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The Djinn waits a hundred years / by Khan, Shubnum,author.;
"An ... atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago ... Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful tragedy, Sana and her effusive father are Akbar Manzil's newest residents. There they find a community of eccentrics, each suffering their own losses and likewise searching for something-escape, solace, absolution. As Sana becomes increasingly entwined in their stories, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the history of the mansion itself: to the overgrown garden and its strange assortment of bones; to the eerie and forgotten East Wing, home to a clutter of broken and abandoned objects; and to a dusty old bedroom, unopened for decades, where she finds faded photographs of Akbar Manzil's first residents and a worn diary with entries she cannot translate. As she explores the mansion's whispering corners, she dredges up its longest resident: a djinn, the only remnant of Akbar Manzil's dark past. With its help, she discovers the story of a young woman named Meena from a hundred years prior, the original owner's second wife, who lived in the East Wing at the height of Akbar Manzil's glory, whose tragic fate is the house's ultimate secret-and whose story is the answer that Sana had been searching for all along."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Novels.; Boardinghouses; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Family secrets; Fathers and daughters; Haunted houses; Jinn; Mansions; Secrecy; Tragedy;
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The girl behind the door : a father's quest to understand his daughter's suicide / by Brooks, John,1956-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Early one Tuesday morning John Brooks went to his teenage daughter's room to make sure she was getting up for school and found her room dark and "neater than usual." Casey was gone but he found a note: The car is parked at the Golden Gate Bridge. I'm sorry. Several hours later a security video was found that showed Casey stepping off the bridge. Brooks spent months after Casey's suicide trying to understand what led his seventeen-year-old daughter to take her life. He examines Casey's journey from her abandonment at birth in Poland, to the orphanage where she lived for the first fourteen months of her life, to her adoption and life with John and his wife Erika in Northern California. He reads. He talks to Casey's friends, teachers, doctors, therapists, and other parents. He consults adoption experts, researchers, clinicians, attachment therapists, and social workers. In The Girl Behind the Door, Brooks shares what he learned and asks "What did everyone miss? What could have been done differently?" He'd come to realize that Casey might have been helped if someone had recognized that she'd likely suffered an attachment disorder from her infancy--an affliction common among children who've been orphaned, neglected, and abused. This emotional deprivation in early childhood, from the lack of a secure attachment to a primary caregiver, can lead to a wide range of serious behavioral issues later in life. John's hope is that Casey's story, and what he discovered since her death, will help others. This important book is a wakeup call that parents, mental health professionals, and teens should read"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Brooks, Casey,; Brooks, John, 1956-; Adopted children; Adopted children; Attachment disorder in adolescence.; Fathers and daughters; Suicide;
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Time to roll / by Sumner, Jamie.;
When thirteen-year-old Ellie reluctantly agrees to enter a beauty pageant with her best friend Coralee, the director seems determined to feature Ellie and her wheelchair, so she must find a way to participate on her own terms, all while saving her friendship and forming a better relationship with her divorced dad.
Subjects: People with disabilities; Cerebral palsy; Best friends; Friendship; Beauty contests; Families; Fathers and daughters;
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Mademoiselle Eiffel : a novel / by Runyan, Aimie K.,author.;
"From the author of The School for German Brides and A Bakery in Paris, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century Paris tells the story of Claire Eiffel, a woman who played a significant role in maintaining her family's legacy and their iconic contributions to the city of Paris"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Eiffel, Gustave, 1832-1923; Architects; Caregivers; Eiffel Tower (Paris, France); Fathers and daughters; Man-woman relationships; Mothers;
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Nikki Tesla and the ferret-proof death ray / by Keating, Jess.; Marlin, Lissy.;
Nikki Tesla is a genius, who amuses herself by inventing things, like her father. Unfortunately most of her inventions have serious, even lethal potential (like the death ray, which just blew a hole in her floor), so she is enrolled in the special Genius Academy with classmates who are equally exceptional. When her death ray disappears she sets out to find out who took it and what they are planning to do with it.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Gifted children; Fathers and daughters; Children as inventors; Ferrets as pets; Private schools; Inventions; Weapons;
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Raised by a serial killer : discovering the truth about my father / by Balascio, April,author.;
"One evening in 2009, April Balascio was searching online, as she had been every night, for unsolved murders in the towns her family had lived growing up, when she stumbled across the latest investigations into the "Sweetheart Murders" cold case. All at once, the buried memories of her father's dark history were awakened, and she knew she had to take action. She picked up the phone to call a detective and the rest is infamous true crime history. In her unflinching memoir, Balascio bravely reveals an astonishing tale of a lifetime of manipulation, unexplained upheavals, and silent fear. Some part of her had always known what her father was capable of, but the full truth of how she came to these revelations is as riveting as it is quietly terrifying. Through searing storytelling, dedicated research, and intimate insight, Raised by a Serial Killer is a gripping, courageous memoir unlike any other"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; True crime stories.; Personal narratives.; Balascio, April.; Edwards, Edward, 1933-2011.; Fathers and daughters.; Serial murder investigation; Serial murderers; Serial murders; Serial murders;
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I am Sam [videorecording (DVD)] Je suis Sam / by Nelson, Jessie.; Penn, Sean,1960-; Pfeiffer, Michelle,1957-; Wiest, Dianne.;
Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianne Wiest, Dakota Fanning, Richard Schiff.A mentally challenged father enlists the aid of a high-powered attorney to help him regain custody of his daughter.CHV rating: PG.DVD, NTSC 1. DTS surround.
Subjects: People with mental disabilities; Parents with disabilities; Fathers and daughters; Custody of children; Feature films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired;
© c2002., New Line Home Entertainment ; Distributed in Canada by Alliance Atlantis,
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Tarnished and torn / by Blackwell, Juliet.;
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Ivory, Lily (Fictitious character); Fathers and daughters; Murder; Storekeepers; Witches;
© c2013., Obsidian Mystery,
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Mystery Road [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Kwanten, Ryan,1976-; Pedersen, Aaron,1970-; Spence, Bruce.; Weaving, Hugo,1960-; Well Go USA, Inc.;
Ryan Kwanten, Aaron Pedersen, Bruce Spence, Hugo Weaving.Detective Joe Swan returns to his small home town to investigate the murder of a teenaged Aboriginal girl. He finds himself alone and in growing danger as the towns secrets unravel.14A.Blue-ray.
Subjects: Detectives; Fathers and daughters; Feature films.; Murder; Murder; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2014., Well Go USA,
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Eureka [videorecording] / by Alonso, Lisandro,screenwriter,film director.; Clifford, Alaina,actor.; LaPointe, Sadie,actor.; Mastroianni, Chiara,1972-actor.; Mortensen, Viggo,1958-actor.; Caamaño, Martín,1980-screenwriter.; Casas, Fabián,1965-screenwriter.; Film Movement (Firm),film distributor.;
Viggo Mortensen, Chiara Mastroianni, Alaina Clifford, Sadie Lapointe.Traversing time, space and genre, Argentinian filmmaker Lisandro Alonso presents an elliptical meditation on the experiences of indigenous communities across the Americas. Opening in a dusty town of the Old West, reality soon transitions to contemporary South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation before finally landing in the jungles of 1970s Brazil. As the triptych unfolds, each temporal and spatial shift provokes metaphysical questions about colonial influence on native peoples and the ever-present tensions between indigeneity and the Western world.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; 5.1 surround, 2.0 stereophonic.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Indigenous peoples; Man-woman relationships; Indigenous people; Abduction; Kidnapping victims; Fathers and daughters; Indigenous peoples;
For private home use only.
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