Backed by Barna Research, Jon Tyson offers practical steps to help men raise sons of consequence whose lives will be marked by honor, courage, self-discovery, and community.
Fathers and sons
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Author:Neff, Henry H.Summary:After glimpsing a hint of his destiny in a mysterious tapestry, twelve-year-old Max McDaniels becomes a student at Rowan Academy, where he trains in "mystics and combat" in preparation for war with an ancient enemy that has been...
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Author:Geddes, BruceSummary:Twenty-five years after his father Gord died in a car accident, Richard gets a call from his cousin Tony, who is working on a theory that Gord’s death was orchestrated by Al Forzante, Gord's former boss and a powerful union leader. With...
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Author:Boyle, T. CoraghessanSummary:This novel explores the volatile connections between three damaged people--an aging ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the son's paranoid, much older lover-as they careen towards an explosive...
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Author:Gilmour, JesseSummary:Set in Toronto’s seedy underbelly, The Green Hotel challenges our notions of "Toronto the good." Rich in detail, the book engages us with gritty realism and a startling portrayal of a life steeped in sex, drugs and pyromania as a young...
- Author:Ide, JoeSummary:
Vividly re-imagined in present-day Los Angeles, Detective Philip Marlowe, against his better judgement, accepts two missing person cases while struggling through his confounding relationship with his father.
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Author:Gaston, BillSummary:The Good Body is a triumphant blend of mordant humour and heartbreak. It tells the comic and poignant story of a retired pro-hockey ruffian named Bobby Bonaduce who is stubbornly ignoring a disease - multiple sclerosis - that may be...
- Author:King, Laurie R.Summary:
Maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, and with Holmes' young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didn't know she had as...
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Author:Tulchinsky, Karen X.Summary: - Author:Cervantes, J.C.Summary:
Zane Obispo has an impossible choice to make: save other godborns like him from the angry gods, or rescue his father Hurakan from his eternal prison. Zane Obispo's new life on a beautiful secluded tropical island, complete with his...
- Author:Guterson, DavidSummary:
From the award-winning, best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars- a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. A girl dies one late,...
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Author:Gilmour, DavidSummary:From the 2005 winner of the Governor-General's Award for Fiction and the former national film critic for CBC television comes a delightful and absorbing book about the agonies and joys of home-schooling a beloved son. Written in the...
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Author:Grey, AndrewSummary:Will Martin’s racist father, Kevin, hates Native Americans and wants to keep them off his property, never mind that part of the ranch land is sacred ground for the Sioux. When they request access for prayer, Kevin refuses—but Will doesn...
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Author:Jones, BrentSummary:Can we lose a loved one without losing ourselves? Twenty-eight-year-old Drew Thomson is haunted by a troubled past. After struggling for years with alcoholism and antisocial behavior, he ends a stable relationship with his girlfriend...
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Author:Queen, EllerySummary:A schoolmaster has been found beheaded and crucified in rural Arroyo, West Virginia. Ellery Queen, amateur sleuth, insists that he and his father take up the case. As victims turn up all over the world--all killed in the same manner--...
- Author:Johnstone, William W.Summary:
Rolling into the small town of San Remo, Frank Morgan and his faithful companion Dog bear witness to a violent range war. Frank gets drawn in deeper when he's recruited by one side against the other. Weary from a life of settling scores...
- Author:Alexander, KwameSummary:
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.
- Author:Osborne, DavidSummary:
A novel of native-white relations in North America, intimately told through the life of Daytime Smoke -- the real-life red-haired son of William Clark and a Nez Perce woman. In 1805, Lewis and Clark stumble out of the Rockies on the...
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Author:Queen, EllerySummary:Debonair detective Ellery Queen is on the case of a topsy-turvy murder. A mysterious visitor is found dead in the anteroom of Mandarin Press and the room has been literally turned upside down. Queen must tread lightly, for walking...
- Author:Weeks, BrentSummary:
The White King springs his great trap, and the Chromeria itself is threatened by treason and siege. Kip Guile and his companions will scramble to return for one impossible final stand. In the darkest hour, will the Lightbringer come?...
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