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The Protector
Jodi Ellen Malpas
Romance
People think they have Camille Logan nailed: daddy\'s girl; beautiful, spoiled young woman with her father\'s bank balance to fund her lifestyle. But Camille is determined to have a life free from his strings. Out on her own, she\'s made mistakes, including one that found her clawing her way back after a stint in rehab and plenty of bad press. Now, after fighting so hard to be independent and happy, she finds her life threatened as a result of her father\'s ruthless business dealings. Caught between resentment and fear, Camille prepares herself for the measures her father will take to protect her. But nothing could prepare her for the ex-SAS sniper who crashes into her life.Jake Sharp resides in his own personal hell. He was distracted from duty once before, and the consequences were devastating--both personally and professionally. He vowed never to let that happen again. Accepting the job of bodyguard to Camille Logan isn\'t the kind of distraction from his demons he should take. Women and Jake don\'t mix well, yet protecting the heiress seems the lesser of two evils. But Jake soon discovers that she isn\'t the woman she\'s perceived to be. She\'s warm, compassionate, her presence settling, and his duty to protect her soon goes deeper than a well-paid job, no matter how hard he fights it. He needs absolution. He comes to need Camille. But he knows he can\'t have both.
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
Fiction / Short Stories
Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don\'t know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art. As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love--and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.
Drowning Instinct
Ilsa J. Bick
Young Adult / Horror / Thriller
Jenna Lord’s first sixteen years were not exactly a fairytale. Her father is a controlling psycho and her mother is a drunk. She used to count on her older brother—until he shipped off to Afghanistan. And then, of course, there was the time she almost died in a fire. There are stories where the monster gets the girl, and we all shed tears for his innocent victim. (This is not one of those stories either. ) Mitch Anderson is many things: A dedicated teacher and coach. A caring husband. A man with a certain. . . magnetism. And there are stories where it’s hard to be sure who’s a prince and who’s a monster, who is a victim and who should live happily ever after. (These are the most interesting stories of all. ) Drowning Instinct is a novel of pain, deception, desperation, and love against the odds—and the rules.
Island of Flowers
Nora Roberts
Fiction / Suspense / Fantasy
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorLaine Simmons had traveled to Hawaii to reconcile with her long-estranged father -- only to be accused by his handsome young business partner of having ulterior motives. How dare Dillon O\'Brian interfere in her family affairs . . . and have the nerve to set her heart aflame whenever he came near?
All I Want for Christmas
Nora Roberts
Fiction / Suspense / Fantasy
Zeke and Zack Taylor, motherless six-year-old identical twins, are facing "real" school—first grade—and they are worried. Their father, Mac Taylor, is a builder who fixes up old buildings in their small town, and the boys are afraid he\'ll be too busy to help them out with the new demands of their school. They decide to write to Santa and ask for a mother. When they see the new music teacher, Nell Davis, at school, she meets all their requirements, and they realize this is the mom they\'ve requested. Mac is attracted to Nell, but is reluctant to pursue her, as his wife had walked out on him, and he doesn\'t want to risk hurting his children. The romance blossoms despite his fears, and the story is filled with the joy and anticipation of Christmas as the magic of the children\'s wish comes true.
River's End
Nora Roberts
Fiction / Suspense / Fantasy
Olivia\'s parents were among Hollywood\'s golden couples…until the night a monster came and took her mother away forever. A monster with the face of her father...Sheltered from the truth, an older Olivia only dimly recalls her night of terror—but her recurring nightmares make her realize she must piece together the real story. Assisted by Noah Brady, the son of the police detective who found her cowering in her closet so many years before, she may have her chance. Noah wants to reconstruct the night that has become an infamous part of Hollywood history. He also wants to help Olivia and heal the longing in her lonely heart. But once the door to her past is opened, there\'s no telling what\'s waiting on the other side. For somewhere, not too far away, the monster walks again...
Honest Illusions
Nora Roberts
Fiction / Suspense / Fantasy
Honest Illusions The daughter of a world-renowned magician, Roxy Nouvelle has inherited her father’s talents—and his penchant for jewel thievery. Into this colorful world comes Luke Callahan, an escape artist who captures her heart—and keeps secrets that could shatter all her illusions…
Fall With Me
Bella Forrest
Fantasy / Paranormal / Romance
Jill Freyss-Charon is just trying to get through the year. After losing her father in a horrific car accident, she is eager to return to her summer job at a horse ranch where she knows everything will be just as it always is each summer.
But when a tanned young man washes up on the beach outside her tent one night, half-drowned and begging to be given shelter until morning, any hope of normality immediately vanishes.
Jill has dated Griffin Alexander\'s type before, and soon regrets taking him in when he decides to stay on at the ranch. She finds she is repelled by him, and doesn\'t believe his crazy story about being kidnapped and held to ransom... until three words escape his lips that send her head into a tailspin.
...Three words that threaten to unravel her painful past and bring her closer to this man she is trying to avoid - which will put her in more danger than either realizes.
Ever After: A Father's True Story
William Wharton
Fiction
In August of 1988, heavy black smoke engulfed an Oregon highway, causing a massive 23-car pileup that claimed the lives of novelist William Wharton's 36-year-old daughter, her husband, and their two infant daughters. They'd been victims of field burning, a routine agricultural practice, and were burned alive in their van.
How could such a thing happen? And how could a father come to terms with such a loss? Ever After, Wharton's first memoir, is his search for answers to these questions, written with the inspired simplicity that won him great acclaim for his novels.
The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
Pat Conroy
Literature & Fiction / Nonfiction
In this powerful and intimate memoir, the beloved bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, find some common ground at long last.
