father-son relationship

When eleven-year-old Robby takes drastic steps to stop his widowed father from developing a new love interest, his friend Beth has to step in and help him come to terms with the situation.

A multi-generational story of fathers and sons during the second half of the twentieth century in England.

When his father accidentally discovers Niru is gay, the fallout is brutal and swift. Coping with troubles of her own, however, Meredith finds that she has little left emotionally to offer him. As the two friends struggle to reconcile their desires against the expectations and institutions that seek to define them, they find themselves speeding toward a future more violent and senseless than they can imagine. Neither will escape unscathed.

Matteo has returned home to the provincial country town where he was born and from which he had fled. After three years in Milan where he had been able to live out and proud as a young gay man, he fears the reception he will receive. To make things worse, he has no money, no job, and an uncertain future. Despite trepidations about encountering his estranged father, he finds a place to crash with his extended family for a while. Settling into a house shared by his grandmother, three aunts, and his very pregnant cousin, he starts to rebuild his life and relationships and confronts a few truths about the other generations of his family, and about himself.

"Griffin Watts is 13 years old in 1974 New York, a city which, at the brink of financial collapse, seems to crumble around him at roughly the same rate as his family. Desperate to forge a connection to his father, Griffin gets co-opted into his illicit and dangerous architectural salvage business, which allows him to discover the centuries old sculptures (gargoyles) carved into buildings all over the city by immigrant artisans. As his father's obsession with preserving the landmark buildings around him descends into mania, Griffin has to learn how to build himself into the person he wants to become--and let go of what he cannot keep"--Provided by publisher.

"To help his dog through cancer treatment, Conor gives up hockey and finds himself considering who he is without the sport that has defined him, and connecting more with his family and best friend"--Provided by publisher.

In the year since Alexander and his father moved to Stermont, he and his friends in the Super Secret Monster Patrol of Stermont Elementary have defeated all kinds of monsters, but now they face their greatest challenge, the boss-monster who has kidnapped fellow monster fighter Ms. Vanderpants and stolen the Notebook of Doom--and they have to do it before Alexander turns eight and stops being able to see monsters.

"When his dad builds him a tree fort, Russell thinks it is perfect, right up until he notices another tree fort going up three houses over"--Publisher.

Floyd Twofeathers generally trusts his healer mother and his father, chief of the band, to take care of the tribe. But when a rash of suicides occurs throughout the community, Floyd knows he has to do something, even if his father won't listen.

Keir Sarafian must finally confront his past when tragedy strikes during his first year of what has been an eye-opening first year of college.