Fatherhood category: 792 books
Father's Day
A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
“Every father of a special needs child should read” this memoir by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Friday Night Lights (Temple Grandin).
Buzz Bissinger’s twins were born just three minutes apart, yet life couldn’t have dealt them more different hands. Now grown, Gerry...
Wisdom for Dad
Advice for Dad In 140 Characters or Less
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Gone are the days of long, handwritten letters from father to son. Now, the most we can expect is a text, tweet, or Facebook update. By accessing the social web and the power of the dad crowd, Wisdom for Dad cuts through the clutter to deliver brief, witty pieces of wisdom—in 140 characters or less.
Raising Fences
A Black Man's Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2015
This New York Times–bestselling memoir about an African American man’s struggles and triumphs is “heartrending and beautiful” (Junot Diaz Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao).
A Today Show Book Club selection, Raising Fences tells the story of a man...
Father to Daughter, Revised Edition
Life Lessons on Raising a Girl
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
To Guide and Inspire.
Share her wonder. Dance with her always. Teach her to be courageous, fearless, confident in any situation. Anchored in values and filled with clear and simple words of wisdom, this small book speaks large truths about raising a daughter. About respect and trust. About...
The Inventors
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
In the Fall of 1970, at the start of eighth grade, Peter Selgin fell in love with the young teacher who’d arrived from Oxford wearing Frye boots, with long blond hair, and a passion for his students that was as intense as it was rebellious. The son of an emotionally remote inventor, Peter was also...
by Jennifer N. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
More and more parents are dealing with children that are out of control, children that are angry and parents do not know how to handle. What studies have found is that this anger that these children are experiencing can be caused from the type of parenting technique that is being used.
Most...
by Patrick Deeley
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Patrick Deeley's train journey home to rural East Galway in autumn 1978 was a pilgrimage of grief: his giant of a father had been felled, the hurley-making workshop silenced.
From this moment, Patrick unfolds his childhood as a series of evocative moments, from the intricate workings of the...
by Alexandra Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived
Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: “Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up...
Raising Men
Lessons Navy SEALs Learned from Their Training and Taught to Their Sons
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
After Eric Davis spent over 16 years in the military, including a decade in the SEAL Teams, his family was more than used to his absence on deployments and secret missions that could obscure his whereabouts for months at a time.
Without a father figure in his own life since the age of fifteen,...
by Geoffrey Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman -- a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of undistinguished schools, was passed up for military service, and supported himself with desperately...
The Power of the Prophetic Blessing
An Astonishing Revelation for a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
The Power of the Prophetic Blessing offers a seldom-heard message of encouragement and blessing for today and for generations to come.
The Everything Father's First Year Book
A survival guide for the first 12 months of being a dad
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2010
Change a diaper? Soothe a crying baby? Function on just a few hours of sleep? Anything moms can do, dads can do--with a little help!
Becoming a father is a colossal event in a man's life. For nine months, he thought about, worried about, and dreamed about his new child, and finally his little...
Dad's Expecting Too
Expectant fathers, expectant mothers, new dads and new moms share advice, tips and stories about all the surprises, questions and joys ahead...
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
If you're an expectant father, there's a surprise around every corner...
Dad's Expecting Too! is a witty and wise guide to everything you and your partner need to know about having a baby--from the moment you discover she's pregnant to the first night home with your newborn.
Packed with...
Crouching Father, Hidden Toddler
A Zen Guide for New Dads
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Crouching Father, Hidden Toddler contains the treasured wisdom that will help new dads master the Buddha-like patience required to be on the receiving end of projectile pureed spinach, sleep-deprived moms, and toys with Some Assembly Required. Experienced dad and aspiring guru C.W. Nevius expounds...