Pat Conroy's father, Donald Patrick Conroy, was a towering figure in his son's life. The Marine Corps fighter pilot was often brutal, cruel, and violent; as Pat says, "I hated my father long before I knew there was an English word for 'hate.'" As the oldest of seven children who were dragged from military base to military base across the South, Pat bore witness to the toll his father's behavior took on his siblings, and especially on his mother, Peg. She was Pat's lifeline to a better world-that of books and culture. But eventually, despite repeated confrontations with his father, Pat managed to claw his way toward a life he could have only imagined as a child.
Pat's great success as a writer has always been intimately linked with the exploration of his family history. While the publication of The Great Santini brought Pat much acclaim, the rift it caused with his father brought even more attention. Their long-simmering conflict burst into the open, fracturing an already battered family. But as Pat tenderly chronicles here, even the oldest of wounds can heal. In the final years of Don Conroy's life, he and his son reached a rapprochement of sorts. Quite unexpectedly, the Santini who had freely doled out physical abuse to his wife and children refocused his ire on those who had turned on Pat over the years. He defended his son's honor.
The Death of Santini is at once a heart-wrenching account of personal and family struggle and a poignant lesson in how the ties of blood can both strangle and offer succor. It is an act of reckoning, an exorcism of demons, but one whose ultimate conclusion is that love can soften even the meanest of men, lending significance to one of the most-often quoted lines from Pat's bestselling novel The Prince of Tides: "In families there are no crimes beyond forgiveness."
Engaging Father Christmas: A Novella
Robin Jones Gunn
Contemporary / Christian / Young Adult
Miranda Carson can't wait to return to England for Christmas and to be with her boyfriend, Ian. She has spent a lifetime yearning for a place to call home, and she's sure Carlton Heath will be it, especially when a hinted-at engagement ring slips into the conversation.
But Miranda's high hopes for a jolly Christmas with the small circle of people she has come to love are toppled when Ian's father is hospitalized and the matriarch of the Whitcombe family withholds her blessing from Miranda. Questions run rampant in Miranda's mind about whether she really belongs in this cheery corner of the world. Then, when her true identity threatens all her relationships in unanticipated ways, Miranda is certain all is lost.
And yet . . . maybe Father Christmas has special gifts in store for her after all.
Finding Father Christmas
Robin Jones Gunn
Contemporary / Christian / Young Adult
Bestselling author Robin Jones Gunn brings readers a poignant Christmas novella about a woman, desperate for a place to belong, who finds herself in London a few days before Christmas, looking for the father she never knew.
In FINDING FATHER CHRISTMAS, Miranda Carson's search for her father takes a turn she never expected when she finds herself in London with only a few feeble clues to who he might be. Unexpectedly welcomed into a family that doesn't recognize her, and whom she's quickly coming to love, she faces a terrible decision. Should she reveal her true identity and destroy their idyllic image of her father? Or should she carry the truth home with her to San Francisco and remain alone in this world? Whatever choice she makes during this London Christmas will forever change the future for both herself and the family she can't bear to leave. Robin Jones Gunn brilliantly combines lyrical writing and unforgettable characters to craft a story of longing and belonging that will stay with readers long after they close the pages of this book.
Crimes of the Father
Thomas Keneally
Literature & Fiction / Nonfiction
A timely, courageous and powerful novel about faith, the church, conscience and celibacy.
Tom Keneally, ex-seminarian, pulls no punches as he interrogates the terrible damage done to innocents as the Catholic Church has prevaricated around language and points of law, covering up for its own.
Ex-communicated to Canada due to his radical preaching on the Vietnam War and other human rights causes, Father Frank Docherty is now a psychologist and monk. He returns to Australia to speak on abuse in the Church, and unwittingly is soon listening to stories from two different people – a young man, via his suicide note, and an ex-nun – who both claim to have been sexually abused by an eminent Sydney cardinal. This senior churchman is himself currently empannelled in a commission investigating sex abuse within the Church.
As a man of character and conscience, Father Docherty finds he must confront each party involved in the abuse and cover-up to try to bring the matter to the attention of the Church itself, and to secular authorities.
This riveting, profoundly thoughtful novel is both an exploration of faith as well as an examination of marriage, of conscience and celibacy, and of what has become one of the most controversial institutions, the Catholic Church.
From Friend to Father
Tracy Wolff
Romance / Young Adult
Re-read Tracy Wolff's fan-favorite Harlequin Superromance, originally published as From Friend to Father in 2009!
He's a single dad trying to find his way...even if that leads him directly into her arms! From New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff.
Reece Sandler's got a ready-made family...except he's not ready for it! When he and his late wife asked her best friend Sarah Martin to be their surrogate, he never imagined he'd raise that child with the woman. And the situation is complicated by his growing attraction to her. She's vivacious, captivating and the kind of parent he only hopes to be. How can he resist her?
My Father's Notebook
Kader Abdolah
Literature & Fiction
On a holy mountain in the depths of Persia there is a cave with a mysterious cuneiform carving deep inside it. Aga Akbar, a deaf-mute boy from the mountain, develops his own private script from these symbols and writes passionately of his life, his family and his efforts to make sense of the changes the twentieth century brings to his country. Exiled in Holland a generation later, Akbar's son Ishmael struggles to decipher the notebook, reflecting how his own political activities have forced him to flee his country and abandon his family. As he gets closer to the heart of his father's story, he unravels the intricate tale of how the silent world of a village carpet-mender was forced to give way to one where the increasingly hostile environment of modern Iran has brought the family both love and sacrifice.
