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"Few books transform a generation and then establish themselves as touchstones for the generations that follow. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one such book. This modern epic of a man’s search for meaning became an instant bestseller on publication in 1974, acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters. It continues to inspire millions. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A brilliant storyteller, a master of sarcasm, and a hallucinatory stylist whose obsession with the impress of the past on the present binds him to Southern literary tradition.”—The Boston Globe
Pat Conroy’s great success as a writer has always been intimately linked with the exploration of his family history. As the oldest of seven children...
Pat Conroy’s great success as a writer has always been intimately linked with the exploration of his family history. As the oldest of seven children...
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A father shares his autistic son's story and offers inspiration and advice for families facing similar challenges. Like any other teen boy, Austin loves pizza, movies, dancing, and girls. But unlike most other eighteen-year olds, he has a rare brittle-bone disease, was locked in a mental ward as a child, and is autistic. Yet Austin doesn't let any of that stop him.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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The founder of Preszler Woodshop discusses his long-time estrangement from his father and how he overcame the grief and loss of his father's death through a carpentry project completed with inherited tools.
15) Fences
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A black garbage collector named Troy Maxson in 1950s Pittsburgh is bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues, Maxson is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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A journalistic memoir detailing the author's firsthand experiences with immigration, gang life, and guerrilla warfare explores the violence that shaped generations of his impoverished Salvadoran family to connect today's immigration crisis to the realities of everyday families.
17) The prodigal spy
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Dell
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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In a time of accusations, treachery and lies, some secrets were heartbreaking ... Others were deadly. Once, Nick Kotlar tried to save his father. From the angry questions. From the accusations. From a piece of evidence that only Nick knew about and that he destroyed--for his father. But in the Red Scare of 1950 Walter Kotlar could not be saved. Branded a spy, he fled the country, leaving behind a wife, a young son--and a key witness lying dead below...
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Mountaineers Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"A first-person account of an Italian-American father and son who take two weeks to travel, by bicycle, to the small town in Italy, San Donato, from which their great-grandfather emigrated early in the 20th century. In San Donato they explore the role their ancestral village--and their family--played in protecting Jews during World War II. Illustrated with a 16-page photo insert and one map"--
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2017.
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Presents the story of a father and son's transformative shared journey in reading in the wake of the father's late-in-life enrollment in his son's undergraduate seminar, where the two engaged in debates over how to interpret Homer's classic masterpiece.
"When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate seminar on the Odyssey that his son Daniel teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly...
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Triumph Books
Pub. Date
©2020.
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English
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"...ESPN senior writer Ryan McGee enlists the help of his father and brothers to tell the story of a life lived in black and white. McGee traces his father's 36-year career, from a small college game in 1973 in Greensboro, North Carolina, with a few hundred fans to the 2009 BCS Championship Game with 27 million... Sidelines and Bloodlines isn't just about college football, officiating, or even funny stories from the road. It is about fathers and...
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