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- The Home for Wayward Girls : a novel / by Bradley, Marcia,author.;
- Growing up in the 1990s, Loretta knows little of life beyond the Home for Wayward Girls, the secluded ranch where her parents run a program designed to "correct" teen girls' "bad behavior." Loretta witnesses firsthand how the adults use abusive discipline to crush these young women's spirits and break their wills. Since childhood she's been afraid of her father, and avoids him by spending time with the residents, secretly teaching them the survival skills they'll need in case they manage to escape. One day, a horrifying act of violence forces Loretta to flee the ranch herself. Eventually finding safety and a sympathetic community, Loretta dedicates herself to working with lost, vulnerable, and defenseless teens, determined to prevent the same thing from happening to other girls like her.
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Reformatories; Runaway teenagers; Teenage girls;
- The man of many fathers : life lessons disguised as a memoir / by Wood, Roy,Jr.,1978-author.;
- "From comedian, Emmy-nominated writer and producer, and former Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr., an unforgettable, laugh-out-loud funny memoir revealing that sometimes the best advice comes from the most surprising teachers. When Roy Wood Jr. held his baby boy for the first time, he was relieved that his son was happy and healthy, but he felt a strange mix of joy and apprehension. Roy's own father, a voice of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama, had passed away when Roy was sixteen. There were gaps in the lessons passed down from father to son and, holding his own child, Roy wondered: Have I managed to fill in those blanks, to learn the lessons I will one day need to teach my boy? So Roy looked back to figure out who had taught him lessons throughout his life and which he could pass down to his son. Some of his father figures were clear, like a colorful man from Philadelphia navigating life after prison, who taught Roy the value of having a vision for his life, or his fellow comedians, who showed him what it took to make it as a working stand-up performer. Others were less obvious, from the teenage friends who convinced him to race "leaf boats" carrying lit matches in the middle of a drought to a drug-addicted restaurant colleague who played hoops while Roy scoured dirty dishes to big names in Hollywood, like Trevor Noah and more. In The Man of Many Fathers, Roy shares what he's learned with humor and heart, delivering the most memorable lessons, such as how to channel anger through a more successful outlet (hint: never ever try to outfox a single mom), how not to get caught snitching (hint: never snitch), and how to become a good man -- and a good dad (hint: listen to your fathers)"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Wood, Roy, Jr., 1978-; African American comedians; African American actors; African American entertainers; Comedians; Entertainers; Fathers; Fathers and sons; Father figures.; Fatherhood.; Motion picture actors and actresses;
- Happy Wife: A Read with Jenna Pick A Novel [electronic resource] : by Lavender, Meredith.aut; Shores, Kendall.aut; CloudLibrary;
- NATIONAL BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • A young woman must find her missing husband and prove her innocence in this twisty, unputdownable novel set in an ultrawealthy Florida community where looks can kill. “Happy Wife is one of those delicious, fun summer books that you’ll open on the beach and never put down.”—Jenna Bush Hager, Read With Jenna Nora Davies doesn’t exactly fit in to Winter Park, Florida, where old-guard Floridians mix with the tax-fleeing coastal elite. Twenty-eight and barely making ends meet working at a country club, Nora feels like she’s going nowhere fast. Enter Will Somerset: a prominent forty-six-year-old lawyer, father to a teenage daughter, and recently divorced. The two set Winter Park’s social scene agog when they fall in love and marry after a whirlwind Cinderella-style courtship. But Winter Park is fully upended when Will disappears the morning after a birthday bash Nora throws for him. Going back and forth between Nora and Will’s romance and the search in the wake of Will’s mysterious disappearance, Nora must answer the question from all angles: Where. Is. Will? Combining breathless suspense, glittering and juicy social dynamics, and an unforgettable cast of characters, Happy Wife is a clever and subversive novel that explores marriage, wealth, and the secrets that lurk behind closed doors.
- Subjects: Electronic books.; Suspense; Contemporary Women;
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- Beyond danger / by Martin, Kat.;
- Texas mogul Beau Reese is furious. His sixty-year-old father, Stewart, a former state senator no less, has impregnated a teenager. Barely able to contain his anger, Beau is in for another surprise. It appears that Stewart has moved an entirely different woman into the house... Beau assumes that stunning Cassidy Jones is his father's mistress. At least she's of age. But those concerns take a sudden backseat when he finds Stewart in a pool of blood on the floor of his study--and Cassidy walks in to find Beau with his hand on the murder weapon.
