'Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge' by Etan Thomas, with Nick Chiles, is a perfect Father's Day book.
'Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge' by Etan Thomas, with Nick Chiles, is a perfect Father's Day book.
•Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge, edited by Etan Thomas with Nick Chiles (New American Library, $25.95). Thomas, a former NBA player who writes for the Huffington Post, collects essays on being a dad from Andre Agassi, Ice Cube, Michael Moore, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and other celebrities.•A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver by Mark Shriver (Henry Holt, $24). A son pays tribute to his dad, founder of the Peace Corps and brother-in-law of President Kennedy. Sargent Shriver died in 2011, after struggling with Alzheimer's.•Mum's List: A Mother's Life Lessons to the Husband and Sons She Left Behind by St. John Greene (Dutton, $25.95). A best-selling British memoir by a father of two about his wife, who died of cancer after creating a list of 100 things she wanted her family to know and do after she was gone.•Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight? Confessions of a Gay Dad by Dan Bucatinsky (Touchstone, $14.99, paperback original). An adoption memoir by an actor, writer and producer (HBO's The Comeback).For more information about reprints & permissions, visit our FAQ's. To report corrections and clarifications, contact Standards Editor Brent Jones. For publication consideration in the newspaper, send comments to letters@usatoday.com. Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. To view our corrections, go to corrections.usatoday.com.