Father Mine
Part #6.50 of "Black Dagger Brotherhood" series by J. R. Ward
Romance / Paranormal / Contemporary
**Readers met and fell in love with Zsadist and Bella in J. R. Ward's third New York Times bestselling novel in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, *Lover Awakened.***
As a former blood slave, Zsadist bore the scars from a past filled with suffering and degradation until Bella came along and helped heal his emotional wounds. Now, though, with the birth of their child, the demons of his past have been resurrected, called forth by the innocent eyes of his beloved daughter, Nalla. Unless Bella and Nalla can bring him back with their love, he may be lost to them forever.
Our Father
Marilyn French
Fiction / Feminism / Classics
"FRENCH'S MOST FOCUSED, DARING, AND POWERFUL NOVEL."
--New Woman
Famed presidential advisor Stephen Upton has suffered a stroke, and his four very different daughters gather in his perfectly appointed mansion outside Boston to await his death or recovery. Elizabeth, cold and calculating, fights hard for every success and pays a high price; beautiful Mary has always needed a man to support her tastes, but time is catching up with her; Alex can't remember her childhood and wants to know why; and Ronnie, illegitimate and proud, refuses to acknowledge her feelings for the man they all love and hate. In the weeks to come, they will learn one another's terrible secrets, and the astonishing truth about the life they might have shared....
Once again, Marilyn French has written an extraordinary novel of our times--a novel of family love and resentment, of sisterhood and fatherhood, of acceptance and rejection and the search for peace.
"SHOULD STRIKE A CHORD WITH EVERY WOMAN who is willing to think honestly about the place of femaleness in the world."
--Chicago Tribune
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The Diary Of An Expectant Father (The Diary Of A Father Book 1)
Pete Sortwell
Humor and Comedy / Contemporary / Crime
'The Diary of an Expectant Father' charts the months leading up to what should be the happiest day of a young couple's life, but with a relationship so new and a career so bad, can Graham keep everything together for the sake of his unborn child?Not only is Graham Peterson unlucky in his choice of careers, he’s also been terrible with women throughout his adult life. That changes when he meets Alison on a work night out. Unfortunately for Graham, however, things change so drastically that within a month of dating Alison he gets the news that he’s about to become a father for the first time. 'The Diary of an Expectant Father' charts the months leading up to what should be the happiest day of a young couple's life, but with a relationship so new and a career so bad, can Graham keep everything together for the sake of his unborn child? With all the pitfalls and worries of an expectant father charted, this book is for all those who have been through pregnancy or just want to know how a man deals with all these things internally. 'Expectant Father' is the first in a series of diaries by Graham Peterson, who sometimes thinks he’s writing to an Alien Warlord from the future. The next in the series, ‘The Diary of a Hapless Father: Months 1-3’, charts those first three terrifying months of parenthood.
The Bringer
Samantha Towle
Romance / Contemporary / Suspense
but not for himself, for his son, James. Would she look after him, would she comfort him as he grieved for the loss of his father? James was a sensitive young man. He would take his father's death very hard. Well, Bringers don't do that sort of thing; their exclusive role is to usher souls to heaven. They are not allowed to get involved in earthly affairs. However, when she saw James, she felt something she had never felt before - an emotion, a shock. She was a Bringer. Bringers do not have emotions. Yet she couldn't help herself. She found herself being drawn inexorably towards James and his life, against every instinct she had ever had, against every law of the universe. And she fell in love. For a Bringer, that is a terrifying fall.
By the Light of My Father's Smile
Alice Walker
Fiction
"By The Light Of My Father's Smile" presents a celebration of sexuality, its absolute usefulness in the accessing of one's mature spirituality, and the father's role in assuring joy or sorrow in this arena for his female children, " says Walker. "It examines the ways imposed religion almost always acts to inhibit and harden the hearts of those who would instinctively love, and presents the richness and coherence of an alternative culture's experience of sexuality as a celebration of life, " she adds.The story begins at an outpost in the remote Sierras in Mexico, where an African American family (two daughters and their partners) from the United States come to live for several years. The father, who narrates much of the novel from the grave, finds his fifteen-year-old daughter Magdalena, having sex with a local boy named Manuelito. He beats her in a scene witnessed by her sister, Susannah. While both daughters are wounded by the beating, it is Magdalena who remains scarred throughout her life by this incident.
However, it is because of Manuelito and his tradition that reconciliation between father and daughters eventually happens. Manuelito is a Mundo, a deeply spiritual and wise tribe of mixed race, both Black and Indian. The Mundo are unimpressed by a world concerned primarily with exploitation and monetary gain. They treasure their relationship to the earth and ultimately teach the father, who believes his daughter's sexuality is evil, that in fact sexuality is a blessing. In the end, it is the Mundo way of life that leads the father back to his daughters.
Two Sisters: A Father, His Daughters, and Their Journey Into the Syrian Jihad
Åsne Seierstad
Nonfiction / Journalism
Two Sisters, by the international bestselling author Asne Seierstad, tells the unforgettable story of a family divided by faith. Sadiq and Sara, Somali immigrants raising a family in Norway, one day discover that their teenage daughters Leila and Ayan have vanished--and are en route to Syria to aid the Islamic State. Seierstad's riveting account traces the sisters' journey from secular, social democratic Norway to the front lines of the war in Syria, and follows Sadiq's harrowing attempt to find them.
Employing the same mastery of narrative suspense she brought to The Bookseller of Kabul and One of Us, Seierstad puts the problem of radicalization into painfully human terms, using instant messages and other primary sources to reconstruct a family's crisis from the inside. Eventually, she takes us into the hellscape of the Syrian civil war, as Sadiq risks his life in pursuit of his daughters, refusing to let them disappear into the maelstrom--even after they marry ISIS fighters. Two Sisters is a relentless thriller and a feat of reporting with profound lessons about belief, extremism, and the meaning of devotion.
