O'Shaughnessy, Kate
Summary: Eleven-year-old Maybelle Lane collects sounds. She records the Louisiana crickets chirping, Momma strumming her guitar, their broken trailer door squeaking. But the crown jewel of her collection is a sound she didn't collect herself: an old recording of her daddy's warm-sunshine laugh, saved on an old phone's voicemail. It's the only thing she has of his, and the only thing she knows about him....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OS'HCumming, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUMShalvis, Jill
Summary: As Tae starts asking questions about the father she's never met, her mother goes silent. But after a chance encounter with Riggs, an old highschool flame, Tae begins, with his help, to unlock the truth.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHAMallery, Susan
Summary: Life is meant to be savored, but that's not easy with no family, limited prospects and a past you'd rather not talk about. Still, Callie Smith doesn't know how to feel when she discovers she has a brother and a sister--Malcolm, who grew up with affection, wealth and privilege, and Keira, a streetwise twelve-year-old. Callie doesn't love being alone, but at least it's safe. Despite her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MALGurnah, Abdulrazak
Summary: Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island's white sands obscuring the memory of recent conflict--the longed-for independence from British colonialism swiftly followed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GURWenzel, Olivia
Summary: ''I have more privilege than any person in my family. And I'm still screwed." From award-winning author Olivia Wenzel comes a captivating and unsettling literary debut about race, politics, feminism, motherhood, nationality and enduring love. A young woman attends a play about the Berlin Wall coming down and is the only Black person in the audience. She is sitting with her boyfriend by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WENFink, Joseph
Summary: "From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves...no matter where we live. Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINHiggs-Coulthard, Katherine
Summary: "Some people dream of happily ever after, but all 17-year-old Josh Roberts wants is a roof over his head and for his little brother to be safe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Teen 2023
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Summary: "It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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Summary: When the ex-husband who left her twenty years ago returns, determined to reconnect with his family, Caroline wonders whether to let him back into her life, while their daughter, Daisy, falls in love with a boy her mother disapproves of.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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Summary: Sawyer Taft did not expect her estranged grandmother to show up at her apartment door and offer her a six-figure contract to participate in debutante season. She'd rather immerse herself in car repairs than in her grandmother's "society." But accepting might mean discovering the answer to the biggest mystery of her life: her father's identity. She's in for a year of makeovers, big dresses,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freeform Books 2018
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Summary: "Alone in the world, Tae Holmes and her mother April pretty much raised each other, but as Tae starts asking questions about the father she's never met, April, for the first time in her life, goes silent. To make matters worse, Tae is dangerously close to broke and just manages to avoid financial meltdown when she lands a shiny new contract with an adventure company for athletes with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHAHayes, Antonia
Summary: A debut novel about an exceptionally gifted boy who discovers the truth about his past, his overprotective single mother who tries desperately to shield him from it, and the father he has never met who is trying to come back into his life--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYConner, M Shelly
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CONShalvis, Jill
Summary: "Alone in the world, Tae Holmes and her mother April pretty much raised each other, but as Tae starts asking questions about the father she's never met, April, for the first time in her life, goes silent. To make matters worse, Tae is dangerously close to broke and just manages to avoid financial meltdown when she lands a shiny new contract with an adventure company for athletes with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAGrodstein, Lauren
Summary: "Karen Neulander has always been fiercely protective of her son, Jacob, now six. When Jacob's father, Dave, found out Karen was pregnant and made it clear that fatherhood wasn't in his plans, Karen walked out of the relationship, never telling Dave her intention was to raise their child alone. But now Jake is asking to meet his dad, and with good reason: Karen is dying. When she finally calls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRORichards, Alex
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Jo must decide whether to trust her estranged father or the grandparents who raised her but hid the truth about the way her mother died when Jo was only two"-- Johanna lost her mom in a car accident, and her father went AWOL when Johanna was just a baby. She is being raised by her grandparents who never talk about their daughter, her mother Mandy. When Robert Newsome,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RICLi, Christina
Summary: The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves more than watching NASA launches with her dad is building rockets with him. When he dies unexpectedly, all Ro has left of him is an unfinished model rocket they had been working on together. Benjamin Burns doesn't like science, but he can't get enough of Spacebound, a popular comic book series. When he finds a sketch that suggests that his dad created...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LIVickers, Elaine
Summary: Katie and Ana are the kind of friends who share everything with each other. But there are some things you can't even share with your best friend. Katie has always known she was adopted, but recently she's been wondering about her birth parents and her birthplace. She worries that saying this out loud -- even to her best friend -- could mess up the perfect family she has now. Ana's family has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC VICBilan, Jasbinder
Summary: "Asha lives in the foothills of the Himalayas. Money is tight and she misses her papa, who works in the city. When he suddenly stops sending his wages, a ruthless moneylender ransacks their home, and her mother talks of leaving. From her den in the mango tree, Asha makes a pact with her best friend, Jeevan, to find her father and make things right. But the journey is dangerous: they must cross...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BILBerne, Suzanne
Summary: Secrets abound in Lorna's family. Her mother Marika, who survived the Nazi occupation of Holland, abandoned the family when Lorna and her brother Wade were just seven and twelve years old. The reason she left, and her whereabouts afterward, were shrouded in mystery. As is a darker secret Marika has repressed for nearly seventy years. Now that Lorna, a respected psychotherapist, has a child of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023