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Romance fiction.; Businessmen; Women detectives; Murder; Legislators; Man-woman relationships; Family secrets; Mistresses;
- The president's daughter : a thriller / by Clinton, Bill,1946-author.; Patterson, James,1947-author.;
- "Matthew Keating, a one-time Navy SEAL--and a past president--has always defended his family as staunchly as he has his country. Now those defenses are under attack. A madman abducts Keating's teenage daughter, Melanie--turning every parent's deepest fear into a matter of national security. As the world watches in real time, Keating embarks on a one-man special-ops mission that tests his strengths: as a leader, a warrior, and a father"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Political fiction.; Kidnapping; Ex-presidents; Children of presidents; Fathers and daughters;
- California Bear : a novel / by Swierczynski, Duane,author.;
- A serial killer who vanished 40 years prior emerges from hibernation and is being tracked by a retired LAPD officer, a teenager with a terminal disease and a genealogist trying to repair her marriage.
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Cancer; Ex-police officers; Fathers and daughters; Serial murderers; Women genealogists;
- The way out : a true story of survival in the heart of the Rockies / by O'Neil, Devon,1979-author.;
- A harrowing, never-before-told story of life and death in the Colorado mountains -- thirty hours that changed lives forever and forced a reckoning about the cost of adventure. Fifteen-year-old Cole Walters-Schaler couldn't resist. This was why they'd come to the backcountry, after all -- three fathers and four teenage children together for a bonding alpine getaway outside Salida, Colorado, in January 2017. Within minutes, Cole and Brett Beasley, a longtime Forest Service ranger and expert outdoorsman in his mid-forties, had pushed off from their cabin, expecting to be gone for a half hour or so. But an unforgiving blizzard transformed their quick jaunt into a thirty-hour ordeal that would end in tragedy, as the community raced to find them. The Way Out is the story of those ensuing hours and their aftermath -- an almost unbelievable event that shook a tight-knit mountain community and raised difficult questions about life and death, guilt and redemption, and the pursuit of adventure. Why, when we know that the wilderness can kill, can't we stay away? When the unthinkable happens, how does a community forgive the survivors? And how do the survivors forgive themselves? Drawing on firsthand interviews with those closest to the tragedy, including the key eyewitness, and written with the gripping intensity of classics such as Into Thin Air and Touching the Void, O'Neil recreates that fateful day. The Way Out is a thoughtful investigation of the allure of the mountains and the aftermath of trauma, and an unforgettable look at life at its very edge.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Beasley, Brett.; Walters-Schaler, Cole.; Blizzards; Skiing accidents; Survival;
- You don't have to die in the end : a novel / by Daher, Anita,1965-;
- Eugenia Grimm is a tough girl who drinks and fights--and who is hurting because of her father's suicide and her mother's abandonment. After a serious incident, she is sent to a support and supervision program at a remote mountain ranch with the hope of turning her life around.LSC
- Subjects: Teenage girls; Alcoholism; Dysfunctional families; Rehabilitation;
- Oshi no ko. [graphic novel] / by Akasaka, Aka,author.; Blackman, Abigail,letterer.; Engel, Taylor,translator.; Yokoyari, Mengo,illustrator.; translation of:Akasaka, Aka.Oshi no ko.English.;
- "Hoping to glean more information about his father, Aqua agrees to join the dating reality show We're About to Fall in Love for Real! Most of the production's teenage-celeb cast members are in it for the exposure, but not all publicity is good publicity. When the footage can be edited for maximum drama, 'reality' becomes whatever the director wants it to be -even if that means leaving someone's reputation on the cutting room floor."--Back cover.Rated: OT, Older teen.
- Subjects: Detective and mystery comics.; Graphic novels.; Manga.; Celebrities; Entertainers; Children of murder victims; High school students; Murder; Reincarnation; Siblings; Twins;
- The boys from Biloxi / by Grisham, John,author.;
- "#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham returns to Mississippi in his most gripping legal thriller yet, the riveting story of two sons of immigrant families who grow up as friends, but ultimately find themselves on opposite sides of the law. Grisham's trademark twists and turns will keep you tearing through the pages until the stunning conclusion. For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends, as well as Little League all-stars. But as teenagers, their lives took them in different directions. Keith's father became a legendary prosecutor, determined to "clean up the Coast." Hugh's father became the "Boss" of Biloxi's criminal underground. Keith went to law school and followed in his father's footsteps. Hugh preferred the nightlife and worked in his father's clubs. The two families were headed for a showdown, one that would happen in a courtroom. Life itself hangs in the balance in The Boys from Biloxi, a sweeping saga rich with history and with a large cast of unforgettable characters"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Legal fiction (Literature); Novels.; Agency (Law); Families; Friendship;
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