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Absence and presumption of death Fiction Fatherless families Fiction Fatherless families Ireland Fiction Fatherless families Juvenile fiction Jamaicans England Fiction Jamaicans United States Fiction Large type books Loss (Psychology) Fiction Paternal deprivation Fiction Widows FictionLi, 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 LIBuitrago, Jairo
Summary: A little girl imagines a lion taking the place of her father who no longer lives with her family, an animal that keeps her safe on her travels from school to home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BUICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUILaValle, Victor D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAVEicher, Jerry S.
Summary: Emma Raber has refused to remarry since her daughter Katie's daett died soon after she was born. And in an effort to keep Katie home, she has forbidden her from participating in the rumspringa tradition. When widower Jesse Mast calls for Mamm's hand in marriage, Katie hopes to move into a new phase of life and leave the old "Emma Raber's daughter" behind. But sparks fly when Jesse's children...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EICKingsbury, Karen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINDeBartolo, Tiffanie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEBKincaid, Nanci.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINMiller, Sue
Summary: For Eva, the divorced and happily remarried mother of three children, and her adolescent middle child, Daisy, the death of Eva's second husband John in a car accident turns their lives upside down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILMiller, Sue
Summary: Set in the vineyards of Northern California the story of a young girl who, in the wake of a tragic accident, seeks solace in a damaging love affair with a much older man.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MilleHornbacher, Marya
Summary: In the aftermath of her husband's devastating suicide, Claire Schiller moves with their two young children into the home of her in-laws during an oppressive Minnesota winter and shares unexpected moments of comfort, healing, and humor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORCole, Marjorie Kowalski.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLMcGahan, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCGMcCann, Richard.
Summary: With the breadth and cumulative force of a novel, this book presents ten interwoven stories of an American family in the post-World War II suburbs of Washington, D.C., a world of identical brick houses and sunstruck, treeless lawns, a world of initial hopefulness from which shame and loss have seemingly been banished. This is the story of two adolescent brothers whose father has suddenly died,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCShevah, Emma
Summary: Abandoned by her father at a young age, half-Japanese, half-Italian middle schooler Amber Miyamoto must dream up a way for her and her sister to make it on their own while making friends at her new school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SHEKring, Sandra.
Summary: Lucy McGowan is a 12-year-old genius with a photographic memory, an even more brilliant brother, Milo (IQ: 180), and a single mother, Tess, living in Chicago. What Lucy has that her brother doesn't is curiosity and people smarts, a quality that propels her to unearth the hidden relationships and buried secrets of her family. An imaginative and headstrong girl, Lucy finds herself on a grim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2008
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Summary: Forced into a humbler life with relatives in Ireland after the sudden death of her father, spoiled sixteen-year-old Tamara Goodwin discovers a diary of future entries written in her handwriting that she hopes will reveal the truth about her mother's troubling health.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AHEO'Carroll, Brendan
Summary: A widow struggles to support and raise her seven children in a central Dublin neighborhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OCAAhern, Cecelia
Summary: Tamara Goodwin has always lived in the here and now, never giving a second thought to tomorrow. Until a traveling library arrives in her tiny village, bringing with it a mysterious, large leather-bound book locked with a gold clasp and padlock.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AHECard, Maisy
Summary: "Centers on Abel and Vera Paisley, a working-class Jamaican couple striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Card 2020Card, Maisy
Summary: Abel and Vera Paisley are a working-class Jamaican couple, striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CARCarman, Patrick
Summary: Stanley Darrow isn't sure what to expect when the mysterious Mr. Gedrick appears on his doorstep. He is certain, however, that his family could use Mr. Gedrick s help: Their lives and their house have been a mess since Stanley's dad died.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CARSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002