A Father's Affair

A Father's Affair

Author: Karel van Loon

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2012-12-20

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1782110828

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What happens to the father of a 13-year-old son, when he discovers that he has been infertile all his life? That intriguing question is the starting point of A Father's Affair. On his quest to discover the biological father of his son, the protagonist, Armin Minderhout, takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, one in which he is forced to reconsider everything he has ever believed in. With the page-turning suspense of a 'whodunnit', A Father's Affair probes the eternal question of how well we know the ones we love. Touching, at times extremely funny and erotically playful, it is a story of universal appeal - a stylish, acutely insightful and utterly captivating read.


Father's Affair

Father's Affair

Author: SUKH

Publisher: SUKH

Published: 2024-10-18

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13:

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"Father's Affair" is a deeply personal and hauntingly real story of betrayal, family turmoil, and the devastating impact of infidelity. Written from the heart of someone who lived through it, this book explores the emotional scars left by a father’s affair, unearthing the hidden pain, anger, and sorrow it inflicted upon the family. Set against the backdrop of a tragic loss—when the author’s grandfather died under suspicious circumstances—this book weaves a powerful narrative of love, betrayal, and survival. It takes readers on a journey through the complexities of human relationships, the fragility of trust, and the struggle to hold a family together in the wake of unthinkable personal loss. As the family battles to heal, Father's Affair asks critical questions about loyalty, redemption, and whether a shattered family can ever truly be whole again. Heart-wrenching, raw, and utterly compelling, Father's Affair is a testament to the strength it takes to confront one’s past and the courage needed to tell the hardest truths.


Parents Who Cheat

Parents Who Cheat

Author: Ana Nogales

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 0757398340

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Nationally known psychologist Ana Ledwin Nogales addresses the affects of parental infidelity on childhood development—and on these children's relationships as adults Many books explore the affects of marital infidelity on a marriage, but Parents Who Cheat is the first book to examine not only how this behavior contributes to the breakdown of a family structure but how it directly affects the children in that family. With compassion and piercing insight, Dr. Ana Ledwin Nogales explains how adultery damages a child's understanding of love, marriage, and trust. As these children grow toward adulthood, their ability to have healthy relationships is compromised. Through stories of children struggling to understand their parents' adultery, as well as case histories of adult children coping with unresolved issues related to parental infidelity, Dr. Nogales shows how destructive habits are formed and points the way toward healing and the creation of healthier relationships with parents and partners.


High on Arrival

High on Arrival

Author: Mackenzie Phillips

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-08-04

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 073181536X

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Not long before her fiftieth birthday,Mackenzie Phillips walked into Los Angeles International Airport. She was on her way to a reunion for One Day at a Time, the hugely popular 70s sitcom on which she once starred as the lovable rebel Julie Cooper. Within minutes of entering the security checkpoint, Mackenzie was in handcuffs, arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin. Born into rock and roll royalty, flying in Learjets to the Virgin Islands at five, making pot brownies with her father's friends at eleven, Mackenzie grew up in an all-access kingdom of hippie freedom and heroin cool. It was a kingdom over which her father, the legendary John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, presided, often in absentia, as a spellbinding, visionary phantom. When Mackenzie was a teenager, Hollywood and the world took notice of the charming, talented, precocious child actor after her star-making turn in American Graffiti. As a young woman she joinedthe nonstop party in the hedonistic pleasure dome her father created for himself and his fellow revelers, and a rapt TV audience watched as Julie Cooper wasted away before their eyes. By the time Mackenzie discovered how deep and dark her father's trip was going, it was too late. And as an adult, she has paid dearly for a lifetime of excess, working tirelessly to reconcile a wonderful, terrible past in which she succumbed to the power of addiction and the pull of her magnetic father. As her astounding, outrageous, and often tender life story unfolds, the actor-musician-mother shares her lifelong battle with personal demons and near-fatal addictions. She overcomes seemingly impossible obstacles again and again and journeys toward redemption and peace. By exposing the shadows and secrets of the past to the light of day, the star who turned up High on Arrivalhas finally come back down to earth -- to stay.


The Affair

The Affair

Author: Alicia Clifford

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2012-03-13

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1429940891

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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." —Leo Tolstoy As a writer, Celia Bayley's insights into the ways of the human heart made her famous. And why not? She had married a handsome war hero and produced three successful children. Yet, as her family gathers for her funeral, the diaries and notebooks and letters she left behind paint a very different picture, one that shocks those who loved her and will force them to confront the difficult conflicts in their own lives. A life torn by secrets is revealed. The husband she adored had deceived her early in their marriage and broken her heart, though they persevered as a family. Then, years later while on a trip with friends, she meets a man for whom she feels a passion she never believed possible. In one brief moment, her whole life is turned inside out. Utterly compelling and beautifully written, The Affair makes vividly real the agonizing choice one woman must make. Powerful and moving, the novel is about marriage, families, and the definition of happiness.


