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Shaking up the house

2021
"The outgoing First Daughters play a prank on their incoming counterparts, sparking an epic prank war"--OCLC.

Earthshine

by Theresa Nelson
1994
Slim's father is dying of AIDS and so she joins a support group and meets Isaiah, who also has a parent with AIDS. Together they try to find a miracle.

Meet the Obamas

America's first family
An introduction to the Obama family, discussing what it is like to live in the White House, identifying the people who work there, introducing the presidential puppy Bo, and looking at things the Obamas like to do together.
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What my father gave me

daughters speak
A collection of essays in which seven daughters discuss their relationships with their fathers, both positive and negative, including one woman's account of her father's abandonment and the impact this had on her teenage years and another's struggle to watch her father on picket lines during the Great Depression.
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The case of the ruby slippers

Dorothy's ruby slippers vanish while on loan to the White House.
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New girl in town

Nine-year-old Liberty Porter, daughter of the President of the United States, starts at a new school and tries to be an exemplary First Daughter.

Life after suicide

finding courage, comfort & community after unthinkable loss
2019
Jennifer Ashton, M.D., has witnessed firsthand the impact of a loved one?s suicide. When her ex-husband killed himself soon after their divorce, her world?and that of her children?was shattered. Though she held a very public position with one of the world?s largest media companies, she was hesitant to speak about the personal trauma that she and her family experienced following his death. A woman who addresses the public regularly on intimate health topics, she was uncertain of revealing her devastating loss?the most painful thing she?d ever experienced. But with the high-profile suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, Dr. Ashton recognized the importance of talking about her experience and the power of giving voice to her grief. She shared her story with her Good Morning America family on air?an honest, heartbreaking revelation that provided comfort and solace to others, like her and her family, who have been left behind.
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First boy

Cooper Jewett, a fourteen-year-old who has never seen even a photo of his parents, wants to continue his simple life on his New Hampshire dairy farm after his grandfather dies but is dragged into election year politics when a senator uncovers a scandal and claims that the president and her husband are Cooper's parents.
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Rain of gold

Weaves the parallel stories of two Mexican-American families and two countries. Describes the volatile bootlegger who would become the author's father and the beautiful Lupe, his mother.
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The case of the diamond dog collar

Cammie and Tessa Parks, daughters of the American president, assume the large gems on the dog collar sent as a gift from the leader of a foreign country must be fake, but when two of them go missing, they start to think maybe the diamonds are real and set out to find the thief.

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