.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Sagan, Françoise

Summary: Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old CÃcile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her fatherâa handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eyeâfor a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress, Elsa. CÃcile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket 2009

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SAG FRENCH

Everhart, Donna

Summary: A young woman in 1960's North Carolina resents the moonshining operation her family has conducted for generations, blaming it for her mother's death. When her father insists that moonshining is in her veins, Jessie devises a plan to destroy the stills. Her scheme escalates an old rivalry and reveals long-held grudges.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Everhart

Yehoshua, Abraham B.

Summary: "Rachele Luzzato is twelve years old when she learns her father is gravely ill. While her family plans for her upcoming Bat-Mitzvah, Rachele finds herself cast as the Madonna in her school's Christmas play. Caught between spiritual poles, struggling to cope with her father's mortality, Rachele feels as if the threads of her everyday life are unravelling. A diverse circle of adults are there to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YEH

Sparks, Nicholas

Summary: "At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear, and no one is more surprised than Russ when he finds...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SPA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SPA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Sparks 2016

Steel, Danielle

Summary: Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no one else. When she is twelve, her father convinces the owner of a bar in Lake City, Texas, to let her perform, and she stuns the audience. In the ensuing years, never staying anywhere for long, father and daughter move from one dusty town to the next, her passion for music growing every time she takes the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022

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

Runyan, Aimie K.

Summary: "Beth Cohen wants to make the most of the months she has left with her elderly father, Max. His only request of his daughter is to go through the long-forgotten box of memorabilia from his days as a medic on the western front. Then, among his wartime souvenirs, Beth finds a photograph of her father with an adoring and beautiful stranger - a photograph worth a thousand questions. It was 1944...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUN

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

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

Ryan, Jennifer

Summary: When an at-home DNA test reveals the truth about her father, Summer Sutherland, meeting him for the first time, settles into his Carmel home, ready to get to know her instant family--and pursue a romance with his business partner, which could tear their lives apart.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYA

Pérez, Celia C.

Summary: From the award-winning author of The First Rule of Punk, a dazzling novel about a young girl who learns the missing pieces of her origin story from the family of legendary luchadores shes just met. Twelve-year-old Adela "Addie" Ramirez has a big decision to make when her stepfather proposes adoption. Addie loves Alex, the only father figure shes ever known, but with a new half brother due in a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Ferguson, Jenny

Summary: Jen Ferguson's powerful and beautifully written YA debut novel follows a demisexual Metis teen girl from a Canadian prairie town, who over one summer must grapple with an unwelcome figure from her past--as well as the questions about identity, secrets, confusion about her sexuality, and relationships that all make up who she is. In this complex and emotionally resonant novel, debut author Jen...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC FER

Kingsolver, Barbara

Summary: At the end of her rope, Codi Noline returns to her Arizona home to face her ailing father, with whom she has a difficult, distant relationship. There she meets handsome Apache trainman Loyd Peregrina, who tells her, "If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life."

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KIN

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