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Washington Square (1881), by Henry James, tells the story of Catherine Sloper, the plain, obedient daughter of the widowed, well-to-do Dr. August Sloper of Washington Square. When a handsome, feckless man-about-town proposes to Catherine, her father forbids the marriage because he believes the man to be after Catherine's fortune and future inheritance. The conflict between father, daughter, and suitor provokes consequences in the lives of all three...
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Of the complex, richly rewarding masterworks he wrote in the last decade of his life, Little Dorrit is the book in which Charles Dickens most fully unleashed his indignation at the fallen state of mid-Victorian society. Crammed with persons and incidents in whose recreation nothing is accidental or spurious, containing, in its picture of the Circumlocution Office, the most witheringly exact satire of a bureaucracy we possess, Little Dorrit is a stunning...
3) Mary Barton
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"Mary Barton is the daughter of an active and embittered mill worker and trade unionist, John Barton. Flattered by the attentions of Henry Carson, the son of one of the mill owners, she rejects the love and devotion of her faithful admirer, Jem Wilson. But Henry Carson is murdered and suspicion falls on Jem. It is not only Mary who now has to consider her real allegiances and feelings as events unfold." -- Cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 22
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1090L
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While inebriated, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a sailor. When he realizes the horror of what he has done, he vows to change his life through hard work and fierce ambition, but his past and his guilt still haunt him.
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Nora Watts novels volume 2
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To find the truth about her father's life and death, Nora Watts, focused on the mysterious events of her father's past and the clues they provide to her own fractured identity, is led to a private investigator whose latest case is somehow connected to her.
6) Troll
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"Years ago, Fortune gave up on his daughter, Sophie, after a troubled adolescence. Now she's gone missing, vanished without trace. And after weeks of investigation, the police have given up on her, too. Driven by guilt, and a determination to atone for his failures as a father, he takes on the search himself. He soon finds that his daughter had been living in fear of a vicious online troll who seemed to know far too much about her. Could Sophie's...
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"Is murder in the blood? In a sleepy Devon village, a woman is taken from the streets. Local vet Jenny is horrified. This kind of thing doesn't happen here. But it's not the first time she's been so close to a crime scene. The daughter of a prolific serial killer, she's spent her whole life running from who she really is. And the crime is harrowingly similar to those her father committed all those years ago... But she's not her father's daughter....
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Moving to a senior citizen trailer park with her father, Hazel, the estranged wife of a corporate CEO who demanded she install a brain chip so that they could be constantly connected, tries to carve out a new life while her ex uses sophisticated technology to stalk her.
Hazel has just run out on her marriage to Byron Gogol, CEO and founder of Gogol Industries, a monolithic corporation hell-bent on making its products and technologies indispensable...
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When Erin Reece left Wolf Point, Montana, fifteen years ago after graduating high school, she'd planned to never set foot in her childhood hometown again. Two decades ago, people in Wolf Point started disappearing without a trace-- including Erin's mother-- and no explanation was ever found. But an urgent phone call from her father's doctor leaves Erin with no choice but to return. It's been years since the last disappearance, but the town is still...
11) Lea
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About a father's boundless love for his daughter as her obsessive desire to become a concert violinist drives them both to the brink of destruction.
12) The Good Father
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A beloved daughter. A devastating choice. And now there's no going back. Four years ago, nineteen-year-old Travis Brown made a choice: to raise his newborn daughter on his own. While most of his friends were out partying and meeting girls, Travis was at home, changing diapers and worrying about keeping food on the table. But he's never regretted his decision. Bella is the light of his life. The reason behind every move he makes. And so far, she is...
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As her father Sigmund's sounding board and chief collaborator, Anna Freud harbored secrets that could have shaken the foundation of his growing legacy. This is an insightful fictional glimpse into the Freud family dynamic and, most notably, its impact on Sigmund's theories about lesbianism. How did he receive the announcement that his daughter loved women? How did he deal with her long domestic partnership with another woman?
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Every night, Marc Laurent, an American taken hostage in Pakistan, is bound and blindfolded. And every night, a woman he knows only as Josephine visits his cell. At first, her questions are mercenary: Is there anyone back home who will pay the ransom? But when Marc can offer no name, she asks him a question about his daughter that is even more terrifying than his captivity. And so begins a strange yet increasingly comforting ritual, in which Josephine...
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Rich and Sandy were once environmental activists, part of a world-famous blockade in Tasmania to save the wilderness. Now, twenty-five years later, they have both settled into the uncomfortable compromises of middle age, although they've gone about it in very different ways. About the only thing they have in common these days is their fifteen-year-old daughter, Sophie. When Rich decides to take Sophie, whom he hardly knows, on a trek into the Tasmanian...
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The summer that her father falls in love with Emma, Jenny Bohner is just turning eleven, Jenny was three when her mother died, and since then Brannon Bohner has traveled with his daughter from one seasonal job to another, picking up girlfriends along the way. Somehow Emma is different, traveling with them from Idaho to Kentucky, filling Jenny with hopes of a real family. But something still troubles her, surfacing through years of memories--tempting...
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"Joe McKee - pillar of the Derry community - is dead. As arrangements are made for the traditional Irish wake, friends and family are left reeling at how cancer could have taken this much-loved man so soon. But grief is the last thing that Joe's daughter Ciara and step-daughter Heidi feel. For they knew the real Joe - the man who was supposed to protect them and did anything but. As the mourners gather, the police do too, with doubt being cast over...
18) Fiona Range
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Raised by a prominent aunt and uncle in Boston, thirty-year-old Fiona Range hits bottom when her characteristic recklessness backfires, and, determined to change her life, she seeks a relationship with the Vietnam veteran father who wants nothing to do with her.
20) Blood
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"Who attacked Dad? When corrupt, brutal dentist Albert Ludd is found battered and bloody after failing to attend a memorial party for his youngest son, a soldier, suspicion falls on his other children, especially 37-year-old buxom bruiser Monica, who was heard uttering threats against her absent father. How come her car is found outside his house? Why did she buy a large axe? Yet, Monica's a deputy head. Blood is a Gothic black comedy seen through...
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