Frank Carlson Library

Pinky and Rex share a weekend with their fathers camping indoors due to rain.

"Simple text and photographs present fathers and how they interact with their families"--Provided by publisher.

Mozley's debut, shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, is a rugged, potent work whose concentrated mixture of lyricism and violence recalls Cormac McCarthy. A taciturn giant of a man, a bare-knuckle fighter who is the "fastest and toughest... in Britain and Ireland," builds a house for himself and his two children in the Yorkshire woods, where "the soil was alive with ruptured stories that cascaded and rotted then found form once more and pushed up...

Set in the 1930s, this poignant, funny, and utterly original novel tells the story of one lost girl's struggle for truth, identity, and understanding amidst her family's nomadic, unconventional lifestyle. What's the right way to behave, to think, to feel-if you're always the new girl? How do you navigate life when you're continually on the move? Do you lie? How do you even know if you're lying? What's the truth anyway? It's 1928 and nine-year-old...

"For readers of Paulette Jiles and Gil Adamson, a 19th-century tale of a father’s greatest regret and path to redemption Devastated at his wife’s death and stricken at raising two girls and a boy on his own, Arthur Delaney places his children in a Halifax orphanage and runs off to join the Union Army in the American Civil War. The trauma of battle and three years in a disease-ridden prisoner-of-war prison changes his perspective on life...

A child he's never met. A danger he's never known. That he's a father is news former Navy SEAL Ben Slocum didn't expect. But once the shock wears off, the confirmed bachelor takes in what social worker Claire Chastain is saying: that his son has been abducted by a man who wants revenge against Claire and Sam's dead mother. And that Ben is now the child's only hope. Banding together to find Sam, Ben and Claire fight feelings there's no time to explore....

BEWARE! This is a tale of great caution, terror, and destruction . . . of bath time, and bedtime, and the battle in between. This is the story of Little Fox and one VERY BIG imagination.

Animal fathers give hugs that come in all shapes and sizes, and each one is filled with love.

A father tells his child about his love, fear, and joy in being her parent.

When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.