Parenting & Relationships–See price on Kindle Amazon Gifts From My Father: Positive Lessons on Business and Life from a Journey Through Dementia Dan Adkins Discover the power of turning grief into “Gifts” with unconditional love, resilience, and the bond between a father and child in Gifts Fr...
In this book, a father-and-daughter team gives the reader a set of practical and proven strategies that anyone can use to turn our negative “frogs” into positive “princes”. Tracyand Stein have set up a step-by-step plan to address the root causes ofnegative attitudes,and help people...
It follows a mother and daughter in past and present and their struggles: Kitty in the time around WW2 and Eleanor, her daughter. There is an unnerving feeling to this novel and a sense of it building to something but you don’t know what or why. I can’t wait to find out where ...
When her father finds out, he wants a divorce. Miaomiao tries to accept that she is the daughter of a fairy, and gradually comes to appreciate her mother’s fairy qualities, such as her ability to fly. However, divorce is far harder for her to accept. She makes several attempts to ...
inherited from her late father, and negotiating the shoals of jealous colleagues and romantic entanglements.The Honest Look, Jennifer Rohn's second novel, is much better than her first (Experimental Heart, 2008): the characters are more rounded, the themes deeper and the bittersweet aftertaste mo...
Charles Marlow, an English teacher and a lover of the written word, is the divorced father of an adult autistic son. His daughter has just left for college, and Charles is desperately lonely. I don’t want to say too much about his book, because it’s full of surprises. ...
Another memoir, this time about the Pulitzer award winning author and her coming of age in the panhandle of west Texas, defying her military sergeant father and protesting the Vietnam war. It was a good book that introduced me to Caldwell, I found it on the train. This Side of Brightness...
dead end for her. Her father is a mathematics professor and and her mother is a stay-at-home mom, who isn’t comfortable socializing. Readers will learn learn a lot about Annie’s culture. I enjoyed the role Annie plays in inspiring her mother to pursue her own dream of becoming a ...
To some extent, as an outsider to many cultures, I appreciate this level of storytelling— but on a reread, I found that what moved and interested me most was actually the interplay of relationships between generations, between father and son, child and parent (and indeed it is on this asp...
Yet, not even this gift from her beloved father can smooth the way until Robin’s daughter, Amber, arrives to meet her grandmother for the first time. Amber is determined that the decades-old mystery be solved. Can a 30-year-old treasure hunt really ‘change everything’?