A Family Affair

A Family Affair

Author: Denise Cory Blake

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2020-02-21

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 1728397480

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A Family affair, could just be a play on words. About an affair? About a family? In this case, about both. Which takes precedence? The family or the affair? In this, sometimes whimsical, humorous, poignant, heart- felt story, it can be said, to be all this, and more. Many diverse, vibrant, true to life plethora of characters, paragraphs of people, tread these corridors of words, which lead where? To Life, to love, to hope.... To dead-ends? Filling the pages with expectancy, desire, it tells the story primarily of a young man, Liam, and his love for Paula. She, however, is not all she would seem to be. There are many layers to her personality, and she has many men in her life. Not least being, Alistair McKendrick, Liam’s father. What did Liam or his father mean to her? You will have to read the book to find out. Who would she choose? Did she want or need to? Not just a love story, far more than that! For running throughout its pages, is entwined, another, which recounts that of an ageing adventurer, Hector Carruthers, a reluctant thrill seeker, told through his journals, left to his wife Geraldine. She, never interested in his exploits, left them to gather dust, until Liam’s arrival in her life, when they were resurrected, dusted down, and devoured with interest by him. Hector’s story is intermingled with that of the other. Yet another layer, of the story’s intricate web, to catch the imagination of the reader.


The Fatherhood Affair

The Fatherhood Affair

Author: Emma Darcy

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2012-07-16

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1459284623

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Damien Chandler wants a child! He thinks Natalie Hayes will make the ideal mother. Natalie Hayes wants a child! She just can't picture Damien Chandler in the role of father. Natalie has tried not to think of Damien as anything but a business acquaintance, and she succeeds…until the night they share a bed! Damien has never been able to resist a challenge—now he faces the biggest challenge of his life. He has to convince Natalie that perfect lovers can become perfect parents, too!


The Margot Affair

The Margot Affair

Author: Sanaë Lemoine

Publisher: Hogarth

Published: 2020-06-16

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1984854445

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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE The secret daughter of a French politician and a famous actress drops the startling revelation that will shatter her family in this beguiling debut novel of intrigue and betrayal. NAMED ONE OF SUMMER’S BEST BOOKS BY The Skimm • Marie Claire • LitHub • Subway Book Review • Paperback Paris Margot Louve is a secret: the child of a longstanding affair between an influential French politician with presidential ambitions and a prominent stage actress. This hidden family exists in stolen moments in a small Parisian apartment on the Left Bank. It is a house of cards that Margot—fueled by a longing to be seen and heard—decides to tumble. The summer of her seventeenth birthday, she meets the man who will set her plan in motion: a well-regarded journalist whose trust seems surprisingly easy to gain. But as Margot is drawn into an adult world she struggles to comprehend, she learns how one impulsive decision can threaten a family’s love with ruin, shattering the lives of those around her in ways she could never have imagined. Exposing the seams between private lives and public faces, The Margot Affair is a novel of deceit, desire, and transgression—and the exhilarating knife-edge upon which the danger of telling the truth outweighs the cost of keeping secrets.


Affair

Affair

Author: Amanda Quick

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 1998-02-02

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0553574078

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Charlotte Arkendale knew all there was to know about men. After all, she'd made a career out of steering marriage-minded women away from untrustworthy members of the opposite sex. Yet nothing could have prepared her for Baxter St. Ives--an arresting stranger too daring, too determined, too dangerous to be her new man-of-affairs. Still, perhaps he was the perfect person to help Charlotte investigate the recent murder of one of her clients. So she gave him a chance, never realizing that Baxter, a gifted scientist, would soon conduct a risky exploration into the alchemy of desire, with Charlotte as his subject. But even as he sets out to seduce Charlotte, a twisted killer lies in wait, ready to part the lovers...or see them joined together forever--in death.


The Wedding Gift

The Wedding Gift

Author: Marlen Suyapa Bodden

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2013-09-24

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1250026121

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In 1852, when prestigious Alabama plantation owner Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa's hand in marriage, she takes with her a gift: Sarah—her slave and her half-sister. Raised by an educated mother, Clarissa is not the proper Southern belle she appears to be, with ambitions of loving whom she chooses. Sarah equally hides behind the façade of being a docile house slave as she plots to escape. Both women bring these tumultuous secrets and desires with them to their new home, igniting events that spiral into a tale beyond what you ever imagined possible. Told through the alternating viewpoints of Sarah and Theodora Allen, Cornelius' wife, Marlen Suyapa Bodden's The Wedding Gift is an intimate portrait of slavery and the 19th Century South that will leave readers breathless.