Francis J D Hyland's latest novel My Father (The Year of the Golden Man), is the semi-biographical sequel to his earlier work My Son (A Journey), which I also read. My Father (The Year of the Golden Man) brings back most of the original characters, however, given that the principal narrator in each novel is different - father in one, son in the other, a new reader could start with either book without being displaced. The principal narrator of this story is the young American-born Oliver who sports blond dreadlocks and is in a loving relationship with Phaedra. His father, Xavier, was born and raised in Ghana on the West Coast of Africa, hardly a decade after independence. Xavier retains the warm, wild and free spirit of his birth-country and yearns to return. But that Ghana is no longer a place, but a time, thereby frustrating Xavier's efforts at a literal, geographical repatriation. Xavier has inherited his own father Albert Lewis' sense of adventure from that vast and wonder-filled continent and time. All this, as Oliver discovers, making his father anything but conventional - a mix between Mowgli and Denys Finch Hatton abruptly uprooted from Africa and deposited in a small, cold English town. And the huge effect that has on him, and knock-on effect on Oliver. This is Oliver's discovery - and trying to make sense - of himself, the adult world about him, and his relationship with his unconventional father, while enjoying the loving support of his partner Phaedra. And to help him, guide him even, is his father's journal. The love element is explicitly promoted as crucial in the relationship between Oliver and Phaedra, as it is in that between Xavier and Julia. Both couples enjoy exemplary levels of mutual commitment and romantic affection that are the envy of onlookers. The links between the main characters' lives and the author's philosophy are clearly and relevantly drawn, with striking additional examples from African folklore. Meanwhile the other characters swing in and out of and around Oliver's life, adding insight and prompting reflections useful to Oliver's journey of discovery. Places are clearly portrayed and often imbued with effective atmospherics to add dimension to the picture. The visits to India and also to the Blue Ridge Mountains are particularly vividly observed. Despite the author's gentle writing style, this is not always a gentle read. Hard hitting topics such as Huntington's Disease, bereavement, suicide and murder are dealt with. And while the author strikes a skilful balance between frankness and sensitivity, he also steeps these topics in reflections of his personal Eastern beliefs. So as Oliver travels throughout America, Europe and Asia, reading through his father's journal, two things become increasingly apparent to him, as well as to the reader, 1/ that despite initially perceived differences between father and son, Oliver is hardly the conventional man either, and 2/ the roads upon which father and son journey may appear different, but are essentially the same, and will in due course lead to the same destinations.

Godly thriving leaders are precious and valuable, but developing those leaders is not easy. Many leaders feel stuck, tired and frustrated in their growth and calling. This can change. In Mining for Gold, pastor and master-coach, Tom Camacho, offers a fresh perspective on how to draw out the best in ourselves and in those around us. Cutting through the complexity and challenges of leadership development, he gives us practical and effective tools to help leaders grow personally and develop those around them. Coaching, through the power of the Holy Spirit, provides the clarity and momentum we need to grow. When we get clarity, everything changes. Coaching helps us better understand our identity in Christ, our God-given wiring, and how we naturally bear the most fruit. There is gold in God’s people, waiting to be discovered. Let’s learn to draw out that treasure and help others flourish in their life and leadership.

In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as "Grand Illusion" and "The Rules of the Game," tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, beginning as a painter of fans and porcelain, recording the rules of thumb by which he worked, and capturing his unpretentious and wonderfully engaging talk and personality, Jean Renoir's book is both a wonderful double portrait of father and son and, in the words of the distinguished art historian John Golding, it " remains the best account of Renoir, and, furthermore, among the most beautiful and moving biographies we have." Includes 12 pages of color plates and 18 pages of black and white images.

"I have never before read anything except Nabokov’s Speak, Memory that so relentlessly and shrewdly exhausted the kindness and cruelty of recollection’s shaping devices." —Geoffrey Wolff Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka’s parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees moving from Innsbruck to Sydney to New York, dragging with them a history of blood and betrayal that their son would be born into. From World War I to the present, Slouka pieces together a remarkable story of refugees and war, displacement and denial—admitting into evidence memories, dreams, stories, the lies we inherit, and the lies we tell—in an attempt to reach his mother, the enigmatic figure at the center of the labyrinth. Her story, the revelation of her life-long burden and the forty-year love affair that might have saved her, shows the way out of the maze.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDITERRANÉE 2018 From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer’s epic masterpiece.

A memoir in which "writer Chris Offutt struggles to understand his recently deceased father based on his reading of the 400-plus novels [Andrew Offutt]--a well-known writer of pornography in the 1970s and 80s--left him in his will"--Publisher marketing.

An upbeat, empowering, important picture book from the team that created the award-winning Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut. A perfect gift for any special occasion! I am a nonstop ball of energy. Powerful and full of light. I am a go-getter. A difference maker. A leader. The confident Black narrator of this book is proud of everything that makes him who he is. He's got big plans, and no doubt he'll see them through--as he's creative, adventurous, smart, funny, and a good friend. Sometimes he falls, but he always gets back up. And other times he's afraid, because he's so often misunderstood and called what he is not. So slow down and really look and listen, when somebody tells you--and shows you--who they are. There are superheroes in our midst!

Tales by Garth Nix, David Gerrold, S.M. Stirling, Delia Sherman, Kelly Link and many others.