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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author comes "an almost flawless story of love" (Los Angeles Times).
In this modern classic, Morgan Gower works at Cullen's hardware store in north Baltimore. He has seven daughters and a warmhearted wife, but as he journeys into the gray area of middle age, he finds his household growing tedious. Then Morgan meets...
In this modern classic, Morgan Gower works at Cullen's hardware store in north Baltimore. He has seven daughters and a warmhearted wife, but as he journeys into the gray area of middle age, he finds his household growing tedious. Then Morgan meets...
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2022.
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In Benedict, Alaska, while on the annual Death March--a search of the community for those who might have somehow gotten stuck at home during the winter, Beth Rivers, dealing with her own trauma, is faced with a murder linked to her best friend Orin, who's been acting strangely lately.
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Happily Inc volume 6
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English
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"There's no place like Happily Inc. for the holidays Wynn Beauchene has a thriving business, a great kid and a mildly embarrassing crush on the guy next door-local cop Garrick McCabe. She's a strong, independent woman who can't help dreaming what-if about a man she barely knows. Until he needs her help Garrick's pregnant daughter will be home for Christmas, and his house needs a woman's touch. Garrick and his little girl were tight once and he's hoping...
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After WWII, the bleak, beautiful plains of South Dakota still embody the the ruggedness and the promise of the old frontier. You can eat strawberries from wild vines, lightning reveals a boundless horizon, and descendants of white settlers and Indians continue to collide. René shares a home and a passion for dance with her older brother, Leon. Yet their lives are on remarkably different paths. René is a born spitfire, Leon a gentle soul. The only...
8) Hero dad
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2010.
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A child demonstrates that while Dad differs from a traditional superhero, as an American soldier he is a superhero of a different kind.
9) Just because
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Candlewick Press
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2019.
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English
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When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.
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2023.
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"In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning returns from the military to his mother's home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn't really know who his father was, Syvert begins to investigate his life and finds clues pointing to the Soviet Union. What he learns changes his past and undermines the entire notion of who he is. But when his mother becomes ill, and he must care for his little brother,...
11) Mister Seahorse
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After Mrs. Seahorse lays her eggs on Mr. Seahorse's belly, he drifts through the water, greeting other fish fathers who are taking care of their eggs.
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The nationally bestselling author of The Amen Sisters and Up Pops the Devil, Angela Benson is one of the most exciting voices in contemporary African-American fiction. Her blistering family saga, Sins of the Father, is another glorious demonstration of her superior storytelling prowess. The tale of a wealthy black entrepreneur with two families and the catastrophic consequences when they both collide, Sins of the Father
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"Over the course of a long walk across a city, one curious kid needs to know: 'Does it have a butt?' Everything from sheep to ghosts to dinosaurs is subjected to this all-important question, and Dad is a never-ending source of answers. On a laugh-out-loud father-child ramble, we come to see that every butt, from a bullfrog's to a zombie's, has its own distinctive, and distinctively hilarious, quality."--
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2021.
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"In this hilarious and heartfelt memoir, award-winning, multi-talented entertainer Jamie Foxx shares the story of being raised by his no-nonsense grandmother, the glamour and pitfalls of life in Hollywood, and the lessons he took from both worlds to raise his two daughters"--
15) Too early
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2022.
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"...Too Early follows a family's morning routine from the perspective of the earliest riser--exploring both the groggy haze and the everyday magic inherent in the predawn hours of a loving household."--
17) Bad move
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In the too-quiet town of Oakwood, only the lucky die of boredom . . . and new homeowner Zack Walker isn’t feeling lucky. Whoever said the burbs were boring will think twice after reading Linwood Barclay’s hilarious debut mystery, in which Dad learns the hard way that he doesn’t always know best.
Zack wouldn’t blame you for thinking he’s safety-obsessed. True, he masterminded a plot to trade his family’s...
Zack wouldn’t blame you for thinking he’s safety-obsessed. True, he masterminded a plot to trade his family’s...
18) The barn
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In an effort to fulfill their dying father's last request, nine-year-old Ben and his brother and sister construct a barn on their land in the Oregon Territory.
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Sir Callie volume 1
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English
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Trapped in a rigid hierarchy where girls learn magic and boys train as knights, twelve-year-old nonbinary Callie, who dreams of becoming a knight, and their new friends find themselves embedded in an ancient war, but in order to defeat the threats outside the kingdom they must first defeat the bigotry within.
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Heaven trilogy volume 2
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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English
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Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
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