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Top 10 Bonds Between Fathers and Sons : Kaaterskill Falls, Arrow to the Sun, Blind Sight, The Brothers Karamazov, The Good Father, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, The Water Of Life: A Tale From The Brothers Grimm, Storm Boy, The First Forty-Nine Stories, Have Space Suit—Will Travel (Heinlein's Juveniles, #12)

Kaaterskill Falls
AuthorAllegra Goodman
ISBN0385323905
In the summer of '76, the Shulmans and the Melishes migrate to Kaaterskill, the tiny town in upstate New York where Orthodox Jews and Yankee year-rounders live side by side from June through August.

Elizabeth Shulman, a devout follower of Rav Elijah Kirshner and the mother of five daughters,...
Arrow to the Sun
AuthorGerald McDermott
ISBN0140502114
With vibrant colors and bold geometric forms, Gerald McDermott brilliantly captures the stylized look of Pueblo Indian art in this Caldecott Award-winning retelling of an ancient legend. A young boy searches for his father, but before he can claim his heritage he must first prove his worthiness by...
Blind Sight
AuthorMeg Howrey
ISBN0307379167
This spellbinding story introduces the unforgettable seventeen-year-old narrator, Luke Prescott, who has been brought up in a bohemian matriarchy by his divorced New Age mother, a religious grandmother, and two precocious half-sisters. Having spent a short lifetime swinging agreeably between...
The Brothers Karamazov
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN0374528373
The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and...
The Good Father
AuthorNoah Hawley
ISBN0385535538
An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.
 
As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms,...
The Museum of Extraordinary Things
AuthorAlice Hoffman
ISBN1451693567
Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a Coney Island boardwalk freak show that thrills the masses. An exceptional swimmer, Coralie appears as the Mermaid in her father’s “museum,” alongside performers like the Wolfman, the Butterfly...
The Water Of Life: A Tale From The Brothers Grimm
AuthorJacob Grimm
ISBN0823409074


Now, I have read many stories from the Brothers Grimm and I had enjoyed every single one of them! So, imagine my surprise when I finally came upon one of the Brothers Grimm’s stories being put into a singular children’s book called “The Water of Life” retold by Barbara Rogasky along with...
Storm Boy
AuthorColin Thiele
ISBN1741101875
Storm Boy likes to wander alone along the fierce deserted coast among the dunes that face out into the Southern Ocean. After a pelican mother is shot, Storm Boy rescues the three chicks, and nurses them back to health. He names them Mr Proud, Mr Ponder and Mr Percival. After he releases them, his favourite,...
The First Forty-Nine Stories
AuthorErnest Hemingway
ISBN0099339218
From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like- In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and...
Have Space Suit—Will Travel (Heinlein's Juveniles, #12)
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
ISBN1416505490
My first Robert A. Heinlein work read and still one of my favorites.

Heinlein produced his juvenile books for Charles Scribner's Sons mainly in the 1950s and these were what many consider to be some of his finest work. I’ve always thought that the period between 1957 and 1966 was his zenith,...
Blue Skin of the Sea
AuthorGraham Salisbury
ISBN0440219051
Eleven interlinked stories tell the tale of a boy coming of age in Kailua-Kona, a Hawaiian fishing village. Sonny Mendoza is a little different from the rest of the men in his family. Salisbury explores characters like Aunty Pearl, a full-blooded Hawaiian as regal as the queens of old; cool Jack, from...
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Boxed Set
AuthorRick Riordan
ISBN1423119509
before we start;
a READERS ATTENTION!:

Rick Riordan's series Order:

first, Percy Jackson
then Heroes of Olympus
at last, Trials of Apollo & Magnus Chase is happening at the same time; they have crossovers sometimes.
(or if it's hard to remember go here &...
Montana 1948
AuthorLarry Watson
ISBN0671507036
The events of that small-town summer forever alter David Hayden's view of his family: his self-effacing father, a sheriff who never wears his badge; his clear sighted mother; his uncle, a charming war hero and respected doctor; and the Hayden's lively, statuesque Sioux housekeeper, Marie Little...
Draw One in the Dark
AuthorSarah A. Hoyt
ISBN1416520929
I really liked this book. It had a few drawbacks, but it kept me intrigued the whole way through.

