The only film festival I had ever been to before then was back home in Scotland, when a film I had made in my last term of drama school, Gillies McKinnon's Passing Glory, had its premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1986.
Through vivid family stories, letters, memories and his own award-winning lyrics, Dan Hill tells the story of two parallel lives—his father’s in mid-20th-century America and his own as a young black man coming of age in suburban ...
This is a true story based on the collection of information from U.S. Army documents, my father, Sgt.
John Davis grew up in the 1970s and '80s on the rough streets of Brooklyn, a place where no one thought twice when parents smacked around their kids-or each other.
These “successful” fathers usually provide a step-by-step plan describing what they did to connect with their son. This book is different. This book is written from a son's perspective.
cial role in helping their sons to develop and oftentimes are able to do so quite successfully without co - parenting with a man , as suggested in the writings of the family therapist Olga Silverstein and the clinical psychologist Peggy ...
Kevin's life of high school classes, crushes, basketball, and shuttling between his parents' homes falls apart when his father is arrested as a suspected serial killer, leading Kevin to a new understanding of his family and himself.
This powerful book is an improbable story of tolerance and hope set in what today is the very center of the world’s attention. “Graceful and resonant . . .
To mark the occasion, Ron Reagan has written My Father at 100, an intimate look at the life of his father-one of the most popular presidents in American history-told from the perspective of someone who knew Ronald Reagan better than any ...
Those letters would become this book. Along the way, Michael realized that his longings were shared by many Americans of every ethnicity and background.