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1) Blind sight
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English
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Follows the experiences of a prospective college student who visits Los Angeles to meet the actor father he never knew, an encounter that introduces him to the gritty realities of show business and leads to a shattering revelation.
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In Mark Richard Zubro's Nerds Who Kill, Paul Turner is a widowed father of two teenaged boys, one of whom has spina bifida, rapidly approaching middle age, and used to dealing gracefully with all the challenges these things entail. Turner, however, is slightly different from others in his situation - he's openly gay and a homicide detective for the Chicago Police Department. Despite everything, his personal and family life is relatively placid. Until...
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Eldest curses ; 2
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English
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Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood must recover a book stolen by warlocks Ragnor Fell and Shinyun Jung, who are being controlled by a Greater Demon.
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English
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Marine biologist Ben Ransome understands the sea, but not people. His 16-year-old daughter Caddie is coming to stay the summer, but the sweet, happy child he remembers has been replaced by a wounded, angry stranger who resents everything about her father. Hudson Jones has come to Monterey to find answers. The young, ambitious graduate student believes he's found a lost Steinbeck novel that hints at the author's love for his best friend. If he can...
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Acre
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Big Familia follows Juan Gutiérrez, a self-employed single father, as he navigates a tumultuous year of inescapable change. His daughter, Stella, is on the verge of moving away to college; his lover, Jared, is pressing him for commitment; and his favorite watering hole--a ramshackle dive presided over by Bob the Bartender--is transforming into a karaoke hotspot. The story is set in a neighborhood that is also changing, gentrification inciting the...
10) Parallel
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Oni Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Karl Kling's story is one of revelations, and these he has addressed in a letter to his daughter, Hella, who had disowned Karl many years ago. Karl's letter is a cri de coeur from a father to a daughter he never really got to know, and he comes clean to her about his failed marriages, his fractured family relations--and his love for men."--
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