"On the central coast of California during World War II, A Japanese submarine attacks California's fuel supply, firing shells from its deck gun at oil storage tanks along the Gaviota coast. When the submarine later runs aground and is salvaged by U.S. Navy divers, they find a top-secret U.S. War Department Report detailing America's shoreline fortifications. A young lawyer who had successfully defended Japanese-Americans from prosecution is found...

While at the farmer's market, Pablo picks out things his dad says are too big for him, which is just no fair, and wonders if by swapping places with his dad so that he is the one in charge and his dad is the kid, whether his dad would stop to think about what's fair, too.

"When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith, fortune, and relentless hard work, Jakob has achieved success...

Dr. Frasier Crane is a psychiatrist and radio talk show host who shares an apartment with his retired cop father in Seattle. In this season, Frasier commemorates his 2,000th radio show on KACL, Martin lands a job as a night-shift security guard, Niles and Daphne must endure an overseas visit from her conniving mother and lecherous brother, and Roz is swept off her feet by a charming and handsome new boyfriend-- a garbageman!

Walking to school with Mama, Gogo or Tata is fun. But riding high on Papa's shoulders is the BEST! On my Papa's Shoulders invites young readers along on a little boy and his Papa's walk to school, where they have their own special way of saying goodbye.

"From PEN/Hemingway award winner Brando Skyhorse comes this stunning, heartfelt memoir in the vein of The Glass Castle or The Tender Bar, the true story of a boy's turbulent childhood growing up with five stepfathers and the mother who was determined to give her son everything but the truth. When he was three years old, Brando Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his Mexican father. His mother, Maria, dreaming of a more exciting life, saw no reason for her...

A down-and-out miner raising a son on his own finds fortune as an oil tycoon when he hears that a western town is full of oil. As the well raises their fortunes, it brings conflict and hardships that money can't touch. Packaged in a cardboard pocket.

"Hoping to strike it rich, eleven-year-old Jasper and his older brother Melvin set out on a treacherous journey to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush"--

Lito Macaraeg, a former chauffeur for Philippine president Corazon Aquino, reaches out to his estranged journalist son from his nursing home in Manila, offering him a scoop about a secret meeting between Imelda Marcos and Aquino, whose husband was allegedly murdered by Marcos and her husband.

"For fans of Shuggie Bain and A Burning, a queer coming-of-age novel set in 1990s India, about a young man who joins a traveling theater troupe Shagun knows he will never be the kind of son his father demands. After the sudden deaths of his beloved twin sisters, Shagun flees his own guilt, his mother's grief, and his father's violent disapproval by enrolling at an all-boys boarding school. But he doesn't find true belonging until he encounters a traveling...