Diary of a Widowed Dad


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Right up until the very moment that everything changes forever, Jason Sherman's life seems to be following a recognizable path. He goes off to college, meets the girl of his dreams, experiences love at first sight, and finds himself facing marriage and parenthood. Two children and nearly eleven years of marriage later, Jason is a husband and father in his early thirties. During a romantic evening out on the town between this Arizona everyman and his beloved wife, Nicole, the unspeakable occurs, and shatters the lives of Jason and his two girls. This is the true story of the worst kind of loss, and the courage and grace it takes to endure, survive, and rebuild. As this widowed single dad embarks upon this long dark night of the soul, the reader is carried along on a journey with so much heart, you can not help but be uplifted, moved, and ultimately transformed along the way.




The Group


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On a mid-October evening, a group of fathers gathered around a conference table and met each other for the first time. None of the men had ever thought of himself a "support group kind of guy" and each felt entirely out of place. In fact, nothing about their lives felt normal anymore. The Group: Seven Widowed Fathers Reimagine Life chronicles the challenges and triumphs of seven men whose wives died from cancer and were left to raise their young children entirely on their own. Brought together by tragedy, the fathers - Neill, Dan, Bruce, Karl, Joe, Steve, and Russ - forged an uncommon bond. Over time, group meetings evolved into a forum for reinvention and transformed the men in unexpected ways. Through the fathers' poignant interactions, The Group illustrates that while some wounds never fully heal, each of us has the potential to construct a new and meaningful future. Rosenstein and Yopp, co-leaders of the support group, weave together the fathers' stories with contemporary research on grief and adaptation. The Group traces a compelling journey of healing and personal discovery that no book has ever captured before. The men's touching efforts to care for their families, grieve for their wives, and reimagine their futures will inspire anyone who has suffered a major loss.




Diary of a Single Dad: a Collection of Thoughts and Stories


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Picture if you will, let me set the stage - December 25, 2011, after watching our girls eagerly open Christmas gifts, their mom whispered that I needed to take her to the hospital. Backing down our long driveway, waving to our girls, Victoria, grasping my hand tightly, "I'm scared." Me too, honey.What was first thought to be a bad case of pneumonia, turned out be much, much worse.Three days later, legs weakened, sitting down on the cold hard floor next to the hospital elevator doors, his back firmly braced against the wall, upon learning his wife of 20 years is dying and knowing there is simply nothing he can do. Numbed by the reality before him, panicked, he searched for words and courage to tell his 3-year-old (Jo Jo) and 6-year-old (Keana) that their mom would not be coming home. How will he raise their girls alone?Cancer takes no prisoners (stage IV lung cancer).This is not a sad story. It is funny, sometimes hilarious, insightful, depicting daily life events that everyone can relate to, and hopefully inspirational to the collective human experience, what we call life.The main sources of my inspiration, three gifts from Victoria:Victoria Austin Lee (the one who stole my heart)Keana Austin Lee (the one who recovered my heart)Jordan Jade Lee ("Jo Jo") (the one destined to stop my heart)




Single Dad


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The image of the single dad is often distorted by out-of-date notions of masculinity the strong and resilient father, the working father, the emotionally distant dad. In this book, esteemed portrait photographer, Harry Borden, himself a separated father with four children, reveals the vulnerabilities, tenderness and love of 48 single fathers.




But Dad!


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You’re a smart guy. You read The Perfect Storm and now you find yourself living it. Your daughter, who yesterday was happy to hang out with you at Home Depot, now cries for no known reason. Last week you were her soccer coach and ‘the best dad there ever was, really,’ and today on the way home from practice she turned away and stared sadly out the window and wouldn’t say a word to you. She’s hovering around adolescence and all of a sudden you’re flopping on the daddy-deck in a panic. What the heck is about to happen and how are you going to get through this? How can you help her get through these difficult years when honestly, you don’t totally understand it yourself? If you’re a single dad, it can get all the more complicated. You might not know who or where to go to for the real deal, the inside scoop. When did her body start to change? Where the heck do you buy a training bra, and when? Do you have to take her or can you pay someone else to do it? What about dating? Or the girl clique thing you’ve heard about. Can’t you just ignore it and raise her just like you would a son, just like you were raised? This book is for any man raising a tween or teen daughter, but particularly the single man who does or doesn’t have full-time custody. This is the definitive guide to helping dad and daughter get past ‘survive’ and onto ‘thrive.’ Written for any man raising daughters, the authors geared this book for the single dad who may not have a woman in his life with whom to confer about issues their daughters may be facing like sex, friendships, boyfriends, alcohol and drugs, and personal hygiene. This book covers it all, from what to keep stocked in the bathroom to how to talk about sex without being blown off. The authors help dads gain a better sense of what their daughters are going through, how their bodies are changing, how their relationships are changing, and how best to handle the ups and downs of these challenging years.




