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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"In 1989, as US news outlets declared an end to Operation Just Cause, Craig Morgan was part of an elite group of military operatives jumping into the jungle along the Panamanian border on a covert operation. Fans know the country music star from his hit songs and acclaimed albums, but there's a lot more to him--a soldier who worked with the CIA in Panama, an undercover agent who fought sex traffickers in Thailand, and a dedicated family man who lives...
2) Hey, kiddo
Author
Language
English
Description
In kindergarten, the author's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But his family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of his life. His father is a mystery - he doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. The author lives with his grandparents - two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children...
Author
Language
English
Description
"An unsparing, loving account of fatherhood and the surprising, magical, and maddening first five years of a son's life "I was not prepared to be a father-this much I knew." Keith Gessen was nearing forty and hadn't given much thought to the idea of being a father. He assumed he would have kids, but couldn't imagine what it would be like to be a parent, or what kind of parent he would be. Then, one Tuesday night in early June, the distant idea of...
4) Fatherhood
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In this memoir, Matt shares bittersweet and often humorous anecdotes of his courtship and marriage to Liz; of relying on his newborn daughter for the support that she unknowingly provided; and of the extraordinary online community of strangers who have become his friends. In honoring Liz's legacy, heartache has become solace.
Publisher
I Am Second Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The sound Brian 'Head' Welch helped pioneer with KoRn in the early '90s made him a global rock star. By the time he walked out on a $23M record deal in 2005, with a devastating crystal meth habit, all he wanted was to become a good father. This details the harrowing journey of Brian and his daughter growing up together with chaotic courage and unconventional faith. It grapples with teenage depression, the quest for identity, and the hope of a father...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
At some point in nearly every marriage, a wife finds herself asking, What the... is wrong with my husband?! In the author's case, this turns out to be an apt question. Five years after he married Kristen, the love of his life, they learn that he has Asperger syndrome. The diagnosis explains his ever-growing list of quirks and compulsions, his lifelong propensity to quack and otherwise melt down in social exchanges, and his clinical-strength inflexibility....
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