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Thayne, RaeAnne

Summary: "Candy shop owner Charlotte Caine knows temptation. To reboot her life, shed weight and gain perspective, she's passing up sweet enticements left and right. But willpower doesn't come so easily when hell-raiser Spencer Gregory comes back to Hope's Crossing, bringing with him memories of broken promises and teen angst. A retired pro baseball player on the mend from injury-- and a damaging...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Books 2013

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THA

Mizushima, Margaret

Summary: When a young girl is found dead in the mountains outside Timber Creek, life-long resident Officer Mattie Cobb and her partner, K-9 police dog Robo, are assigned to the case that has rocked the small Colorado town.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIZ

Mehl, Nancy

Summary: Des Moines. When multiple corpses of young women are found-- strangled, hands and feet bound with red ribbon, and a wire angel in their hand-- it fits the MO of The Raggedy Man. But Ed Oliphant-- Kaely Quinn's father-- has been in prison for over twenty years. Did Ed train someone to be a copycat killer? In order to prevent more deaths, Kaely must come face-to-face with the man she's hated for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEH

Graff, Lisa (Lisa Colleen)

Summary: "As far as twelve-year-old McKinley O'Dair is concerned, the best thing about living in Gap Bend, Pennsylvania, is the Time Hop--the giant party the town throws every June to celebrate a single year in history. That one day is enough to make the few things that aren't so fantastic about McKinley's life--like her crabby homeroom teacher or her super-scheduled father--worth suffering through. And...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2023

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

Van Meter, Crissy

Summary: "Winter Island, off the coast of Southern California. Evangeline grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island's world-famous strain of marijuana, Winter Wonderland. Tomorrow Evie is getting married-- but on the eve of the wedding a dead whale becomes lodged in the bay; the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother shows up...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAN

Fischer, Nancy Richardson

Summary: An exceptional new novel about falling down, risking everything and embracing what makes us unique. Danger "Danny" Danielle Warren is no stranger to falling. After losing an eye in a childhood accident, she had to relearn her perception of movement and space. Now Danny keeps her head down, studies hard, and works to fulfill everyone else's needs. She's certain that her mom's bitterness and her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ink Yard Press 2019

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

Dornbush, Jennifer

Summary: Recently engaged and deeply ensconced in her third year of surgical residency in Chicago, Emily Hartford gets a shock when she's called home to Freeport, MI, the small town she fled a decade ago after the death of her mother. Her estranged father, the local medical examiner, has had a massive heart attack, and Emily is needed urgently to help with his recovery. Not sure what to expect, Emily...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOR

Sanderson, Brandon

Summary: "All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true - he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019

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

Svoboda, Terese.

Summary: A young girl named Harriet is sold into slavery by her father to settle his gambling debt, and when she escapes and embarks on a journey to find her father, Harriet encounters a series of adventures in the American West.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SVO

Woodrell, Daniel.

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Reaching her sixteenth year in the harsh Ozarks while caring for her poverty-stricken family, Ree Dolly learns that they will lose their house unless her bail-skipping father can be found and made to appear at an upcoming court date.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 2007

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOO

Caletti, Deb

Summary: When Harper Proulx and her newfound sibiling travel to Hawaii to track down their sperm donor father, the man she discovers--a deep-sea diver obsessed with solving the mystery of a shipwreck--forces Harper to face some even bigger questions.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road 2022

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

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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JOH

Packer, Ann

Summary: Packer's sterling collection of stories is framed by two novellas: "Walk for Mankind" about teenager Richard Appleby and his bittersweet relationship with Sasha Horowitz, a rebellious, risk-taking 14-year-old, who has a clandestine affair with a drug dealer; and, "Things Said or Done" set three decades later, when Sasha, now 51 and divorced, has become Richard's caretaker.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Packer 2011

Ness, Patrick

Summary: On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired to help on the farm... Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, something only the poorest of the poor ever have to resort to. The dragon, Kazimir, has more...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2020

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Lee, Harper.

Summary: Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEE

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LEE

Cox, Amanda

Summary: "Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until his untimely death sends her world into a tailspin. She suddenly finds she must deal with a new part owner of the family business--one who is looking to sell the property. Beck cannot fathom why her father would put her into the position to lose everything they built together. When Callie Peterson...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COX

Fraistat, Ann

Summary: The farms of Hollow's End were blessed with miracle crops, especially the shimmering, iridescent wheat of Wren's family farm, but then the black mercury blight came, and the blight destroys everything: crops turned to silver-black sludge, animals sickened and blinded, even people; Wren believes she is responsible, and desperate to save Hollow's End she turns to her ex-boyfriend--but they find...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022

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

Willems, Mo.

Summary: Her daddy in tow, Trixie hurries to school to show off her one-of-a-kind Knuffle Bunny. But an awful surprise awaits her: someone else has the exact same bunny!

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E Wil

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WIL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WIL

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Caldecott Willems

Ellickson, Ana

Summary: Eighteen-year-old Ruby Santos, grappling with her mother's death and financial struggles, discovers her father's secret life as a magical underworld delivery person, leading her to take over his station and jump train lines, only to realize the perilous nature of the job and the dangerous world she has entered.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2024

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Cavallaro, Brittany

Summary: The year is 1893, and war is brewing in the First American Kingdom. Claire Emerson's father is a sought-after inventor, but he believes his genius is a gift granted to him by his daughter's touch, so he keeps Claire under his control. As their province prepares for war Claire plans to escape, even as her best friend, Beatrix, tries to convince her to stay and help with the growing resistance...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021

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

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,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books, Viking 2023

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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

Hoang, Jamie Jo

Summary: Told in alternating voices, seventeen-year-old Jane rails against her family's Vietnamese culture and struggles with a perpetually angry father, whose traumatic journey to the United States as an eleven-year-old refugee is revealed in flashbacks.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books 2023

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Stapley, Marissa

Summary: Lucky Armstrong is a tough, talented grifter who has just pulled off a million-dollar heist with her boyfriend, Cary. She's ready to start a brand-new life, with a new identity, when things go sideways. Alone for the first time, navigating the world without the help of either her father or her boyfriend, Lucky discovers that a lottery ticket she bought on a whim is worth millions. There's one...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Canada 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Stapley 2021

Garwood, Julie

Summary: "Family secrets and a hidden past-a woman's search to uncover the truth ignites danger and passion in the latest novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Julie Garwood. Cordelia Kane has always been a daddy's girl-her father raised her alone after her mother died in a car crash when Cordelia was just two years old. So when he has a serious heart attack, Cordelia is devastated, and the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2014

Copies Available at East Bay

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

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