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Flashlight : a novel / by Choi, Susan,1969-author.;
"One summer night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the breakwater. Her father is carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later, Louisa is found on the beach, soaked to the skin, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old. Louisa is an only child of parents who have severed themselves from the past. Her father, Serk, is Korean, but was born and raised in Japan; he lost touch with his family when they bought into the promises of postwar Pyongyang and relocated to North Korea. Her American mother, Anne, is estranged from her Midwestern family after a reckless adventure in her youth. And then there is Tobias, Anne's illegitimate son, whose reappearance in their lives will have astonishing consequences. But now it is just Anne and Louisa, Louisa and Anne, adrift and facing the challenges of ordinary life in the wake of great loss. United, separated, and also repelled by their mutual grief, they attempt to move on. But they cannot escape the echoes of that night. What really happened to Louisa's father? Shifting perspectives across time and character and turning back again and again to that night by the sea, Flashlight chases the shock waves of one family's catastrophe, even as they are swept up in the invisible currents of history. A monumental new novel from the National Book Award winner Susan Choi, Flashlight spans decades and continents in a spellbinding, heartgripping investigation of family, loss, memory, and the ways in which we are shaped by what we cannot see."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Fathers and daughters; Grief; Loss (Psychology); Memory; Missing persons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The ice twins / by Tremayne, S. K.,1963-;
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Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Detective and mystery stories.; Parent and child; Twin sisters; Daughters; Mistaken identity; Islands;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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And so I roar : a novel / by Daré, Abi,author.;
"A stunning, heartwrenching new novel from Abi Daré, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice When Tia accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother-terminally ill and lying in a hospital bed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria-and her aunt, the repercussions will send her on a desperate quest to uncover a secret her mother has been hiding for nearly two decades. Back home in Lagos a few days later, Adunni, a plucky fourteen-year-old runaway, is lying awake in Tia's guest room. Having escaped from her rural village in a desperate bid to seek a better future, she's finally found refuge with Tia, who has helped her enroll in school. It's always been Adunni's dream to get an education, and she's bursting with excitement. Suddenly, there's a horrible knocking at the front gate ... It's only the beginning of a harrowing ordeal that will see Tia forced to make a terrible choice between protecting Adunni or finally learning the truth behind the secret her mother has hidden from her. And Adunni will learn that her "louding voice," as she calls it, is more important than ever, as she must advocate to save not only herself but all the young women of her home village, Ikati. If she succeeds, she may transform Ikati into a place where girls are allowed to claim the bright futures they deserve-and shout their stories to the world"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Family secrets; Mothers and daughters; Villages;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Elsewhere / by Koontz, Dean R.(Dean Ray),1945-author.;
Since his wife left them, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, but when a local eccentric entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange device that allows people to jump between parallel planes, he and his daughter must outwit a man determined to obtain the device and use its grand potential for profound evil or the place that they call home may never be safe again.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Fathers and daughters; Space and time; Fourth dimension; Time travel;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Elsewhere [sound recording] / by Koontz, Dean R.(Dean Ray),1945-author.; Ballerini, Edoardo,1970-narrator.; Parks, Imani,narrator.; Brilliance Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Edoardo Ballerini and Imani Parks.Since his wife left them, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, but when a local eccentric entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange device that allows people to jump between parallel planes, he and his daughter must outwit a man determined to obtain the device and use its grand potential for profound evil or the place that they call home may never be safe again.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Fathers and daughters; Fourth dimension; Space and time; Time travel;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Emiko / by Uegaki, Chieri,author.;
"A fresh and charming YA romance, Emiko is a modern-day, Japanese-Canadian twist on Emma that will have readers giggling, swooning and kicking their feet as our proud yet sweet Austenian heroine discovers there's more to love than meets the eye. Self-declared matchmaking genius Emiko Kimori has already found success by helping her aunt find true love, so when the new girl in town becomes her new BFF, its only natural for Emiko to help set her up for social success with a suitable love match. Emiko lives with her Ojiichan in a small town on BC's Sunshine Coast surrounded by friends and neighbors, including her childhood friend Kenzo Sanada, who wants her to spend less time meddling in every else's love lives. But Emiko can so clearly see who belongs together, even when her targets don't know it themselves. She simply has to meddle -- for the sake of true love! As for her own romantic life though ... who has time for that? Emiko is far too busy with her matchmaking schemes, volunteering, her bustling social life and making plans for after graduation. Plans she will absolutely decide on soon. Definitely. Maybe? But when Emiko ends up falling for the very last person she expects, she finds herself caught in the tangled web of her own love matches! For the first time, instead of arranging from afar, Emiko has to figure out what it means to be in love herself, and that friendship and romance are more complicated than she ever imagined."--
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Fathers and daughters; Female friendship; Interpersonal relations; Mate selection; Young women; Fathers and daughters; Female friendship; Interpersonal relations; Mate selection; Young women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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One Italian summer : a novel / by Serle, Rebecca,author.;
"The New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic In Five Years returns with a moving and unforgettable exploration of the powerful bond between mother and daughter set on the breathtaking Amalfi Coast. "When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mom, but her best friend and first phone call. To make matters worse, the mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano. Katy has been waiting years for Carol to take her, and now she is faced with embarking on the adventure alone. But as soon as she steps foot on the beautiful Amalfi Coast, Katy begins to feel her mother's spirit. And then Carol appears for real-in the flesh, healthy and sun-tanned ... and thirty years old. Katy doesn't understand what is happening, or how. But over the course of her time in Italy, Katy gets to know Carol in this new form, and soon she must reconcile the mother who knew everything with the young woman who does not yet have a clue. One Italian Summer is Rebecca Serle's next great love story, a transcendent novel about how we move on after loss, and how the people we love never truly leave us"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Mothers and daughters; Mothers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Let us descend : a novel / by Ward, Jesmyn,author.;
In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Enslaved women; Mothers and daughters; Racially mixed people; Slavery;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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This road we traveled / by Kirkpatrick, Jane,1946-author.;
When Tabitha Brown's son makes the fateful decision to leave Missouri and strike out for Oregon, she refuses to be left behind. Despite her son's concerns, Tabitha hires her own wagon to join the party. Along with her reluctant daughter and her ever-hopeful granddaughter, the intrepid Tabitha has her misgivings. The trials they face along the way will severely test Tabitha's faith, courage, and ability to hope. With her family's survival on the line, she must make the ultimate sacrifice, plunging deeper into the wilderness to seek aid.
Subjects: Religious fiction.; Mothers and daughters; Frontier and pioneer life;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Between the tides / by Henry, Patti Callahan;
Subjects: Love stories; College teachers; Family secrets; Fathers and daughters; Self-realization;
© c2007., NAL Accent,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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