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Fathers and sons

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    Dailey, Janet
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    Refuge Cove, Alaska, stays true to its name when a woman who has lost hope and a man in need of healing come to each other's rescue. She'd come to Alaska on the promise of marriage, only to find herself on the run from her...

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    Tyler, Anne
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    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE “Tyler's novels are always worth scooping up—but especially this gently amusing soother, right now.” —NPR From the beloved Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel...

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    Cosby, S. A.
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    "Superb...Cuts right to the heart of the most important questions of our times." -Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph...

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    Louis, Édouard
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    Ce texte bref est d'une extrême intensité, due à la violence des sentiments exprimés, plus aimants que haineux. La haine, si haine il y a, est adressée aux "dominants", aux responsables politiques et économiques de...

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    Paterson, Katherine
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    In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world.

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    Leclair, Didier
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    « Sarah boit son thé calmement et remonte une mèche de cheveux d’un geste distrait. —  Tu es vraiment gentille d’avoir bravé la pluie, lui dis-je de nouveau. —  C’est normal. Il m’aurait demandé pourquoi on va pas voir papi. Il s’est...

  • Author:
    Chabon, Michael
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    For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham, then thirteen, to Paris Men's Fashion Week. Despite his own indifference, what gradually emerged as Chabon ferried his son to and...

  • Author:
    Palacio, R. J.
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    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Perfection." - The Wall Street Journal. The bestselling author of Wonder returns with an enthralling adventure about a boy on a quest to rescue his father, with only a ghost as his companion...

  • Author:
    Johnson, Varian
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    "With a deft hand, Johnson shows us there's no such thing as "too young" when it comes to questioning big ideas like manhood, or even family."--Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of Look Both Ways...

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    Connor, Shae, McMurray, Kate, Freeman, Kerry, Labbe, Marguerite
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    Baseball — America's favorite pastime — provides a field wide open for romance. A Home Field Advantage may not help when Toby must choose between the team he’s loved all his life and the man he could love for the rest of it. In 1927,...

  • Author:
    Gilbert, Françoise
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    Un père qui cherche son fils. Un fils qui fuit son père. Un suspense inspirant, une exploration captivante de la relation entre un père déchu et un fils piégé dans un réseau criminel de trafic d’œuvres d’art. Au milieu de cette toile,...

  • Author:
    Marchwell, D. W.
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    La secuela de Bueno Saberlo Volumen 2 de la serie Bueno Saberlo   Ha transcurrido un año desde que William perdió a sus padres y dejó la vida que conocía por un nuevo hogar en Canadá. No hay nada que el pequeño adore más que estar con...

  • Author:
    Marchwell, D. W.
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    È trascorso quasi un anno da quando William ha perso i genitori e abbandonato l’unico tipo di vita che conosceva per una nuova casa in Canada. Ma ora, non c’è niente che ami di più che stare con i suoi due nuovi papà. Suo zio Jerry...

  • Author:
    Holloway, Meghan
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    Rhys Gravenor, Great War veteran and Welsh sheep farmer, arrives in Paris in the midst of the city's liberation with a worn letter in his pocket that may have arrived years too late. As he follows the footsteps of his missing son across...

  • Author:
    Kim, Michael ByungJu
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    With the rapidly cascading Asian Financial Crisis threatening to go global and Korea in imminent meltdown, investment banker Dae Joon finds himself back in his native Seoul as part of an international team brought in to rescue the...

  • Author:
    Nasrallah, Dimitri
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    Winner, 2011 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2016 Swiftly paced, poignantly moving, and beautifully imagined, Niko is the powerful epic...

  • Author:
    Ali, Anar
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    As the heir to a successful business empire in Uganda, Mansoor Visram had everything a man could want: money, power, influence, a beautiful wife, and a baby son. But when Idi Amin's regime begins its crackdown on its South Asian...

  • Author:
    Duncan, Sandy Frances, Szanto, George
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    The Islands Investigations International team is back! This time, Kyra Rachel and Noel Franklin are sleuthing around Quadra Island in the employ of Noel’s old high school buddy, Jason Cooper. In a quiet wooded area of the island, Jason...

  • Author:
    West, Adrian Nathan
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    A son's relationship with his divorced father has disintegrated over the years. But when the father enters a bodybuilding competition, he asks his son's help to fit in with his antiquated notions of manhood.

  • Author:
    Turcot, François, Moure, Erín
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    There's a real fascination with fathers in Québécoise literature, and this recurring persona populates fiction, films, and the stories people tell of their families and themselves. Thus, it's not surprising that, as he witnessed his own...

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