Dexter, Pete
Summary: Losing his father shortly after birth, Warren Spooner endures a troubled childhood and even more troubled young adulthood that is marked by his dishonorably discharged stepfather, whose inexhaustible patience is tested by the difficult Warren.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXHamill, Pete
Summary: On temporary leave from his service in Korea for the holiday season, young sailor Pete is devastated by his girlfriend's unfaithfulness and evaluates his relationship with his distant father, a gruff Irish factory worker.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2004
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: FIC HAMOswald, Pete
Summary: A father and child head out on a hike, keeping a cherished family tradition alive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OSWAbrahams, Peter
Summary: The only thing seventeen-year-old Wyatt knew about his biological father was that he was serving a life sentence, but circumstances and a new girlfriend bring them together and soon Wyatt is working to prove his father's innocence.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ABRGeye, Peter.
Summary: The Eide family finds themselves changed forever after their elderly, demented patriarch runs into the wilderness of northern Minnesota in an attempt to reenact a similar adventure sixty years earlier.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEYReynolds, Peter
Summary: When Raj's father signs him up for piano lessons so he can learn to play properly, Raj begins to lose his joy in creating music, and eventually stops playing altogether, but when his father becomes ill, he asks Raj to play again, from the heart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REYMeyer, Philipp
Summary: Comanche Indian captive Eli McCullough must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong -- a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Meyer 2013Pouncey, Peter R.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POUIrving, John
Summary: In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC IRVElston, Ashley
Summary: After using their family business to embezzle millions and drain the employees' retirement accounts, Owen's father vanished without a trace, leaving Owen and his mother to deal with the fallout. When Owen and his mother receive increasingly frightening threats from someone out for revenge, he knows he must get to the bottom of what really happened.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018