Celebrate Father's Day (which is coming up on June 19th) with these fatherhood-oriented titles! In the newly-released fictional Remember Ben Clayton, a rancher commissions an artist to create a memorial statue for his son who was killed in World War I; meanwhile, the artist's own relationship with his daughter is jeopardized by a secret. The Reading Promise is the recently-published true account of how one father inspired a lifelong love of learning in his daughter by reading aloud to her every night - for nine years. Another nonfictional memoir, Bury Me In My Jersey, tells the sad but powerful story of a son who shared his father's love of the Philadelphia Eagles and how he finally came to terms with his father's death. A somewhat lighter selection is The Book of Dads, which is a collection of essays on the ups and downs of fatherhood. Meanwhile, Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy is a new work of fiction about a recovering alcholic who agrees to care for a baby that his terminally ill ex-girlfriend claims is his child.
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New Nonfiction
Check out these new works of nonfiction! The Reading Promise and In the Garden of Beasts both deal with father-daughter relationships, one in the modern day and the other in Hitler's Berlin, while The Convert tells the famous true story of Margaret Marcus of Larchmont, NY, who abandoned the religion and country of her birth, converted to Islam, and moved to Pakistan. A History of Marriage and Origins of Political Order (a newcomer on the New York Times bestseller list) both trace the origins of two intriguing and often controversial social institutions: marriage and democracy.
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