Matt Centrowitz' journey as a runner, coach and father.

If you've ever finished a book about how to be a man and felt worse than when you started, you need Like Father, Like Son. Forty years of men's ministry has convinced Pete Alwinson—and will soon convince you—that knowing God's fatherly love changes everything for a man.

The son of bestselling author Robert Fulghum illuminates his own quixotic generation in this warm, witty and wise collection of stories on being a man at midlife in America. "Like Father, Like Son" is about hair loss and barbecue, mailbox vandals and ear piercing, poker and ant farms--the real moments in life, both lunatic and serene. Anyone who is a father will find stories to make him laugh, cry and reflect on his own situation.

Kitty loves Rand, although aware shes his social inferior. She feels his many moods prove that fact, despite his amorous attentions. A smart gal would run rather than risk her heart, but mystery abounds in her employers family and shes more than curious. Why do Rand and his Aunt treat Paul like a leper, while Rands grandmother appears to adore Paul? And, If Rand is reputedly Pauls clone, why such venom for his father? Is it worth risking her heart by staying in her job long enough simply to solve the mystery?

James Patterson's blockbuster Alex Cross series has sold over 100 million copies—and now he's bringing those thrills to a new generation! Alex's son Ali is eager to follow in his father's footsteps as a detective, but when his best friend goes missing, what price will he have to pay to solve the mystery? Ali Cross has always looked up to his father, former detective and FBI agent Alex Cross. While solving some of the nation's most challenging crimes, his father always kept his head and did the right thing. Can Ali have the same strength and resolve? When Ali's best friend Gabe is reported missing, Ali is desperate to find him. At the same time, a string of burglaries targets his neighborhood—and even his own house. With his father on trial for a crime he didn't commit, it's up to Ali to search for clues and find his friend. But being a kid sleuth isn't easy—especially when your father warns you not to get involved!—and Ali soon learns that clues aren't always what they seem. Will his detective work lead to a break in Gabe's case or cause even more trouble for the Cross family?

Chris Skinner, Amy’s new boyfriend, comes from a broken home. He hasn’t seen his father in, like, forever. And when his dad finally appears, it isn’t to make up for Chris’s miserable childhood. Mr. Skinner is ill — so ill that he needs a bone marrow transplant. Chris could be the perfect match. Nothing strange in that, except . . . What if ailing grown-ups could tap into a guaranteed reserve of healthy body parts? What if innocent kids were being harmed? What if you were bred to become an unwilling donor? Amy knows she’s blessed with superhuman genes, but no way, nohow is she going to let herself, or any other kid, fall prey to freakish science-fiction experiments!

What does it mean to be made in God’s image if God is Father, Son and Spirit? Tom Smail offers an approach to theological anthropology base on the doctrine of the Trinity, arguing that we are only human when we reflect the relationships between Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The book focuses on what it is to be like Father, like Son and like Holy Spirit, focusing in particular on the initiating love of the Father, the responsive love of the Son and the creative love of the Holy Spirit. Interacting with sociological, theological and personal issues of concern on a day-to-day level, Like Father, Like Son is relevant to Christian living in both the church and the world.

Brian Jones's work is fresh, polished, excitingly paced, thoroughly entertaining. The past has a long and dangerous reach. Will this be true for the Mowatts? Will the secrets of father and son be revealed. There is only one way to find out...