Download or read book Sudden Dad Professor written by Emily Spring and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pregnant by a professor and a fellow student fighting for my heart. I was a first year university student, only to fall for a professor in the first day of school. Tired and troubled professor that only I could comfort. Spending time in the lecture halls with a swollen belly was not in my plans. Yet, there I was with a jealous and protective friend hovering over my every move. Hold on. I have a university degree to finish. But the way he cared for his dying wife. The way he showed concern for his grieving children. If only he would know that I am carrying his baby.
Download or read book Is Daddy Coming Back in a Minute written by Elke Barber and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-21 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we were on a No Girls Allowed! holiday, my daddy's heart stopped beating and I had to find help all by myself. He was very badly broken. Not even the ambulance people could help him... This honest, sensitive and beautifully illustrated picture book is designed to help explain the concept of death to children aged 3+. Written in Alex's own words, it is based on the real-life conversations that Elke Barber had with her then three-year-old son, Alex, after the sudden death of his father. The book provides reassurance and understanding to readers through clear and honest answers to the difficult questions that can follow the death of a loved one, and carries the invaluable message that it is okay to be sad, but it is okay to be happy, too.
Download or read book My Teacher Dad written by Sonya Annita Song and published by . This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can you do when your dad doesn't want to go to school? And he's the teacher! Discover the lengths one boy has to go through with his teacher dad and the lively antics that follow in this rhyming picture book with rib-tickling illustrations and rollicking story told in fluid verses. Recommended for children ages 4 to 8. "I don't want to go to school today. Pooh," my teacher whined. "Oh, not again," I told my dad. "I know you're feeling fine." "Oh no, I'm not! My tummy hurts!" Said teacher who's my dad While curling up into a ball And making his face sad.
Download or read book An Odyssey A Father A Son and an Epic SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 written by Daniel Mendelsohn and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDITERRANÉE 2018 From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer’s epic masterpiece.
Download or read book Suddenly a Daddy written by Kathie DeNosky and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two previously published novels. The Billionaire's unexpected heir A2009, and, The baby surprise A2010.
Download or read book Professor s Twins in Italy written by Else Ury and published by Steven Lehrer. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert and Suse, affectionately known as “Bubi” and “Mädi”, are the heroes of the five-volume series Professor’s Twins by Else Ury. Their father, Professor Winter, an astronomer, was transferred to Naples and after a year of separation the family reunites under the southern sun in this volume, Professor’s Twins in Italy, the most popular in the series. Bubi and Mädi quickly adapt to their new surroundings, learn the language and attend school separately for the first time. Else Ury was a children's author murdered at Auschwitz in 1943. Her books are German classics. Steven Lehrer translated six volumes of her Nesthäkchen series.
Download or read book The Lady s Realm written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Eyes of Mr Fury written by Philip Ridley and published by Valancourt Books. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the day Concord Webster turned eighteen, the Devil died. The Devil’s real name was Judge Martin, but Concord’s mother called him the Devil. She said he boiled babies for dinner and made lampshades out of human skin. So why did she, who hated him so venomously, have a key to his house? The key will unlock more than just Judge’s front door. It will also unlock a multitude of stories - where magic children talk to crows, men disappear in piles of leaves, and James Dean lookalikes kiss in dark alleys - and reveal a secret history that will change Concord’s life forever. Philip Ridley’s second novel (following the sexually charged tour de force Crocodilia) was an instant cult classic when originally published in 1989. Now, for this new edition, Ridley has reimagined the story, expanding the original short novel into the world’s first LGBT magical realist epic. A vast, labyrinthine, hall-of-mirrors saga, its breathtaking imagery and stunning plot twists – covering over a hundred years – reveal Ridley to be one of the most distinctive and innovative voices in contemporary fiction.
