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Major motion picture Flag Day starring Sean Penn and his daughter Dylan Penn is based on this father-daughter story of a charming criminal—told by the daughter who loved him. One frosty winter morning in 1995, Jennifer Vogel opened the newspaper and read that her father had gone on the run. John Vogel, fifty-two, had been arrested for single-handedly counterfeiting nearly $20 million in U.S. currency—the fourth-largest sum ever seized by federal...

In the three years since her father caught her in the back seat of a car with an older boy, sixteen-year-old Deanna's life at home and school has been a nightmare, but while dreaming of escaping with her brother and his family, she discovers the power of forgiveness.

A seventeen-year-old Ozark Mountain girl sets out to track down her drug-dealing father who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared.

Life in New York in the 1980s is made more difficult for a middle school girl by problems at home and at school.

After Oxford College Master’s young daughter goes missing, the Scottish nanny recounts her time living in the family’s eerie and ancient house with the fiercely intelligent father, his new wife, and the nearly mute missing girl, who sees ghosts.

A woman finds the strength to overcome a painful history and faces the challenge of learning to trust and love again in this powerful and uplifting novel. Shay has never had a happy life. After growing up in an abusive home, she finally secures a job at a bank when her father passes away. Her brother, Caden, quickly falls into the wrong crowd and finds himself indebted to a dangerous drug lord. In a desperate attempt to rescue her only living family...

Twenty-eight-year-old Maggie Fuller relies on her looks and size zero body to flirt her way through life while working dozens of dead-end jobs and dreaming of stardom. Her older, larger sister, Rose, relies on her intelligence and is an accomplished attorney at a large Philadelphia firm. The only things these two seem to have in common is their shared history, a loathing for their "stepmonster," Sydelle, size six feet and a passion for luxurious shoes....

A straight-A student in a family of free-spirited artists must come to terms with the hard truths about those she loves most Very Sales-Woodruff is done being a good girl. Done being the only responsible one in a family that?s unraveling. Done being the obliging girlfriend in a relationship that?s sinking. Done saying no to what she wants?like Dominic, her rebellious classmate. With her mom?s drinking, her dad?s extended absences from home, and her...

Ryan's career is over. After winning a TV talent show and becoming a teen pop sensation, his fame and success has quickly been followed by addiction, media scrutiny, and career suicide. After a brief spell in rehab, 18-year-old Ryan has some rethinking to do. His stepdad - music promoter and self-appointed creator of 'RyLee' - wants him at home and in school, and under his thumb. But after an argument descends into violence, Ryan decides to run away...

The founder of the Heritage Home Foundation nonprofit documents her secret abuse-marked childhood in and out of foster care and what she discovered while investigating the story of her mother's own harrowing past.