Dostoevsky’s last work, about a family torn apart by greed and jealousy. Three, possibly four, brothers gamble, steal, commit patricide and talk to the devil. It’s like daytime T.V. mated with a tract on existential philosophy, but in...
Fathers and sons
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Author:Dostoyevsky, FyodorSummary: -
Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:Up to Low. Young Tommy and Baby Bridget, the girl with the trillium-shaped eyes, discover that living, healing and dying are not always what they seem. And they make that discovery with the help of a wonderful cast of characters,...
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Author:Lupica, MikeSummary:When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer...
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Author:Cooney, DougSummary:Ernie, a twelve-year-old tycoon, makes a tidy profit in the pet funeral business. When he refuses to give a raise to his star employee, a tomboy named Swimming Pool, the enterprise starts falling apart. It takes the death of Ernie'...
- Author:Coates, Ta-NehisiSummary:
Son of Vietnam vet and black awareness advocate Paul Coates--a poor man who set out to publish lost classics of black history--Ta- Nehisi drifts toward salvation at Howard University, while his ominous brother Big Bill finds his own...
- Author:Doig, IvanSummary:
Tom Harry and his son Rusty live alone and run a bar in a small Montana town in the early 1960s. Their lives are upended when a woman from Tom's past and her beatnik daughter breeze into town.
- Author:Lane, SorayaSummary:
Jessica Mitchell waits for Special Forces Ranger Ryan McAdams--her best friend for the past year--whom she's never met! They've been pen pals while Ryan was away fighting for their country and Jessica was secretly fighting her...
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Author:Erskine, KathrynSummary:Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money...
- Author:Skyhorse, BrandoSummary:
When he was three, Brando Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his Mexican father. His mother saw no reason for her son to live his life as a Mexican just because he started out as one. The life of "Brando Skyhorse," American Indian son of an...
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Author:Jennewein, Jim.Summary:In the fortress of King Eldred the Moody, Dane the Defiant receives honors and a magical rune sword that belonged to his father, but he also finds treachery that sends him and his friends on a quest to retrieve the sword from a thief...
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Author:Oppel, KennethSummary:Continues the adventures of Shade, a young bat, as he searches for his father and struggles to prevent the evil jungle bat Goth from wiping out the sun.
- Author:Chudley, RonSummary:
The sound of the river, ever-present, had finally intruded on his consciousness. If Nate was playing by himself outside, that damn river was too close for comfort. Instantly forgetting everything else, John hurried to the door, pushed...
- Author:Dexter, PeteSummary:
Warren Spooner is a troubled boy whose father dies shortly after he's born. When his mother marries Calmer Ottosson, a decorated Navy officer fallen from grace, Warren is saved by Calmer's inexhaustible patience. As Warren...
- Author:Bradbury, RaySummary:
Ray Bradbury has dramatized his literary classic into an audio drama, produced by The Colonial Theatre on the Air, complete with a full cast, sound effects, and original music.
- Author:Alexander, KwameSummary:
New York Timesbestseller! Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he'd give anything not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback. Or to no...
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Author:Salisbury, GrahamSummary:Twelve-year-old Mokes is torn between obeying his father, the police chief in the small town of Kailua, Hawaii, and being with his friends who plan to go see a fight between an island boy and a sailor.
- Author:Long, HeatherSummary:
A Leatherneck by any other name can still kick ass, which is just what retired United States Marine Corps Captain Tanner Wilks plans to do when he returns to his Texas family ranch to care for his ailing father. And nothing will stop...
- Author:Bellow, SaulSummary:
Tommy Wilhelm is separated from his family, at odds with his father, failed in his career, and in a financial mess. One climactic day, while he reviews his past mistakes, a mysterious con man grants him a moment of truth and...
- Author:Wynne-Jones, TimSummary:
Rex and his friends begin grade six against the backdrop of the 1962 Ban the Bomb protests on Parliament Hill. But once again it is trouble on the home front that has Rex's attention. Why is his father so insistent that Rex go with him...
- Author:Harrigan, StephenSummary:
Exiled to Texas with his grown daughter, sculptor Francis "Gil" Gilheaney is commissioned to create a statue for a man who recently lost his son in WWI. But as work on the statue progresses, secrets slowly reveal themselves...
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