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A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal yet public, intimate yet political decisions a family can make: to have a child, and conversely, to choose not to have a child. A first pregnancy is interrupted by test results at once catastrophic and uncertain. A second pregnancy ends in a fraught birth, a beloved child, the purgatory of further tests?and questions that reverberate down the years.
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One evening, while his three-month-old son Charlie briefly slept, Matt Coyne staggered to his desk, opened his laptop, and wrote a side-splittingly funny Facebook post about early fatherhood: Comparing his diaper-changing skills to that of a Formula One pit crew, birth to a Saw movie, and the sound of a baby crying at 3am to 'having the inside of your skill sandpapered by an angry Viking,' he shared his observations with friends and family-and soon,...
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"A taciturn carpenter has been too busy putting the final details on others' homes to pay much attention to his own fixer-upper. But when his wife becomes pregnant with their first child, he realizes he'll need to apply his art closer to home. For Taz and Marnie, their dreams are coming into focus, sustained by their deep sense of love and now family. The blueprint for the perfect life eludes Taz, plummeting him head first in the new strange world...
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2017.
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English
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It's Christmas Even morning. Years ago a man abandoned his son to pursue professional success; now he wonders if it's too late to forge a relationship with him. One week earlier, in a hospital late at night, the man met a five-year-old girl with cancer. When the man is given the chance to do something selfless that could change the destiny of the little girl in the hospital bed, he needs to find out what his own life has actually been worth in the...
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Libros del Asteroide S.L.U
Pub. Date
2022.
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Primera edición.
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Español
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"«Escribí las historias que componen este libro durante los últimos cinco años, es decir, durante los primeros cinco años de la vida de mi hijo. Y aunque las historias de un escritor se le van cruzando como peatones o gatos en el camino, llevo cinco años caminando y escribiendo mientras sostengo en mi mano la mano de un hijo que entra y sale de esas historias, y que corre a esconderse en algunas de ellas, y que a veces hasta me susurra las suyas....
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
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1st ed.
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English
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"A child's improvised game of 'Where's the moon, There's the moon' is the shaping metaphor for this collection, but adult matters of seeking and finding, loss and recovery, anticipation and desire's uncertain rewards are at its heart. Chiasson makes poignant use of objects and nature's givens as correlatives for our human struggles: 'Being near me never made anyone a needle,' he writes in 'Thread,' and in the poem titled 'Tree,' 'All day I waited...
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W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2009
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1st ed.
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English
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"When he became a father, Michael Lewis found himself expected to feel things that he didn't feel, and to do things that he couldn't see the point of doing. At first this made him feel guilty, until he realized that all around him fathers were pretending to do one thing, to feel one way, when in fact they felt and did all sorts of things, then engaged in what amounted to an extended cover-up. Lewis decided to keep a written record of what actually...
8) Go giants
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Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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In his third volume of poetry, Laird covers topics ranging from fatherhood and marriage to mass destruction and the cosmos.
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"A practical guide for modern-day parenting geared towards stay-at-home dads, offering advice on everything from learning to cook and clean with children, to dealing with mental health and relationships, with the easygoing perspective that dads can use their natural talents to parent any way that they choose to. The Ultimate Stay-At-Home Dad manual takes the best advice and wisdom from a dads group, and puts it into a format to help new stay-at-home...
10) 10:04: a novel
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"A beautiful and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire Ben Lerner's first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, was hailed as "one of the truest (and funniest) novels. of his generation" (Lorin Stein, The New York Review of Books), "a work so luminously original in style and form as to seem like a premonition, a comet from the future" (Geoff Dyer, The Observer). Now, his second novel departs from...
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2023.
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English
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"Andy Cohen has taken on the most important job of his life—father— and boy (and girl!) does he have a lot to say about it! One of Andy Cohen’s most momentous years starts off with a hangover the morning after an epic New Year’s Eve broadcast. But Andy doesn’t have time to dwell on the drama, as his role as media mogul is now matched with the responsibilities, joys, and growing pains of parenthood. This fast-paced, mile-a-minute look behind...
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"When "Big Mike" Cummings asked Jorja Leap to co-lead a group for men learning how to father their children, she had no idea what to expect. What unfolds in these pages is the story of Project Fatherhood and its members as they meet every Wednesday night in Watts- the epicenter of violence in Los Angeles. The struggles the book illuminates are heartbreaking, infuriating and hilarious. Over time, the fathers both support and argue with one another...
13) Daddy don't go
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New Day Films
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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This film captures two years in the lives of four disadvantaged fathers in New York City as they fight to defy the odds against them. And the odds are real - men living in poverty are more than twice as likely to become absent fathers than their middle-class peers (U.S. Census Bureau). DADDY DON'T GO is a tough but tender journey that aims to illuminate the everyday struggles of disadvantaged fathers. Alex, Nelson, Roy and Omar shatter the deadbeat...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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English
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"Things My Son Needs to Know About the World collects the personal dispatches from the front lines of one of the most daunting experiences any man can experience: fatherhood. As he conveys his profound awe at experiencing all the "firsts" that fill him with wonder and catch him completely unprepared, Fredrik Backman doesn't shy away from revealing his own false steps and fatherly flaws, tackling issues both great and small, from masculinity and mid-life...
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"Part memoir and part cultural critique, Rap Dad is a timely reflection on fatherhood in America, explored through the lens of race and hip-hop culture. Just as his music career was taking off, Juan Vidal received life-changing news: he'd soon be a father. Throughout his life, neglectful men were the rule--his own dad struggled with drug addiction and infidelity--a cycle that, inevitably, wrought Vidal with insecurity. At age twenty-six, with but...
16) Minding Frankie
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When Nöel learns that his former flame is terminally ill and pregnant with a child she claims is his, he agrees to take care of the baby girl once she's born. But as a recovering alcoholic whose demons are barely under control, he can't do it alone. Luckily, he has an amazing network of family and friends who are ready to help. A tale of joy, heartbreak and hope in a close-knit Dublin community.
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Brimming with timeless stories and inspirational quotes, this book on fatherhood from Max Lucado is the perfect gift to show Dad how much he means to the family.
Dads are a one-of-a-kind bunch. They can be strong and stern, yet heartfelt and gentle. They may be out of touch with today's Top 40 Hits, but know just the right word to say in a quiet moment. They are always there to provide, lend a helping hand, or be our biggest cheerleader.
Max Lucado...
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"From Kelly Rippon, single mother of six super achievers, including an Olympic medalist, comes a breakthrough parenting philosophy. Parent Up is a call to action for all parents to realize the power of being the most important, positive shaping force in your children's lives. Broken down into ten chapters that each present a key influence (from the influence of optimism to loyalty), Kelly shares her philosophy as well as relatable anecdotes from her...
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Adams Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Adams Media trade paperback edition.
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English
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An expert survival instructor presents fun and engaging hands-on nature, camping and bushcraft projects that encourage parents and children to explore and experience the great outdoors and create memories to last a lifetime.
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"What a father will do to fight the mental illness that has destroyed his son. What does a father do when hope is gone that his only son can ever lead anything close to a 'normal' life? That's the question that haunted Dick Russell in the fall of 2011, when his son, Franklin, was thirty-two. At the age of seventeen, Franklin had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. For years he spent time in and out of various hospitals, and even went through periods...
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