Download or read book Just For Dads and Grandpa Too written by Richard Possett and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journal book is Just For Dads! ( and Grandpa, too). Its about Dads of all ages. Typically, what is handed down from our fathers is both a natural and material inheritance. It is a legacy of genes, behaviors, mannerisms, money, and property. Unless there is some special effort put forth, a lot about Dad is lost upon his death. The purpose of this journal book is for fathers to record their story. It is meant to be a living life gift to their sons and daughters. In this way, fathers can leave a complete legacy, both tangible and intangible, to their children. The journal speaks to the life and times of a father. It talks about the mother of the father's children. It chats about his pastimes and notable accomplishments. It culminates with Dad's acknowledgements, beliefs, and advice for his children. The journal is styled in a question and answer format. This will help you write down the memories, thoughts, and ideas you wish to share with your children. Please remember, much of what makes up who your children are comes from you, so your story is also their story.

Download or read book Dad How Do I written by Rob Kenney and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Like the YouTube channel, this is a touching yet informative guide for those seeking fatherly advice, or even a few good dad jokes.” — Library Journal

Download or read book The Perfect Dad written by Rob Stennett and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Dads Aren't Perfect...But They Aspire to Be Congratulations, you're hired! You have no qualifications, references, education, or experience, but you've definitely got the job. No occupation in the world operates like that...except parenthood. A father of four young girls, Rob Stennett is here to help you with some on-the-job training. With humor and thought-provoking honesty, Rob explores the 12 essential roles in your job description, including... Provider—Manage the stress of balancing work and family by establishing clear priorities at home and in your career. Pastor—Teach the wonder of Scripture and how your kids can cultivate a faith in God they love and cherish. Husband—Alleviate the pressure of modeling a healthy relationship for your kids by focusing on your spouse's needs first. Counselor—Help your kids avoid emotional pitfalls by becoming their most trusted source of wisdom. You probably already know that becoming the perfect father is an unattainable goal, but that shouldn't stop you from trying your best to be a great dad. Your effort won't go unnoticed by your wife and kids. You can thrive in the most important job you've ever been given.

Download or read book Bedtime Storeezzz written by James D. Shinn and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you like to improve communication with your children? Would you like to understand their concerns and burdens? Would you like to develop your child's Biblical wisdom for coping with the stresses and changes in life? Bedtime Storeezzz is a series of sixty short stories involving dialogues between parents and children about family, life, the stresses of growing up, and the world around them. You will have the opportunity to listen and learn as you enter the wonderful world that exists before lights go out. Families share common concerns, but we often do not know what to say or do when faced with new situations. Bedtimes Storeezzz, can ease parental confusion and help build firm foundation of Biblical wisdom for looking at life and its many faces. These tales for the spiritual development of families, are written by a Christian psychotherapist and junior high counselor, who is also a grandparent, stepparent, step adoptive parent, birthparent and Sunday School teacher. Bedtime Storeezzz warm hearts and calm fears, as they bring smiles to faces of all ages, young and old.

Download or read book My Father Knows the Names of Things written by Jane Yolen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhyming text depicts a father sharing with his child such things as seven words that all mean blue and the name of every kind of cloud.

Download or read book Grandpa Wouldn T Lie written by Samuel D. Perry and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandpa Wouldn't Lie is the heartwarming story of a boy's relationship with his grandparents. Through stories told by his grandfather, the author learns, not only his family heritage, but important lessons about personal values and the meaning of life. Although essential reading for members of the author's family, this book has appeal for the general reader, too. The stories contained within it take the reader back to a time when life in the southern Appalachians was harsh and, sometimes,brutal. However, through the stories told by his grandfather, the author learns that integrity and family honor can triumph in the face of unrelenting difficulties. This is a book that will be read again and again, by both young and old. The reader will be long in forgetting it.

