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Finn, A. J.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Invited by a reclusive mystery novelist to help draft his life story, a longtime correspondent and detective fiction expert finds herself in a real whodunnit when she learns the writer's first wife and son mysteriously vanished.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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Weiner, Andrew

Summary: To help her fall asleep, the author tells his daughter a bedtime story from his mischievous childhood when he bought magic beans with his mother's grocery money.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: LB Ink/Little, Brown and Company 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WEI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC WEI (GRAPHIC NOVEL)

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...

Format: text

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

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COX

Bluey

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Everyone loves Bandit, but especially Bluey and Bingo! He's always making up funny games, playing Daddy Robot, and taking them on exciting adventures. This is the perfect book to celebrate your dad on Father's Day, or any day, and share what makes him awesome!

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

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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

Shenjé, Kuchenga

4 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England and the secrets lurking on the estate where we she works, for fans of Fingersmith and The Confessions of Frannie Langton The library is under lock and key. But its secrets can't be contained. 1896. After he brought her home from Jamaica as a baby, Florence's father had her hair hot-combed to make...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2024

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Hourigan, Erin

Summary: A little girl whose father's world goes from bright and yellow to dark and blue gets frustrated when she is unable to help him, but knows that together, they can do anything.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOU

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

Swierczynski, Duane

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: A serial killer who vanished 40 years prior emerges from hibernation and is being tracked by a retired LAPD officer, a teenager with a terminal disease and a genealogist trying to repair her marriage.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SWI

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SWI

Lebeuf, Darren

Summary: "A young girl explores her city with her father, taking in all its sensory details. Her city speaks to her in so many ways: "sometimes it echoes," and "sometimes it trills." It "buzzes and tweets and flocks." It's both "busy" and "relaxed," and "smelly" and "sweet." In the end, we discover that the city doesn't just speak to this inquisitive young girl - it also listens ... Author Darren...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2021

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Steel, Danielle

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Summary: Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024

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Bradford, Barbara Taylor

Summary: James Falconer, a tycoon and a self-made man, seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023

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Levi, Taltal

Summary: Both small and full of life, Ellie and a new avocado plant grow up together.

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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth Books 2024

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Dwyer, Kristin

Summary: Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad's favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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

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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Thurman, Brittany

Summary: Exploring the day-to-day life of a young Black child and her family, this lyrical picture book centers around Olivia, who, worrying about her father while he's at work, anxiously awaits his return, knowing that when he gets home, the evening will be full of love and fun.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THU

Andrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)

Summary: After the tragic death of her mother and a long period of isolation under the thumb of a cruel grandfather, young Caroline Brady has little to hope for in her life in the foreboding Southerland mansion. Her only companion, her enigmatic cousin, Simon, may be a wolf in sheep's clothing and is not to be trusted. But when Caroline's estranged father suddenly resurfaces with news of a new wife and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Roe, Monica

Summary: Twelve-year-old Emmie is working to raise money for a tricked-out wheelchair to get serious about WCMX, when a mishap on a poorly designed ramp at school throws her plans into a tailspin. Emmie loves her close-knit rural town, but she can't shake the feeling that her goals, and her choices, suddenly aren't hers anymore. With the help of her best friends, Emmie makes a plan to get her dreams off...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC ROE

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

Bradford, Barbara Taylor

Summary: "James Falconer--a tycoon and a self-made man--seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRA

Azuma, Kiyohiko

Summary: "YOTSUBA heeeeeere! Guess what, guess what!? Yotsuba is going to a flower store with Fuuka! Yotsuba's gonna give flowers to everybody in the whole, wide world, even the police lady with her whistle that goes-- PI! PI! PIPI! PI! PIPUUUUUUUU!!"--Publisher's web site

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 YOT

Waxman, Abbi

5 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "After a tumultuous childhood, Christa Liddle has hidden away, both figuratively and literally. Happily studying sea snails in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Christa finds her tranquil existence thrown into chaos when her once-famous father--long thought dead after a plane crash--turns out to be alive, well, and ready to make amends. The world goes wild, fascinated by this real-life saga,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024

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McDonald, Briana

Summary: Amateur detective Pepper Blouse, a rising seventh-grader, cannot resist investigating when her Great Aunt Florence passes away under mysterious circumstances, but strictly following her mother's Detective Rulebook may not be the best plan.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Gemeinhart, Dan

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Almost a year after settling down in Oregon, Coyote embarks on a cross-country road trip with her dad to scatter her mom's ashes, but the journey takes an unexpected turn when she realizes the secret to the chosen resting place lies in a lost book.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers 2024

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