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1081) The dummy line: a novel
Author
Publisher
AmazonEncore
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Jake Crosby's nine-year-old daughter Katy is pure tomboy, and her dad couldn't be happier. Since she was old enough to walk, Katy has shared Jake's love of the outdoors, taking to hunting and fishing as quickly as other kids take to baseball or bike-riding. As he packs the truck for a spring turkey hunt, he vows to savor the time with his little girl. But Jake's hope for an idyllic weekend are shattered when a band of drug dealers attempts to break...
Author
Publisher
Dell Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From the author of How to Save a Life comes a heartfelt story of two people finding the courage to choose love, no matter how hard it may be. Gemma thought she had her future all mapped out-a wonderful husband, a cute apartment, plans to start a family. But just months after her wedding, illness took her husband from her. And now she's trying to think up new dreams, when all she really wants are her old ones back. Across town, Dan's also rethinking...
1083) Last one alive
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen months after the Parkman case, Dr. Hartford has returned to Chicago to finish her surgical residency. But when she is contacted out of the blue by Solange McClelland, the only survivor of a decade-old triple homicide, Emily is compelled to dig deeper. She doesn't know the details of the event but remembers it as one of the few cases her deceased father never solved. On her thirtieth birthday, Solange opens a long-forgotten safe-deposit...
1084) Malibú renace
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Malibú: agosto de 1983 Como cada año, ha llegado el día de la fiesta de final de verano organizada por Nina Riva, y la expectación es máxima. Todo el mundo quiere estar cerca de los famosos hermanos Riva: Nina, la talentosa surfista y supermodelo; Jay y Hud, un campeón del surf y un conocido fotógrafo respectivamente; y la adorada Kit, la más joven de la familia. Los cuatro hermanos despiertan auténtica fascinación tanto en Malibú como...
1085) Mañana a esta hora
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Español
Description
En vísperas de cumplir 40 años, Alice está razonablemente feliz con su vida, su trabajo, su situación romántica y adora a su mejor amiga. Pero su padre, el padre soltero que la crió, está enfermo y fuera de su alcance. Cuando Alice se despierta a la mañana siguiente, allá por 1996, no es su cuerpo de 16 años el mayor shock, ni la posibilidad de un romance con la persona que le gusta adolescente, es su padre: el vital, encantador, de 49 años....
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
His little cowgirl: "She's your daughter." The adorable girl in pink cowboy boots is his child? Six years ago, rodeo star Cody Jacobs left the woman he loved without looking back. Now, with newfound faith, he's come to make amends--only to discover the daughter he didn't know about. Struggling single mother Bailey Cross is rightfully wary to trust him with their child's heart--and her own. But Cody's not running away again. Hearing his little cowgirl...
1087) Honor and desire
Author
Series
Publisher
Violet Gaze Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For as long as anyone can remember Seylah Wickes-Barnes has been at the side of August Leclaire, her best friend and the boy her fathers took under their wing. Now a grown woman and looking for love, Seylah's deepest regret, and secret, is quickly coming to surface: She has been in love with August for as long as she can remember. For years she has been content in her role as secretary to the Sheriff's department in Gold Sky, Montana. Mostly for...
1088) Original sin
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Continuing the Deep Space Nine saga--an original novel from New York Times bestselling author David R. George III! At the end of 2385, in a significant shift of its goals from military back to exploratory, Starfleet sent Captain Benjamin Sisko and the crew of the U.S.S. Robinson on an extended mission into the Gamma Quadrant. Tasked with a yearlong assignment to travel unknown regions, they set out to fulfill the heart of Starfleet's charter: to...
1090) El final de la historia
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"Estaré muerto en tres meses. Vengo a contar mi historia. Esta es la escalofriante invitación de Sebastian Trapp, reconocido novelista de misterio, a Nicky Hunter, la profesora y crítica experta en su obra con la que mantiene una relación epistolar. Desde la mansión del autor en San Francisco, Nicky comienza a desentrañar la historia de la vida de Trapp bajo las atentas miradas de su enigmática esposa y de su hija mayor. Pero Sebastian Trapp...
1091) A silence of desire
Author
Publisher
John Day Co
Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
Description
"A story of faith vs rationalism, set in modern India, (as was the earlier book, N in a Sieve) told with deceptive simplicity, without overt mysticism, but with a gentle everyday realism appropriate to its hero, Dandeker. A Europeanized Indian, Dandeker is proud of his success within the pattern; he is a minor clerk, lives in an apartment, and has a family and a traditional, dutiful wife, Sarojini. When Sarojini's behavior becomes unusual, his first...
Author
Series
Publisher
Plata
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Una joven que crece en una finca lejana y exuberante, a salvo del conflicto y las luchas de la península de Yucatán. La única hija de un investigador que es un genio o un loco... Montgomery Laughton: un capataz melancólico con un pasado trágico y propensión al alcohol. Un paria que ayuda al Dr. Moreau en sus experimentos, que son financiados por los Lizalde, dueños de magníficas haciendas y arcas abundantes... Los híbridos: Los frutos del...
1093) Snow angels: Vol. 1
Author
Series
Snow angels ; 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Milliken, Mae, and their father arrive back at their camp, after a hunting trip, they discover everyone else dead, that the legend of the Snowman is true, and he is seeking vengeance because someone has broken the rules."--
"Two of the most acclaimed comics creators of their generation--writer Jeff Lemire and artist Jock--together for the first time in this ten-part science fiction saga set in a brutal world like no other! Milliken and Mae...
1094) Parallel
Author
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Karl Kling's story is one of revelations, and these he has addressed in a letter to his daughter, Hella, who had disowned Karl many years ago. Karl's letter is a cri de coeur from a father to a daughter he never really got to know, and he comes clean to her about his failed marriages, his fractured family relations--and his love for men."--
1095) Us two together
Author
Series
Publisher
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An account of the author's experience of her father's illness, primary progressive aphasia, in graphic novel format"--
1096) Username: Evie
Author
Publisher
Running Press Book Publishers, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A socially-isolated teenage girl is given the opportunity to save a virtual world, which her father created for her, from descending into chaos. All the while, she must fend off high school bullies and help her ailing father.
1097) Hobo mom
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A single father and pre-teen daughter are reunited with the woman who once left them, forcing all three to confront their own notions of happiness and whether someone who covets independence so strongly can ever settle down, no matter the cost." --
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"After the sudden death of his wife, Maida, Gene is haunted by the fear that their marriage was not all it appeared to be. Alongside Ed and Gayle Donnelly, friends since college days, he tries to resurrect happy memories of the times the two couples shared, raising their children in a small New Hampshire town and vacationing together at a lake house every summer. Meanwhile, his daughter, Dary, challenges not only his happy version of the past but...
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