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1281) Grandma's doll
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Sheila Nickels knows what she'll pick from the treasures stored in her grandmother's attic: an antique doll she loved as a child. But when she arrives to find the doll missing, her search leads her to antique dealer Dwaine Wood's door - and some unexpected feelings. Will a search for a lost childhood treasure end with newfound love?"--
1282) Family business
Author
Series
Family business volume 1
Publisher
Praise Unlimited Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Demetrius Shepherd is the only son of Don Shepherd, a notorious gangster who ruled the streets of Ohio with an iron fist. He spent many years grooming his son in their business. Loyalty to the family was expected at all cost, but when Demetrius breaks the rules and goes against the family, only God can stop the wrath of Don Shepherd. Angel Barnes always thought she would follow in the footsteps of her beloved father and become a preacher. But after...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Travel to beautiful Tuscany with Lina who, still grieving her mother's death, is forced to spend time with a father she never knew. But Lina isn't in the mood for Italy's famous sunshine or fairy-tale landscape. All Lina wants to do is go back home...until she's given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly, Lina is uncovering a world of magic and romance. It's a world that inspires her, along with the ever so charming Ren,...
1285) Hotel Vendôme: a novel
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
After his wife leaves him for another man, Hugues Martin's life revolves solely around two things: the celebrated five-star hotel he owns and manages in New York City and his daughter Heloise. But their little world is transformed forever when Heloise moves to France for hotel school and Hugues meets his match in Natalie Peterson, a woman who understands him and his love for the Vendôme.
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Elsa's icy rescue: Elsa cannot wait to spend time at her family's summer home and test her icy powers. But after a series of magical mishaps, Elsa begins to wonder if she has what it takes to one day become queen of Arendelle, or if her powers might be a curse after all...
Tiana's best surprise: Princess Tiana is planning a surprise. Her daddy's birthday is coming up and she wants to make him the best gumbo ever. But there's one problem--she's never...
1288) Daddy's girl
Author
Publisher
Worthy Kids, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Read along as a young girl prepares for and enjoys an afternoon tea party with her dad and her teddy bear.
1289) When it falls apart
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Brooke Turner has always had a complicated relationship with her father. But when his health takes a turn for the worse, she drops everything to care for him. What Brooke doesn't anticipate is a cross-country move to San Diego. Luca D'Angelo is the oldest of three children and a single father to a young daughter. When his mother rents the top floor of their house to Brooke, he's angry. As Luca learns of Brooke's difficult journey, his heart softens....
Author
Series
Three little girls dressed in blue volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Teased by her sisters for her lack of interest in a young man worth her devotion, former Bostonian Amoretta Ipswich secretly holds on to a dream of marrying the gypsy Brake McClendon.
1291) Las alumbradas
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Las hermanas Fernández tienen distintos anhelos, pero vivirán y sufrirán juntas las hazañas y desventuras que conlleva encontrar el propio camino y, sobre todo, la felicidad. Guerrero, principios del siglo xx. Una tragedia cambiará para siempre el destino de la familia Fernández. Tras la muerte de la señora Micaela y la pequeña Milena, don Ismael tendrá que seguir adelante con sus cuatro hijas, quienes entran en la madurez de manera forzada....
1292) Matar a un ruisenor
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
A gripping, heartwrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming of age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father, a crusading local lawyer, risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
1293) La cabeza de mi padre
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Escribo para soltar el peso de cuarenta años rumiando el mito de mi padre, las infinitas versiones de mi padre. A sus cuarenta años, como un road trip, sin más referente que una fotografía vieja, una hija emprende la búsqueda de su padre. Mientras narra la decisión de ir a conocerlo y el viaje que la lleva de Ciudad de México a Michoacán, iremos construyendo, junto a ella, el pasado, los amores, las alegrías, los accidentes, las ausencias....
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This novel follows the intertwining stories of three women from vastly diverse cultures searching for personal peace in postgenocide Rwanda. Lillian Carlson traveled to Africa from Atlanta in 1970 wanting to better the world with an orphanage in Rwanda's rift valley. Two decades later, Rachel Shepherd, a white bartender in her mid-thirties, embarks on a journey to find the father who abandoned her as a child during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. There...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Although the Winds of Mackinac Inn has been in her mother's family for generations, Maude Welling's father refuses to let her run it without the guidance of a husband. So she seeks to prove her worth and independence by working incognito as a maid at the Grand Hotel. While undercover journalist Ben Steffan pursues a story about impoverished men chasing heiresses at the famed hotel, he becomes attracted to an intriguing maid. By an act of heroism Ben...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In late-eighteenth-century Ireland, accidental stargazer Caroline Ainsworth learns that her life is not what it seems when her father, Arthur, throws himself from his rooftop observatory. Caroline had often assisted her father with his observations, in pursuit of an unknown planet; when astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus, Caroline could only watch helplessly as unremitting jealousy drove Arthur to madness. Now, gone blind from staring at...
1297) The rabbit girls
Author
Publisher
Brilliance: Audible Studios
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Berlin, 1989. As the wall between East and West falls, Miriam Winter cares for her dying father, Henryk. When he cries out for someone named Frieda – and Miriam discovers an Auschwitz tattoo hidden under his watch strap – Henryk’s secret history begins to unravel. Searching for more clues of her father’s past, Miriam finds an inmate uniform from the Ravensbrück women’s camp concealed among her mother’s things. Within its seams are dozens...
1298) Sweet dreams
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Kate McGraw, the lone female on the US Marshals fugitive task force, is on the trail of homicidal bank robber when she is shot by a drugged-up ex-con. While she is in the hospital recuperating, a mysterious stranger leaves a bouquet of flowers in her room. Days later Kate is discharged. Still recuperating, she sees a man in a car parked on the street watching her apartment. This is the third time she has seen him. Kate gets the license number, follows...
1299) The duke's refuge
Author
Series
The Leeward Islands volume Book 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Georgia Lennox has traded in her boyish ways for pink gowns and a coy smile to capture the eye of the Earl of Claremont. However, on the day she's convinced the earl will propose, Georgia is shipped off to the Leeward Islands to care for her ailing father. But when she arrives on Nevis, the last thing she expects is to learn that her abrupt departure was not at her father's bidding but that of the infuriating, yet captivating, island schoolmaster....