More Stories From My Father's Court
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Science
A sequel to I. B. Singer's classic memoir In My Father's Court, these stories, published serially in the Daily Forward, depict the beth din in his father's home on Krochmalna Street in Warsaw. A unique institution, the beth din was a combined court of law, synagogue, scholarly institution, and psychologist's office where people sought out the advice and counsel of a neighborhood rabbi.The twenty-seven stories gathered here show this world as it appeared to a young boy. From the earthy to the ethereal, these stories provide an intimate and powerful evocation of a bygone world.
A Father's Law
Richard Wright
Fiction / Short Stories / Politics
Never before published, the final work of one of America's greatest writers
A Father's Law is the novel Richard Wright, acclaimed author of Black Boy and Native Son, never completed. Written during a six-week period near the end of his life, it appears in print for the first time, an important addition to this American master's body of work, submitted by his daughter and literary executor, Julia, who writes:
It comes from his guts and ends at the hero's "breaking point." It explores many themes favored by my father like guilt and innocence, the difficult relationship between the generations, the difficulty of being a black policeman and father, the difficulty of being both those things and suspecting that your own son is the murderer. It intertwines astonishingly modern themes for a novel written in 1960.
Prescient, raw, powerful, and fascinating, A Father's Law is the final gift from a literary giant.
My Father's Monkey, A Memoir
Marc Colten
This memoir is a history of my family's tobacco use and the effect it had on us.This memoir is about my family's long history with tobacco and the effect it had on my parents and myself. It is not fiction, but a real history of one thread running through my life.
Sins of the Father
Tiffany Fussell
This is a story collection of shorter, flash fiction pieces that I hope you will enjoy. It is a dramatic, literary collection whose theme explores the situations involving racism in the south.In 16th STREET the story takes you to the night before the notorious bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1960s in which six little black girls were killed. This is a fictitious exploration of one family's memory of their child who was killed.THE SUMMER POOL is a chilling piece, which explores the dynamics between older and newer generations in the south and their approach to the issue of race. A young woman is faced with an older woman's racism and has to find a way around it so that her newly acquainted friends can take a dip.In MALAS HIERBAS, an old, gentile woman of the south deals with her husband's death and the ever-changing world around her. She is confronted by the changing times when her gardener takes ill and she has no one else to hire, but a friend of her housemaid's who is also Latino.
Father's Day Surprise
Keith Kluksdahl
Mark, a young man in his twenties, takes a trip to the mountains to finally learn what he can about his father, who had abandoned the family long ago and has since died. It's not a task he relishes, but he feels that it's something that he must do. While the search to learn about his father yields little, the trip is hardly a waste. He and his new acquaintance both get a Father's Day surprise.What happens when an extraordinary circumstance completely changes the life of an ordinary man? Brian Seymour becomes quite interested in the crows in his home town of Ottawa, Canada, and soon learns that they are even more interested in him. As he learns more about just what incredibly intelligent creatures crows actually are, he begins to pay more and more attention to them. On one fantastic morning he discovers that they understand him, much more than he will ever understand them. He must then calmly decide what he must do with this new awesome power that he has unleashed, or more accurately, that has been unleashed on him. In this entertaining, uplifting story, you will learn many surprising facts about one of the smartest creatures on our planet, that almost everyone sees almost every day, yet pays very little attention to. After reading this I promise you will pay much more attention to them from then on. My Name Is is a fantasy short story that is mostly semi-autobiographical, right up until the supernatural takes over.
Father to Son
Russell Taylor
Biography / Culture / Film
Gloria saw the sky come to life the last time the comet was over. She was lying out here at the end of the pier looking up on a night just like this when the meteor passed overhead, shedding falling stars in its wake. As each star fell she said that it lit up people hidden in the constellations, people no astronomer had ever seen before. She said that when they were revealed they came to life.“Gloria saw the sky come to life the last time the comet was over. She was lying out here at the end of the pier looking up on a night just like this when the meteor passed overhead, shedding falling stars in its wake. As each star fell she said that it lit up people hidden in the constellations, people no astronomer had ever seen before. She said that when they were revealed they came to life.He looked up and watched as the comet peeled back the stratosphere. The stars grew bright and then dim, bursting and popping like a rack of fused lights. When the fiery touch of the comet moved out of reach, it left silvery trails of light joining up the puncture marks it had stamped in the blistered sky. Something moved.”This free sample contains a taster of the first two shorts of Russell Taylor's book "Falling Stars". The full book with all 10 short stories can be found on Amazon.
Father Abraham
William Faulkner
Fiction / Poetry / Southern Gothic
A sale of fiery wild ponies, which manage to escape their corral after they are sold, introduce Flem Snopes, the man behind the sale, to the town of Frenchman's Bend.
The Wisdom of Father Brown
G. K. Chesterton
Fiction / Crime / Religion
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My Father's List
Laura Carney
Fifty-four adventures in six years. That's what thirty-eight-year-old journalist Laura Carney embarked on when she discovered her late father Mick's bucket list.Killed in a car crash when Laura was twenty-five, Mick seemed lost forever. My Father's List is the story of how one woman—with the help of family, friends, and even strangers—found the courage to go after her own dreams after realizing those of a beloved yet mysterious man. This is a story about secrets—and the freedom we feel when we learn to trust again: in life, in love, and in a father's lessons on how to fully live.
The Good Father
Diane Chamberlain
Literature & Fiction / Mystery & Thrillers
Four years ago, nineteen-year-old Travis Brown made a choice: to raise his newborn daughter on his own. While most of his friends were out partying and meeting girls, Travis was at home, changing diapers and worrying about keeping food on the table. But he's never regretted his decision. Bella is the light of his life. The reason behind every move he makes. And so far, she is fed. Cared for. Safe.