Download or read book Knowing Me written by Jasmine Fleur and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid a world bereft of luxuries and entitlements, a girl grows up with little hope of becoming anyone important. She is only able to escape her pain and dream of a better future through the pages of her beloved books. As she helplessly watches her parents rapidly descend into despair and failure, she learns to cope with reality, makes the best of what she has, and, while wishing she could do something to make life perfect for her family, plays within an imaginary world. When her coming-of-age journey leads her into young adulthood, she makes several life-changing mistakes that, at first, prompt self-pity but then eventually open her eyes to a new world where unlimited possibilities await. But will she be able to summon the inner strength to leave her past behind and embrace freedom and her true identity? Knowing Me shares the touching tale of a girls struggles as she grows up poor in a dysfunctional family and eventually sets out on journey of self-discovery where anything is possible.

Download or read book Brown Eyed Girl written by Mariah Stewart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Certain to delight readers everywhere" (Romantic Times), award-winning author Mariah Stewart expertly blends tantalizing romance and thrilling intrigue for a life-affirming novel about the healing power of love.... As co-owner and features editor of a popular magazine, Leah McDevitt loves exploring exotic locales while she tracks fashion and social trends across the globe. Yet despite her devotion to her fast-paced career, Leah is haunted by the memory of her cherished younger sister Melissa, who years ago disappeared without a trace. So when convicted serial killer Raymond Lambert contacts her, Leah is more than willing to pay him the long-standing reward for information leading to the recovery of Melissa's body. But before Lambert can turn over all his information, he himself is killed. Devastated but determined to finally uncover the truth, Leah heads to the Maine woods to seek out Ethan Sanger, the author of a book about Lambert. A private investigator, Ethan had written the killer's story in exchange for yet another of Lambert's terrible secrets. Working together to discover the truth about Melissa's disappearance, Leah and Ethan come to realize that even amid the ashes of tragedy, love can bloom. But someone harboring secrets of his own is about to enter their lives...someone who knows more about Leah than he should...someone who won't be satisfied until his own deadly game is played out.

Download or read book Happy Go Lucky written by David Sedaris and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine. As the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. His offer to fix a stranger’s teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone’s son. And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. Trump 2024. Black Lives Matter. In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all. If we must live in interesting times, there is no one better to chronicle them than the incomparable David Sedaris.

Download or read book The Love That Matters written by Charles H. Featherstone and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blond-haired, blue-eyed Lutheran man is approached on the streets of Chicago by members of the Latin Kings so he may teach them how to pray, and he does so with grace--this man's story, one suspects, isn't going to be a typical one. Life has not been easy for Charles Featherstone. From being bullied by peers and teachers in school, to his refusing to become a bully himself by leaving the armed services, to wandering the world in search of work and finding unexpected hospitality as an outsider nearly everywhere, to witnessing the 9/11 attacks from his nearby office, Featherstone's story is a tale of survival akin to Jacob's wrestling the angel at the River Jabbok. It may well leave the reader limping a bit, too, for the encounter with God found in these pages is stark and startling. Truly God's love knows no bounds and cannot be captured by labels--but as Featherstone's life attests, that love just might capture you.

Download or read book Grandpa and Frank written by Janet Majerus and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does 12-year-old Sarah McDermott do when her mean uncle Frank threatens to commit her beloved grandpa to the County Nursing Home? She decides to "kidnap" Grandpa, with the help of her friend Joey, and take him to Chicago to find a doctor who will declare him competent. Granted, Grandpa has been doing some strange things since his stroke, but Sarah is convinced he is getting better. The plan is set into motion, and what follows is a wildly hazardous and hilarious 180-mile odyssey from the family farm to Chicago over back roads in an ancient Model-A truck with Joey at the wheel. Joey's observation that Sarah is "always making things sound so simple, and they hardly never end up that away" turns out to be true.

