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A journalistic memoir detailing the author's firsthand experiences with immigration, gang life, and guerilla warfare explores the violence that shaped generations of his impoverished Salvadoran family to connect today's immigration crisis to the realities of everyday families.

The former vice-president of the United States chronicles the difficult final year of his son's battle with cancer, his efforts to balance his responsibilities to the country and his family, and the lessons he learned.

A historian follows Lincoln from his law practice in Springfield through the war years in the White House, covering his relationship with his sons and how he managed to balance a successful career with paternal responsibilities.

"A wrenching memoir in which the creator of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, one of the most popular shows of all time, applies forensic techniques to his estranged father's suicide and his own unlikely rise in Hollywood"--

Before his success in public relations, his loving marriage and his storied writing career, Wade Rouse was simply Ted Rouse's son. A queer kid in a conservative Ozarks community, Wade struggled at a young age to garner his father's approval and find his voice. For his part, Ted was a hard-lined engineer, offering little emotional support or encouragement. But Wade and Ted had one thing in common: an undying love of the St. Louis Cardinals. For decades,...

"The story of America's first Black engineer, his revolutionary son, and the corporation that destroyed their relationship"--

A moving, beautifully written memoir of grief and love, understanding and forgiveness, and the curative power of creativity, detailing how the author coped with the death of his estranged father by building a wooden boat with the tools he had inherited.