Download or read book Benchwarmer written by Josh Wilker and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving, funny, inventive parenting memoir, written in a surprising form: an encyclopedia of failure in sports What can a new father learn about parenthood from reading sports almanacs? For most dads, the answer to this question is: nothing. But to Josh Wilker, whose life and writing have been defined by sports fandom, all of the joy, helplessness, and absurdity of parenthood are present between the lines. After all, what better way to think about losing control than Eugenio Velez's forty-five consecutive at-bats without a hit? How better to understand ridiculous joy than the NFL career of Walter Achiu, whose nickname was "Sneeze"? In the stories of sports figures large and small, Wilker finds the pathos in success and the humor in losing. As the terrified father of a one-day-old, Wilker recalls the 1986 World Series, when the moment was too big for the Red Sox. When he finds himself stealing away for an hour of alone time, Wilker thinks of boxer Roberto Duran, so beaten by Sugar Ray Leonard that he finally gave up. And yet, even as the frustrations and anxieties build, Wilker remembers Mets pitcher Anthony Young, who broke the baseball record for most consecutive losses -- and never stopped showing up. Finding the richness of life in obscure wrestling maneuvers and pop-ups lost in the sun, Benchwarmer is a book of unique humanity and surprising wisdom.

Download or read book Letters from Dad written by John Broome and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters from a father to his son when his son left home. The letters cover all the issues that parents face with their children. The father gives his son instruction and teaching about all the important American values of life that are important. The reader, especially a parent, can easily get inspired and ideas on how they can still influence their child who has just left home.

Download or read book Seeking a Familiar Face written by May Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1917-09-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever feel disappointed? Like your life isn't as fulfilling as you had always dreamed it would be? Are you laden down with responsibilities, feeling overwhelmed and empty, or maybe even a bit caged? You're not alone. Many people in the Bible felt the same way. Most had difficulties. Some felt stuck. Others were depressed. Afraid. Uncertain. And some just wanted to get closer to God. So they set out on life's grand adventure-seeking God-and encountered the One who fulfilled their longings and changed their lives forever. The same can happen for you. Seeking a Familiar Face guides you on the transforming journey of connecting with God, through simple, yet extraordinary ways. It doesn't matter if you are already seeking Him or just getting started, this book will encourage you to go a little farther toward locking hearts with God. in this book you will discover: - Engaging narratives from 10 biblical characters - Stories, humor, and practical ideas for seeking God - Thought provoking questions to discuss with a friend or group - Fresh hope for deepened intimacy with God

Download or read book The Search for Sanity written by Tom Kreffer and published by Charlie Cat Books. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Tom has the rare ability of capturing the true nature of parenthood' —Neil Sinclair, AKA Commando Dad 'Immediately engaging with genuine laugh-out-loud moments' —Toddler About 'Toddler storytelling at its best' —The Modern Fatherhood Club Welcome to the terrible twos Where toddlers annihilate boundaries, convert your resolve into servitude and routinely imitate your worst qualities in public. Join one father and his journal as he scribbles his way through this famously difficult stage of parenthood searching for a win, his keys and his sanity, while constantly fielding the question: ‘Yes, but why, Dadda?’

Download or read book Straight Up Badass written by Bijou Hunter and published by Snowdrop Fridays Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HEAT ღ HUMOR ღ HEA Nadine Ramsey is a no-nonsense security specialist. Working for her father offered her a chance to travel the world. But now, she’s ready to settle down. Nadine has a new job and home waiting for her. All she needs to do is face her feelings for a sexy country boy in Ellsberg. Cavalry Majors has loved Nadine since he was a teenager. Now, he’s all grown up. While he loves his life in Ellsberg, the lovestruck Cavalry will do anything to win his badass bae’s heart. This summer Rafael Ramsey’s only daughter and Vaughn Majors’ third son will finally get their chance to create forever. "Straight Up Badass" contains graphic sexual content, violent situations, harsh language, and drug use. The book is only appropriate for adult readers age 18+.

