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PublicAffairs
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Sergeant Steve Maharidge returned from World War II an angry man. The only evidence that he’d served in the Marines was a photograph of himself and a buddy tacked to the basement wall. On one terrifyingly memorable occasion his teenage son, Dale, witnessed Steve screaming at the photograph: They said I killed him! But I didn’t kill him! It wasn’t my fault!”
After Steve died, Dale Maharidge began a twelve-year quest...
After Steve died, Dale Maharidge began a twelve-year quest...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"When Andrew McCarthy's eldest son began to take his first steps into adulthood, McCarthy found himself wishing time would slow down. Looking to create a more meaningful connection with Sam before he fled the nest, as well as recreate his own life-altering journey decades before, McCarthy decided the two of them should set out on a trek like few others: 500 miles across Spain's Camino de Santiago. Over the course of the journey, the pair traversed...
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English
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"Drawing extensively on exclusive access and interviews with both Bush presidents, Updegrove reveals for the first time their influences and perspectives on each other's presidencies; their views on family, public service, and America's role in the world; and their unvarnished thoughts on Donald Trump, and the radical transformation of the Republican Party he now leads."--
Updegrove tracks the two Bush presidents from their formative years through...
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Pantheon Books
Edition
First edition.
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IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in "drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust" (The New York Times). Maus is a haunting...
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Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Free Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
417 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
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In this remarkable dual memoir, film legend Martin Sheen and accomplished actor/filmmaker Emilio Estevez recount their lives as father and son. In alternating chapters -- and in voices that are as eloquent as they are different -- they tell stories spanning more than fifty years of family history, and reflect on their journeys into two different kinds of faith.
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Publisher
Outskirts Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
iii, 217 ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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While speaking at a summit on the campus of Georgetown University, President Barack Obama mentioned a conversation he had with a young man who asked the question, 'How did you get over being mad with your dad, because I've got a father that beat my mom, and has left the state. I've never seen him because he's trying to avoid eighty-three thousand dollars in child support payments. I want to love my dad, but I don't know how to do that.' Many young...
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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By day, he taught spycraft at the CIA's clandestine training center, The Farm. By night, he was a minivan-driving single father racing home to have dinner with his kids. But for more than two years, Jim Nicholson met covertly with agents of Russia's foreign intelligence service and turned over troves of classified documents. In 1997 Nicholson became the highest ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage. But while behind the bars of a federal...
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Publisher
TCU Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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pages cm
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English
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In Amado Muro and Me, ten-year-old Robert Seltzer discovers that his father, Chester, actually leads two lives—one as a newspaperman and father who somehow always knows what his son is thinking; the other as Amado Muro, a passionate and gifted writer whose pseudonym is adapted from the name of his Mexican immigrant wife. Chester was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but in Amado Muro’s stories, he channels an intense love of Mexican culture to create deep,...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Tad and Willie Lincoln are the sons of Abraham Lincoln who treat the White House like a playground, aggravating everyone except their indulgent father.
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Publisher
Gallery 13, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Gallery 13 hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this moving graphic memoir, Eisner Award-winning writer and artist Michael Kupperman traces the life of his reclusive father--the once-world-famous Joel Kupperman, Quiz Kid. That his father is slipping into dementia--seems to embrace it, really--means that the past he would never talk about might be erased forever. Joel Kupperman became one of the most famous children in America during World War II as one of the young geniuses on the series Quiz...
17) Genius on hold
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Edition
Wide screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Walter Shaw, a telecommunications inventor who, prevented by corporate greed and government corruption from achieving success through obtaining the patents that he deserved, allowed himself to be exploited by the mafia, who had use for his inventions, and whose decline contributed to his son's turning to a life of crime as a jewel thief.
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