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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Therapist turned stay-at-home mom Jules Hart's idyllic suburban life shatters when she crashes her car into an icy lake. Her son and another teenage boy plunge into the water with her, but Jules can only manage to save one--the wrong one. Reeling from the death of her son, Jules spirals into a violent and unstable mental state. Ten months after the accident, she's still trying to reckon with the fact that she rescued Isaac Greer, another woman's...
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Language
English
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"On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born -- a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam -- and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between...
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Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Po's long-lost father, Li Shan, wants Po to return to the secret Panda Village where he was born. But that would mean saying good-bye to Shifu, the Furious Five, and Mr. Ping. Can Po find a way to bring everyone together?
45) Seek
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Rob becomes obsessed with searching the airwaves for his long-gone father, a radio announcer.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Soon to be a streaming series!
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, a tale playful, profound, and rife with mayhem and mischief―one of ten classic Gaiman works repackaged with elegant original watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry Sene Yee
When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't
...47) Be Frank with me
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Language
English
Description
Reclusive literary legend M. M. 'Mimi' Banning has been holed up in her Bel Air mansion for years. But after falling prey to a Bernie Madoff-style ponzi scheme, she's flat broke. Now Mimi must write a new book for the first time in decades, and to ensure the timely delivery of her manuscript, her New York publisher sends an assistant to monitor her progress. The prickly Mimi reluctantly complies, with a few stipulations: No Ivy-Leaguers or English...
48) Zero K: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The richest, wisest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don Delillo, one of the great American novelists of our time-- an ode to language, the heart of our humanity; a meditation on death and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a George Soros-like billionaire now in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a deeply remote and secret compound where death is controlled...
49) Flying!
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy's simple questions about why he cannot fly lead to an imaginative journey with his father.
51) Whatever
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Billy, unimpressed with everything his father does with him, always responds "whatever," until the world's "hungriest" tiger comes along and gets his attention.
52) Dad & me
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tommy is eager to listen with his father to the first American spacewalk, but his father has to go to work, and when he comes home in the evening they have some trouble reconnecting.
Publisher
Early Moments Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Marlin is a clownfish, who thinks the ocean is a big, scary place. But when his son, Nemo, is taken away, Marlin is ready to brave the entire ocean to find him. Along the way, father and son find out things they never knew about themselves and each other" -- page [4] of cover.
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Language
English
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"Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago--from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson"--
Quah, Oklahoma. In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult...
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