Download or read book Lady s Realm written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Download or read book Hidden Treasure written by Tango Wayne and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third youngest of four brothers, David is gay, but still firmly in the closet. He has no reason to come out until one day, the boys' father receives a strange phone call - would the English family be prepared to give a young American State ward a holiday for two months? They are unsure whether to agree, particularly as the boy is apparently somewhat ...disturbed. A little reluctantly, they eventually consent ...but none of them is quite prepared for this guest (Note - Teen+ gay themes.)
Download or read book Sam and the Killer Robot written by Judith Rossell and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam wants to build a killer robot. But first he has to collect all the parts. He begins with an arm. Next he tries the head. Strangely, as soon as the parts click together, they start acting as if they have a life of their own! What's going on? And what will happen when he puts together the whole robot? Not only does Sam have the coolest robot he's ever seen, but his uncle has been odder than usual. And there is a weird light coming from the basement of his shop. But the robot is all Sam can think about. Its glowing red eyes seem to be trying to tell him something very important A thrilling read that will also tickle your funny bone, from the author of the popular Jack Jones and the Pirate Curse.
Download or read book The Story of My Father written by Sue Miller and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1988, Sue Miller found herself caring for her father as he slipped into the grasp of Alzheimer's disease. She was, she claims, perhaps the least constitutionally suited of all her siblings to be in the role in which she suddenly found herself, and in The Story of My Father she grapples with the haunting memories of those final months and the larger narrative of her father's life. With compassion, self-scrutiny, and an urgency born of her own yearning to rescue her father's memory from the disorder and oblivion that marked his dying and death, Sue Miller takes us on an intensely personal journey that becomes, by virtue of her enormous gifts of observation, perception, and literary precision, a universal story of fathers and daughters. James Nichols was a fourth-generation minister, a retired professor from Princeton Theological Seminary. Sue Miller brings her father brilliantly to life in these pages-his religious faith, his endless patience with his children, his gaiety and willingness to delight in the ridiculous, his singular gifts as a listener, and the rituals of church life that stayed with him through his final days. She recalls the bitter irony of watching him, a church historian, wrestle with a disease that inexorably lays waste to notions of time, history, and meaning. She recounts her struggle with doctors, her deep ambivalence about many of her own choices, and the difficulty of finding, continually, the humane and moral response to a disease whose special cruelty it is to dissolve particularities and to diminish, in so many ways, the humanity of those it strikes. She reflects, unforgettably, on the variable nature of memory, the paradox of trying to weave a truthful narrative from the threads of a dissolving life. And she offers stunning insight into her own life as both a daughter and a writer, two roles that swell together here in a poignant meditation on the consolations of storytelling. With the care, restraint, and consummate skill that define her beloved and best-selling fiction, Sue Miller now gives us a rigorous, compassionate inventory of two lives, in a memoir destined to offer comfort to all sons and daughters struggling-as we all eventually must-to make peace with their fathers and with themselves.
Download or read book Generation X Professors Speak written by Elwood Watson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Baby Boomer generation has consistently commanded widespread attention--both scholarly and popular--little has been written about Generation X, the 46 million Americans born between the mid-1960s and late 1970s. But with Baby Boomers now moving into retirement, members of Generation X have come to the forefront of American society. Consequently, understanding Generation X--and the potential impact of the independent, sometimes rebellious spirit that characterizes it--is critical. In Generation X Professors Speak: Voices from Academia, Elwood Watson has assembled a unique collection of thematically arranged essays by academics that offers insights into the issues, conflicts, and triumphs that epitomize this often overlooked generation. One essayist writes about her determination to achieve her career goals without sacrificing time with her family, while another speaks about being a stay-at-home dad and teaching part-time at a university. Another essay covers disabilities, depression, and mental illness, pointing to the sympathetic approach Gen Xers tend to take toward individuals often marginalized by society. The acceptance of interracial marriage on the part of members of Generation X is engagingly presented by an ivy-league educated white man married to a woman of African descent. And the role religion plays in the lives of Gen Xers is movingly expressed by an essayist whose commitment to his spiritual faith have allowed him to combat racial, social, family, personal, and academic issues. These and the other essays in this collection passionately--and sometime provocatively--cover topics ranging from career, class, family life, health, music, and physical disabilities to race, religion, and sexuality. Together, the essays define the characteristics and demonstrate the diversity of Generation X, and will appeal to scholars, students, and others interested in social history, psychology, gender studies, and popular culture.
