Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years earlier--that purportedly contains the meaning of life.
Fathers and sons
- Author:Mass, WendySummary:
- Author:Crutcher, ChrisSummary:
While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.
- Author:Lyga, BarrySummary:
Jazz is a likable teenager, but he's also the son of an infamous serial killer who has taught Jazz everything he knows. What Jazz doesn't know is whether or not he is destined to follow in his father's footsteps. He has urges, but he...
- Author:Gauer, StephenSummary:
"One Friday, Vancouver lawyer Paul Brenner has dinner with his son, Daniel. They talk about work, health, money, and music, and part ways. The following evening, Paul receives the phone call that is every parent's worst...
- Author:Salomon, Peter AdamSummary:
For Henry Franks, death is everywhere. It claimed his mother a year ago, in an accident that robbed him of his memory and left him covered with horrific scars. It’s in his skin, leaving him numb to pain no matter how hard he tries to...
- Author:Deuker, CarlSummary:
Running back Mick Johnson has dreams: dreams of cutting back, finding the hole, breaking into the open, and running free with nothing but green grass ahead. He has dreams of winning and of being the best. But football is a cruel sport....
- Author:Birkenhead, PeterSummary:
Birkenhead wields his cuts-to-the-bone prose in a memoir focusing largely on a father who is at once a magnetic personality and a violent, cruel force.
- Author:Forster, GwynneSummary:
When she inherits her aunt's home, Susan Pettiford returns to North Carolina following a 16-year absence. After undergoing a hysterectomy, she seeks comfort in the arms of Lucas Hamilton. Although there is a palpable connection...
- Author:Fu, Kim.Summary:
Peter, the only boy among four siblings born to Chinese immigrants, is convinced he is a girl and must fight the confines of a small town as well as the expectations of his parents to forge his own path into adulthood.
- Author:Wagamese, RichardSummary:
With For Joshua, award-winning Ojibway author Richard Wagamese shares the traditional stories and teachings of his people, entwining them with an account of his own lifelong struggle for self-knowledge and self-respect
- Author:Heneghan, JamesSummary:
When a flood kills eleven-year-old Andy Flynn's mother and stepfather, the only world he has ever known is gone and he is alone. Aunt Mona, whom he has never met, takes him to live with her in Halifax, on the opposite side of the...
- Author:Karp, LarrySummary:
The past comes rearing up to bite the next generation when a son digs too deep into his family's past. Martin Firestone can't figure why his father, the eccentric painter Leo Firestone, is throwing a fit. All Martin did was tell his dad...
- Author:McNally Smith, AdrianSummary:
Adrian Smith was raised in what seemed to be a very traditional, Roman Catholic upbringing. His father, Adrian Smith Sr, was very religious. He had studied to be a priest and left the seminary only 6 months before his ordination. After...
- Author:Freedman, J. F.Summary:
When the husband and wife team of Walt and Jocelyn Gaines travel to South America to contribute their archaeological expertise at a newly uncovered Mayan site, no one could predict what happens next. Fallen Idols is a riveting novel of...
- Author:Foer, Jonathan SafranSummary:
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He's also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father's death in the World Trade Center attacks...
- Author:Clarke, BrockSummary:
Clarke introduces nine-year-old Miller, who becomes convinced that his father--who left without explanation--must have run away to join the military, and is now lying comatose in a VA hospital. Thinking a visit from his father's...
- Author:MacLennan, HughSummary:
Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor working with the miners of his native Cape Breton Island, is forty-two and deeply in love with his wife. Longing for the son he can never have, he comes to love the young Alan MacNeil, whose father...
- Author:Mierau, MauriceSummary:
"In 2005, Maurice Mierau and his wife, Betsy, travelled to Ukraine to adopt two small boys, age three and five. After weeks of delays while navigating a tangled bureaucracy, they returned to Canada as a proud new family of four.Now...
- Author:Béchard, Deni Y.Summary:
Growing up in rural British Columbia, Deni Béchard believes his charismatic father is infallible. Wild, unpredictable, even dangerous, André is worshipped by his young son, who believes that his father can do no wrong. When the boy...
- Author:Hill, ErnestSummary:
When Tyrone Stokes was sent to prison, he left his wife to raise their son, Marcus, alone. Now Tyrone is free, but 17-year-old Marcus is on Louisiana's death row for the murder of a young white girl. Convinced of his son's...