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"Over the course of a long walk across a city, one curious kid needs to know: 'Does it have a butt?' Everything from sheep to ghosts to dinosaurs is subjected to this all-important question, and Dad is a never-ending source of answers. On a laugh-out-loud father-child ramble, we come to see that every butt, from a bullfrog's to a zombie's, has its own distinctive, and distinctively hilarious, quality."--
2) Just because
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.
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"The fourth installment in the gripping, atmospheric Alaska Wild series, Paige Shelton's Winter's End. It's springtime in Benedict, Alaska, and with it the warmer weather comes an unseasonably somber local tradition... the annual Death Walk. At the end of each brutal winter, citizens gather downtown and then break into groups to search the community for those who might have somehow gotten stuck at home. Beth Rivers sets off with her friend Orin and...
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Morning Star (Karl Ove Knausgaard) volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel that questions the responsibilities we have toward one another and ourselves-and the limits of what we can understand about life itself. In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning returns from the military to his mother's home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn't really know who his father...
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When a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, the event forever alters the 11-year-old's understanding of the world. A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots Wife. The events of a December afternoon, during which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, will forever alter the 11-year-old girls understanding...
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Adrian Gray was born in May 1862 and met his death through violence, at the hands of one of his own children, at Christmas, 1931. Thus begins a classic crime novel published in 1933 that has been too long neglected - until now. It is a riveting portrait of the psychology of a murderer. Each December, Adrian Gray invites his extended family to stay at his lonely house, Kings Poplars. None of Gray's six surviving children is fond of him; several have...
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"An absentee father collects his son from boarding school after a shocking act of violence. A nanny to a celebrity family hides out in Laurel Canyon in the aftermath of a tabloid scandal. A young woman sells her underwear to strangers. A notorious guest arrives at a placid, not-quite rehab in the Southwest. In ten remarkable stories, Emma Cline portrays moments when the ordinary is disturbed, when daily life buckles, revealing the perversity and violence...
8) Elmet
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FINALIST FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
**The Guardian Best Books of 2017 * December Indie Next Pick * Amazon Best of the Month * Amazon Debut Spotlight * PEOPLE Magazine BOOK OF THE WEEK**
“Beguiling . . . A lyrical and mythic work . . . Mozley’s sheer storytelling confidence sends the reader sailing.”
─New York Times
"A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable."...
**The Guardian Best Books of 2017 * December Indie Next Pick * Amazon Best of the Month * Amazon Debut Spotlight * PEOPLE Magazine BOOK OF THE WEEK**
“Beguiling . . . A lyrical and mythic work . . . Mozley’s sheer storytelling confidence sends the reader sailing.”
─New York Times
"A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable."...
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Valdemar universe. Family Spies volume 1
Novel of Valdemar
DAW book collectors volume no. 1789
DAW book collectors volume 1789
Novel of Valdemar
DAW book collectors volume no. 1789
DAW book collectors volume 1789
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English
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"Heralds Mags and Amily must continue to protect the realm of Valdemar while raising their children and preparing them to follow in their footsteps...The oldest, Justyn, has the Gift of animal Mindspeech--he can talk to animals and persuade them to act as he wishes. Justyn's dream is to follow in his father's footsteps as a Herald Spy, but has yet to be Chosen by his horse companion...Mags proposes that Justyn join a group of traveling players and...
12) Daddy and me
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Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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A variety of children tell the many different things they love to do with their fathers.
13) Up, up, up, down
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text follow a baby and father through a day filled with ups and downs, ons and offs, and plenty of fun.
14) Daddy's home
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A mild-mannered radio executive strives to become the best stepdad to his wife's two children. But complications ensue when their freewheeling and freeloading real father arrives, forcing him to compete for the affection of the kids. The two competing dads suddenly find themselves in a heated competition for affection. One brings home a dog; the other brings home a pony. And this war only escalates from there.
16) Mister Seahorse
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English
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"After Mrs. Seahorse lays her eggs on Mr. Seahorse's belly, he drifts through the water, greeting other fish fathers who are taking care of their eggs"--Provided by publisher.
18) Tad and Dad
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Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A growing tadpole loves his frog dad so much he never gives him a moment's peace"--
19) Daddy hug
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Animal fathers give hugs that come in all shapes and sizes, and each one is filled with love.
20) Hero dad
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Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A child demonstrates that while Dad differs from a traditional superhero, as an American soldier he is a superhero of a different kind.
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