But when Travis loses his construction job and his home, the security he's worked so hard to create for Bella begins to crumble...….
Then a miracle. A job in Raleigh has the power to turn their fortunes around. It has to. But when Travis arrives in Raleigh, there is no job, only an offer to participate in a onetime criminal act that promises quick money and no repercussions.
With nowhere else to turn, Travis must make another choice for his daughter's sake. Even if it means he might lose her.
Who Shot Father Christmas?
Tony Spencer
Business / Professional & Technical / Fiction
The magic of Christmas is at stake and drastic measures are called for. The cause and solution so obvious, dear reader, but will the interested parties sort out their mess in time? Disclaimer: no Father Christmases were harmed during the weaving of this festive tale.If Father Christmas fails to deliver, the magic of Christmas could be lost forever, so drastic measures are called for. There is heartache, confusion and pain, everything looks lost. The cause and solution so obvious, dear reader, but will the interested parties sort out the mess of their own making in time? Disclaimer: no Father Christmases were harmed during the weaving of this festive tale.
Father of the Lost Boys for Younger Readers
Yuot A. Alaak
Once, there was a man who rescued 20,000 boys from almost certain death. That man was my father. One of those boys was me. This is our story.During the Second Sudanese Civil War, thousands of boys were displaced or orphaned. In 1989, Mecak Ajang Alaak led the Lost Boys on a four-year journey from Ethiopia to Sudan to protect them from becoming child soldiers. This is the abridged account of that extraordinary true story.
Show Me a Family for Christmas : Small-Town Single-Father Cowboy Romance (Cowboy Crossing Romances Book 6)
Alexa Verde
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My Hummingbird Father
Pascale Petit
When artist Dominique receives a letter from her dying father, a reckoning with repressed memories and a pull for romantic and familial love sends shockwaves through her life, as she journeys to Paris to face the places and events of her early years. Balanced with visits to the Venezuelan Amazon, where Dominique explores a spiritual and loving longing (meeting a young guide, Juan), a raw and tender unfolding of this love story is a parallel to the uncovering of the shocking truth of Dominique's birth, and her parents' relationship. Pascale Petit's My Hummingbird Father is a beautifully lyrical debut novel in dialogue with Pascale's Ondaatje and Laurel Prize-winning poetry collection, Mama Amazonica.
My Father the Whale
Gina Perry
A vivid, beautifully imagined story about the lengths we'll go in order to belong'Beautiful writing - tender and engaging. A wonderful novel' FAVEL PARRETT'Gina Perry has written from the heart to create a story of tenderness, struggle and love' TONY BIRCH For nine-year-old Ruby, travelling the country with her charismatic father Mitch and busking for a living is the only life she's ever known. Mitch has been the centre of Ruby's world since she was a baby, and much as she's curious about her mother who died soon after Ruby was born, talk of her is taboo.When repairs to their ageing Kombi strand them in a small coastal town, Ruby is drawn to the town and its people and gains a glimpse of family life starkly different to her own. But when Mitch is ready to leave, Ruby is caught between her loyalty to her father and the safety of the place that's offered her a taste of normal life, causing a rift...
What Makes a Father
Teresa Southwick
Three's companyFour's a familyWhen ER doc Mason Blackburne discovers he is the biological father of twins, he's doubly thrilled! But he still has to contend with Annie Campbell, the babies' legal guardian. At first he sees her as just the gatekeeper to his babies—and then he begins to view her in a whole new light. But Mason has a past that might keep him from giving Annie the love she craves.
My Boss's Father
Cassandra Dee
Romance / Contemporary / Young Adult
I've dated both the son and the father. But which one is my babydaddy? Megan has the most awful boss ever. Brian is handsome, yes, but he also has clammy hands and a whiny voice. To make things worse, he's always asking her out on dates. In desperation, she agrees, just to get him to stop if nothing else. John Miller's run an empire for years. He can get any woman he wants, including models, socialites, and even princesses. But when he sees Megan with Brian, suddenly nothing matters anymore. The CEO decides to claim the curvy girl for himself because he wants a baby with Megan ... even if she's currently dating his son. Hey Readers - This story is taboo to the hilt because our heroine gets pregnant, but who's her babydaddy? Read and find out! You'll love it because it's forbidden in the naughtiest way. As always, no cheating, no cliffhangers, and always an HEA. Xoxo, Cassandra
The Womb – Poems on Mother , Father , Children , Parenthood – volume 1
Nikhil Parekh
Poetry / Fiction
This Book which has 50 differently titled Poems , is actually volume 1 of the Book titled - The Womb ( 250 pages ) .A flurry of poetic concoctions dedicated to the ever-pervading woman and mother. Profoundly saluting her love, compassion and resolute grit as she evolves a diminutive infant into a powerhouse of talent, into a complete individual. The poems in the collection are humble salutations to the essence of Parenthood, to the unbelievable depths of sacrifice that a mother resorts whilst bringing up her child right since its inception in the womb. Each poem reveres the 'godly womb' as the source of all creation that has ever been. This book in itself is the most befitting tribute to the agonizing odysseys of parents as they nourish their children-and children as they grow up as the most powerful angels of God to stupefy all humanity with their inherent charm. A quintessential read for every parent or parent to be, it brings out the charm of creation since the very first breath. The verses within bountifully poeticize every unbridled mischief of a child with its beloved parents .
