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Best Books for Dad 2022

Father’s Day is a time to celebrate the men in our lives who have raised and loved us. Why not show him your appreciation by inspiring him with a great book? We have 12 titles that are perfect gift-giving suggestions for Dad, keeping him busy through the rest of the year.

Congratulations to the five winners of our 17th Annual Father’s Day Contest! Each winner received a prize package that includes all of the titles in this year’s feature.

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Wade Rouse, author of Magic Season: A Son's Story

Before his success in public relations, his loving marriage and his storied writing career, Wade Rouse was simply Ted Rouse's son. A queer kid in a conservative Ozarks community, Wade struggled at a young age to garner his father's approval and find his voice. For his part, Ted was a hard-lined engineer, offering little emotional support or encouragement. But Wade and Ted had one thing in common: an undying love of the St. Louis Cardinals. For decades, baseball offered Wade and his father a shared vocabulary --- a way to stay in touch, to connect and to express their emotions. But when his father's health takes a turn for the worse, Wade returns to southwest Missouri to share one final season with his father.

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Week of October 6, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of October 6th include TO DIE FOR, David Baldacci's third 6:20 Man thriller, in which Travis Devine is sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid in a complicated FBI case --- and he’s about to come face to face with his nemesis, the girl on the train; SAFE ENOUGH, a collection of 20 pulse-pounding stories from Lee Child that are intimate portraits of humanity at its best and worst; PRECIPICE by Robert Harris, a spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue and betrayal set in England in the months leading up to the Great War; JOHN LEWIS, David Greenberg’s profoundly insightful biography of the Civil Rights icon, which draws on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents; and Wade Rouse's MAGIC SEASON, an unforgettable story of love, family and forgiveness set against the backdrop of America's favorite pastime.

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