father-son relationship

Adam Chase, run out of town after being narrowly acquitted of the murder of a local football hero, returns to North Carolina five years later at the request of his best friend Danny, but he finds that while some attitudes have softened, there are those--including family members--who still believe he is guilty, and when Danny turns up dead, tempers ignite with violent consequences.

A novel left unfinished by Richard Wright at the time of his death in 1960, telling the story of Ruddy Turner, an African-American police chief in a Chicago suburb, who struggles to know what to do when he begins to suspect his college-age son Tommy is a murderer.

Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic nineteenth-century Russian novel that chronicles the murder of depraved landowner Fyodor Karamazov and the subsequent investigation and trial of his killers.

A memoir in which the author recalls a ten-day trip he took to the Grand Canyon with his son, Brandon, and long-time friend and guide Malcolm, to celebrate Brandon's entry into adulthood, and to explore what it means to come of age.

D'Ray Reid, imprisoned for killing a young man in a convenience store robbery, is forced to reckon with his crime when he is befriended by the dead boy's father.

A young boy wonders whether his father is actually a pirate who sails to faraway islands, finds buried treasures, and tames sea monsters.

A young boy and his father share the magic of climbing the "Kansas mountains.".

Fourteen-year-old Dax Ramirez is living with his dad in a homeless shelter, and Dax is spending his days hustling less skilled skateboarders at the local skatepark--until an accident leads him to the first friends he has had in years, and an offer that will let him put his artistic skills to good use.

Todd McCray, a mentally challenged man still living on his parent's Kansas farm, convinces his father to allow him to participate in the local animal shelter's plea for short term adoption of a dog over the Christmas holiday, and decides to convince his neighbors to do the same.

A boy grows up in an optimistic and ambitious era of technological promise from 1939-1975, amid developments in industry such as rockets and the atom bomb, while learning from his father and holding onto his hopes for the future.