Pregnant by the Single Dad Doc


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Working with her ex… …leads to unexpected consequences! Turning her life around after a crushing loss, medical student Ellie Jones is shocked to discover her new mentor is Dr. Logan Riley—who broke her heart years earlier! Single dad Logan’s hands are full raising his autistic daughter, but Ellie finds herself more drawn to him than ever. And when the family losses they’ve both experienced bring them closer, reigniting their old flame, it leads to an unplanned surprise… “Another awesome read from our dear author, absolutely could not put this book down. In fact, for the first time in a while I managed to start and finish this beautiful story on the same day.” — Goodreads on Their Unexpected Babies “Absolutely adore this book very much, it has everything you can want to prove that love is most definitely the best possible medicine you can have. Louisa definitely does not disappoint.” — Goodreads on Saving the Single Dad Doc




For Adam's Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England


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Winner of the New England Historical Association’s James P. Hanlan Book Award Winner the Association for the Study of Connecticut History’s Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Award “Incomparably vivid . . . as enthralling a portrait of family life [in colonial New England] as we are likely to have.”—Wall Street Journal In the tradition of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s classic, A Midwife’s Tale, comes this groundbreaking narrative by one of America’s most promising colonial historians. Joshua Hempstead was a well-respected farmer and tradesman in New London, Connecticut. As his remarkable diary—kept from 1711 until 1758—reveals, he was also a slave owner who owned Adam Jackson for over thirty years. In this engrossing narrative of family life and the slave experience in the colonial North, Allegra di Bonaventura describes the complexity of this master/slave relationship and traces the intertwining stories of two families until the eve of the Revolution. Slavery is often left out of our collective memory of New England’s history, but it was hugely impactful on the central unit of colonial life: the family. In every corner, the lines between slavery and freedom were blurred as families across the social spectrum fought to survive. In this enlightening study, a new portrait of an era emerges.




Middy Brown Journal Iv


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Middy Brown Journal IV finds our spunky gal continuing to attract complicated adventures that transpire simply because she is such a dear and compassionate meddlerbut in a really good and sincere way. Long divorced from old George Brown, a domineering chauvinist, she has risen above his constant degradation and verbal abuse; but the damage does remain. We find her finally enjoying a beautiful and romantic marriage with her former cop and private investigator boss, Calvin Cleere, the dreamiest PI on the planet. Time is marching on, and when she unexpectedly inherits Mosscreeka beautiful, large, and gracious mountain estateshe and Cal agree that she should fulfill her dream and utilize a portion of this large estate as a guest house and event center. Her now-husband, Cal, closed his Denver office and was tapped by the Department of Homeland Security for a highly classified and often-covert position. The department moves in for this highly prized contractor, installing an impenetrable workspace with top-of-the-line surveillance equipment and a bulletproof coded entry door, all in an upstairs corner of Mosscreek. Middy has her own security clearance, so she does have access to the code and Cal if she knocks fist. From this austere location, he is somewhat able to monitor his deeply adored, classy but often error prone problem-magnet wife. Middy has become an astute businesswoman, but she simply cannot avoid involving Cal in her well-intended and often-disastrous activities. When she worked for him as his not-so-perfect assistant in his PI practice, on many occasions he had to extract her from the ER, when her very best intentions went astray and she didnt quite dodge the bullet. Now, in a new and happy marriage and enjoying her position as proprietress of the lovely Mosscreek Manor, very little has changed; Cal just cant seem to keep her away from her inclination to innocently make disastrous and sometimes hysterically funny decisions.