Fear of the Father
David R Lewis
Mystery & Thrillers / Historical Fiction / Romance
"Got a gun?"With those words, David Allen Crockett, a retired police officer who simply wanted to be left alone, finds his seclusion shattered by his friend, therapist Ruby LaCost. At Ruby's request, Crockett agrees to teach one of her clients, Rachael Moore, how to defend herself with a handgun.During the course of those lessons, Crockett and Rachael begin an intimate relationship. When Rachael is found dead from an apparent suicide, Crockett is devastated and tries to slink back into his self-imposed seclusion. But things get complicated when Crockett is contacted by Rachael's aunt, who believes the suicide was staged and claims she has the name of the murderer. Together, Crockett and Ruby begin an investigation that leads them into a world of treachery, deceit, and death.
A Father for Her Child
Laurel Greer
She was always his best friend's girl...But then their whole lives changedWidow Cadence Grigg is slowly putting her life back together—and raising her infant son. By her side is her late husband's best friend, Zach Cardenas, who can't help his burgeoning feelings for Cadie and her baby boy. Though determined not to fall in love again, Cadie might find that Cupid has other plans for her happily-ever-after...
My Father
Arvind Panagariya
In 1946, Baloo Lal Panagariya, then twenty-five years old, arrived in Jaipur to join the editorial staff of the newspaper Lokvani, devoted to exposing the excesses of the British and princely rulers of Rajputana. Though unremarkable in itself, the story behind this event is one of the triumph of human spirit over adversity.Baloo Lal was born in a remote village in Rajasthan, in a family that could not scrape together two full meals a day. He lost his father at five and mother at fourteen. The village lacked even a primary school. Yet, thanks to the wisdom and sacrifice of his mother and his own perseverance, he completed his education, went on to serve with distinction as a civil servant in the newly formed state of Rajasthan and, after retirement, wrote the first definitive book on the history of the freedom movement in Rajasthan.In a very real sense, Baloo Lal's journey from the village of Suwana to the city of Jaipur was a long and arduous one, much more so...
Like Father, Like Son
James Patterson
Literature & Fiction / Mystery Thriller / Young Adult
Alex Cross's son Ali is an accomplished mystery-solver and #1 bestseller. A crime at a concert near his school sparks his newest investigation, and it gets dangerous fast. Sometimes it's good to have a father in the detective business. ALEX CROSS is a genius detective. ALI CROSS is following in his father's footsteps. When Ali sees a friend get hurt, he's the best person to find out who did it. Even if he's only a kid. After all, he's Alex Cross's son. Solving crimes runs in the family.
The Reluctant Father's Mail Order Bride
Part #2 of "Pinkerton Brides" series by Cecilia Walker
Josephine Danforth arrives at Miss Sally Pinkerton's Ladies Boarding House and Matchmaking Service in St. Louis with the hope of finding a job out west. When she learns that governesses aren't much in demand on the plains, the eponymous Miss Pinkerton suggests another option: marriage. Reassured by a potential suitor's letters, Josephine reluctantly accepts and heads west. Completely out of her element, Josephine struggles to find her place as the wife of Montana rancher Eb Higginbotham and mother to his orphaned nephew, Clem. With Eb's seeming indifference, Josephine worries she may have made the wrong choice. Is it too late for her to find love?
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My Father's Tears and Other Stories
John Updike
Fiction
John Updike’s first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father’s Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel.
“Personal Archaeology” considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and “The Full Glass” distills a lifetime’s happiness into one brimming moment of an old man’s bedtime routine. High-school class reunions, in “The Walk with Elizanne” and “The Road Home,” restore their hero to youth’s commonwealth where, as the narrator of the title story confides, “the self I value is stored, however infrequently I check on its condition.” Exotic locales encountered in the journeys of adulthood include Morocco, Florida, Spain, Italy, and India. The territory of childhood, with its fundamental, formative mysteries, is explored in “The Guardians,” “The Laughter of the Gods,” and “Kinderszenen.” Love’s fumblings among the bourgeoisie yield the tart comedy of “Free,” “Delicate Wives,” “The Apparition,” and “Outage.”
In sum, American experience from the Depression to the aftermath of 9/11 finds reflection in these glittering pieces of observation, remembrance, and imagination.
The Fists of the Father
Daniel Tamone
Ted 'Little Boy Blue' Taylor has replaced his estranged father Ron - a disgraced former heavyweight champion on the cusp of an unexpected comeback - as the darling of Australian boxing. But after two uninspiring losses, he is failing to live up to the expectations that have always weighed so heavily upon him.Ted's battles are not isolated to his sport: a painful history of alcoholism, domestic abuse and ties to the underworld of boxing has a firm hold on the Taylor family. Generational trauma and guilt are not Ted's only inheritance. Now he is silently enduring the effects of years of concussions - in the ring, and in childhood at the hands of his father - which are threatening to end his career prematurely.Ted is trained by his grandfather, a Vietnam vet seeking escape from his demons through drinking and gambling. Pop manages to find a certain peace in his love for his sport and his grandson, although he is unknowingly causing damage by trying to protect Ted from the...
Father And Child Reunion Part 1 (36 Hours Serial Book 6.1)
Part #6.10 of "36 Hours Serial" series by Christine Flynn
36 Hours Serial: As a devastating summer storm hits Grand Springs, Colorado, the next thirty-six hours will change the town and its residents forever....Father And Child Reunion Part 1Eve Stuart thought a trip home for her brother Hal's wedding would be fun--and short enough to avoid seeing Rio Redtree. But that was before a storm cut power all over town, her brother's bride went missing and Eve's mother, Olivia, was tragically killed.Now Rio, an investigative reporter, is the only one with a lead on her mother's case. Eve's willing to answer his questions, as long as they don't involve her daughter, Molly. Six years ago, Rio made it clear he never wanted a child. How can Eve trust him to do the right thing if he finds out the truth about Molly?The story continues in Father and Child Reunion Parts 2 and 3.