Download or read book Men of Their Own Standards written by Alice T. Cheek and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when one would think the Pack family had gone through enough. “Men of Their Own Standards”, the awaited sequel to “Wake Me When It’s Over”. is destined to release more drama. Four years has passed and after all that Reverend Timothy Pack and his family has been through, he just knew the talk had ceased and the people of Washington County would move on to their next conversational piece. But nothing would prepare him for his next battle. When not in the pulpit of St. Mark church, street ministering was Reverend Pack’s passion. Knowing that another young man’s life was not lost to the streets, gave him great joy and happiness. Nevertheless, the one day he had ministered so much against would bring the street corner of MLK Jr. to a complete halt when their ministering is visited by Prince County’s local gang, Solitude. Open fire is released as bystanders run for their lives and three men are down, with unknown fatality. Two of St. Mark’s young rising ministers DJ Region & Kyle Watkins, and the Reverend Timothy Pack whose condition is unknown as 3 bullets cut through his body leaving him in a pool of blood, fighting for his life. The men of Wake Me When It’s Over, takes center stage in this awaiting sequel. Skeletal doors are open and past demons are released and ready to wreak havoc once more. Will the bond of the Pack family rise to the occasion and fight the demons of past, present and future?

Download or read book Nowhere to Turn written by Norah McClintock and published by Darby Creek ™. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robyn has sworn that she's over her ex, Nick. After all, he ditched town without a word to her. But when she hears he needs help, she's too curious about why he went missing to say no. Nick has been arrested—again—and the evidence doesn't lean in his favor. But when Robyn investigates, she discovers the situation is more complicated than it appears—and more dangerous...

Download or read book The Opposite of Love written by Julie Buxbaum and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With perfect pitch for the humor and heartbreak of everyday life, Julie Buxbaum has fashioned a heroine who will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has loved and lost and loved again. When successful twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship just as her boyfriend is on the verge of proposing, she can’t explain to even her closest friends why she did it. Somewhere beneath her sense of fun, her bravado, and her independent exterior, Emily knows that her breakup with Andrew has less to do with him and more to do with...her. “You’re your own worst enemy,” her best friend Jess tells her. “It’s like you get pleasure out of breaking your own heart.” As the holiday season looms and Emily contemplates whether she made a huge mistake, the rest of her world begins to unravel: she is assigned to a multimillion-dollar lawsuit where she must defend the very values she detests by a boss who can’t keep his hands to himself; her Grandpa Jack, a charming, feisty octogenarian and the person she cares most about in the world, is losing it, while her emotionally distant father has left her to cope with this alone; and underneath it all, fading memories of her deceased mother continue to remind her that love doesn’ t last forever. How this brave, original young heroine finally decides to take control of her life and face the fears that have long haunted her is the great achievement of Julie Buxbaum’s marvelous first novel. Written with the authority, grace, and wisdom of an author far beyond her years, The Opposite of Love heralds the debut of a remarkable talent in contemporary fiction.

Download or read book Extremely Loud Incredibly Close written by Jonathan Safran Foer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin.

Download or read book You Don t Know Me but My Name Is Yea written by Carl Capatina and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All eyes were on Suzy. She was wavering between making a dash to their safe room (a cement bunker located behind a hidden door in their downstairs guest bathroom that she had insisted on constructing when they fi rst moved in, after all, everyone knows that the suburbs are rife with crime) with Guido clutched to her breast or trying to beat Guido to the front door so that she could be the fi rst to see what I had in store for my next trick. She leaned over and softly whispered in my ear Just so you know; if you hurt him I personally will hunt you down! There will be no police, no FBI, no lawyers, no jury, no arrest, no appeal, just me! The Bible says that vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord. I say that if it is good enough for God then it is good enough for me.

Download or read book The Treasure of Stephens Point Lighthouse written by Sue B. Crews and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-11-14 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to menacing circumstances at home, Charlie Stephens accepts the position of summer camp counselor at the Seaview Harbor Aquarium. Visiting Stephens Point Lighthouse museum near the aquarium, Charlies new friend, Darren, introduces Charlie to the journal of McFarland Ross. McFarlands journal reveals a 250-year-old mystery involving marauding pirates, buried treasure, secret caves, and family histories. Meanwhile, the problems from home have followed Charlie to Seaview Harbor. Strange things start happening at the aquarium. Charlie and Darren recruit Alexandria and Emily to help them track down the culprits and to possibly uncover the lost treasure of Stephens Point Lighthouse.