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62) Island
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Seventeen-year-old Konrad arrives home to find his father's broken body at the bottom of a ravine, and learns his brother watched him fall. Konrad doesn't know if his brother pushed his father, or if he jumped or fell. Desperate for answers before calling the police, he confronts his brother and tries to reconstruct their past to figure out when and why their family disintegrated.
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Dubbed "Savage Gerry" by the media, Gerald Nichols has become a folk hero after he shot the men who'd killed his wife. He fled into northern Ontario with his thirteen-year-old son, Evers, but five years later he is captured. When the power mysteriously goes out at the prison the guards flee, leaving the inmates to die, but Gerald makes a jailbreak. This mad world is now populated by murderous bands of biker gangs that prey on scattered settlements...
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Combining the story of a mother and daughter in the Polish countryside, and a father and son on Vancouver's downtown east side, a mystery lurks. A house stands empty in Poland seventy-five years after its owners were killed, while in Vancouver, a murder in an east side pawn shop overturns the life of the victim's niece.
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"Your dad's not a good person. Your dad killed people, son. These are some of the last words Jack Givins' father spoke to him before he was whisked away by witness protection, leaving Jack and his mother to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives as best they could. Years later, Jack is a grown man with problems of his own. He's a talented but struggling author, barely scraping by on the royalties from his moderately successful first book. So...
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Sebastien sets out to find answers as to why his father disappeared years ago by posing as a member of the ship's crew on a luxury liner sailing the Mediterranean where his father is the commanding officer. After a public assault causes outrage among the ship's crew, Sebastien finds himself involved in a revolt against the oppressive ruling class of officers. As the clash intensifies, Sebastien exposes a secret his father has hidden that will compel...
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NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK IN ESSENCE MAGAZINE, THE MILLIONS AND BOOKISH
"Don't Cry for Me is a perfect song."—Jesmyn Ward
A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of empathy and forgiveness, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robert Jones Jr. and Alice Walker
As Jacob lies dying, he begins to write a letter to his only son, Isaac. They...
"Don't Cry for Me is a perfect song."—Jesmyn Ward
A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of empathy and forgiveness, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robert Jones Jr. and Alice Walker
As Jacob lies dying, he begins to write a letter to his only son, Isaac. They...
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Seven years ago, former bull rider Holt Williams left his twin sons in the arms of a beautiful stranger. Jessie Alden has raised them as her own ever since, but now Holt is back and determined to be a dad to his boys. For his dream of fatherhood to come true, he must prove he's really changed. What will it take to convince Jessie he's the good man she and the twins deserve?
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"A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. After a series...
70) Small worlds
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"Set over the course of three summers, Small Worlds follows Stephen, a first-generation Londoner born to Ghanaian immigrant parents, brother to Ray, and best friend to Adeline. On the cusp of big life changes, Stephen feels pressured to follow a certain track--a university degree, a move out of home--but when he decides instead to follow his first love, music, his world and family fracture in ways he didn't foresee. Now Stephen must find a path and...
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Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son, Robin, is funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals, and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from third grade for smashing his friend's face with a metal thermos....
72) Be mine
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Frank Bascombe book volume 5
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From Richard Ford comes the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe. Now in the twilight of life, Bascombe finds himself as the caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank faces down the mortality that is assured each of us, and in doing so confronts what happiness might signify at the end of days.
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"Alex loves his family, and yet he struggles to connect with his eight-year-old autistic son, Sam. The strain has pushed his marriage to the breaking point. So Alex moves in with his merrily irresponsible best friend on the world's most uncomfortable blow-up bed. As Alex navigates single life, long-buried family secrets, and part-time fatherhood, his son begins playing Minecraft. Sam's imagination blossoms and the game opens up a whole new world for...
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Ronan Szepessy promised himself he'd never return to Hudson. The sleepy upstate town was no place for a restless gay photographer. But his father is ill and New York City's distractions have become too much for him. He hopes that a quick visit will help him recharge. Hudson has a rich, proud history and, it turns out, the real-estate developers aren't the only forces threatening its well-being: the spirits undergirding this once-thriving industrial...
75) The ice house
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"Johnny MacKinnon might be on the verge of losing it all. The ice factory he married into, which he's run for decades, is facing devastating OSHA fines following a mysterious accident and may have to close. The only hope for Johnny's livelihood is that someone in the community saw something, but no one seems to be coming forward. He hasn't spoken to his son Corran back in Scotland since Corran's heroin addiction finally drove Johnny to the breaking...
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Lucky Smith and Paul Keller are vacationing in Banff, Alberta over the Thanksgiving weekend. At a local restaurant Lucky is bothered by two bullies and one turns out to be Paul's estranged son, Matt. Later that night Matt calls his dad and tells him he found his roommate, Barry dead. When Paul and Lucky arrive Matt has disappeared. Molly, aka Moonlight, arrives in Baniff as support for her mother, Lucky. Back in Trafalgar, BC Sergeant John Winters...
77) The bone tree
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Penn Cage novels volume 5
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Penn Cage's father, Dr. Tom Cage, stands accused of murder, and each effort to defend him unearths new, shocking secrets, leaving Penn to question whether he ever really knew his father at all. At issue is the murder of Tom's former nurse, Viola Turner. The district attorney is quick to point the finger at Tom, citing his decades-old relationship with Viola. When Tom is taken into custody, Penn must explore the dangerous territory of Tom and Viola's...
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"Tokyo, 1938. An amateur quartet, led by the compassionate Yu, gathers to practice. Suddenly, their rehearsal is brutally interrupted by military police. In the ensuing skirmish, Yu's violin is smashed while his son, Rei, witnesses his father's arrest. He will never see him again. Salvaging his father's instrument, Rei escapes thanks to a mysterious lieutenant. Paris, 2003. Raised in France, Rei-now Jacques-has dedicated his life to the broken violin's...
80) Ridgerunner
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In November, 1917, William Moreland is in mid-flight. After twenty years, the infamous thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the drifter, impoverished and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son's future. Twelve-year-old Jack Boulton was born in the woods to two outlaws, but now finds himself semi-orphaned...
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