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Author
Publisher
R. Laffont
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
Français
Description
A few days before her wedding, Julia receives a phone call from her father's private secretary. As she had foreseen, Anthony Walsh - a brilliant businessman, but a distant father - can not attend the ceremony. But for once, he has an excuse: he is dead. Julia can not help but see the tragicomic aspect of the situation. Her father always had a very special gift to appear suddenly and tilt the course of his life. So her wedding plans turn into a funeral...
43) Honey
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Language
English
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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.
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Language
English
Description
"Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no one else. When she is twelve, her father convinces the owner of a bar in Lake City, Texas, to let her perform, and she stuns the audience. In the ensuing years, never staying anywhere for long, father and daughter move from one dusty town to the next, her passion for music growing every time she takes the mike in another roadhouse. But it is not an easy life...
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Series
Campus diaries volume 1
Language
English
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"Gigi Graham has exactly three goals: qualify for the women's national hockey team, win Olympic gold, and step out of her famous father's shadow. So far, so good, except for two little things. Fine-a little thing and a big, grumpy thing. She needs to improve her game behind the net, and she needs help from Luke Ryder. Ryder is six-foot five, built, opinionated, rude...and sexy as hell. But he's still the enemy. Briar's new hockey co-captain has his...
49) Clockwork lives
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English
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Marinda Peake is a woman with a quiet, perfect life in a small village; she long ago gave up on her dreams and ambitions to take care of her ailing father, an alchemist and an inventor. When he dies, he gives Marinda a mysterious inheritance: a blank book that she must fill with other people's stories -- and ultimately her own.
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Español
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"Harper Lee trae una nueva novela emblemática ambientada dos décadas después de la historia de la obra maestra ganadora del Pulitzer, Matar a un ruiseñor Maycomb, Alabama. A sus veintiséis años, Jean Louise Finch «Scout» vuelve a casa desde la ciudad de Nueva York para visitar su anciano padre, Atticus. En el contexto de las tensiones por los derechos civiles y de los disturbios políticos que estaban transformando el Sur, el regreso de Jean...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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. ...
52) Ojalá supieras
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
Español
Description
Estrella misses her father after he is deported and she wishes that people around her understood what a massive hole he has left in her life.
53) The obsession
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Berkley hardcover edition.
Language
English
54) Good pirate
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When her father insists that a good pirate is rotten, sneaky, and brainy, sea pup Augusta sets out to prove that a pirate canbe sneaky and brainy while remaining fancy.
55) In the blue
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
A little girl whose father's world goes from bright and yellow to dark and blue gets frustrated when she is unable to help him, but knows that together, they can do anything.
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Language
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 birthday...
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English
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"A father and daughter living in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past in Kimi Cunningham Grant's These Silent Woods, a mesmerizing novel of suspense. No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world. For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods. And that's exactly the way Cooper wants it, because he's got a lot to...
Author
Publisher
Voice/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Her Boston family shattered by the deaths of her mother and sister on the Titanic, Sibyl attempts to contact her departed loved ones at a medium's table before reconnecting with former flame Ben, with whom she tackles a harrowing mystery.
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English
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"In 2041, David and his young daughter, Lou, flee from a drought-stricken Southern Europe that has been ravaged by thirst and war. Separated from the rest of their family and desperate to find them, they discover an ancient sailboat in a dried-out garden, miles away from the nearest shore. Signe's sailboat."--Amazon.com.
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Series
Corie Geller volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"When Corie Geller asked her parents to move from their apartment into the suburban McMansion she shares with her husband and teenage daughter, she assumed they'd fit right in with the placid life she'd opted for when she left the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the FBI. But then her dad gets a call from genial and slightly nerdy film professor, April Brown--one of the victims of the case he was never able to solve. When April was five years old, she'd...
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