Two boys discover that their mother loves them equally but in different ways.

"Leo enjoys a full day of fun and snuggles with his mommy." -- Provided by publisher.

In this utterly unconventional, autobiographical novel, Mark Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a mall. Besides Mark's mother, who's driven him to the mall and introduces him before he begins, and a few employees of fast food chain Panda Express who ask a handful of questions, the reading is completely without audience. The action of Gone with the mind takes place exclusively at the food court, but the territory covered on these pages has...

A boy's wonderful mama takes him zooming everywhere with her, because her wheelchair is a zooming machine.

Mothers get the message early and often--push your sons away. Don't "baby" them with too much cuddling and comforting. Don't keep them emotionally bound to you, because boys need to learn to stand on their own. It is as if there were a playbook--based on gender preconceptions dating back to Freud, Oedipus, and beyond--that prescribes how mothers and their sons should interact. Journalist Kate Stone Lombardi persuasively argues that much of the entrenched...

A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

"A mother and son use their imagination to have fun on a rainy day"--

Alex and his mother write notes back and forth in which Alex tries to persuade her to let him have a baby iguana for a pet.

"A gorgeous, jewel of a novel about a mother caring for her two sons while everything else -- her marriage, the fishing industry her New England community relies on -- threatens to crumble around her. After a fishing accident leaves her husband hospitalized across the border in Canada, Jill is left to look after 'the wolves' -- her two teenage boys -- alone. Nothing comes easy in their remote corner of Maine: money is tight, her son Sam is getting...

"Leo loves Show and Tell, but when he's asked to talk about his dad, he begins to worry. How can he celebrate someone he's never met? Leo doesn't have a cool, courageous, clever dad or any kind of dad at all. Or does he? THIS IS MY DAD is a touching tale of single parenting, space aliens and recognizing role models that celebrates families of every shape and size." -- Publisher's description.