Undiscovered Country
Seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson, trying to cope with the fact that his father committed suicide while they were out hunting, begins to question whether the gunshot wound was actually self-afflicted and takes it upon himself to uncover the true nature of the crime.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: fathers and sons [X], family secrets [X], forgiveness, revenge, father-son relationship, minnesota
Little Wolves
Intertwining stories in small-town America in the 1980's feature a man searching for answers after his son commits a crime and a pastor's wife who has returned to the town for mysterious reasons of her own.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: secrecy, homicide, father-son relationship, minnesota, fathers and sons [X], murder, spouses of clergy, family secrets [X], large type books
Epilogue
"Will Boast thought he'd lost his family, until a deeply held secret revealed a second chance he never thought he'd have.
920
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: 920
lexile:
subjects: boast, will, fathers and sons [X], family secrets [X], authors, american, young men, memoir, wisconsin, england, ireland
Golden Boys
Rex and Tabby Jenson and their sons, Colt and Bastian, arrive in Freya Kiley's Australian neighborhood with little fanfare, but their presence sends fissures throughout their modest community.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 960
Solo
In this verse novel, seventeen-year-old Blade Morrison, the son of fallen rock star Rutherford Morrison and the late Sunny Morrison, is struggling with his father's addiction and his girlfriend's betrayal when he learns he was adopted.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 78
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: fathers and sons [X], family secrets [X], novels in verse, children of drug addicts, reconciliation, novels in verse, father-son relationship
The Hunting Accident
In graphic novel format looks at blind prisoner Matt Rizzo who lost his sight with a shotgun blast to the face while participating in an armed robbery and how his life and soul were saved by Nathan Leopold Jr.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: rizzo, matt, leopold, nathan freudenthal, blind, prisoners, family secrets [X], fathers and sons [X], true crime comics, nonfiction comics, comics (graphic works)
When A Crocodile Eats The Sun
Peter Godwin recounts the experiences he had after returning to his birthplace in Zimbabwe to be with his dying father, and shares his impressions of the country and the political and social changes that have thrown it into a vortex of brutality and hatred.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: godwin, peter, zimbabwe, harare (zimbabwe), africa, southern, family secrets [X], fathers and sons [X], whites, journalists
What Makes Us
"Eran Sharon knows nothing of his father except that he left when Eran was a baby.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Playing The Cards You're Dealt
"Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made it to double digits! Which means he's finally old enough to play in the spades tournament every Joplin Man before him seems to have won.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 35
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: fathers and sons [X], card players, family secrets [X], secrets, father-son relationship, secrecy
I Am Not Who You Think I Am
Wayland Maynard is just eight years old when he sees his father kill himself, finds a note that reads I am not who you think I am, and is left reeling with grief and shock.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: family secrets [X], fathers and sons [X], fathers, suicide, thrillers (fiction), domestic fiction