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...

"Bestselling author Rich Cohen tells the story of the one-of-a-kind Herbie Cohen: the king of Bensonhurst, the world's best negotiator, and his own loving, wise, and wisecracking father"--

"Frank Schaeffer and his son John share the feelings they had after John enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, using alternating voices to chronicle their experiences and conflicts during John's service."

"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"--

"The story of America's first Black engineer, his revolutionary son, and the corporation that destroyed their relationship"--

"With a dispassionate but tender eye, Thompson captures the ache, fizz, yearning and frustration of being the father of adolescent boys--and of adolescence itself, observed and remembered." --Michael Chabon. What makes a good father, and what makes one a failure? Does less-is-more parenting inspire independence and strength, or does it encourage defiance and trouble? Kickflip Boysis the story of a father's struggle to understand his willful skateboarder...

Theodore Roosevelt is one of the most written-about presidents in American history, yet one poignant tale about this larger-than-life man hasn't been told. One of the causes he championed the hardest -- America's entry in to WWI -- took his youngest and favorite son in an air fight.

"Everyone knows Yogi Berra, the American icon. He was the backbone of the New York Yankees through ten World Series Championships, managed the National League Champion New York Mets in 1973, and had an ingenious way with words that remains an indelible part of our lexicon. But no one knew him like his family did. [This book] is Dale Berra's chronicle of his unshakeable bond with his father, as well as an intimate portrait of one of the great sports...