Hardcover Nonfiction

by Haim G. Ginott · Macmillan

by Desmond Morris · McGraw-Hill

by Stephen Birmingham · Harper & Row

by James D. Watson · Atheneum

by Francis Chichester · Coward McCann

by Robert K. Massie · Atheneum

by David Frost and Antony Jay · Stein and Day

by · Simon & Schuster

by Evelyn Lincoln · Harper & Row

by William Gibson · Atheneum

This is written in remembrance of Gibson's deceased parents and in honor of their lives. In reflecting on them he in turn makes it a tribute to parenthood and a dedication to his own children. Gibson's language is striking in its poignancy. Despite the title, this is not a religious work, but a work of love from a child to parent and from the child-become-parent to his own children. Interspersed between the reminiscences of his parents and his childhood, Gibson inserts achingly beautiful epistles to his children for their guidance about life and parenting.--Adapted from barnesandnoble.com.