Download or read book My Father s Wives written by Mike Greenberg and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The co-host of ESPN’s Mike and Mike follows up his New York Times bestseller All You Could Ask For with this poignant story of one man’s search to understand himself, his marriage, and his father. Jonathan Sweetwater has been blessed with money, a fulfilling career, great kids and Claire, his smart, gorgeous, sophisticated wife. But there is one thing Jonathan never had: a relationship with his father. Percival Sweetwater III has been absent from his son’s life since Jonathan was nine years old. A five-term U.S. senator, now dead, Percy was beloved by presidents, his constituents, and women alike, especially the five women who married him after Jonathan’s mother. Jonathan hasn’t thought about Percy or the hole he left in his life for years. Dedicated to Claire and his family, he’s nothing like his serial monogamist father. But then Jonathan discovers evidence that everything in his marriage may not be as perfect as he thought. Hurt and uncertain what to do, he knows that the only way to move forward is to go back. On this quest for understanding—about himself, about manhood, about marriage—Jonathan decides to track down his father’s five ex-wives. His journey will take him from cosmopolitan cities to the mile-high mountains to a tropical island—and ultimately back to confront the one thing Jonathan has that his father never did: home.
Download or read book My Father s Wives written by José Eduardo Agualusa and published by Arcadia Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Celebrated Angolan musician Faustino Manso has just died, leaving seven wives and eighteen children scattered across southern Africa. His youngest daughter, Laurentina, arrives in Angola from her home in Portugal to trace the story of the father she never knew." "My Father's Wives is the story of Laurentina's journey, but this fiction also runs in parallel with Jose Eduardo Agualusa's story of the novel's genesis, as writer and characters travel the southern African coast, from Angola, through Namibia and South Africa, to Mozambique, meeting extraordinary people and discovering Faustino's secrets along the way." "This novel heralds the rebirth of Africa, a continent afflicted by terrible problems but blessed with a talent for music, by the ever-renewed strength of its women and the secret power of ancient gods."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book My Father Married Your Mother written by Anne Burt and published by . This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the divorce rate hovering around 50 percent, remarriage is a now-familiar occurrence. And remarriage often means stepfathers, -mothers, -brothers, and -sisters, and the formation of a new type of blended family. Jacquelyn Mitchard, Barbara Kingsolver, Roxana Robinson, Andrew Solomon, and Susan Cheever are among the esteemed writers who reflect on their own blended experiences in this diverse and stimulating anthology. Book jacket.
Download or read book My Father s Wife and My Daughter s Emu written by Nina Dabek and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These moving and bittersweet stories are brought to life by Dabek's eye for the perfect, elucidating detail. Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home Nina Dabek's scintillating, insightful stories live at the intersection of funny and sad. Brilliantly depicting moments in the life of one worried, loving woman, they remind us that ordinary life is never ordinary, and is also more dangerous than we might think. Still, with the right partner-a woman as loving as she is, but calmer-and two always-surprising daughters, happiness may be saved. I loved reading this book and did not want it to end. Alice Mattison, author of Conscience I loved this book. Nina Dabek sketches domestic life so delicately and in such a disarmingly frank way. Plus, her perfect deadpan humor kills me. Nostalgia, grief, gratitude, devotion, it's all here-all the beauty and difficulty of living in the world. Catherine Newman, author of Catastrophic Happiness My Father's Wife and My Daughter's Emu is a touching and nuanced portrait of a woman's passage from the delusions of childhood to the revelations and burdens of adulthood. Nina Dabek is a wise, subtle writer, and her debut collection is impressive. Lynne Sharon Schwartz, author of Truthtelling The middle of three sisters, Naomi grows up in late 20th century New York, a city as rich in opportunity as it is fraught with hidden hazards. Not the least of these spring from the minefields of family life. Just as Naomi comes into her own, history enters to reframe the narrative. Dabek is a writer of considerable clarity and grace. The story she tells, in propulsive prose, is affirming, yes, and utterly contemporary, but it's not without shadows giving the whole a Chekhovian richness and depth. Askold Melnyczuk, author of The Man Who Would Not Bow -- In the first half of this psychological and subtly humorous collection of linked short stories we meet the child and adolescent Naomi, who lives in the Bronx with her two sisters and her parents. Naomi not only grapples with the complexity of her relationships, her family's mysteries, and the world around her, but also finds her way to her lesbian identity. In the second half, the adult Naomi experiences the challenges and pleasures of lesbian motherhood, while continuing to untangle her father's past and present and her complicated love for him. My Father's Wife and My Daughter's Emu by Nina Dabek follows the trajectory of one lesbian's life - from childhood to motherhood - as she makes sense of the world.
Download or read book In My Father s House written by Dorothy Allred Solomon and published by Voice in the American West. This book was released on 2009 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Solomon, daughter of Rulon Clark Allred, was twenty-eighth of forty-eight children born to her father's seven plural wives. She recounts growing up in a family often split up, living on the run or in hiding. Choosing monogamy for herself, she struggles to remain close to her polygamous family"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The New Dad s Playbook written by Benjamin Watson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to the unknown territory of having a baby, moms-to-be have nearly unending resources to plan and execute a healthy pregnancy and navigate those first months and years as a parent with confidence. New dads? Not so much. They want to get in the game too, but, says Super Bowl champion Benjamin Watson, "I could find clearer direction for putting together a baby swing than for taking care of a newborn child." The New Dad's Playbook is every man's game plan to being the best partner and the best father, from pre-season (preparing for fatherhood) to Super Bowl (birth) to post-season (after baby is home). It helps men understand what their wives are going through physically and emotionally during and after pregnancy, allowing them to support their most important teammate. It tells men what to expect when their baby is home--and what to do when the unexpected happens. This tell-it-like-it-is book will take men from just winging it to winning it.
