Today Will Be Different
by Maria Semple | 
Stone Arabia
by Dana Spiotta | 
The Song Reader
by Lisa Tucker | 
The Wishbones
by Tom Perrotta | 
The Baker's Apprentice
by Judith Ryan Hendricks | 
A Severed Wasp
by Madeleine L'Engle | 
Oxygen
by Carol Cassella | 
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
by Mitch Albom | 
The Courage Consort
by Michel Faber |
Stories We Could Tell
by Tony Parsons | 
Andrew's Brain
by E. L. Doctorow | 
Kitty Foyle
by Christopher Morley |
This Side of Innocence
by Taylor Caldwell | 
Point of No Return
by John P. Marquand | 
Pilgrim's Inn
by Elizabeth Goudge | 
The Art of Racing in the Rain
by Garth Stein | 
Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett | 
The Time of Our Singing
by Richard Powers | 
The Soloist
by Mark Salzman | 
Raven Stole the Moon
by Garth Stein |
Fathers never forget seeing their kids for the first time. But Evan is greeting his son, Dean, fourteen years late. The boy had been shuttled secretly to another city, along with his teenaged mother, while still a newborn. Now his mother has passed away, and Evan is it--Dad. An instant single parent.