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The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
by Michael Chabon
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
by Amy Chua
Published Dec 2011
Read ReviewsAn awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother's exercise in extreme parenting, revealing the rewards - and the costs - of raising her children the Chinese way.
by Roger Rosenblatt
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsWhen his daughter, Amy, died suddenly of a heart condition, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife moved in with their son-in-law and their three young grandchildren. His story tells how a family makes the possible out of the impossible.
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
by Bill Bryson
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsA vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. A book that delivers on the promise that it is "laugh-out-loud funny".
by Adam Gopnik
Published Sep 2001
Read ReviewsWith singular wit and insight, Gopnik weaves the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century.
by William S. Pollack, Ph.D.
Published Jun 2000
Read ReviewsHear verbatim what boys have to say about violence, drugs, sports, school, parents, love, anger, body image, becoming a man, and much, much more.
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