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Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
It's a day like any other for Deuce Winters, a stay-at-home dad in sleepy Rose Petal, Texas, where he and his three-year-old daughter Carly are making their weekly trip to the grocery store. But the discovery of a dead body in his mini-van quickly throws his quiet life into disarray. In a town where gossip spreads faster than a brush fire in July, it doesn't help that the victim ruined Deuce's high school football career and married his ex-girlfriend....
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1967
Language
English
Description
Lampassas gave up cow punching to be a husband and shopkeeper. But when his wife dies of influenza, the aging cowboy puts on his spurs again. With his 17-year-old son at his side, Lampassas sets off on his own cattle drive. His adventures and misadventures are the stuff classic Westerns are made of, yet the unforgettable characters and gentle wisdom set this novel far apart from the herd. North to Yesterday won the 1968 Award for Fiction from the...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
More serious than a "gag" writer and funnier than most essayists, Frazier has a classical originality. This collection, a companion to his previous humor collections "Dating Your Mom" and "Coyote v. Acme," contains 33 pieces gathered from the last 13 years.--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Owl Canyon Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A Christian missionary with a troubled past tracks his wayward, alcoholic father to the lawless wilds of present-day Guatemala, a land beset by violent gangs, political corruption, and crushing poverty. It is also an easy place to get killed. The sudden interest of a rogue's gallery of local gangsters will make the father-son reunion more dangerous than either could have imagined. A gritty thriller about family and solitude, travel and home, cynicism...
9) Snake Island
Author
Publisher
Arcade CrimeWise
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
" In an isolated town on the coast of southern Australia, Vernon Moore and his wife, Penelope, live in retirement, haunted by an unspeakable act of violence that sent their son, Caleb, to serve time in prison and has driven the couple apart. Ashamed, they refuse to talk about him or visit, but when a close friend warns Vernon that Caleb has been savagely beaten, he has no choice but to act to protect their only child. The perpetrator of the beating...
11) The patriot
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A hero of the French and Indian conflict, Benjamin Martin had renounced fighting forever to raise his family in peace. However, when British troops arrive at his South Carolina home and endanger his family, he takes up arms alongside his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel
Author
Publisher
Blue Apple Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On a warm summer night, a young girl and her daddy catch fireflies, put them in a jar to admire for a brief time, and then release them back into the moonlight. Includes facts about fireflies
13) The son
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Comanche Indian captive Eli McCullough must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong -- a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.
14) Parallel
Author
Series
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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. Taking place between the end of World War II and the 1980s, Parallel chronicles Karl's efforts to comply with...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The enchanting story of Marcel Pagnol's childhood in the south of France, and a very special summer when he was 11 years old. In the countryside of Provence he fell under the spell of the rugged hills, made new friends and strengthened the unique bond with his father
17) Frankenlouse
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nick finds life dreary at the military academy run by his strict father and dreams of becoming a cartoonist, but then various events converge to bring him a better understanding of his father.
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