One problem, I think, is that for the first half of the book we're dealing with two protagonists who are so isolated and fearful of entanglements with other humans that we get a lot of inner monologue....
Agatha H and the Airship City
AuthorPhil Foglio
Adventure! Romance! Mad Science!

The Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare. It has been eighteen years since the Heterodyne Boys, benevolent adventurers and inventors, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Today, Europe is ruled by the Sparks, dynasties...
The Cloak Society
AuthorJeramey Kraatz
ISBN0062095471
The first in a thrilling, action-packed middle grade trilogy, which School Library Journal declared "will likely find the same wide appeal as Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson books.

The Cloak Society: An elite organization of supervillains graced with extraordinary powers. Ten years ago...
Villains Rising
AuthorJeramey Kraatz
ISBN0062095501
Alex Knight struggles to find a place between superheroes and supervillains in this explosive sequel to The Cloak Society, which School Library Journal praised as having "the same wide appeal as Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson books."

The Cloak Society has finally taken down their greatest...
Run with the Horsemen
AuthorFerrol Sams
ISBN0140072748
Porter Osborne Jr. is a precocious, sensitive, and rambunctious boy trying to make it through adolescence during the depression years. On a red-clay farm in Georgia he learns all there is to know about cotton chopping, hog killing, watermelon thumping, and mule handling. School provides a quick course...
The Mosquito Coast
AuthorPaul Theroux
ISBN0618658963
In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer...
Winterkill
AuthorCraig Lesley
ISBN0312152442
Danny Kachiah is a Native American fighting not to become a casualty. His father, Red Shirt, is dead, his wife, Loxie, has left him, and his career as a rodeo cowboy is flagging. But when Loxie dies in a car wreck, leaving him with his son, Jack, whom he hardly knows, Danny uses the magnificent stories of...
Amongst Women
AuthorJohn McGahern
ISBN0571195261
Did you read any great novels recently about a thoroughly decent man? A guy who wasn’t violent and treated everyone with humanity and tried to look on the bright side? No, me neither. That is why Ulysses is so great. Leopold Bloom is that guy, always trying the cheer up his fellow struggler, always looking...
Paradise Postponed
AuthorJohn Mortimer
Ultraliberal clergyman Simeon Simcox, rector of the village of Rapstone Fanner, leaves his entire fortune to Leslie Titmuss, a social-climbing conservative politician. As Mortimer recounts the gossip and dastardly goings-on in Rapstone Fanner, he creates a wickedly funny, totally absorbing...
The Risk Pool
AuthorRichard Russo
ISBN0099276496
The Risk Pool is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, a small-town gambling hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son Ned. When Ned's mother Jenny suffers a breakdown and retreats from her husband's carelessness into a dream world, Ned becomes part of his father's seedy nocturnal...
The Sharpshooter Blues
AuthorLewis Nordan
ISBN1565121821
The Sharpshooter Blues: Guns, Loving and Loss, a Half Bubble off Plumb


Slightly more than three years ago I founded a group On the Southern Literary Trail. It is not a "moonlight and magnolias" site. Here readers choose works by iconic authors of Southern literature and new voices in what...
Straight Man
AuthorRichard Russo
ISBN0375701907
In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's...
Social Blunders
AuthorTim Sandlin
ISBN1573225886
Some consider it a social blunder to use the wrong fork, but Sam Callahan, the narrator of this ribald and tangled yarn, would never make such a mundane faux pas. For Sam, every goof is a doozy and his missteps are at least as comic and bawdy as they are tragic.

Sandlin provides his bumbling hero...
The Dork of Cork
AuthorChet Raymo
ISBN0446670006
The Dork of Cork is my favorite book- which is no lighthearted claim. I normally shy away from books where mothers are central characters, because often times they aren't written like real people. Mothers are either written as supremely screwed up, Donna Reed types, or afterthoughts in the background...
The Great Santini
AuthorPat Conroy
ISBN0553268929
Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He's all Marine --- fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife -- beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble. Ben is the oldest, a born athlete...
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