Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Guardians of justice volume 3
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Kelly Warren claims her father's suicide was really murder, Detective Cole Taylor becomes embroiled in an investigation that reveals a startling secret.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p.: col. ill.; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her grandfather's funeral, Sarah wakes her father in the middle of the night so they can go to the lighthouse her grandfather loved and remember other night-time visits there.
63) Closer to home
Author
Series
Herald spy volume 1
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Trained as a spy by the King's Own Herald, an orphan named Mags rises through the ranks of the Heralds' Collegium and uses his powerful Mindspeech gift to outmaneuver a royal court plot that risks his mentor and family.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Given the ultimate chance to prove herself when a Russian defector walks into her post, brilliant young CIA officer Amanda Cole teams up with a fearless--and legendary--spy to unravel an international conspiracy--one shockingly linked to her father, a spy during the Cold War.
Author
Series
The House of Falconer volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"James Falconer--a tycoon and a self-made man--seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her thrall, but years have passed and bitterness has set...
66) The quiet game
Author
Series
Penn Cage volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Widower Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, where, finding that his father is being blackmailed, he reopens a notorious murder case that involves powerfully dangerous town forces, the FBI, and his own past.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unable to process the grief of losing his parents and brothers in a tragic ferry accident, Arvid Jansen, now divorced and living dangerously, is forced to come to terms with the fact that someone still needs him when his daughter reaches out to him for help.
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
332 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Against the wishes of his business partners, a dying Chef Julien decides to publish his secret recipes, and his daughter Chloe must search for the source of her father's seasonings while avoiding trouble from the opposition.
69) Eileen
Author
Language
English
Description
Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.
The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Forced from her home in postwar Paris, aspiring young writer Delphine Auber embarks on a journey to New York’s Harlem, and then to Havana and Key West, in search of her father, whom she believes is famed luminary Ernest Hemingway.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"What if you could take a vacation to your past, without the filter of memory? What would you give to go back in time and relive your youth, in person, with the people who shared it? On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice's life isn't terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn't exactly the one she expected. She's happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But something is missing. Her...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A father and his young daughter gather their tools and begin building a future where love can be set aside until it is needed, enemies become friends, and exploration is key.
73) Never knowing
Author
Language
English
Description
Struggling with a need for closure, Sara Gallagher attempts to reconnect with her birth parents only to learn that her biological father is an infamous serial killer, a discovery that causes her to fear she has inherited violent tendencies.
74) Trucker kid
Author
Publisher
Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Decades after her grieving father, a laid-off NASA scientist, triggers chaotic changes in his pursuit of life-extending technology, an astronaut confronts dangerous family secrets to stop a world-threatening crisis.
77) Winners: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
When a horrific chairlift accident leaves seventeen year old competitive skier Lily Thomas paralyzed, she must come to grips with the fact that she'll not only be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life, but will never fulfill her lifelong dream of winning Olympic gold. But just as all hope seems lost, Lily meets Teddy, a young man even more badly injured than she, but as doggedly determined to live an enriching life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tale inspired by the tenuous relationship between the third President and his eldest daughter, Martha, finds her returning after five years abroad to the family's Virginia plantation, where heartbreak and political challenges are complicated by her father's absence and her strong anti-slavery views.
79) What we find
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Between the urban bustle of Denver and the high-stress environment of a career in neurosurgery, Maggie Sullivan has hit a wall. When an emergency high-risk procedure results in the death of a teenager, Maggie finds herself in the middle of a lawsuit?and experiencing levels of anxiety she's never faced before. She knows she needs to slow down before she burns out completely, and the best place she can think to do that is Sullivan's Crossing. Named...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Neglected by her father who spends all of his time building a ghost machine to bring her mother back from the dead, twelve-year-old Emmaline decides that the only way to bring her father back will be to make the machine work, or destroy it forever.