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61) A place of peace
Author
Series
Kauffman Amish bakery volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Miriam Lapp returns to the Amish community she once belonged to when she hears of her mother's death. Amidst her grief and some painful lies from her past, she is forced to face the people who rejected her. Losing her once fianc�e and being shunned by her father becomes an excruciating test of her faith.
63) Something Wilder
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much patience for the profession . . . or much money in the bank. But Lily is nothing if not resourceful, and now uses Duke's coveted hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the treacherous and storied red rock canyons of Utah. It pays the bills but doesn't leave enough to fulfill her dream of buying back the beloved ranch...
64) Owl Moon
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On a winter's night under a full moon, father & daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Driving home one night, Gabe is stuck behind a rusty old car. He sees a little girl's face appear in its rear window. She mouths one word: Daddy. It's his five-year-old daughter, Izzy. He never sees her again. Three years later, Gabe spends his days and nights traveling up and down the highway, searching for the car that took his daughter, refusing to give up hope, even though most people believe she's dead. When the car that he saw escape with his...
Publisher
Leisure Entertainment
Pub. Date
1939.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Victorian England little Sara Crewe's widowed father is sent to the Boer War. When he is reported killed, the evil head mistress at her boarding school turns Sara into a servant. She suffers with dignity until her shell-shocked father returns.
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.
70) Astro girl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the roar of a low-flying plane awakens him in the middle of the night, Sheriff Winston Barnes knows something strange is happening at the nearby airfield on the coast of North Carolina. A large airplane has crash-landed and there are no signs of a pilot or cargo. When the body of a local man is discovered near the crash site, Winston begins a murder investigation that will change the course of his life and the fate of the community that he has...
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.
73) Never say die
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First world hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years after her father's plane crashed in the jungles of south-east Asia, Willy Jane Maitland is taking a trip through hell. Saigon is teeming, hot and dangerous. But her search for the truth about that fateful flight is about to make her life even hotter still."
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When enemies from his time in prison put a bounty on his head and target his family, Nate McClusky takes his eleven-year-old daughter Polly from in front of her school into a world of robbery, violence, and the constant threat of capture, or death.
Author
Series
Bridal Veil Island volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Audrey Cunningham's father proposes that they move to Bridal Veil Island, where he grew up, she agrees, thinking this will help keep him sober and close to God. But they arrive to find wealthy investors buying up land to build a grand resort on the secluded island--and they want the Cunninghams' acreage. Contractor Marshall Graham can't imagine why the former drinking buddy of his deceased father would beckon him to Bridal Veil Island. And when...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Already widowed by the age of forty, Ilka Nichols Jensen, a school portrait photographer, leads a modest, regimented, and uneventful life in Copenhagen. Until unexpected news rocks her quiet existence: Her father--who walked out suddenly and inexplicably on the family more than three decades ago--has died. And he's left her something in his will: his funeral home. In Racine, Wisconsin. Clinging to this last shred of communication from the father...
79) The fix-it man
Author
Publisher
EK
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her dad, who can fix anything, cannot easily fix their hearts following her mother's death, a young girl works alongside her father to rebuild their lives.