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41) Western Lane
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Language
English
Description
After the death of her mother, eleven-year-old Gopi, who has been playing squash since she was a small child, is enlisted in a quietly brutal training regimen by her father, and soon the game becomes her world as she slowly distances herself from her sisters in hopes of becoming the best.
42) The waking land
Author
Series
Waking land volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"A young girl is kidnapped by the king to punish her father's rebellion against him. Years later, she returns home a fugitive, while grappling with a repressed magic that could, if mastered, make her the most powerful person in two kingdoms"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Since there wasn't enough proof to convict Alva's father for the murder of her mother, she's been forced to live in his house in Ormscaula, Scotland, being raised by the man she holds responsible for her motherlessness. His family has been called guardians of the loch for generations, and now it falls to her to monitor the water levels, despite not knowing what she's watching for -- or what may be watching her back.
Author
Publisher
Blue Dot Kids Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
A father wakes his child from sleep to beckon, "Come--we re off to find an Aurora. Through the silent frost, across fields, and up hills they climb And then they wait. Together they share an unforgettable moment and the majestic splendor of the northern and southern lights.
46) Thick as thieves
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Twenty years ago four individuals pulled a heist and almost walked away with half a million dollars. By daybreak one was in the hospital; one was in jail; one was dead. And one got away with it. Arden Maxwell, a daughter of the man who disappeared, has never reconciled with her father's abandonment of her and her sister. Returning to her family home near Caddo Lake, she finally get answers to the many questions that torment her. Unfortunately two...
47) Mirror's edge
Author
Series
Impostors (Scott Westerfeld) volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
Raised to be her twin sister Rafia's body double and bodyguard, but now with new face and body Frey and her lover Col are determined to return to Shreve to rescue Boss X, a friend and ally in the rebellion of the free cities against people like Frey's father, ruthless ruler of Shreve; but Frey is troubled by things even beyond the dangers of her mission--confusion over her own identity, guilt over having killed her brother (even if he was trying to...
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Language
English
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Description
"Loo is twelve when she moves back to the New England fishing village of her early youth. Her father, Hawley, finds work on the boats, while she undergoes the usual heartaches of a new kid in school. But lurking over Loo are mysteries, both of the mother who passed away, of the grandmother she's forbidden to speak to. And hurtling towards both father and daughter are the ghosts of Hawley's past. Before Loo's birth, he was a professional criminal engaged...
49) Terminal
Author
Series
Virals novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
Tory and her comrades must track a new pack of rogue Virals who have brought on the attention of a shadowy government organization intent on learning the secret to their powers.
51) The bear
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last two left. But when the girl suddenly finds herself alone in an unknown...
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Language
English
Description
One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit sets in motion events that lead to Worthy's arrest for murder and create an agonizing moral dilemma that could send either Worthy or Matthew to the hangman.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie...
54) River bodies
Author
Series
Northampton County novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Portland, Pennsylvania care for her ailing father, the former police chief, Becca Kingsley is drawn into a murder investigation that is linked to a twenty-year-old cold case and that causes her to start questioning all her past relationships as dark secrets come to light.
55) Echo north
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Language
English
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Description
After her father disappears, Echo meets a wolf who promises to make sure her father is returned home safely if Echo agrees to live with the wolf in his enchanted house for one year.
56) Lucky
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A thrilling rollercoaster ride about a heist gone terribly wrong, with a plucky protagonist who will win readers’ hearts."
57) What we harvest
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
The farms of Hollow's End were blessed with miracle crops, especially the shimmering, iridescent wheat of Wren's family farm, but then the black mercury blight came, and the blight destroys everything: crops turned to silver-black sludge, animals sickened and blinded, even people; Wren believes she is responsible, and desperate to save Hollow's End she turns to her ex-boyfriend--but they find that there is a lot they do not know about their town and...
60) My dad is a tree
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A little girl convinces her dad to be a tree all day long, no matter what, even in the rain, in this imaginative picture book that encourages playing pretend and pays tribute to parents"--
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