Daddy Protector
Daddy Protector

Author: Jacqueline Diamond

Publisher: K. Loren Wilson

Published: 2022-08-11

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1936505886

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He’s a wild and crazy guy—but dead serious about saving a child’s life. Detective Hale Crandall’s party lifestyle annoys Connie, his beautiful, prickly next-door neighbor, until he races into a burning building to rescue the little boy she’s trying to adopt. She’s grateful but cautious, he’s struggling against a newfound yearning for love and daddyhood... and then someone threatens her safety. Is the stalker her ex-husband, a fellow police office who’s Hale’s buddy? Or someone neither of them suspects? Hale’s instinct to protect Connie and her new son draws them together. But can these opposites find a happily-ever-after? Saving lives, finding family... that’s what the Cops & Kids Romance™ trilogy by USA Today bestselling author Jacqueline Diamond is about. “A great story.”— Heather Burke, RavenEntertainment. Other series titles are The Doctor’s Little Secret and Twin Surprise.

Father, The Family Protector
Father, The Family Protector

Author: James B. Stenson

Publisher: Scepter Publishers

Published: 2017-03-31

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1594171262

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In Father, The Family Protector, Educator James Stenson explores how fathers exercise their powerful and particularly masculine contribution to family life. His research comes from more than twenty years of working with families from two highly successful independent secondary schools for boys that he helped establish, The Heights School in Washington D.C., and Northridge Preparatory School in Chicago. As headmaster, he made it his business to know hundreds of families intimately studying their family lives, watching their children grow into maturity, very often successfully, but sometimes not. Through countless conversations with fathers and mothers, he tried to account for the differences, looking for patterns of family life among those parents who triumphed with their children. What did these successful men and women have in common? What did they manage to do right? Most important: what could other parents learn from their experience? This wisdom of fatherhood is what this book is all about. It explains the main obstacles in today's society that undercut a father's teaching role, and tells men what they could do to overcome them. Then within this framework, James Stenson spells out how successful fathers deal with their children in the more crucial areas: family rules, discipline, schooling, sports, recreation, the media, and ongoing teamwork with one's wife. In short, this book provides the guidance that will help any father to carry out a serious responsibility - that of protector of his family. Listen to author James Stenson speak about "Successful Fathers".

Protective Daddy
Protective Daddy

Author: Liam Kingsley

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-12

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 9781674578620

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He can't see past his own scars ...After he was left for dead in a wildfire, Ian can't help his monstrous appearance. No one could love him with his beastly features, not even his own family. Add in the fact that he's an omega raising a daughter on his own and he's destined to remain single for good. But when Steve looks at him, there's a different kind of heat in his eyes, one Ian wants to reach for, if he can guarantee he won't get burned again.He's not strong enough for a mate of his own ...Detective Steve Daniels may be an alpha, but he's not nearly as strong as the other members of his pack. He'll never be alpha enough to claim a mate of his own. But Ian's scent drives him crazy, and spending time holed up with the man and his daughter makes Steve wonder if he might be just the mate Ian needs to heal and grow.The wolves can't make it work as long as Ian stubbornly refuses to perceive his own worth. Steve sees the man, not the scars, and he'll do anything to prove that his mate is worthy of love. He'll have to find inner strength of his own to claim his omega and protect their growing family, and this time Steve will be worthy enough to love everything he holds dear.

Videogames and the Gothic
Videogames and the Gothic

Author: Ewan Kirkland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1000453103

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This book explores the many ways Gothic literature and media have informed videogame design. Through a series of detailed case studies, Videogames and the Gothic illustrates the extent to which particular tropes of Gothic culture –neo-medieval aesthetics, secret-filled labyrinthine spaces, the sense of a dark past impacting upon the present – have been appropriated by and transformed within digital games. Moving beyond the study of the generic influences of horror on digital gaming, Ewan Kirkland focuses in on the Gothic, a less visceral mode tending towards the unsettling, the uncertain and the uncanny. He explores the extent to which imagery, storylines and narrative preoccupations taken from Gothic fiction facilitate the affordances and limitations of the videogame medium. A core contention of this book is that videogames have developed as an inherently Gothic form of popular entertainment. Arguing for close proximity between Gothic culture and the videogame medium itself, this book will be a key contribution to both Gothic and digital game scholarship; as such, it will have resonance with scholars and students in both areas, as well as those interested in Gothic novels, media and popular culture, digital games and interactive fiction.

