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From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret--one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her family's dark history. What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young's whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the...
42) Fear the worst
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
Description
Long and short of it--Barclay delivers on the hype. Fear the Worst starts with one of the better opening lines I've read in a while: "The morning of the day I lost her, my daughter asked me to scramble her some eggs." It's such a simple sentence, speaking of everyday domesticity. You can picture a father. You can picture a daughter. Yet you're already filled with dread. A bad thing has happened. And yeah, for the next four hundred pages, the bad thing...
43) Muse
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Series
Muse duology volume 1
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English
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The year is 1893, and war is brewing in the First American Kingdom. Claire Emerson's father is a sought-after inventor, but he believes his genius is a gift granted to him by his daughter's touch, so he keeps Claire under his control. As their province prepares for war Claire plans to escape, even as her best friend, Beatrix, tries to convince her to stay and help with the growing resistance movement that wants to see a woman on the throne. When her...
44) The awakening
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Series
Dragon heart legacy volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Breen Kelly hates her job and has massive student loan debt and lately she has noticed a silver-haired man following her. While house sitting for her mother, she finds records of a multimillion dollar inheritance in her name. When she flies to Ireland to claim what is rightfully hers, she enters a magical land of faeries, elves, and mermaids. In this new land, she will embrace powers she never knew she had.
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"Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman's highest virtue was her obedience. In an...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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A serial killer is kidnapping young girls, breaking their bones, and leaving them to die. Ryan Evans is an intelligence officer who is alienated from his own family. When the BoneMan kidnaps Ryan's daughter, Ryan must take on this deranged killer himself to save her.
47) The unseen world
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English
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In her third novel, Moore (Heft) delivers a striking examination of family, memory, and technology. Leaping from the 1980s to the early 2000s, this is the story of young Ada Sibelius and her brilliant computer scientist father, David, who runs a lab at a prestigious college in Boston, working to develop a lifelike artificial intelligence program, ELIXIR. Ada is being raised nontraditionally-educated by David and his lab colleagues, treated as one...
48) Dad by my side
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"A child celebrates a close connection with her father, from how they play together and teach each other new things to how he protects her and always makes time for her"--
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Artisan
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English
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"My Father the Chef. My Father the Cult Leader. My Father the Duke. These men (Jacques Pépin, Saul Newton, and John Wayne, respectively) are among the famous-and infamous-fathers featured in To Me, He Was Just Dad, a collection of first-person essays written by the children of some of the world's most fascinating men. Though these men may be familiar to the reader, their children offer a unique, intimate view of them at their most unvarnished, through...
51) On a summer tide
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English
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"When her father buys an island off the coast of Maine with the hope of breathing new life into it, Camden Grayson thinks he's lost his mind. An unexpected event sends Cam to his rescue, and she discovers the island has its own way of living and loving" --
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Two Dollar Radio
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English
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It's 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump rope, puddle of urine on the floor, barely alive. Upstairs, 14-year-old Mae had fallen into one of her trances, often a result of feeling too closely attuned to her mother's dark moods. After Marianne is unwillingly admitted to a mental hospital, Edie and Mae are forced to move from their childhood home in Louisiana to New York to live with their estranged...
53) The curfew
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Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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"William and Molly lead a life of small pleasures, riddles at the kitchen table, and games of string and orange peels. All around them a city rages with war. When the uprising began, William's wife was taken, leaving him alone with their young daughter. They keep their heads down and try to remain unnoticed as police patrol the streets, enforcing a curfew and arresting citizens. But when an old friend seeks William out, claiming to know what happened...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In New York City, newly single Caroline is stumbling her way through the recent implosion of her life. After a surprise breakup leaves her with no job, no apartment, and no backup plan, she's unsure of what to do next. That is, until Caroline's father, Leo, injures himself in a bad fall and asks her to move home to the Jersey Shore suburb she'd always been desperate to escape. But Leo doesn't want his daughter to be his caretaker; he needs her to...
56) Honey
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When she suspects that her father has a girlfriend, Melody and her best friend are determined to figure out who it is and why it is a secret.
57) Death's daughter
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Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"For the last few years I'd been in a state of bliss--living under a self-imposed Forgetting Charm, becaus I so did not want to go into the family business. And then my father's Executive Assistant, a faun named Jarvis, showed up to tell me that my dad had been kidnapped. Good-bye, Forgetting Charm. Hello, (unwanted) responsibility..."--p.[4] of cover.
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2015.
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English
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The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caregiver in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime,...
59) Hair love
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A little girl's daddy steps in to help her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful self.
60) Astro girl
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After Astrid tells her father that she wants to be an astronaut, he tells her of all the things that astronauts have to do.
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