Kal is an aspiring poet, but truthfully, she's an artist who is lost. She tries desperately to find an outlet for her artistic voice as she struggles with her self-esteem and a difficult home life. When Kal meets fellow poet Curtis, it's the turmoil, surprise and uncertainty of a new love that ultimately help her find her voice-and a sense of self-worth.

Depicts the extraordinary life and times of one of America's least understood, and most underestimated, founding fathers: the second President of the United States, John Adams. Explores the extraordinary life journey of one of the primary shapers of our independence and government, whose legacy has often been eclipsed by more flamboyant contemporaries. Set against the backdrop of a nations stormy birth, a moving love story and celebrates the shared...

A father tells his daughter the story of how he damaged a neighbor's tomato garden when he was a boy and what he did to make amends.

It was a hunting accident, that much Charlie is sure of. That's how his father, Matt Rizzo, a gentle intellectual who writes epic poems in Braille, had lost his vision. It's not until Charlie's troubled teenage years, when he's facing time for his petty crimes, that he learns the truth. Matt Rizzo was blinded by a shotgun blast to the face, but it was while participating in an armed robbery.

Lucía loves to watch the monarchs' migration from her home in Mexico with Papá. But this year, the monarchs' journey north holds extra weight; Papá is heading north, too, to look for work. He promises her that when "the weather turns cold and the monarcas return, our winged ancestors will guide me home." So while he spends the summer months harvesting produce on faraway farms, Lucía watches the skies for signs of the monarchs'--and her papá's--return. A...

"In the tradition of the modern classics The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer and The Liars' Club by Mary Karr, Blaine Lourd's Born on the Bayou is a powerful gothic memoir set in the bayous and oil towns of 1970s Louisiana. Coonass: [koon-as] (noun, slang, from the French conasse), a term of endearment and an expression of cultural and ethnic pride. So echoes this all-important definition throughout this good-humored memoir of growing up in the South....

A father and daughter play hide-and-seek in the midst of the animals near their house in Thailand.

Molly's excitement at performing in a big show is exceeded only by the announcement that her father is returning home from the war.

This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out,...

Despite the dangers of a thunderstorm, Axel and his father make a difficult climb to rescue Axel's stranded dog.