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81) The suspect
Author
Series
Kate Waters novels (Fiona Barton) volume 3
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Widow returns with a brand new novel of twisting psychological suspense about every parent's worst nightmare ... When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft, and frantic with worry. What were the girls up to before they disappeared? Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can to be first to the story, first...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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What if words got stuck in the back of your mouth whenever you tried to speak? What if they never came out the way you wanted them to? Sometimes it takes a change of perspective to get the words flowing. I wake up each morning with the sounds of words all around me. And I can't say them all . . . When a boy who stutters feels isolated, alone, and incapable of communicating in the way he'd like, it takes a kindly father and a walk by the river...
83) Afterland
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still hold, and life continues -- but a world run by women isn't always a better place. Twelve-year-old Miles is one of the last boys alive, and his mother, Cole, will protect him at all costs. On the run after a horrific act of violence-and pursued by Cole's own ruthless sister, Billie -- all Cole wants is to raise her kid somewhere he won't be preyed on as...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Daniel Russell was only thirteen years old when his father tried to kill them both by driving their car into Moon Lake. Miraculously surviving the crash and growing into adulthood, Daniel returns to the site of this traumatic incident in the hopes of recovering his father's car and bones. As he attempts to finally put to rest the memories that have plagued him for years, he discovers something even more shocking among the wreckage that has ties to...
85) Half brothers
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Two half brothers go on a road trip together in hopes of tracing the path their father took from Mexico to the US.
86) Take me with you
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Burned-out teacher August Schroeder has been sober since his nineteen-year-old son died. Every year he's spent the summer on the road, but making it to Yellowstone this year means everything. The plan had been to travel there with his son, but now August is making the trip with Phillip's ashes.
87) A perfect spy
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Language
English
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Magnus Pym, a middle-aged senior official in British intelligence at the British Embassy in Vienna, is enigmatic, accomplished, and suave -- a perfect spy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County-to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto-pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. A tale that...
89) Leo loves Daddy
Author
Series
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Leo and Daddy love to make pancakes for breakfast, dance to the beat, and go to the park together. When it's time to sleep, Daddy's hugs are the snuggliest.--
91) Squirm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"This summer, Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, save a neighbor's cat, save an endangered panther, and then try to save his own father. Carl Hiaasen tells a wickedly funny, slightly twisted tale about families, figuring out what's really important, and knowing when (and when not) to let things go."--Amazon.com.
92) Don't laugh, Joe
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mother Possum is in despair because her son cannot learn to play dead without laughing.
94) Winter
Author
Series
Seasonal (Ali Smith) volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. And now Arts mother is seeing things. Come to think of it, Arts seeing things himself. When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone? Winter. It makes things visible. Ali Smiths shapeshifting Winter casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era...
96) Sh*t my dad says
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Language
English
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Tuesdays with Morrie meets F My Life in this hilarious coming-of-age book about a son's relationship with his foul-mouthed father by the 29-year-old comedy writer who created the massively popular Twitter feed of the same name.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After 47 years of marriage, Ben's mother leaves her husband. With no where else to turn, Ben's father Sam is forced to get to know his son. Hysterical antics ensue as Ben and Sam strengthen their relationship while Ben helps Sam romance his mother.
98) The big kahuna
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A sinister adversary has Nick Fox and Kate O'Hare in his crosshairs. Unfortunately, the number one player on their team, Kate's father, is on the run after being betrayed by an old friend. The trio must watch their backs to rid the world of their two greatest foes, and clear their names.
99) Silent night
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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From legendary director John Woo and the producer of John Wick comes this gritty revenge tale of a tormented father who witnesses his young son die when caught in a gang's crossfire on Christmas Eve. While recovering from a wound that costs him his voice, he makes vengeance his life's mission and embarks on a punishing training regimen in order to avenge his son's death. Full of Woo's signature style, this film redefines the action genre with visceral,...
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