Download or read book Father Figure written by Jordan Shapiro and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful and "utterly mind-blowing" exploration of fatherhood and masculinity in the 21st century (New York Times). There are hundreds of books on parenting, and with good reason—becoming a parent is scary, difficult, and life-changing. But when it comes to books about parenting identity, rather than the nuts and bolts of raising children, nearly all are about what it's like to be a mother. Drawing on research in sociology, economics, philosophy, gender studies, and the author's own experiences, Father Figure sets out to fill that gap. It's an exploration of the psychology of fatherhood from an archetypal perspective as well as a cultural history that challenges familiar assumptions about the origins of so-called traditional parenting roles. What paradoxes and contradictions are inherent in our common understanding of dads? Might it be time to rethink some aspects of fatherhood? Gender norms are changing, and old economic models are facing disruption. As a result, parenthood and family life are undergoing an existential transformation. And yet, the narratives and images of dads available to us are wholly inadequate for this transition. Victorian and Industrial Age tropes about fathers not only dominate the media, but also contour most people's lived experience. Father Figure offers a badly needed update to our collective understanding of fatherhood—and masculinity in general. It teaches dads how to embrace the joys of fathering while guiding them toward an image of manliness for the modern world.
Download or read book Dragon s Gate written by Vivian Bi and published by Hybrid Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dragon's Gate is a superb book, a fascinating story written from the heart and woven into a complex cultural and historical tapestry - a modern classic in the making." - Robert Macklin, author of Dragon and Kangaroo Shi Ding is seventeen. In an attempt to impress a girl, he joins a local Red Guard unit and succeeds in having a nine-year-old boy arrested and a widowed professor of foreign literature driven to a shameful suicide. But when his father's death is also revealed as suicide, Shi Ding is expelled from the gang. He suspects there was more to the relationship between his father and the professor than friendship and he moves into her empty house. There he discovers a library of translations of forbidden Western classics. Himself a born storyteller, he is transfixed by the stories in these books by the likes of Dostoevsky, Stendhal, Hugo, Dickens, and Dumas … Set in China in the mid-60s, Dragon's Gate is about the power of storytelling. Within its overarching narrative, there are stories of little-known worlds: river logging in remote mountains, armed fighting between Red Guard factions, fortune telling on long train journeys, community life in the courtyards of Beijing hutong. Memorable characters abound in this rich and varied tale - characters like Sun Lanfen, the nosy, tough but decent residential compound leader; the blind singer who was struck dumb when he had to sing songs set to Chairman Mao's quotations; and the Buffalo Boy who was reputed to have fathered a hundred children in a Tibetan village. "The unique interweaving of fascinating tales set in exotic places with familiar and much loved western classics makes this book a page turner from beginning to end." - Jane Sydenham-Kwiet, German teacher and translator
Download or read book The Love written by Soborno Isaac Bari and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Love is a book about Soborno Isaac Bari, a four-year-old Muslim child who launched a campaign to create a world without terrorism. The book is divided into two parts: (1) Soborno’s fight with Imams to change their perception on non-Muslims and (2) his fights with Muslim Americans to denounce terrorism and be patriotic. Millions of people joined his campaign across the world—especially people in Bangladesh where two young Muslim students, Sadiyan Lima (Dhaka University) and Marjia Farzana (Jahangirnagar University), led the movement on behalf of their respective universities. It inspired many people, including Zahid Hossain and Safir Biplob and his son, to stand against the terror of the Islamic State. Zahid published Soborno’s biography, while Safir and his son went to 64,000 villages in Bangladesh posting 64,000 posters. Meanwhile, Uday Bengali made a documentary, I Love Christmas, which created an anti-terrorism movement around Bangladesh that is based on the philosophy of Soborno.