Download or read book My Father s Daughter written by Tina Sinatra and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Sinatra seemed to have it all: genius, wealth, the love of beautiful women, glamorous friends from Las Vegas to the White House. But in this startling and remarkably outspoken memoir, his youngest daughter reveals to us an acutely restless, lonely and conflicted man. Through his marriages and front-page romances and the melancholy gaps between, Frank Sinatra searched for a contentment that eluded him. For the first time Tina writes candidly about the wedge his manipulative fourth wife, Barbara Marx, drove between father and daughter. MY FATHER'S DAUGHTER, with its unflinching account of Sinatra's flaws and foibles, will shock many of his fans. At the same time, it is a deeply affectionate portrait written with love and warmth, a celebration of a daughter's fond esteem for her father and a respect for his great legacy. The world remembers Frank Sinatra as one of the giants of the show business. In this book from someone inside the legend, Tina Sinatra remembers him as something more: a father, and a man.
Download or read book Faith of My Fathers written by Chris Seay and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three generations of American pastors tell their life stories in the context of the church. No topic is off limits and no holds are barred as these passionate men articulate what it means to nurture a missional Christianity while loving, honoring, and embracing the generations that have gone before.
Download or read book Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution written by J.W. Powell and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Father s Places written by Aeronwy Thomas and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Aeronwy was six, her parents Dylan and Caitlin Thomas moved to the boathouse at the edge of the small Welsh village Laugharne. Through a child’s eye, she recalls the chaos and joy of living with Dylan Thomas while the poet was at the height of his creative powers, composing Under Milk Wood. Through a series of beautifully evocative episodes, village and family life are explored. Emerging from the narrative, Aeronwy tells a moving memoir of growing up in Wales in the 1940s and a new portrait of Dylan Thomas as a father from the only person who could tell that story. This literary sensation includes never-before-seen photos of Dylan Thomas and his family, will get widespread attention, and features personalities like Augustus John, A.J.P. Taylor, as well as the villagers who would eventually be transformed into the characters from Llareggub.
Download or read book Being and Building up the Church in My Father s Home written by Alozie Oliver Onwubiko and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rehabilitation, by St. Pope Paul VI, of African traditional religions and cultures has made them more objective for philosophical, theological and anthropological investigation and reflection. And the investigating and reflecting subject is a native African himself. The repatriation of missiology into ecclesiology in the Catholic Church towards the end of the 20th Century was a new development; and the result of it is what we have before us in this book. Here personal native anthropological, philosophical and theological studies and experience have combined with in-depth reading of some African novelists’ necessarily Afrocentric distillation of African culture has nourished thinking and reflection at a new level in terms of ecclesial implications of living Christianity authentically and of being and building the Church in my father’s home beyond deference as defect.
Download or read book In My Father s Bakery written by Marvin Korman and published by Red Rock Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of Bronx life circa the '30s and '40s offers portraits of the author's extended secular Jewish family whose lives were dependent on his father's bakery business.
Download or read book My Father s Name written by Charles P. Everett IV and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles P. Everett, IV was born April 10, 1947, in Montgomery, Alabama to Charles P. Everett, III and Minnie Smith Everett. Mr. Everett was born into an accomplished family; his father, who lived from July 9, 1912, to December 1, 1983, was an Educator and School Principal. His mother was also an Educator and School Principal; she lived from November 4, 1914, to July 1978. Mr. Everett’s wife, Alfreda Everett neé Brown, is a retired Educator, as well. The Everetts have three children and five grandchildren. Living in Montgomery since birth, Mr. Everett graduated from St. Jude Ed. Institute with his High School Diploma in 1964. He completed his B.S. degree from the Tuskegee Institute in 1967 and earned a master’s degree in education from Alabama State University in 1974. He has continued his family’s legacy of working in education by serving as a Teacher for the Autauga Board of Education in Marbury, Alabama from 1967 – 1969. He worked for the Montgomery Board of Education from 1969 – 1998 in several capacities, including Teacher, Guidance Counselor, and School Administrator before retiring as Assistant Superintendent of Education. In addition to his impressive career, he has been honored with the Alabama Secondary School Principal of the Year Award in 1991, the Community Hero and Olympic Torchbearer in 1996, and he was named Chief Academic Officer for the State of Alabama from 1999 – 2004.
Download or read book My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me written by Jason B. Rosenthal and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling children’s author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last of act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband’s life without her in the viral New York Times Modern Love column, “You May Want to Marry My Husband.” On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned an op-ed piece for the New York Times’ “Modern Love” column —”You May Want to Marry My Husband.” It appeared ten days before her death from ovarian cancer. A heartbreaking, wry, brutally honest, and creative play on a personal ad—in which a dying wife encouraged her husband to go on and find happiness after her demise—the column quickly went viral, reaching more than five million people worldwide. In My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me, Jason describes what came next: his commitment to respecting Amy’s wish, even as he struggled with her loss. Surveying his life before, with, and after Amy, Jason ruminates on love, the pain of watching a loved one suffer, and what it means to heal—how he and their three children, despite their profound sorrow, went on. Jason’s emotional journey offers insights on dying and death and the excruciating pain of losing a soulmate, and illuminates the lessons he learned. As he reflects on Amy’s gift to him—a fresh start to fill his empty space with a new story—Jason describes how he continues to honor Amy’s life and her last wish, and how he seeks to appreciate every day and live in the moment while trying to help others coping with loss. My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me is the poignant, unreserved, and inspiring story of a great love, the aftermath of a marriage ended too soon, and how a surviving partner eventually found a new perspective on life’s joys in the wake of tremendous loss.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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