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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's the late 1980s, and Matthew Carnap is awake most nights, afflicted by a potent combination of insomnia and undiagnosed ADHD. Sometimes he gazes out his bedroom window into the dark; sometimes he wanders the streets of his small southern Minnesota town. But more often than not, he crosses the hall into his stepfather Russ's roller rink to spend the sleepless hours lost in music. Russ's record collection is as eclectic as it is extensive, and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A treasury of inspiring true stories of heroism, exploration, and sacrifice invites boys to learn from the examples of such role models as the Apollo XIII crew and Scott of the Antarctic, in a reference that pays tribute to classic virtues.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Recounts how fatherhood inspired the author to attempt haphazard activities designed to further his maturity, from a shift with Los Angeles firefighters and three days of basic training with the Marine Corps to a fight with UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture.
Author
Publisher
Regenery Gateway
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Anthony Esolen, issues a powerful defense of the virtues of masculine strength. From the thankless brute force that erected buildings, paved roads, and cleared ground, to the boundless energy of youth that compelled centuries of global exploration, to the father's embodied authority as protector, director, and exemplar of law and justice, Esolen shows how civilization has rested upon the strength of men.
Author
Publisher
Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author and cultural commentator explores the history of masculinity, the rise of the "toxic masculinity" conversation, and the paradigm-shifting sociological evidence showing that Christianity provides a better blueprint-and better real-worldoutcomes-when it comes to solving the problem of toxic behavior in men.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"It's no secret that men often behave in mystifying ways, but in recent years we've witnessed so many spectacular public displays of male excess--indecent politicians, sleazy academics, philandering sports stars--that we're left to wonder whether something has come unwired in the collective male psyche. In the essays collected here, Kipnis revisits the archetypes of wayward masculinity that have captured her imagination over the years: the scumbag,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son, blistering and deeply personal, records Russell’s quest to understand, through his journalistic subjects, his own appetites and urges, his persistent alienation, and, above all, his knotty, volatile, vital relationship with his father. In a narrative that can be read as both a magnificent act of literary mythmaking and a howl of filial despair, Russell gives us a haunting and unforgettable portrait...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Michael Ian Black takes a poignant look at manhood, written in the form of a heartfelt letter to his teenage son before he leaves for college. Black offers a radical plea for rethinking masculinity and teaching young men to give and receive love"--
Author
Series
Saga Three Tubular volume 7
Publisher
Brave Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Lucas's sister, Chloe, gets poisoned by the night-scorch thorns, it's all up to him to save her. Many obstacles stand in Lucas's path, but when a legendary lion shows up, his world changes. Can Lucas make it to the top of Mount Mane in time to get the cure for Chloe? Join Lucas as he learns to be a real lion.
Author
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Reeves looks at the structural challenges that face boys and men and offers fresh and innovative solutions that turn the page on the corrosive narrative that plagues this issue. Of Boys and Men argues that helping the other half of society does not meangiving up on the ideal of gender equality.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen year old Bucky Yi knows nothing about his birth country of South Korea or his bio-dad's disappearance. His sights are set on one all-American goal: to become a college football player. So when a misadventure with his adoptive family leads to his deportation to South Korea, Bucky is forced to navigate an entirely foreign version of his life. One mishap leads to another, and he has to fall back on not just his raw physical strength, but resources...
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Michael Kimmel has spent hundreds of hours in the company of angry white American men--from white supremacists to men's rights activists to young students--to try to determine why they are so angry. Kimmel proposes a theory of aggrieved entitlement: a sense that the benefits to which white men long believed themselves entitled have been snatched from them. Kimmel locates the increase in anger with a growing social, political, and economic gender...
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
After a roving motorcycle gang attacks him on the street, timid bookkeeper Casey joins a neighborhood karate studio to learn how to protect himself. Under the watchful eye of a charismatic instructor, Sensei, and hardcore brown belt Anna, Casey gains a newfound sense of confidence. But when he attends Sensei's mysterious night classes, he discovers a sinister world of brutality and hyper-masculinity, presenting a journey that places him squarely in...
Author
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
On February 10, 1918, John Power woke to the sound of bells and horses' hooves. He was sharing a cabin near the family mine with his brother Tom and their father Jeff; hired man Tom Sisson was also nearby. Then gunfire erupted, and so began the day when the Power brothers engaged the Graham County Sheriff's Department in the bloodiest shootout in Arizona history.
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