Download or read book Being a Dad Is Weird written by Ben Falcone and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny and intimate look at fatherhood from the actor and writer/director of The Boss and Tammy that combines stories about his own larger-than-life dad and how his experiences raising two daughters with his wife, Melissa McCarthy, who also penned the Foreword, are shaped by his own childhood. Though he’s best known for his appearances in the movie Enough Said, as well as his hilarious role as Air Marshall Jon in Bridesmaids, Ben Falcone isn’t a big shot movie star director at home. There, he’s just dad. In this winning collection of stories, Ben shares his funny and poignant adventures as the husband of Melissa McCarthy, and the father of their two young daughters. He also shares tales from his own childhood in Southern Illinois, and life with his father—an outspoken, brilliant, but unconventional man with a big heart and a somewhat casual approach to employment named Steve Falcone. Ben is just an ordinary dad who has his share of fights with other parents blocking his view with their expensive electronic devices at school performances. Navigating the complicated role of being the only male in a house full of women, he finds himself growing more and more concerned as he sounds more and more like his dad. While Steve Falcone may not have been the briefcase and gray flannel suit type, he taught Ben priceless lessons about what matters most in life. A supportive, creative, and downright funny dad, Steve made sure his sons’ lives were never dull—a sense of adventure that carries through this warm, sometimes hilarious, and poignant memoir.

Download or read book A Father s Sacrifice written by Ben Burgess, Jr and published by Urban Renaissance. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Johnson has always been an underachieving, borderline alcoholic...but he soon finds himself in over his head. When his affair with Vickie, an unhappily married homemaker, results in an accidental pregnancy. Vickie abandons Nick, leaving him to raise their biracial daughter, Lynn, alone. Overwhelmed by the difficulties of single fatherhood and seeking comfort and help for himself in that stressful journey, Nick dates numerous women who will change his life forever. Will raising Lynn force him to mature? Can a single father with a challenging past teach his daughter to become a strong, successful woman? Will a daddy's girl, raised primarily by her father, leave Lynn destined to fail from a lack of female guidance?

Download or read book Their Fathers God written by Ole Edvart R?lvaag and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susie Doheny, an Irish Catholic, and Peder Holm, a Norwegian Lutheran, fall in love and marry in South Dakota in the 1890s. Soon their marriage is tested by drought, depression, and family bickering. Susie believes they are being tested by their fathers' God. Peder blames Susie for the timidity of her beliefs; Susie fears Peder's pride and skepticism. When political antagonism grows between the Norwegian and Irish immigrant communities, it threatens to split their marriage. Against a backdrop of hard times, crisscrossed by Populists, antimonopolists, and schemers, R”lvaag brings the struggle of immigrants into the twentieth century. In Giants in the Earth the Holm family strained to wrest a homestead from the land. In Peder Victorious the American-born children searched for a new national identity, often defying the traditions their parents fought to uphold. In Their Fathers' God, R”lvaag's most soul-searching novel, the first-generation americans enter a world of ruthless competition in the midst of scarcity. The University of Nebraska Press also publishes Peder Victorious and Paul Reigstad's R”lvaag: His Life and Art.

Download or read book Free Bird written by Greg Garrett and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon learning about the death of his father, Clay Forester, still grieving over the deaths of his wife and son, sets out to attend the funeral--a journey that forces him to face the past and forgive his father as well as himself.

Download or read book You Are a Badass at Making Money written by Jen Sincero and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A cheerful manifesto on removing obstacles between yourself and the income of your dreams.” —New York Magazine From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of You Are a Badass®, a life-changing guide to making the kind of money you’ve only ever dreamed of. You Are a Badass at Making Money will launch you past the fears and stumbling blocks that have kept financial success beyond your reach. Drawing on her own transformation—over just a few years—from a woman living in a converted garage with tumbleweeds blowing through her bank account to a woman who travels the world in style, Jen Sincero channels the inimitable sass and practicality that made You Are a Badass an indomitable bestseller. She combines hilarious personal essays with bite-size, aha concepts that unlock earning potential and get real results. Learn to: • Uncover what's holding you back from making money • Give your doubts, fears, and excuses the heave-ho • Relate to money in a new (and lucrative) way • Shake up the cocktail of creation • Tap into your natural ability to grow rich • Shape your reality—stop playing victim to circumstance • Get as wealthy as you wanna be “This book truly crystallizes the concept that financial abundance is an inside job—in that it all begins with your mindset—and Sincero gets serious (in the funniest ways possible) about helping you identify your particular limiting beliefs surrounding money.” —PopSugar

Download or read book Big Daddy s Rules written by Steve Schirripa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author shares his misadventures in parenting two daughters, a journey that pitted his over-the-top personality against such challenges as boyfriends, birth control, and inappropriate teachers.

