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Criterion collection ; 1061Krosoczka, 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,...
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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? ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HENNICK, CALVIN HENEstreich, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ESTREICH, GEORGE ESTSummary: 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
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MINAlexander, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Company, Hachette Book Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALEXANDER, KWAME ALECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ALEXANDER ALEKendi, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KENAllen, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.76 ALLCumming, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CUMMING, ALAN CUMKrosoczka, 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
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 KORKey, 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.
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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 KEYCumming, 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
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 CUMMING, ALAN CUMFagan, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAGAN, KATE FAGConroy, 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
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 CONROY, PAT CONFadiman, Anne
Summary: "A memoir exploring the author's father's love of wine" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FADMcCain, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9092 MCCChabon, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHABON, MICHAEL CHAGuerrero, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUERRERO, JEAN GUEKozol, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.831 KOZMcCain, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 McCAIN, JOHN MCCCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.9 MCCMcCain, John
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Pub. 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MCCFinch, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FINCH, DAVID FINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation FinchGiraldi, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GIRALDI, WILLIAM GIRRussert, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Horizon, an imprint of HarperCollins Focus, LLC. 2023
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2014