Beyond the Sea
Beyond the Sea

Author: Felan Parker

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2018-11-09

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0773555552

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The Bioshock series looms large in the industry and culture of video games for its ambitious incorporation of high-minded philosophical questions and retro-futuristic aesthetics into the ultraviolent first-person shooter genre. Beyond the Sea marks ten years since the release of the original game with an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Bioshock, Bioshock 2, and Bioshock Infinite. Simultaneously lauded as landmarks in the artistic growth of the medium and criticized for their compromised vision and politics, the Bioshock games have been the subject of significant scholarly and critical discussion. Moving past well-trodden debates, Beyond the Sea broadens the conversation by putting video games in dialogue with a diverse range of other disciplines and cultural forms, from parenting psychology to post-humanism, from Thomas Pynchon to German expressionist cinema. Offering bold new perspectives on a canonical series, Beyond the Sea is a timely contribution to our understanding of the aesthetics, the industry, and the culture of video games. Contributors include Daniel Ante-Contreras (Miracosta), Luke Arnott (Western Ontario), Betsy Brey (Waterloo), Patrick Brown (Iowa), Michael Fuchs (Graz), Jamie Henthorn (Catawba), Brendan Keogh (Queensland), Cameron Kunzelman (Georgia), Cody Mejeur (Michigan State), Matthew Thomas Payne (Notre Dame), Gareth Schott (Waikato), Karen Schrier (Marist), Sarah Stang (York/Ryerson), Sarah Thorne (Carleton), John Vanderhoef (California State, Dominguez Hills), Matthew Wysocki (Flagler), Jordan R. Youngblood (Eastern Connecticut State), and Sarah Zaidan (Emerson).

The Seasons of My Life
The Seasons of My Life

Author: Jacquelyn Shepard

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2003-02-16

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 059526459X

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This lively autobiography begins with the gene pool of parents, grandparents and great grandparents. The author's eventful life proceeds from her birth in 1926, through the Great Depression, evacuation from China as a child and later, witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. After World War II, Jacquelyn, her husband and two small children lived on a primitive homestead in Canada for one year. Five children later and forty years old, she was widowed and followed her lifelong dream to see Alaska. Jacquelyn moved to the last frontier in the frozen north and found a husband. Widowed again, she returned to California, earned a Bachelor's Degree and pursued training as a chaplain. Married a third time, she has made her home in Tuolumne County, California. In entertaining and humorous narration, the author has provided personal vignettes from her interesting siblings and children.

Stepdads Showing Up! & Showing Out!
Stepdads Showing Up! & Showing Out!

Author: SEDERICK C. RICE PH.D

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2020-09-04

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1663206953

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StepDads, Showing Up & Showing Out is a humorous and interesting view of Dr. Rice’s growth, development, perspectives, and experiences as a STEPFATHER (STEPDAD). Rice’s first person perspective presents learning curves and experiences that hopefully provides support, wisdom, and encouragement to those MEN, (and the WOMEN who love and adore them), who have taken on the Difficult, Stressful, Mind-Blowing, Frustrating, Awesome, Honorable, Humbling, Rewarding, Enriching, and Blessed opportunity to be a STEPFATHER (STEPDAD). Rice describes how he had to grow in Spirituality, Patience, Self-Reflection, Understanding, Mental Health Awareness, Love Languages, Wisdom, and Financial Creativity. Rice’s goal is to Encourage, Equip, Strengthen, and Empower those MEN (and the WOMEN who love and adore them), to fully embrace the Challenges, Responsibilities, Honor, and Blessings associated with being a STEPFATHER (STEPDAD). The Ultimate Challenge, as a STEPFATHER (STEPDAD), is to Always Show Up! & Show Out! God is Watching!

Nightclub's Ultimate Guard
Nightclub's Ultimate Guard

Author: Wo BenWangShao

Publisher: Funstory

Published: 2020-06-15

Total Pages: 918

ISBN-13: 1649552793

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My girlfriend of two years actually ran away with someone else! He wanted to be a security guard in a bar, but the first time, he was cheated for 2 million! You even said you were going to kill me? Alright! If you don't kill me, one day, I, Ye Feng, will definitely kill you! Never would I have thought that from then on, I would sink deeper and deeper into the abyss!

The Animated Dad
The Animated Dad

Author: Lorin Shahinian

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2024-01-11

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1476651620

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The Homer Simpson-esque stereotype has been a persistent trope in cartoons since programming aimed directly at children and adolescents began. Young viewers are exposed to the incapable and incompetent "hapless father" archetype on a regular basis, causing both boys and girls to expect the bare minimum of fathers while mothers hold the responsibility for all domestic and parenting work. Cartoons rely heavily on toxic stereotypes for ratings, when in fact, healthy representations of fathers are just as successful in maintaining viewership. Eleven essays, written by scholars from around the world, investigate the topic of fatherhood as it is represented in children's animated television shows. Main themes that emerge include absent and negligent fathers, single fathers, generational shifts within families, and raising the standard of fathering by creating secure bonds between father and child. The authors uncover problematic fathers, imperfect yet redemptive fathers, and fathers who embody idealized parenting traits through some of our most beloved animated dads. This collection demonstrates the impact that media representations of father figures have on young viewers and argues for better role models.