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Buddy system : understanding male friendships / by Greif, Geoffrey L.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-293) and index.How do we understand men's friendships? -- What do friendship and friend mean? -- So how do friendships actually work? -- What do men learn from their fathers about friendships? -- Do women influence men's friendships? -- Do women feel the same way about friends as do men? -- Marty in his 20s : needing friends and family -- Zach in his 30s : balancing family, friends, and work -- Mal in his 40s : continuing the balancing act -- Mick in his 50s : needing friends more than ever -- Michael in his 60s : friendships shaped by early experiences -- Donald in his 70s : going strong -- Tom in his 80s : realizing all his friends are gone -- Fred in his 90s : thinking maybe it's in the genes -- Men's fellowship at a Saturday morning church group -- Stepping up to the plate with your friendships -- Appendix A : About the study -- Appendix B : Questions for men's groups and classroom discussion.
Subjects: Male friendship.;
© 2009., Oxford University Press,
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Permafrost : a novel / by Robertson, Peter,1958-;
Two friends grew up together in Scotland. Now one is missing in Northern Michigan and the other, a successful businessman, has time on his hands. The hunt for the lost man begins as a mystery evolves into an act of redemption.
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Male friendship; Missing persons;
© c2012., Gibson House,
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Deep secrets : boys' friendships and the crisis of connection / by Way, Niobe,1963-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-314) and index.The hidden landscape of boys' friendships -- Investigating boys, friendships, and human nature -- I: Friendships during early and middle adolescence -- "Sometimes you need to spill your heart out to somebody" -- Boys with feelings -- Nick and George: stories of resistance -- II: Friendships during late adolescence -- "When you grow up, your heart dies" -- As boys become men -- Fernando and Danny -- The crisis of connection."Boys are emotionally illiterate and don't want intimate friendships". In this empirically grounded challenge to our stereotypes about boys and men, the author reveals the intense intimacy among teenage boys especially during early and middle adolescence. Boys not only share their deepest secrets and feelings with their closest male friends, they claim that without them they would go "wacko." Yet as boys become men, they become distrustful, lose these friendships, and feel isolated and alone. Drawing from hundreds of interviews conducted throughout adolescence with black, Latino, white, and Asian American boys, this work reveals the ways in which we have been telling ourselves a false story about boys, friendships, and human nature. Boys' descriptions of their male friendships sound more like "something out of Love Story than Lord of the Flies." Yet in late adolescence, boys feel they have to "man up" by becoming stoic and independent. Vulnerable emotions and intimate friendships are for girls and gay men. "No homo" becomes their mantra. These findings are alarming, given what we know about links between friendships and health, and even longevity. Rather than a "boy crisis," the author argues that boys are experiencing a "crisis of connection" because they live in a culture where human needs and capacities are given a sex (female) and a sexuality (gay), and thus discouraged for those who are neither. The author argues that the solution lies with exposing the inaccuracies of our gender stereotypes and fostering these critical relationships and fundamental human skills.
Subjects: Male friendship.; Emotions in adolescence.; Emotions in children.;
© 2011., Harvard University Press,
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Brideshead revisited : the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder / by Waugh, Evelyn,1903-1966.;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Upper class families; Male friendship; Catholics;
© 2012., Little, Brown and Company,
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Something wicked this way comes / by Bradbury, Ray,1920-2012.;
A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two inquisitive boys standing precariously on the brink of adulthood will soon discover the secret of the satanic raree-show's smoke, mazes, and mirrors, as they learn all too well the heavy cost of wishes -- and the stuff of nightmare.
Subjects: Boys; Male friendship; Fathers and sons; Carnival;
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The kite runner [sound recording] / by Hosseini, Khaled.;
Read by the author.Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.System requirements for enhanced CD function: computer capable of reading PDF files.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Betrayal; Boys; Male friendship; Social classes; Audiobooks.;
© p2003., Simon & Schuster Audio,
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The old man and the sea / by Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961.;
Story of an old fisherman's struggle against natural obstacles that hinder the catch of a huge marlin.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Allegories.; Fishers; Older men; Male friendship; Metaphorical tales.; Coming of age;
© 2003., Scribner,
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Finn : [electronic resource] : A novel. by Clinch, Jon.;
In this masterful debut by a major new voice in fiction, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature's most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn's father. The result is a deeply original tour de force that springs from Twain's classic novel but takes on a fully realized life of its own. Finn sets a tragic figure loose in a landscape at once familiar and mythic. It begins and ends with a lifeless body--flayed and stripped of all identifying marks--drifting down the Mississippi. The circumstances of the murder, and the secret of the victim's identity, shape Finn's story as they will shape his life and his death. Along the way Clinch introduces a cast of unforgettable characters: Finn's terrifying father, known only as the Judge; his sickly, sycophantic brother, Will; blind Bliss, a secretive moonshiner; the strong and quick-witted Mary, a stolen slave who becomes Finn's mistress; and of course young Huck himself. In daring to re-create Huck for a new generation, Clinch gives us a living boy in all his human complexity–not an icon, not a myth, but a real child facing vast possibilities in a world alternately dangerous and bright.Finn is a novel about race; about paternity in its many guises; about the shame of a nation recapitulated by the shame of one absolutely unforgettable family. Above all, Finn reaches back into the darkest waters of America’s past to fashion something compelling, fearless, and new.-- provided by Amazon.com.Electronic reproduction.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Runaway children; Fugitive slaves ; Male friendship; Race relations ; Boys ; Fiction.; Literature.;
© 2007.,
On-line resources: http://kirtland.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=7AEEC771-8913-4FAE-AB3A-84ECFB578B46 -- http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=;
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James : a novel / by Everett, Percival,author.authttps://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgHdxf4bjr9PfwPyxpMfq; Based on (work):Twain, Mark,1835-1910.Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.;
"From Percival Everett--a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards--comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river's banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin...), Jim's agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light. Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a "cult literary icon" (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature"--
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Historical fiction.; Fugitive slaves; Race relations; Male friendship; Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character); Runaway children;
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The Shawshank redemption / by Darabont, Frank,screenwriter,director.; Marvin, Niki,producer.; Robbins, Tim,1958-actor.; Freeman, Morgan,actor.; Gunton, Bob,actor.; Sadler, William,1950-actor.; Brown, Clancy,actor.; Bellows, Gil,actor.; Rolston, Mark,actor.; Whitmore, James,1921-2009,actor.; Deakins, Roger A.,1949-director of photography.; Newman, Thomas,1955-composer (expression); Motion picture screenplay based on (work):King, Stephen,1947-Hope springs eternal.; Castle Rock Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Warner Home Video (Firm),distributor.;
Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, Mark Rolston, James Whitmore.Director of photography, Roger Deakins ; editor, Richard Francis-Bruce ; music, Thomas Newman ; production designer, Terence Marsh.MPAA rating: R; language and prison violence"Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.
Subjects: Prisons; Male prisoners; Male friendship; False imprisonment; Escapes; King, Stephen, 1947-; Feature films.; Prison films.;
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