A Father’s Diary


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This masterpiece takes us on a beautiful evolutionary journey as parents, and helps sculpture our children into strong and wonderful human beings. ~ Dr. (Mrs.) Namita Sharma Principal, Queens Valley School, New Delhi. Every conversation between the parent and child is so real and grounded, yet teaches potentially life elevating lessons - both for parents - and children. ~ Dr. Anil Kumar Parashar Jt. Registrar (Rtd.), National Human Rights Commission The children of today’s generation are street smart and worldly-wise. Perhaps the only area where they lack are the softer aspects of life. The good news is that they will easily imbibe all essential life skills if we, as parents, can just find time to interact with them every day. This book is no 'gyan' on parenting. It is a diary of my real-life interactions with my fairies during their growing years. In each of the 28 father-daughter interactions presented in the book, there are 57 life elevating lessons for our children and for us well.




Dad's Journal


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A gift to capture all of dad’s wisdom and precious memories. A special place for dads of any age to record the most significant reflections and remembrances of their lives. Sure to be a treasured keepsake for children and grandchildren. It’s time to truly hear Dad’s whole story—here, following carefully curated questions to delve into vivid details, fathers everywhere are invited to recount the beliefs, traditions, and treasured moments that have made them who they are today. Beginning with Dad’s own childhood and teenage years, to his life before children, and of course his journey through fatherhood, writing coach Jennifer Basye Sander has developed this guided journal with great attention to detail so no memory is forgotten. From simple questions such as “What was your favorite family vacation as a child?” to more thought-provoking ones such as “What do you think happens to us after we die?” this will encourage Dad to roam far and wide inside his own memories for rich stories to share, life lessons that were learned, and beliefs that grew over time. Sander’s questions and prompts invite dads to tell their children, and generations to come, all about their childhood and teenage years; their educations, relationships, and marriages; their careers, religious experiences, and involvement in their communities; their beliefs, values, and opinions; and much more.




Diary of a Father


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Connor thought he'd marry his longtime girlfriend, but life sometimes throws you a curveball. After a bewildering breakup, he meets Scarlett, and the two fall in love and get engaged, teaching him a valuable lesson: Sometimes the things that don't happen lead to the opportunities that define your life. When the couple finds out they are pregnant with a baby girl, they are thrilled, but Connor is overwhelmed with the feelings that go along with being an expectant father. In this diary, he reveals his hopes and fears. As much as Connor loves Scarlett, when their baby Makayla is born, he discovers a love he never felt before: the love a father feels for his daughter. With a child of his own on the way--a baby boy--the author knows all about the ups and downs involved with being an expectant parent. Celebrate a whirlwind of emotions with Diary of a Father.




Daddy Muscles


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Daddy Muscles is a first-time father's story of finding the love of his life, getting married, struggling with fertility, blessedly getting pregnant, and finally experiencing the new parent transitions of Year One. This is Dylan's first book. He is learning to be a dad and husband one day at a time. He holds a BA from Texas A & M University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He works as an admissions director at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and lives in Los Angeles with his wife Marisa and their son Jack.




The Civil War Diary of Rev. James Sheeran, C.Ss.R.


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Here is the Civil War diary of Redemptorist priest Rev. James Sheeran, C. Ss. R., who was chaplain to the 14th Louisiana Regiment of the Confederacy. Irish-born Sheeran was one of only two Catholic chaplains commissioned for the Confederacy who kept a journal. From August 1, 1862 through April 24, 1865, the journal tells of all the major events of his life in abundant detail: on the battle field, in the hospitals, and among Catholics and Protestants whom he encountered in local towns, on the trains, and in the course of his ministrations. His ideological sympathies clearly rest with the Confederacy. The tone is forthright, even haughty, but captures in sure and steady fashion, both the personality of the man and the events to which he was a witness, especially the major battles. The journal is arguably the most unique narrative of the war written by a chaplain of any denomination and certainly is the most extensive.







The Incest Diary


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Throughout her childhood and adolescence, the anonymous author of The Incest Diary was raped by her father. Beneath a veneer of normal family life, she grew up in and around this all-encompassing secret. Her sexual relationship with her father lasted, off and on, into her twenties. It formed her world, and it formed her deepest fears and desires. Even after she broke away, even as she grew into an independent and adventurous young woman, she continued to seek out new versions of the violence, submission and secrecy she had struggled to leave behind. In this graphic and harrowing memoir, the author revisits her early traumas and their aftermath - not from a clinical distance, but from deep within - to explore the ways in which her father's abuse shaped her, and still does. As a matter of psychic survival, she became both a sexual object and a detached observer, a dutiful daughter and the protector of a dirty secret. And then, years later, she made herself write it down. With lyric concision, in vignettes of almost unbearable intensity, this writer tells a story that is shocking but that will ring true to many other survivors of abuse. It has never been faced so directly on the page.




Tell Me Your Life Story, Dad


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Hidden Hell


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Robert Miller's father, World War II veteran Herbert Henry Miller, died in 1994. A month later, Robert and his mother discovered the Red Cross diary he had kept while a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany. It became the catalyst for Robert's quest to learn more about his father's war. The result of that quest is this remarkable book, a story of terror, horrific despair, and Nazi depravity. But it is also a tale of survival against astonishing odds, of the deep bonds that develop between men at a time of war, and of choosing to leave hate behind. Captured by the Germans at Mortain, France, on August 6, Miller endured a punishing fifty-four-day march to Moosburg, Germany, where he survived for seven months in Stalag VIIA, the largest POW camp in Nazi Germany. During his stay at Stalag VIIA, Miller became good friends with a Nazi guard named Heinz, who eventually disappeared from the camp.




Diary of a Monster's Son


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Bradley Fentriss keeps an account of life with his loving, if somewhat unusual father.