Download or read book Stop Hitting Me with That Bat written by Blackjack Evans and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is your opportunity to experience the life of an average African-American male. You will become him and experience all the happy moments and all the joy, pain, suffering, and misery that he does. You will experience the love and even the hate that he experiences. You will experience the sex, violence, drugs and alcohol, the loneliness, the bitterness, and the reasons behind it all. You will take a ride down the back alleys of life, where even hope is afraid to go. And in the end, you may question your own philosophical, spiritual, and political views.

Download or read book Bad Ass Bitches written by Nicole Michele and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad-Ass Bitches By: Nicole Michele Bad-Ass Bitches is a collection of short stories about ten women who navigate their lives through painful divorces and breakups while struggling to maintain a stable environment for their children. These women are the epitome of strength and goodness - giving their all for the well-being of their families while ignoring their own self-care. Not only do they succeed in overcoming physical abuse, narcissism, and adultery, but they create their own happy endings, all by themselves. These warriors are role models for all women who struggle at the hands of undeserving men. They are bad-ass bitches!

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Download or read book Boundary Badass written by Jan Yuhas and published by Boundary Badass. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unleash your inner badass, voice your value, and embark on a journey of self-empowerment! Are you tired of feeling taken advantage of, constantly sacrificing your own needs for the sake of others, or feeling undervalued? Despite your efforts to express your feelings, you experience heightened reactions or stonewalling from others, leading to further disconnects in your relationships. Within the pages of Boundary Badass, individuals discover how to establish healthy boundaries and own their self-worth – without feeling guilty or fearful. Packed with valuable advice, the authors Jan Yuhas, M.A., MFT and Jillian Yuhas, M.A., MFT, inspire individuals to honor their authentic voice, diminish feelings of powerlessness, and cultivate thriving relationships – with family, partners, colleagues, friends, and more. Whether you’re struggling to define your limits, feeling powerless in your relationships, or seeking to improve your communication and conflict resolution skills, Boundary Badass is the ultimate book for reclaiming your power and elevating your relationships.

Download or read book Johnny Bad Ass written by The Big Lefthook and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a love story of a young Irish fighter's climb out of a blue collar neighborhood of Brooklyn into the double-dealing, high stakes world of Las Vegas during the 1960's. The road is full of potholes and death defying, hair-pin curves. At every fork, Johnny ("The Kid") takes the wrong turn that sends him into another whirlwind of suspenseful action. A conservative may label Johnny a stone-cold killer but the average reader will fall in love with him because of his deep sense of loyalty and code of honor. Johnny has an "old soul," an attitude from the Wild West but lives in the 1960's-a true recipe for trouble!

Download or read book Kale Caramel written by Lily Diamond and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born out of the popular blog Kale & Caramel, this sumptuously photographed and beautifully written cookbook presents eighty recipes for delicious vegan and vegetarian dishes featuring herbs and flowers, as well as luxurious do-it-yourself beauty products. Plant-whisperer, writer, and photographer Lily Diamond believes that herbs and flowers have the power to nourish inside and out. “Lily’s deep connection to nature is beautifully woven throughout this personal collection of recipes,” says award-winning vegetarian chef Amy Chaplin. Each chapter celebrates an aromatic herb or flower, including basil, cilantro, fennel, mint, oregano, rosemary, sage, thyme, lavender, jasmine, rose, and orange blossom. Mollie Katzen, author of the beloved Moosewood Cookbook, calls the book “a gift, articulated through a poetic voice, original and bold.” The recipes tell a coming-of-age story through Lily’s kinship with plants, from a sun-drenched Maui childhood to healing from heartbreak and her mother’s death. With bright flavors, gorgeous scents, evocative stories, and more than one hundred photographs, Kale & Caramel creates a lush garden of experience open to harvest year round.