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Garber, Elizabeth W.

Summary: "This haunting memoir describes visionary architect Woodie Garber's descent into madness and follows Elizabeth's inspiring journey to emerge from her abuse, gain understanding and freedom from her father's control, and go on to become a loving mother and a healer who helps others"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 GARBER, ELIZABETH W GAR

Bishop, Jenn

Summary: New to Cincinnati, where her father is now coach of the University basketball team, eighth-grader Aurora (called Rory) finds herself isolated by the heated team rivalries--especially when it turns out her new friend Abby's father has a mysterious feud with Rory's father that threatens her new friendship.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023

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

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

Abbott, Karen

Summary: "The epic true crime story of bootlegger George Remus and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey. Within two years he's a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.771 ABB

Lee, C. B.

Summary: 1826. The legendary Dragon Fleet, the scourge of the South China Sea, is no more. Xiang has grown up with stories about the Dragon Fleet and its ruthless leader, a woman known only as the Dragon Queen. Desperate to set sail and explore, Xiang mainly wishes to find her father, a crew member of the Dragon Fleet. Her only memento of him is a simple but plain piece of gold jewelry. The pendant's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021

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

Rojas Contreras, Ingrid

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022

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Walsh, Barbara (Barbara Ann)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: TwoDot 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.807 WALSH, BARBARA WAL

Ruths, Mitali Banerjee

Summary: At her mother's request Priya is planning a surprise anniversary party for her father, but she is finding it hard to keep it a secret from her inquisitive dad.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE RUT

Azuma, Kiyohiko

Summary: The curious and curiouser Yotsuba moves to a new town with her dad. In the process of moving in, Yotsuba encounters things like swingsets and broken door handles, which all bring about a never-ending torrent of questions and shrieks of amazement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2009

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Keating, Jess

Summary: "When Mary Shelley is kidnapped by a mad scientist, Nikki Tesla and the other members of the Genius Academy team are forced to agree to steal a priceless, lethal high-tech ring in order to free her; but Nikki also plans to use the heist to get closer to her long-lost father who claims he is not the criminal mastermind she believes him to be." --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020

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

Cowdrey, Richard

Summary: Fiona the hippo faces the challenges of growing up with an "I've got this!" attitude.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COW

Ferguson, Jenny

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriend-whose kisses never made her feel desire, only discomfort-and her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word. But when she gets a letter from her biological father--a man she hoped would...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

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

Brennan-Jobs, Lisa

Summary: A frank, smart, and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents, artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs, Lisa Brennan-Jobs' childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2018

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BRENNAN-JOBS BRE

Heyman, Stephen

Summary: "How a literary idol of the Lost Generation launched America's organic and sustainable food movement. In interwar France, Louis Bromfield was equally famous as a writer and as a gardener. He pruned dahlias with Edith Wharton, weeded Gertrude Stein's vegetable patch, and fed the starving artists who flocked to his farmhouse outside Paris. His best-selling novels earned him a Pulitzer-and the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROMFIELD, LOUIS HEY

Mitchard, Jacquelyn

Summary: Stunned by her recently widowed father's reckless behavior, a young woman must learn to navigate a new world--where the people she should trust the most have become strangers she cannot trust at all. Frankie Attleboro returns home to Cape Cod with thrilling news. She's met the love of her life, they're getting married and have a baby on the way. Her talented, charismatic father overshadows her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2023

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MIT

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIT

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIT

Hume, Mark

Summary: "A unique and radiant memoir about fatherhood and fly fishing. Fishing was Mark Hume's passion since he was a young boy, a lifeline through a childhood marked by impermanence. When he became a father, he knew he wanted to pass on his love of fishing and the natural world to his daughters. Most of all, he wanted to give them hope for their future even as they were growing up during an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUME, MARK HUM

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2023

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

Loewinsohn, Briana

Summary: "Ephemera is a poetic and dreamlike take on a graphic memoir set in a garden, a forest, and a greenhouse. The story drifts among a grown woman, her early memories as a child, and the gossamer existence of her mother. A lyrical entry in the field of graphic medicine, Ephemera is a story about a daughter trying to relate to a parent who struggles with mental illness. Gorgeously illustrated in a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books Inc. 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOEWINSOHN, BRIA LOE

Reichl, Ruth.

Summary: Chronicles the mother-daughter relationship of culinary author Ruth Reichl, now editor-in-chief of Gourmet Magazine, and her late mother, Miriam. Miriam Brudno, who bowed to societal and familial pressure to become a wife and a mother over pursuing a fulfilling career, cheered her daughter on and pointed out that Ruth had an obligation, both to herself and to her mother, to use her life well.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation Reichl

Reichl, Ruth.

Summary: Chronicles the mother-daughter relationship of culinary author Ruth Reichl, now editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, and her late mother, Miriam. Miriam Brudno, who bowed to societal and familial pressure to become a wife and a mother over pursuing a fulfilling career, cheered her daughter on and pointed out that Ruth had an obligation, both to herself and to her mother, to use her life well.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation Reichl

Larson, Kirby

Summary: Tess Medina is dealing with the loss of her beloved father, a new school, and the troubling fact that the thing she enjoys most in life, baking, seems to be making her increasingly ill--something she is trying to hide from everybody.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024

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Summary: 20-year-old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancee, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MAM

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAM

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAM

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MAM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mamma 2008

Ekster, Carol Gordon

Summary: Athena thinks that her father, who drives a truck, has the most amazing job in the world, but she is having trouble convincing her classmates--until she comes up with a plan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE EKS

Stohler, Lauren

Summary: After a long, itchy, uncomfortable day in clothes, a slew of fuzzy friends and her understanding Dad convince Cody that not all pajamas are bad.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STO

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