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Adventure and adventurers Fiction African Americans Fiction Fathers and sons Fathers and sons Fiction Greece Fiction Large type books Prejudices Fiction Segregation Fiction United States History World War, 1939-1945 Fiction United States. Army. Parachute Infantry Battalion, 555th FictionJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "Smoke Jensen is mighty proud of his son Louis for finishing law school. But he can't help being a little disappointed that Louis isn't returning to the Sugarloaf Ranch. Instead, he's setting up his own law practice in nearby Big Rock--a career choice that turns out to be every bit as dangerous as fending off cattle rustlers. The boy's first case lands him smack in the middle of a heated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHColato Lainez, Rene
Summary: Young René's mother has sent him a new pair of shoes from the United States. He loves his new shoes. "They walk everywhere I walk. They jump every time I jump. They run as fast as me. We always cross the finish line at the same time." René-with his new shoes-and his father set off on the long journey to meet his mother in the United States. He says goodbye to his friends in El Salvador, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG COLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG COLIshiguro, Kazuo
Summary: A couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in nearly a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ISHPlatt, Jason
Summary: "In order to avoid extra work, middle schooler Newell agrees to participate in a school-wide talent show--without a talent"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: Tang Yitian has been living in America for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: his father has disappeared from the family's rural village in China. Though they have been estranged for years, Yitian promises to come home. When Yitian attempts to piece together what may have happened, he struggles to navigate China's impenetrable bureaucracy as an outsider, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TANBradbury, Ray
Summary: Two boys' lives are changed forever when a sinister travelling carnival stops at their Illinois town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks 2017
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Summary: As a boy and his Papá travel from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with Mamá, his wonderful new shoes help to distract him from the long and difficult journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinata Books, an imprint of Arte Publico Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH COLDaise, Natalie
Summary: Papa has something special planned for tonight's family dinner--and Bobo can't wait! Excited to learn how to make okra stew like his ancestors, Bobo helps Papa pick veggies from the garden, catch shrimp from the creek, rain down rice in the pot, simmer the stew, and even make a tasty side of cornbread. When the stew begins to bubble and pop, Bobo and his family gather around for a mouthwatering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAIButler, Robert Olen
Summary: "A visionary and deeply moving novel centered around former newspaperman Sam Cunningham as he prepares to die, Late City covers much of the early twentieth century, unfurling as a conversation between the dying man and a surprising God. As the two review Sam's life, from his childhood in the American South and his time in the French trenches during World War I to a newspaper career in Chicago...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTDailey, Janet
Summary: Emily Hunter came to Alaska on the promise of marriage, but is soon on the run from her would-be husband. Stranded in the wilderness, she stumbles across a small plane-- and the rugged bush pilot who would reconnect with his estranged son. She's wary of trusting John Wolf, but sharing his wilderness home means protection from the predator on her trail. Will he be willing to risk everything to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DAIBattle-Lavert, Gwendolyn
Summary: "A son teaches his father how to write his name so he can vote for the first time in this historical tale filled with warmth and strength by Coretta Scott King Honor winner Colin Bootman's expressive oil paintings. In a new author's note, veteran teacher and author Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert expands upon the obstacles facing African American voters in the aftermath of the Civil War and the fight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BATRosen, Lev AC
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Tennessee Russo's life is imploding. His boyfriend has been cheating on him, and all his friends know about it. Worse, they expect him to just accept his ex's new relationship and make nice. So when his father, a famous archaeologist and reality show celebrity whom he hasn't seen in two years, shows up unexpectedly and offers to take him on an adventure, Tennessee only has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square and Co. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROSBradby, Tom
Summary: London, 1953. Harry Tower is a recently widowed and world-weary British spy, out of favor and down on his luck. After a night spent drinking away his sorrows, he is awakened by a phone call with chilling news. His estranged son Sean has gone missing in Tehran after writing a damning article about the involvement of government officials in the opium trade. Harry springs to action, eager to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRAHosseini, Khaled
Summary: Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOSSummary: In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage. Six years later, again in June, Paul's death draws his three grown sons and their families back to their ancestral home. Fenno, the eldest, a wry, introspective gay man, narrates the events of this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLABruchac, Joseph
Summary: In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2018
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Summary: In 1895 Michigan, Stan, eleven, will do almost anything to help his mother financially, even babysitting, but his long-lost father shows up and proves to be a big disappointment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DECSpringer, Nancy.
Summary: When Mordred learns the identity of his father, he struggles with feelings of hatred, but also fights the fate which determines that he kill the good and gracious king.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1998
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: Y FICTION SPRAlger, Horatio
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Philip Brent leaves his small hometown to seek his fortune in 1880s New York after his spiteful stepmother reveals that instead of being his late father's beloved only son, he is of unknown parentage and must fend for himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kessinger Publishing 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALGDimechkie, Karim.
Summary: "Max lives with his father, Rasheed, a sweet, funny man who fled Lebanon's civil war for New Jersey when Max was a baby. Rasheed is enamored of his idea of America--baseball and barbeques--and has tried to shed his Lebanese heritage completely. "When we are in America," Reed (for he goes by Reed in America, not Rasheed) tells Max, "we are Americans." Rasheed has a singular purpose in life--to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIMPearsall, Shelley.
Summary: In 1945, thirteen-year-old Levi is sent to find the father he has not seen in three years, going from Chicago, to segregated North Carolina, and finally to Pendleton, Oregon, where he learns that his father's unit, the all-Black 555th paratrooper battalion, will never see combat but finally has a mission. Includes historical notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library/Random House Audio 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PEAAvi
Summary: Explores the vital ties between fathers and sons, sharing tales of a boy who seeks to understand the wishes of his father's ghost and a boy who makes surprising discoveries while camping with the eccentric grandfather he just met.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AVICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2016Buff, Mary
Summary: Eleven-year-old Walter Tell awaits the skillful demonstration of his father William, a Swiss freedom fighter, who will shoot an apple from his head.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUFOlmstead, Robert.
Summary: When Robey Childs's mother experiences a premonition about her husband, a Civil War soldier, she sends her only son to retrieve his father from the battlefield, accompanied by a horse that becomes his only companion as he makes his way through the destruction of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2007