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Krosoczka, Jarrett

Summary: "In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Hennick, Calvin

Summary: Five years into fatherhood, Calvin Hennick is plagued by self-doubt and full of questions. How can he teach his son to be a man, when his own father figures abandoned him? As a white man, what can he possibly teach his biracial son about how to live as a black man in America? And what does it even mean to be a man today, when society’s expectations of men seem to change from moment to moment? ...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HENNICK, CALVIN HEN

Estreich, George.

Summary: The author discusses the raising of his daughter, Laura Estreich, with Down syndrome.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ESTREICH, GEORGE EST

Summary: The extraordinary debut from documentarian Bing Liu weaves a story of skateboarding, friendship, and fathers and sons into a coming-of-age journey of courageous vulnerability.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MIN

Alexander, Kwame.

Summary: Kwame Alexander shares snapshots of a man learning how to love. He takes us through stories of his parents: from being awkward newlyweds in the sticky Chicago summer of 1967, to the sometimes-confusing ways they showed their love to each other, and for him. Alexander attempts to deal with the unraveling of his marriage and the grief of his mother's recent passing while sharing the solace he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Company, Hachette Book Group 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALEXANDER, KWAME ALE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B ALEXANDER ALE

Kendi, Ibram X.

Summary: "The tragedies and reckonings around racism that have rocked the country have created a specific crisis for parents and other caregivers: how do we talk to our children about it? How do we guide our children to avoid repeating our racist history? While wework to dismantle racist behaviors in ourselves and the world around us, how do we raise our children to be antiracists? After he wrote the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KEN

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KEN

Allen, Tina Alexis

Summary: The actress reveals her struggle growing up as a gay woman in a strict Catholic family until the age of eighteen, when her father discovered the truth about her sexuality and revealed that he too was gay, leading them to live their double lives together without their family's knowledge.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.76 ALL

Cumming, Alan

Summary: In his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CUMMING, ALAN CUM

Krosoczka, Jarrett

Summary: The powerful, unforgettable graphic memoir from Jarrett Krosoczka, about growing up with a drug-addicted mother, a missing father, and two unforgettably opinionated grandparents. A National Book Award Finalist! In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 KOR

Key, Harrison Scott

Summary: A humor columnist describes his father, who was more like a remote frontiersman than a 20th-century Mississippian, and the impact he ultimately had on how he related to his own children, despite his polar opposite views and life choices.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEY, HARRISON SCOTT KEY

Cumming, Alan

Summary: A beloved star of stage, television, and film, Alan Cumming is a successful artist whose diversity and fearlessness is unparalleled. His success masks a painful childhood growing up under the heavy rule of an emotionally and physically abusive father--a relationship that tormented him long into adulthood. When television producers in the United Kingdom approached him to appear on a popular...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 CUMMING, ALAN CUM

Fagan, Kate

Summary: "Kate Fagan and her father forged their relationship on the basketball court, bonded by sweaty high fives and a dedication to the New York Knicks. But as Kate got older, her love of the sport and her closeness with her father grew complicated. The formerly inseparable pair drifted apart. The lessons that her father instilled in her about the game, and all her memories of sharing the court with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAGAN, KATE FAG

Conroy, Pat

Summary: A powerful and intimate memoir by the beloved best-selling author of The Prince of Tides about his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, and a re-affirmation that love can conquer even the meanest of men.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 CONROY, PAT CON

Fadiman, Anne

Summary: "A memoir exploring the author's father's love of wine" --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FAD

McCain, John

Summary: The Navy veteran and U.S. senator describes the military careers of his grandfather and father, his own experiences as a POW in Vietnam, and his political career.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9092 MCC

Chabon, Michael.

Summary: The author questions what it means to be a man today in a series of interlinked autobiographical reflections, regrets, and reexaminations, each sparked by an encounter, in the present, that holds some legacy of the past.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHABON, MICHAEL CHA

Guerrero, Jean

Summary: "In the tradition of parent-child memoirs from The Liar's Club to The Glass Castle, here is the haunting story of a daughter's quest to understand her father, to save him from his own demons and to save herself from following his self-destructive path. Marco Antonio was born in Mexico but as a teenager migrated with his large family north to California, where he met Jean's mother, a young...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUERRERO, JEAN GUE

Kozol, Jonathan

Summary: "National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation's poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father's life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders of the brain and his astonishing ability, at the onset of Alzheimer's disease, to explain the causes of his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.831 KOZ

McCain, John

Summary: Congressman John McCain explains how he learned about life and honor from his grandfather and father, both four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 McCAIN, JOHN MCC

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.9 MCC

McCain, John

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Pub. 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MCC

Finch, David

Summary: Traces the author's battle with Asperger Syndrome, describing his adult diagnosis and the painstaking and often whimsical exercises he uses to preserve his family and build social skills.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FINCH, DAVID FIN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation Finch

Giraldi, William

Summary: "A memoir of motorcycles and muscles, of obsession and grief, and of a young man who learned how to stay alive through literature. At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi's father was killed in a horrific motorcycle crash while racing on a country road. This tragedy, which forever altered the young Giraldi and devastated his family, provides the pulse for The Hero's Body. In the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GIRALDI, WILLIAM GIR

Russert, Luke

Summary: "Look for me there," news legend Tim Russert would tell his son, Luke, when confirming a pickup spot at an airport, sporting event, or rock concert. After Tim died unexpectedly, Luke kept looking for his father, following in Tim's footsteps and carving out a highly successful career at NBC News. After eight years covering politics on television, Luke realized he had no good answer as to why he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Horizon, an imprint of HarperCollins Focus, LLC. 2023

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Mainardi, Diogo

Summary: The Fall is a memoir like no other. It is a celebration of love, an homage to a courageous child, and an honest look at the ways beauty and art can be deceptive forces in our lives.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 MAI

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