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In 1961 fifteen-year-old Pert, who lives with her mother in Kinship, Georgia, meets her long-absent father and discovers the true meaning of home.

Presents Shakespeare's tragedy in which an English king foolishly splits his kingdom between the two daughters plotting his doom and disinherits his favorite for speaking out against him; and includes an introduction, notes, a modern perspective essay, an annotated further reading list, and a key to famous lines.

Imogene, the daughter of King Cymbeline, is persecuted by her wicked stepmother, the Queen, and by Cloten, the Queen's doltish son.

Silas Marner is a grumpy weaver who is obsessed with making a lot of money.

Thirteen-year-old Wendy, grieving the death of her mother in the collapse of the World Trade Center, is taken to live with her father in California where she learns important life lessons from a variety of people before returning home to her stepfather and brother, where she feels she truly belongs.

A fictionalized account of the life of Judith Shakespeare in which she tries to cope with her famous father's life.

A graphic novel about the daily life of a nineteen-year-old girl named Aya living in Yopougon, Africa, during 1978; exploring her relationships with her father, who manages a beer company, and two best friends, who are determined to marry a wealthy man, and her own ambitions to attend college and become a scientist.

In Amsterdam in the mid-1600s, Cornelia's life as the illegitimate child of renowned painter Rembrandt is marked by plague, poverty, and despair at ever earning her father's love, until she sees hope for a better future in the eyes of a wealthy suitor.

Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to apprehend a criminal who is murdering characters from works of literature and has chosen Jane Eyre as his next victim.

Wealthy and beautiful African-American twins Sydney and Lauren both face boyfriend problems as they continue to delve into a murder mystery that somehow involves both their father and stepfather.

Wealthy and beautiful African American twin sisters Sydney and Lauren must solve a family mystery before their privileged life in Atlanta comes to an end.

Eddie Reeves's father commits suicide, and as she seeks for answers, she meets Culler Evans, a photographer and former student of her father's who may know the secret to her father's death.

Sixteen-year-old Jude wants to get away from her reputation as an outsider and her pathetic father in Churchtown, and while she hopes to get into the Lab, a prestigious program in London, Stella, her childhood best friend returns to town and makes waves in Jude's life.

On the eve of her twelfth birthday, Cora convinces herself that the father she has never known is on his way to see her.

When Olivia is summoned by her father, a man she barely remembers, to determine whether she is worthy of inheriting his legacy, she embarks on a personal odyssey that teaches her the true meaning of love and kinship.