Maddox, Jake
Summary: In order to play tennis with his local rec team, Deion agrees to play doubles, even though it feels like a different game to him--but he has the nagging feeling that he is holding his partner, Cole, back until they both accept help from Deion's stepfather who turns out to have wicked aim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADBennett, Kelly.
Summary: A little girl celebrates her two fathers, who are very different except in one very important way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BENThompson, Lisa (Lisa Anne)
Summary: Nate and his mother are escaping from his emotionally abusive step-father, Gary, but the run-down and abandoned cottage in the woods that his mother takes them to does not seem like much of a refuge; but when his mother goes off to buy provisions and does not come back Nate is left alone (except for his imaginary friend Sam) and afraid--until a mysterious girl trying to solve the clues of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION THOKhaw, Cassandra
Summary: "John Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. He's been hired by a ten-year-old to kill the kid's stepdad, McKinsey. The man in question is abusive, abrasive, and abominable. He's also a monster, which makes Persons the perfect thing to hunt him. Over the course of his ancient, arcane existence, he's hunted gods and demons, and broken them in his teeth....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHAHubbard, Kirsten.
Summary: "The signs are everywhere, acccording to Jory's stepfather, Caleb. The end is coming, and they must be prepared. School is Jory's only escape from Caleb's tight grasp, and with the help of new friends, he begins to explore a world beyond his family's desert ranch"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HUBSaul, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAUConnor, Leslie.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CONAndrews, V. C., [Virginia C.]
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ANDWoodiwiss, Kathleen E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOOWoodiwiss, Kathleen E.
Summary: Follows the relationship between Berengaria, who is forced into marriage with a nefarious squire, and her beloved Raven, a Scottish soldier determined to save her from an evil fate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: In the dust and shadows of the attic, they shared everything -- fanciful stories, high school crushes, plans for the future, dreams to travel the world. For Karen, the attic is her escape from the reality of her stepfather's unwanted attention. Together in the eaves of a house with its own murderous history, the best friends concoct a scheme that will put Karen's stepfather in his place. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDBailey, Tessa
Summary: Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father's dive bar... in Washington....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FARKramer, J. Kasper
Summary: In 1910 New York City, four years after her Irish immigrant father dies of tuberculosis, ten-year-old Essie's fear and anxiety continue to grow uncontrollably, so much that when her mother, a brave nurse, remarries and the family moves to North Brother Island, where Essie's new stepfather runs a quarantine hospital for the incurably sick, Essie imagines all manner of horrors, including the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Charles Dickens' 1850 classic epic, David Copperfield, unfolds the story of David, an optimistic and hard-working lad who's orphaned in his youth. Raised initially by his brutal stepfather, who halts David's schooling and sends him to work in a factory, David eventually finds a home with his eccentric, but kind aunt, Betsey. Later in life, David trains for a career in law, but eventually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DICBullard, Lisa.
Summary: Charley is sure that the first Halloween in his new house will be awful, until his stepfather takes him out trick-or-treating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BULSpafford-Fitz, Karen
Summary: Vienna is a mixed-M©♭tis teen whose mother has moved in with a man who turns out to be racist and violent. Vienna and her mother decide to end the situation by moving to a new city. In Edmonton, where she knows no one, Vienna goes to high school for her final year. Gradually, her school and home life feel more normal and she starts making friends. She joins the committee planning the school's...
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Spafford-Fitz 2018Thomas, Kara
Summary: The surviving sister of a cheerleader who was one of five girls who died violently years earlier realizes during a memory-laden memorial that the tragedies may have been more sinister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC THOClark, Mary Higgins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLAPilcher, Robin.
Summary: When Claire Barclay receives news that her beloved stepfather has had a stroke, Claire and her husband, Art, leave New York and fly back to Scotland to care for him during the summer. When their visit makes clear that Leo is no longer capable of living on his own but determined to stay in his beloved old house, they offer to purchase the place from Leo and build him a cottage on the property....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PILMcClintock, Norah
Summary: "In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, David is the prime suspect when his stepfather is murdered."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCCPilcher, Robin.
Summary: When Claire Barclay receives news that her beloved stepfather has had a stroke, Claire and her husband, Art, leave New York and fly back to Scotland to care for him during the summer. When their visit makes clear that Leo is no longer capable of living on his own but determined to stay in his beloved old house, they offer to purchase the place from Leo and build him a cottage on the property....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PILMontefiore, Santa
Summary: "Mischa knows what it is to be abandoned. His German father disappeared at the end of the war, leaving him and his mother to endure the hatred and contempt of all the French villagers, the two of them against the world. And his surrogate father vanishes too, with no word of explanation. Mischa bears these scars into manhood. Only when his mother dies, revealing the existence of a priceless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MONRobinson, Bruce
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 1999