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1) The tempest
Author
Language
English
Description
Though written near the end of his career, The Tempest stands first in Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623. Recently redefined by modern criticism as a romance, the play has been read as an escapist fantasy, a political allegory, and a celebratory fiction. Most often, however, The Tempest is interpreted as a summary of Shakespeare's view of his own art of playwriting. In this edition, Stephen Orgel reassesses the evidence for each of these critical...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Nim is the precocious daughter of scientist father Jack. Nim, a bit older now, still has a gift to be "one with nature" and her amazing animal friends. But now that developers and poachers threaten her island, she and her dad must fight to preserve their pristine home and its abundant wildlife.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Single father J.T. and his precocious daughter Chandler move from a small town to Chicago with their lovable family mutt Shakey. After missing the fine print in their rental contract, J.T. is forced to find Shakey a new home. Chandler hatches a plan to keep Shakey and teach J.T. a valuable lesson about loyalty and the importance of keeping family together.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter, whom he's previously kept at arm's length to keep out of danger. First, he must complete one last mission, even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years while his wife...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A heartfelt father/daughter tale inspired by the heart-wrenching true story. When Nicki discovers two horses stranded deep in the snow, she is determined to get them off the mountain...somehow. With no other options, she picks up a shovel and starts to dig out the mile-long path of deep snow, inspiring first her father, Matt, and then the entire community to band together in the spirit of Christmas.
6) Maggie
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A post-apocalyptic thriller set against the backdrop of a deadly epidemic. As the nation reels from a virus that turns its victims into zombies, Wade's daughter Maggie has been infected. Now, as Maggie's condition worsens, Wade will stop at nothing to protect her from the authorities seeking to kill her to eradicate the virus.
8) Endless love
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A privileged girl and a charismatic boy share an instant desire that sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A Father's Choice: After the death of their mother, two young girls are forced to leave their life in the city and live with their estranged father, Mac, who is a rodeo cowboy. Though hostilities and challenges arise at first, Mac is determined to give it his best shot. Just as father and daughters are beginning to bond, Aunt Gayle steps in determined to gain custody.
Wrangler: While she's being wooed by two strong-willed suitors, Alice Richards...
10) Our wild hearts
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A coming of age story about a sophisticated young girl, Willow Johnson. She leaves Malibu for the beautiful High Country of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in order to find her father Jack Thomas and potentially create a loving relationship with him. After she meets up with Jack, the young girl discovers her first love in a wild, gifted mustang she names Bravo. The steed's indomitable spirit helps Willow find a love for spontaneity and adventure with...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When her father threatens to annul her marriage to a fortune-hunting playboy, spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews hops a cross-country bus to New York, where she plans to live happily ever after with her handsome new hubby. Romantic complications soon arise, however, when she's befriended by fellow passenger Peter Warne, a brash and breezy reporter who offers his help in exhange for her exclusive story.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This is a story about a sports broadcaster later turned morning talk show host Danny Tanner and his three little girls, D.J. (Donna Jo), Stephanie and Michelle Tanner. Before the show begins, Danny Tanner's wife is killed by a drunk driver. So he needs help raising his three little girls. He asks his rock musician brother-in-law, Jesse Katsopolis and his comedian best friend, Joey Gladstone to move in with them. As the show goes on, Jesse gets married...
13) What they had
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Bridget returns home at her brother's urging to deal with her father's reluctance to let go of their life together and her ailing mother.
14) Broken blossoms
Series
Pub. Date
℗2002, �1919.
Language
English
Description
Set in the Limehouse district of London, this is the story of Lucy, a 15-year-old living under the violent, abusive hand of her resentful prizefighter father, Battling Burrows. Driven from her home, she finds love and protection in the home of a gentle Chinese man. Together they begin to discover the joys that life has denied both of them until that time. Then Lucy's father finds her, brutally beats her protector, takes her back home, and, in his...
15) The wrestler
Language
English
Formats
Description
Back in the late '80s, Randy 'The Ram' Robinson was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, decades past his prime, he barely gets by working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee. He faces health problems that may end his wrestling career and is attempting to come to terms with his life outside the ring. He wants to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned in childhood and begins a relationship with a stripper....
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Serving her country is an honor for Judith, an army nurse whose Vietnam veteran father taught her the importance of sacrifice. After a tour in Iraq, she returns home and combats severe port-traumatic stress in the form of nightmares. She and her father share a loving bond strengthened by military camaraderie. Her brothers shockingly rebuff her, a snub that intensifies when their father dies suddenly. Face with the task of healing her family and mind,...
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In 1943 Alberta, 12-year-old Clara goes on a mystical journey on Christmas Eve to find her father who is thousands of miles away serving the country in the Second World War. She receives unexpected help from the mysterious Drosselmeyer who befriends Clara and encourages her to believe she can create magic.
19) Notorious
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When troubled beauty Alicia Huberman is recruited by American agent T.R. Devlin to infiltrate a German spy ring in postwar Rio, she accepts. When she receives orders to seduce a Nazi kingpin, Alicia must sacrifice the only happiness she's ever known for a perilous mission that could ultimately cost her and Devlin their lives.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gus Lobel has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus--who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat--refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickie, an associate at a high-powered Atlanta law firm.
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