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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, but only her mother is willing to share her fears openly....
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Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Discovering that his troubled adult daughter has been kidnapped, a washed-up movie star with no money to pay the ransom turns to his closest friends, a legendary Hollywood stunt man and a disgraced former LAPD detective, to get her back"--
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Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Shaken by her parents' divorce, Nikki Werner seeks solace at her uncle's farm, leaving her life and relationships behind. She discovers her great-grandmother's notebook full of German recipes and wise sayings. With each recipe she makes, Nikki not only discovers her heritage but also learns to reconnect with what has been scattered"--
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Zibby Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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When Pearline receives grave news about her ailing father, she abruptly leaves Brooklyn for her childhood home in Jamaica. But Pearline isn't prepared for a tense reunion with her sisters or for her father's startling deathbed wish that she repair their long-broken family legacy and find the sister and two brothers no one has seen in more than 50 years. Moving through time and place, from modern-day Brooklyn and Montego Bay to 1930s Havana and back...
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Sutherland volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"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 stepchildren in Hawaii that she'll finally be allowed...
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Tin House
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"At the height of the Second World War in England, Nina Woodrow joins the Royal Air Force and rebels against her careful upbringing by embarking on an illicit affair with an officer. She risks losing everything for Guy Nicholson: her comfortable home, her childhood friends, and, especially, the love of her father, an enigmatic widower. Meanwhile, in the sleepy village where Nina grew up, where the upheavals of war seem far away and divorce remains...
7) Heavy crown
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Series
Brutal birthright romances volume 6
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"She was a temptation he couldn't resist...Sebastian Gallo couldn't believe it when her saw her being stuffed into a trunk: Yelena Yenina, the only daughter of the most vicious Bratva boss in Chicago. The Bratva hate Sebastian's family - in fact, they burned his uncle alive. He should have just left Yelena to her fate. But she fought like a Valkyrie - gorgeous, ferocious, and unbreakable. Sebastian had to save her, and after feeling the electricity...
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2024.
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English
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"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, pinning Christa and her family under the spotlight. As...
9) Daughter
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life -- and art -- of her own"--
10) IF THE BOOT FITS
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"Determined to prove that cattle king Eli Dearing has no justification for evicting his stepmother and half brothers, Asher Ellis uses the cover of a fancy ball to break into the Three Cedars ranch house to search for proof of wrongdoing. On the verge ofdiscovery, he flees, but a boy's cry compels him to make a daring rescue. Spunky and independent, Samantha Dearing balks when she learns the ball her father is hosting in her honor is nothing more...
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Penny has never met anyone smarter than her. That's par for the course when you're a savant -- one of less than one hundred in the world. But despite her photographic memory and super-powered intellect, there's one question Penny doesn't know the answer to: where did her father go when he left her and her mother years ago? On Penny's 21st birthday, she receives a card in the mail from her father, just as she has every year since he left. But this...
12) Girl abroad
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Publisher
Bloom Books, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"When nineteen-year-old Abbey Bly gets the opportunity to study abroad for a year in London, it's the perfect chance to finally slip out from under the thumb of her beloved but overbearing retired rock star father. She's ready to be free, to discover herself--but first off, to meet the girls she's rooming with. That is, until she arrives at her gorgeous new flat to discover those roommates are actually all boys. Charming, funny, insufferably attractive...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Minnow Hunter has always tried to lead the life her single father, Christopher, modeled -- private, quiet, hardworking, apolitical. So she is rocked when a split-second decision makes her the extremely public face of a scandal in the small town where she teaches. She even loses the support of her father, who stops speaking to her when the media start harassing him too. Overwhelmed, Minnow flees to a teaching position in Paris, hoping distance and...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins--a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful...
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