Letter from a Desperate Father
Maron Anrow
Fantasy / Fiction
An innocent man has been imprisoned. Hoping to see his son one last time, he composes a letter explaining the devastating event for which he's been blamed. LETTER FROM A DESPERATE FATHER is a chilling tale of grief and betrayal with supernatural elements."I know how my recent actions must seem. My story is not a simple one, though it pains me to dwell on how things turned out. All I ask is to see my son, and I hope you’ll be willing to help me after reading this letter."An innocent man has been imprisoned. Hoping to see his son one last time, he composes a letter explaining the devastating event for which he's been blamed. LETTER FROM A DESPERATE FATHER is a chilling tale of grief and betrayal with supernatural elements.
A Father's Promise
Mindy Obenhaus
Is he ready for fatherhood?He doesn't think he deserves a family...But now he has a daughter.Stunned to discover he has a child, Wes Bishop isn't sure he's father material. But his adorable daughter needs him, and he can't help feeling drawn to her mother, Laurel Donovan—a woman he's finally getting to know. But can this sudden dad overcome a past tragedy that has him convinced he's not meant to be a husband or a father...and make a promise of forever?
John Stonehouse, My Father
Julia Stonehouse
'A compelling account of an extraordinary political scandal, written from inside the Stonehouse family'. Martin BellThe true story of the MP who faked his own death, by his daughter.On 20 November 1974, British Labour MP and Privy Counsellor John Stonehouse faked his death in Miami and, using a forged identity, entered Australia hoping to escape his old life and start anew. One month later his identity was uncovered and he was cautioned; the start of years of legal proceedings.In a tale that involves spies from the communist Czechoslovak secret service, a three-way love affair and the Old Bailey, John's daughter examines previously unseen evidence, telling the dramatic true story for the first time, disputing allegations and upturning common misconceptions which are still in circulation.The story was never far from the front pages of the press in the mid-70s, and yet so much of the truth is still...
Father Sweet
J. J. Martin
A shocking tale of secrets, guilt, and clerical child abuse. "God has made you special, but I will show you how to have an extraordinary life. Show you true love, as God intended for our kind." It's 1978. Blackburn Hamlet is a typical suburban village in eastern Ontario. In this vibrant Catholic community, life revolves around family and church. Then the safe comfort of both is destroyed by the arrival of a predator priest.When charismatic Father Sweet invites his new favourite altar boy on a camping trip, the boy's parents insist he go. Trapped in the woods, the boy struggles to evade the priest's sexual advances. But Father Sweet forces him to make an impossible choice.Twenty-five years later, he is lost, broken, and angry. His father's death reveals secrets that spur the man to relive his own past. Desiring justice, in need of healing, he discovers, in a daring rescue mission, a way to achieve both.
Father's Arcane Daughter
E. L. Konigsburg
Children's Books
POOR LITTLE RICH BOY Winston Carmichael has it all: a big house, servants, vacations in Palm Beach and a fancy private school. But with over protective parents and a sense of responsibility for his younger sister, Heidi, Winston sometimes feels more as if he's living in a prison than a dream.
Then, one day, a woman appears at the front door claiming to be Caroline -- Winston's half sister, kidnapped and presumed dead long before he and Heidi were born. Is she really Caroline? Is she an imposter? Or is she something far more complicated than either? And does she hold the key that could unlock the door to Winston's prison?
My Father's Guru
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
As a child growing up in the Hollywood Hills during the 1950s, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson thought it was perfectly normal that a guru named Paul Brunton lived with his family and dictated everything about their daily rituals, from their diet to their travel plans to his parents’ sex life. But in this extraordinary memoir, Masson reflects on just how bizarre everything about his childhood was–especially the relationship between his father and the elusive, eminent mystic he revered (and supported) for years.
Writing with candor and charm, Masson describes how his father became convinced that Paul Brunton–P.B. to his familiars–was a living God who would fill his life with enlightenment and wonder. As the Masson family’s personal guru, Brunton freely discussed his life on other planets, laid down strict rules on fasting and meditation, and warned them all of the imminence of World War III. For years, young Jeffrey was as ardent a disciple as his father–but with the onset of adolescence, he staged a dramatic revolt against this domestic deity and everything he stood for.
Filled with absurdist humor and intimate confessions, My Father’s Guru is the spellbinding coming-of-age story of one of our most brilliant writers.
REVIEWS
“An uncompromising yet compassionate book . . . A coming-of-age memoir unlike any other.”
–The Toronto Star
“AN EXTRAORDINARY CAUTIONARY TALE …. about the enduring human impulse to imbue charismatic individuals with superhuman attributes.”
–San Francisco Chronicle
“Told with a mixture of humor and compassion. . . . Throughout this confessional book a grown man tells of an unusual, even weird childhood and the blind submission that consumed his family’s life.”
–ROBERT COLES
The New York Times Book Review
“My Father’s Guru is an interesting account of a warped upbringing made fascinating by the insight it provides into Masson’s adult life. He makes no excuses: in initially revering Freud and other authority figures, Masson realizes he was seeking new and better gurus that Brunton–and was fated to reject them pitilessly when they showed themselves, like Brunton, to be merely human.”
–Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Beneath the guru-bashing, the book is Masson’s poignant and loving indictment of his parents, worth reading for his psychological portrait of coming-of-age disillusionment.”
