"A heartbreaking, soul-baring novel about the repercussions of choice, from the award-winning author of The Welsh Girl and The Fortunes"-- A first pregnancy is interrupted by test results at once catastrophic and uncertain. A second pregnancy ends in a fraught birth, a beloved child, the purgatory of further tests-- and questions that reverberate down the years. A couple faces the complex consequences of one of the most personal yet public, intimate...

A heartwarming and enlightening collection of advice, wisdom, and practical skills featuring an all-star cast of fathers from the popular online community Life of Dad. Becoming a dad gives men a VIP pass into the greatest club on earth: fatherhood. Its rewards are unmatched, its challenges, uncharted. The experience can reach euphoric highs and gut-punching lows. For those moments (and everything in between), The Life of Dad has your back. The Life...

Presents loving moments between animal babies and their fathers.

"I'd gone to college. I'd written for the New York Times. I had a solid credit score. How did I end up here? After his breakout hit book I'm Sorry...Love, Your Husband, Clint Edwards has more laugh-out-loud tales, this time from the "terrible twos" and "threenager" phases each of his kids went through. His relatable toddler stories leave parents and caregivers cackling, and remind us all that no one is the perfect parent. In fact, sometimes the only...

The poems in Matthew Zapruder's fifth collection ask, how can one be a good father, partner, and citizen in the early twenty-first century?

Come home to Safe Haven, South Carolina, where the best Christmas surprises aren't the ones under the tree. Holly Gibson has one wish this Christmas season: to find her young niece's father. And she's traveled hundreds of miles to the small town of Safe Haven to make that wish come true. But the mysterious Cash O'Dwyer is nothing like she expected. Strong and kind, he makes her heart beat faster. And suddenly that little secret she's keeping about...

Richard is a successful college professor who gives up a steady stream of one-night-stands and beautiful undergrads for fatherhood with much younger Kate. Three years later when Kate falls in love with someone else and moves out, she sends her sister, Olivia, to make sure Richard is properly caring for their son. Assuming Richard is back to his irresponsible playboy lifestyle, Olivia is shocked when she starts to fall in love with him herself.

A masterful synthesis of how it came to be that today men are taking care of very young babies given that this is unprecedented in the history of mammals, apes, and humans" A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn't it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped...

Cuando aparece un beb̌ entre las s̀banas del Hotel du Barry, envuelto en ropa interior femenina y colgado de la cuerda de la ropa, el personal del hotel decide qued̀rselo. Daniel du Barry, duęo del hotel, todav̕a llora la p̌rdida de su amante en un accidente de tr̀fico y adopta a la nįa, le pone el nombre de su champ̀n favorito y busca consuelo en la paternidad. Cat du Barry crece con el carįo del personal y de los hǔspedes del hotel. Se...

"Mike Birbiglia never wanted to be a father. In fact, there are seven very specific reasons he never wanted a kid, including his aversion to sticky surfaces and his less-than-ideal genes: he's had Lyme Disease, a bladder tumor, diabetes, and dangerous sleepwalking, to name a few. Not to mention the fact that Mike generally doesn't think people (including himself) are really all that great. Then Mike's wife, poet Jen Hope Stein, becomes infected with...