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1781) Niagara motel
Publisher
[Distributed by] Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Niagara Motel: Niagara Falls is a romantic destination for honeymooners, but at one particular motel, the payment is under the table and the guests are over the edge!
Independent: Morty Fineman, with the help of his estranged daughter Paloma, tries to find the money to put out his latest film, Ms. Kevorkian.
1782) Space dumplins
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Violet Marlocke sets out with a group of misfit friends on an outer space mission to save her father who has gone missing during a hazardous job, leading them all into an adventure filled with aliens and spaceships.
For Violet Marlocke, family is the most important thing in the whole galaxy. So when her father goes missing while on a hazardous job, she can't just sit around and do nothing. To get him back, Violet throws caution to the stars and sets...
1784) Cybele's secret
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Scholarly eighteen-year-old Paula and her merchant father journey from Transylvania to Istanbul to buy an ancient pagan artifact rumored to be charmed, but others, including a handsome Portuguese pirate and an envoy from the magical Wildwood, want to acquire the item, as well.
1785) Crying laughing
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of tenth grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv...
Author
Series
Uptown girls volume 1
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In serving the wealthy power brokers of New York society, Frank Tripp has finally gained the respectability and security his own upbringing lacked. There's no issue he cannot fix...except for one: the beautiful and reckless daughter of an important client who doesn't seem to understand the word danger. Excitement lay just below Forty-Second Street and Mamie Greene is determined to explore all of it-while playing a modern-day Robin Hood along the way....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When New York City fourteen-year-old Corina impulsively reveals incriminating information about her multi-billionaire father, he replaces her unlimited funds with an antiquated cell phone, a Metrocard, and a twenty-dollar weekly allowance.
1788) Girl upside down
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sent to live with her estranged father Nick, 15-year-old Quinn tries to build a new life for herself, including a relationship with her new classmate Kel.
After her mother's death, Quinn is sent to live with her estranged father, Nick, who walked out on their family years ago. Set on hating her new life, Quinn is surprised when she meets Kel. Her new classmate has a reputation around town as a phenom at both baseball and attracting trouble. Once...
1789) The things she's seen
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The ghost of a girl who recently died in an accident makes contact with her grieving father to help solve a mystery in a remote Australian town, where a girl who speaks entirely in riddles is the only witness to a fatal fire.
Nothing has been the same for Beth Teller since the day she died. Her dad, a detective, was the only one able to see and hear her since the accident, but he is drowning in grief. But why is Isobel Catching able to see Beth,...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Camp nowhere: A group of kids create their own camp with the help of an out-of-work drama teacher.
Baby secret of the lost legend: While on an expedition to Africa, a scientist and her husband discover a newborn brontosaurus. Soon they find themselves under attack by an evil paleozoologist who will stop at nothing to capture and exploit the prehistoric beast.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
I've got seven days to come clean to my new dad. Seven days to tell the truth... For sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly, life hasn't been safe or normal for a while. Losing her mom to cancer has her a little bit traumatized and now she has to leave her hometown of Chicago to live with the biological dad she's never known. Anthony Stone is a rich man with four other daughters--and rules for every second of the day. Tiffany tries to make the best of things,...
1792) The dead and the dark
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When Logan, the adopted daughter of reality television ghosthunters, teams up with Ashley to search for missing teens in Snakebite, Oregon, they find themselves falling for each other as they uncover a hidden evil.
Snakebite, Oregon. The Dark has been waiting for far too long, and it won't stay hidden any longer. Teenagers are disappearing, some turning up dead. All fingers seem to point to TV's most popular ghost hunters who have just returned to...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Acquisition Corp. LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Attrition: Ex-special forces agent and Kung Fu expert, Axe, has renounced his violent past and turned to a life as a healer in small, remote village. But when a local crime lord kidnaps a girl known to have mythical powers Axe gets back into the game.
Driven to kill: With rage only a father's love can match, Ruslan will stop at nothing to bring justice when his daughter is attacked.
Kill switch: Detective Jacob King is a legend known for always...
1794) Girl abroad
Author
Publisher
Bloom Books, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When nineteen-year-old Abbey Bly gets the opportunity to study abroad for a year in London, it's the perfect chance to finally slip out from under the thumb of her beloved but overbearing retired rock star father. She's ready to be free, to discover herself--but first off, to meet the girls she's rooming with. That is, until she arrives at her gorgeous new flat to discover those roommates are actually all boys. Charming, funny, insufferably attractive...
1796) In search of mockingbird
Author
Publisher
Square Fish, an imprint of Macmillan
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Erin receives her long-dead mother's diary, which reveals that she too revered Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and wanted to be a writer, and Erin impulsively decides to take the Greyhound bus from St. Paul, Minnesota to Monroeville, Alabama, to visit the reclusive author.
1797) What a Desi girl wants
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Mehar did not come to India planning to break up her estranged father's wedding, but she is convinced that socialite Naz is only after his money and title; except she soon begins to question many of her assumptions about her parents' relationship, and her own place in his world--especially when she begins to fall in love with Sufiya, her grandmother's assistant.
1798) The greed
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Gwendolyn Bloom is dead. But even armed with a new passport and identity, the danger is far from over. Her father is safe... but Gwen still hasn't untangled all his lies from the truth. Meanwhile, her enemies are closing in with a vengeance.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang is sold to a human trafficker for a bag of rice and six silver coins. Her mother is reluctant to let her go, but the promise of a better life for her beloved daughter ultimately sways her. Arriving in America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of Guifeng, her absent father, Sixiang journeys across an unfamiliar American landscape in the hopes of reuniting her family....
1800) Secrets of the sun
Author
Series
Publisher
Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A memoir about a daughter trying to understand her father's genius, mental illness, violence, and past. Touches on Japanese culture, immigration, racism, WWII, and the Asian American experience"--