–Seattle Weekly
Three Father Christmas Letters for 2013
Leone Annabella Betts
Children's / Young Adult / Fiction
If you are new to our Father Christmas letters, welcome to a magical world. This little book contains three of them, all penned by Santa Claus especially for your child. They're full of news about life at the North Pole and sprinkled with magical illustrations. Parents who have read our letters in the past say they make lovely bedtime stories in the run up to Christmas.Wonka has fought long and hard to be heard and here is his second tale, as he battles to make his Owner listen and take on the right advice. Although tiring and an uphill struggle, he has found time to entertain us with his thoughts and even the arrival of someone new. As yet outside.So, have a cup of tea put your feet up, and let Wonka tell you how to cope and be alright.
The Father She Went to Find
Carter Wilson
"A Beautiful Mind takes a life-and-death road trip in this battle of wits, maze of psychological suspense, and heartbreaking family drama." —Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author of One Wrong WordA road trip to find closure... or a reckless chase that could turn deadly? Penny has never met anyone smarter than her. That's par for the course when you're a savant—one of less than one hundred in the world. But despite her photographic memory and super-powered intellect, there's one mystery Penny's never been able to solve: why did her father leave when she was in a coma at age seven, and where is he now?On Penny's twenty-first birthday, she receives a card in the mail from him, just as she has every year since he left. But this birthday card is different. For the first time ever, there's a return address. And a goodbye.Penny doesn't know the world beyond her mother's house and the special school she's...
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The Counterfeit Father: A Tony Pandy Mystery (Book 1)
PV Lundqvist
Childrens / Middle Grade / Contemporary
From the outside, Tony looks like he has quite the life:Until you notice the wheelchair. Or that he only speaks with his mother by intercom. Or that he doesn't seem to know who his real father is.And now, to save his home from a mysterious trust, Tony will have to ride in a broken-down motorcycle with someone who may not be who he seems, and solve the biggest mystery of all—Who he really is.From the outside, 13 year old Tony looks like he has quite the life:A whole estate to himself.A fangirl he flirts with online.A pet monkey. (His third!)Until you notice the wheelchair. Or that he only speaks with his mother by intercom. Or that he doesn't seem to know who his real father is.And now, to save his home from a mysterious trust, Tony will have to ride in a broken-down motorcycle with someone who may not be who he seems, and solve the biggest mystery of all—Who he really is.
Father and I Were Ranchers
Ralph Moody
Biographies & Memoirs
Ralph was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes, the pleasures and perils of ranching in the early twentieth century are experienced... auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms all give authentic color to Little Britches. So do wonderfully told adventures, which equip Ralph to take his father's place when it becomes necessary.
Newly republished in a hardcover edition with a 1950s cover, jacket and pictorial endpages. Interior illustrations by Edward Shenton.
The Father He Deserves
Lisa Jordan
A determined dad. A wary mother. Making amends is never easy... Injured in a kayaking accident, champion Evan Holland returns home to train rescue dogs. But his unexpected partner is the woman he left behind, Natalie Bishop. And she has a secret: a son Evan never knew he had. Now Evan must prove he can be a real father. But earning Natalie's trust back will take hope, forgiveness—and risking everything on forever...From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.
Sins of the Father
Lisa Williamson
LGBT / Young Adult / Contemporary
A new girl shows up at the Tendo Dojo. And she isn't after RanmaA new girls shows up at the Tendo Dojo to challenge one of the people living there. She is not have Ranma or Akane this time. She is after GenmaA Ranma 1/2 fan fiction
Sins of the Father
Fleur Blüm
Every choice can change you for better. Or worse. Janine Barrett is like every other fifteen-year-old—she knows it all. When her father passes away, and she's stuck with her vindictive mother, and a shameful secret; it's time to break out on her own. But surviving life as an adult—juggling schoolwork, a household, and a boyfriend—is a lot harder than she thought. And that's only the beginning. What will she sacrifice to have it all and prove her mother wrong? Follow Janine's journey as she grows up from a naïve, rebellious teen in 1980s Melbourne.
A Father's Love
K. J. Sanne
"After driving under the influence, Aiden Gates is required to help his single-father John restore an old motel to help combat the homeless crisis spiraling out of control in Seattle. During the project, he also has to attend a drug awareness class where he meets Rachel Weissman; a gorgeous blonde who shares many of Aiden's struggles. As the two of them begin to show interest in one another, Aiden overhears her drug-dealing father Lucious torturing someone who lost a shipment of his brand new drug, Elation. In a bid to save his life, Aiden cuts a deal, citing the homeless shelter as the perfect place to sell pills under the radar. Over time, Aiden begins to like his new life, and love Rachel. John may be the only one who can save his son from himself."
Hoping for a Father
Lois Richer
He's the family she's been missing.Will discovering a secret daughterchange his mind about a family?When Drew Calhoun returns home to save the family ranch, he knows he'll run into his ex-sweetheart, Mandy Brown—but he doesn't know he's a father. Working alongside each other stirs up feelings both thought long gone. But now that the truth's out, Drew's still not sure he's father material. Can he open his heart to young Ella and forgive Mandy for keeping secrets?
Dreams from My Father (Adapted for Young Adults)
Barack Obama
Biographies & Memoirs / Nonfiction / Politics
Now adapted for young adults—the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir which Toni Morrison called "quite extraordinary,” offers an intimate look at Barack Obama’s early days. This is a compelling journey tracing the future 44th President's odyssey through family, race, and identity. A revealing portrait of a young Black man asking questions about self-discovery and belonging—long before he became one of the most important voices in America. This unique edition includes a new introduction from the author, full color photo insert and family tree. The son of a white American mother and a Black Kenyan father, Obama was born in Hawaii, where he lived until he was six years old, when he moved with his mother and stepfather to Indonesia. At twelve, he returned to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. Obama brings readers along as he faces the challenges of high school and college, living in New York, becoming...
