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Boxers (Sports) United States Drama Boxing Tournaments United States Drama Bush family Bush, George 1924- Bush, George W. (George Walker) 1946- Father-son relationship United States Drama Fathers and sons Fathers and sons United States Biography Retirement United States Drama United StatesTakiff, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5481 TAKArroyo, 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 ARRUpdegrove, Mark K.
Summary: Updegrove tracks the two Bush presidents from their formative years through their post-presidencies. He examines the failed presidential candidacy of Jeb Bush, which derailed the Bush presidential dynasty. Updegrove reveals for the first time their influences and perspectives on each other's presidencies; their views on family, public service, and America's role in the world; and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 UPDMathews, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.53 MATPreszler, Trent
Summary: The founder of Preszler Woodshop discusses his long-time estrangement from his father and how he overcame the grief and loss of his father's death through a carpentry project completed with inherited tools.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRESZLER, TRENT PREDenson, Bryan
Summary: "A high-speed, high-stakes account of [the] riveting true story of a father's deception, a son's loyalty, and the terrible costs of betraying both country and kin"--Back jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 DENMcCarthy, Andrew
Summary: "When Andrew McCarthy's eldest son began to take his first steps into adulthood, McCarthy found himself wishing time would slow down. Looking to create a more meaningful connection with Sam before he fled the nest, as well as recreate his own life-altering journey decades before, McCarthy decided the two of them should set out on a trek like few others: 500 miles across Spain's Camino de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCCHalpern, Justin
Summary: Tuesdays with Morrie meets F My Life in this hilarious coming-of-age book about a son's relationship with his foul-mouthed father by the 29-year-old comedy writer who created the massively popular Twitter feed of the same name.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.6 HALLovato, Roberto
Summary: A journalistic memoir detailing the author's firsthand experiences with immigration, gang life, and guerilla warfare explores the violence that shaped generations of his impoverished Salvadoran family to connect today's immigration crisis to the realities of everyday families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOVATO, ROBERTO LOVSwofford, Anthony.
Summary: Describes how the author found redemption from a life of drugs, alcohol, fast cars, and women by taking a series of RV trips with his ailing, Vietnam veteran father and a chance encounter with his future wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SWOFFORD, ANTHONY SWOUpdegrove, Mark K.
Summary: Updegrove tracks the two Bush presidents from their formative years through their post-presidencies. He examines the failed presidential candidacy of Jeb Bush, which derailed the Bush presidential dynasty. Updegrove reveals for the first time their influences and perspectives on each other's presidencies; their views on family, public service, and America's role in the world; and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 UPDBissinger, H. G.
Summary: The author recounts a father-son road trip during which he gained insight into the worldviews, challenges, and talents of his socially challenged savant son, Zach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BISSINGER, H.G BISItzkoff, David.
Summary: Growing up, David understood his father to be a trusted ally and confidant--a man who always had some hard-won wisdom to share. But he was also a junkie. As David grew older, he fell into the same trap, until he and his father hit the road in search of their "morning after."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.29 ITZMendelsohn, Daniel Adam
Summary: "When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate seminar on the Odyssey that his son Daniel teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his 'one last chance' to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MENBiden, Joseph R.
Summary: The former vice-president of the United States chronicles the difficult final year of his son's battle with cancer, his efforts to balance his responsibilities to the country and his family, and the lessons he learned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 BIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BIDEN, JOSEPH R. BIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BIDEN BIDConroy, Pat
Summary: Chronicles the author's efforts to reconcile with his harsh fighter pilot father, who inspired "The Great Santini," recounting how at the end of his father's life, he defended the author from his critics while helping to heal family estrangements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CONROY, PAT CONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SANTINI CONBuscaglia, Leo F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SLACK 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 BUSConroy, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 CONROY, PAT CONBragg, Rick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BRAGG, RICK BRABragg, Rick.
Summary: Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with a tale of fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his ten-year-old stepson. Having married a mother, he discovers that he is unsuited to fatherhood, to this boy in particular, a boy accustomed to love and affection rather than violence and neglect--a boy wholly unlike the child Rick once was. With the weight of this new boy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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Summary: In an intimate portrait of an extraordinary father-son relationship, the author discovers the moral principles that guided his legendary father--the man who founded the Peace Corps and designed President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty--and applies them to his own life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHRIVER, SARGENT SHRSummary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURSummary: A former heavyweight boxing champion comes out of retirement to fight a 10 round exhibition bout against an opponent who is thirty years younger than he is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007