Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Summary: "A memoir from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which he details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 COADennis, David J.
Summary: "A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter. David Dennis Sr, a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DENJohnson, Varian
Summary: Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made it to double digits! Which means he's finally old enough to play in the spades tournament every Joplin Man before him seems to have won. So while Ant's friends are stressing about fifth grade homework and girls, Ant only has one thing on his mind: how he'll measure up to his father's expectations at the card table. Then Ant's best friend gets grounded, and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC JOHPrice, Dorothy H.
Summary: Seven-year-old J.C. is excited about the class field trip to the Famous Black Americans Museum, especially since his dad is coming along--and when his group gets separated from their teacher in the crowded museum it is J.C. who remembers the map their teacher showed them, and reunites the groups.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2023
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Summary: Art and his dad venture to their local farmer's market to find fresh ingredients to make a juice that will help Dad overcome his cold, and learn that staying healthy takes carrots, collards, cayenne, and community. Includes recipe for cold-clobbering juice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books, Inc. 2023
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Summary: Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG ALEArroyo, Raymond
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author and news anchor Raymond Arroyo comes a picture book biography of Tad Lincoln and his father President Abraham Lincoln and a story about a father's love for his son and the wisdom of a child. Tad Lincoln was forever getting into trouble. He bounced around the White House making mischief and annoying the staff. Only President Lincoln was never annoyed--he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LINCOLN ARRCepeda, Joe
Summary: "Rafa and his dad love to measure anything and everything-including how much Rafa's dad loves him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CEPTyler, Anne
Summary: Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TYLSummary: On Christmas Eve, psychologist Marcia Fieldstone asks her radio audience to share their dreams for the holiday season. Eight-year-old Jonah calls in from Seattle, with a wish for his dad to find a new wife. Mom died a year-and-a-half ago. Baltimore Sun reporter Annie Reed also hears the broadcast, when Jonah's architect father Sam gets on the air. Sam talks about the magical moment he met his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tri-Star Pictures 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SLEYee, Lisa
Summary: After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisfy his academically demanding father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YEETinn-Disbury, Tom
Summary: "Billy misses his mommy very much. She lives in the clouds. Some days when he and Daddy play in the garden, he knows that Mommy is letting the sun shine for them. But not all days are like that. Sometimes Mommy's clouds are dark, and Billy feels sad and alone. Written in collaboration with an experienced grief professional, Lost in the Clouds gently explores the idea of grief and teaches...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TINParker, Samuel
Summary: "A father reluctantly crosses the Mexican border to rescue his estranged son mixed up in the drug trade. It will take everything they have to make it back alive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PARColato 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
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 COLSummary: Back in the 1980s, a giant spacecraft stalled in the skies over Johannesburg. 1.8 million of the aliens that were aboard were rescued, and placed in a refugee camp--District 9. Over the next 20 years, District 9 became a teeming shantytown like so many others in the developing world. Although there is evidence that the extraterrestrials represent an advanced civilization, their lives on Earth...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DISAlexander, Kwame.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC ALESummary: For three young men growing up in South Central Los Angeles, the "hood" is a place of drive-by shootings, unemployment, drugs and pain. But their reactions to the world around them vary-- one is an unambitious drug dealer, his brother is a college bound teenage father, and the brother's best friend is guided by a strong father who hopes for a better life for his son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYSummary: In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FEN RATED PG13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Fences 2017Boast, Will.
Summary: "Will Boast thought he'd lost his family, until a deeply held secret revealed a second chance he never thought he'd have. Having already lost his mother and only brother, twenty-four-year-old Boast ... finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism. Numbly settling the matters of his father's estate, Boast is deep inside his grief when he stumbles upon documents revealing a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOAST, WILL BOABradbury, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: South Central L.A. junk dealer Fred Sanford and his partner-in-grime, son Lamont, are constantly struggling to make ends meet, but Fred always has just one more get-rich-quick scheme up his sleeve, sometimes involving best friend Grady. When he's not haggling over his empire of junk, he's sparring with his sister-in-law, the cantankerous, Bible-thumping Aunt Esther.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SANMatar, Hisham
Summary: "In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 823.92 MATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATAR, HISHAM MATShehadeh, Raja
Summary: "A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights. Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this new and searingly personal memoir, Raja Shehadeh unpicks the snags and complexities of their relationship. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2022
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Summary: Struggling with ADHD, loneliness, and connecting with his divorced father who would rather see him embrace sports instead of cooking, sixth-grader Elliott finds an unlikely friend in popular, perfect Maribel when the two are paired in a school-wide contest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2022