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Author | : Robert Hawks |
Publisher | : Avon Books |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780380707393 |
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Patty Meely's world is turned upside-down when her father is arrested for espionage he had committed twenty years beforehand.
Author | : Taylor Larsen |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-07-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1501124757 |
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"Debut novel about a wealthy man who has reached a crossroads after a lifetime of repression and denial, sending him--and his family--into a slow spiral towards a total breakdown"--
Author | : Mary Monro |
Publisher | : Unbound Publishing |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2018-06-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1911586696 |
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Stranger In My Heart is about the search for understanding oneself, answering the question “Who am I?” by seeking to understand the currents that sweep down the generations, eddy through one’s own persona and continue on – palpable but often unrecognised. My father fought at the Battle of Hong Kong in December 1941, was taken prisoner by the Japanese and then escaped in February 1942, making his way across 1200 miles of inhospitable country to reach China’s wartime capital at Chongqing. Seventy years later I retraced his steps in an effort to understand a man who had died when I was 18, leaving a lot of unanswered questions behind. My book is the quest that I undertook to explore my father’s life, in the context of the Pacific War and our relationship with China. A picture of a man of the greatest generation slowly unfolds, a leader, a 20th Century Great, but a distant father. As I delve into his story and research the unfamiliar territory of China in the Second World War, the mission to get to know the stranger I called ‘Dad’ resolves into a mission to understand how my own character was formed. As I travel across China, the traits I received from my father gradually emerge from their camouflage. The strands of the story are woven together in a flowing triple helix, with biography, travelogue and memoir punctuated with musings on context and meaning.
Author | : Christal Presley |
Publisher | : Health Communications, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2012-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0757316468 |
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When Christal Presley's father was eighteen, he was drafted to Vietnam. Like many men of that era who returned home with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), he was never the same.
Author | : Ron Reagan |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2011-01-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101475544 |
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A moving memoir of the beloved fortieth president of the United States, by his son. February 6, 2011, is the one hundredth anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth. To mark the occasion, Ron Reagan has written My Father at 100, an intimate look at the life of his father-one of the most popular presidents in American history-told from the perspective of someone who knew Ronald Reagan better than any adviser, friend, or colleague. As he grew up under his father's watchful gaze, he observed the very qualities that made the future president a powerful leader. Yet for all of their shared experiences of horseback rides and touch football games, there was much that Ron never knew about his father's past, and in My Father at 100, he sets out to understand this beloved, if often enigmatic, figure who turned his early tribulations into a stunning political career. Since his death in 2004, President Reagan has been a galvanizing force that personifies the values of an older America and represents an important era in national history. Ron Reagan traces the sources of these values in his father's early years and offers a heartfelt portrait of a man and his country-and his personal memories of the president he knew as "Dad."
Author | : Bill Griffeth |
Publisher | : New England Historic Genealogical Society |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2016-09-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 088082350X |
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Bill Griffeth, longtime genealogy buff, takes a DNA test that has an unexpected outcome: "If the results were correct, it meant that the family tree I had spent years documenting was not my own." Bill undertakes a quest to solve the mystery of his origins, which shakes his sense of identity. As he takes us on his journey, we learn about choices made by his ancestors, parents, and others - and we see Bill measure and weigh his own difficult choices as he confronts the past.
Author | : Robert Hawks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 9780330309059 |
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Author | : John Burnside |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2010-08-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1409017095 |
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A moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost men: a father and his child. He had his final heart attack in the Silver Band Club in Corby, somewhere between the bar and the cigarette machine. A foundling; a fantasist; a morose, threatening drinker who was quick with his hands, he hadn't seen his son for years. John Burnside's extraordinary story of this failed relationship is a beautifully written evocation of a lost and damaged world of childhood and the constants of his father's world: men defined by the drink they could take and the pain they could stand, men shaped by their guilt and machismo. A Lie About My Father is about forgiving but not forgetting, about examining the way men are made and how they fall apart, about understanding that in order to have a good son you must have a good father. Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
Author | : Janna Malamud Smith |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1619022001 |
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Bernard Malamud was one of the most accomplished American novelists of the postwar years. From the Pulitzer Prize winner The Fixer as well as The Assistant, named one of the best "100 All–Time Novels" by Time Magazine—to mention only two of the more than a dozen published books—he not only established himself in the first rank of American writers but also took the country's literature in new and important directions. In her signature memoir, Smith explores her renowned father's life and literary legacy. Malamud was among the most brilliant novelists of his era, and counted among his friends Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Theodore Roethke, and Shirley Jackson. Yet Malamud was also very private. Only his family has had full access to his personal papers, including letters and journals that offer unique insight into the man and his work. In her candid, evocative, and loving memoir, his daughter brings Malamud to vivid life.
Author | : Aatish Taseer |
Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2012-11-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 155597063X |
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"Indispensable reading for anyone who wants a wider understanding of the Islamic world, of its history and its politics." —Financial Times Aatish Taseer's fractured upbringing left him with many questions about his own identity. Raised by his Sikh mother in Delhi, his father, a Pakistani Muslim, remained a distant figure. Stranger to History is the story of the journey he made to try to understand what it means to be Muslim in the twenty-firstcentury. Starting from Istanbul, Islam's once greatest city, he travels to Mecca, its most holy, and then home through Iran and Pakistan. Ending in Lahore, at his estranged father's home, on the night Benazir Bhutto was killed, it is also the story of Taseer's divided family over the past fifty years. Recent events have added a coda to Stranger to History, as his father was murdered by a political assassin. A new introduction by the author reflects on how this event changes the impact of the book, and why its message is more relevant than ever.