365 Reasons to be Proud to be a Dad
365 Reasons to be Proud to be a Dad

Author: Ian Allen

Publisher: Portico

Published: 2015-06-04

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1910232572

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Being a dad is a 365-day job. Let this nifty little book help you along the way, with a hilarious dad-related fact for every day of the year. Discover how 26 August is the anniversary of the car you probably learned to drive in, and stroke your smooth chin thoughtfully as you learn that 13 May is the day the electric shaver was invented. Find out when and where the first piece of flatpack furniture was invented (Ancient Greece, no less, and it was more of a temple than a wardrobe...), and, on 19 November, remember that there’s always a more incompetent parent than you as you recall the day a certain baby boy was dangled off a balcony. Packed with stories of dad derring-do, this book is the perfect buy for any dad you know, or someone who’s about to become one. Word count: 35,000

Will and Testament
Will and Testament

Author: Vigdis Hjorth

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 178873310X

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Longlisted for the National Book Award Four siblings, two summer houses, one terrible secret—the “prickly, persuasive” bestseller from one of Norway’s most celebrated novelists, perfect for readers of Rachel Cusk and Karl Ove Knausgaard (New Yorker) “ . . . Hypnotic. Hjorth works finely parsed and brilliant variations on her unrelenting theme of familial mistrust and misunderstanding.” —New York Times When a dispute over her parents’ will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island summer houses to her sisters, disinheriting the two eldest siblings from the most meaningful part of the estate. To outsiders, it is a quarrel about property and favoritism. But Bergljot, who has borne a horrible secret since childhood, understands the gesture as something very different—a final attempt to suppress the truth and a cruel insult to the grievously injured. Will and Testament is a lyrical meditation on trauma and memory, as well as a furious account of a woman’s struggle to survive and be believed. Vigdis Hjorth’s novel became a controversial literary sensation in Norway and has been translated into twenty languages.

The Jester's Bells
The Jester's Bells

Author: Carol E. Abraham

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2000-08

Total Pages: 734

ISBN-13: 059509791X

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Events jolting and stirring, historic and whimsical, come to life thick and fast in The Jester's Bells. Filled with irony, satire, and caricature, it is the story of Carol Enid Abraham, a Depression Baby, growing up in Brooklyn during the lean, war-torn 1940s and the A-bomb scare of the 1950s. It reflects the pendulous swing of morals and ethics, gender and racial advances, radical religious thinking, inspired silliness and profound creativity that shaped her life, leaving permanent yet invisible scars. Live in the atmosphere of this vibrant, hard-charging century as her family comes full circle from its origin in the shtetls of Europe to an American generation of assimilation.

Your Killer Emotions
Your Killer Emotions

Author: Ken Lindner

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1608323811

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Have you at one time or another let your feelings of hurt, anger, disappointment, rejection, rage, betrayal, insecurity, or hopelessness cloud your best judgment? Did you make disappointing, self-sabotaging life choices as a result? If the answer is “Yes, many times,” then this book is for you.Emotions can kill your ability to accomplish your plans, fulfill your dreams, and attain the life you so dearly desire.Think of Your Killer Emotions as your emotion-mastery kit, to be used in consistently making positive life choices; it will enable you to beneficially channel the supremely potent energy charges triggered by your potentially sabotaging emotions, impulses, and urges, thereby turning them into your allies. Ken Lindner, “The Life-Choice Coach,” has counseled thousands of individuals over the past thirty years to make great, life-enhancing decisions. In Your Killer Emotions, he will show you how to identify your Personal Emotional Triggers (PETS), and empower you to nullify the energy charges from potentially sabotaging emotions. You will be able to think and reason clearly—destructive-emotion-free—so that you make life choices that reflect your most highly-valued life goals.Your Killer Emotions will change the way you make your life choices—and your life —in the most positive ways!

Philomena Begley
Philomena Begley

Author: Philomena Begley

Publisher: The O'Brien Press Ltd

Published: 2017-11-06

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1847179878

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She recorded and performed with stars like Billie Jo Spears, Ray Lynam, Foster and Allen, Charley Pride, Big Tom and Brian Coll, shared festival line-ups with Tammy Wynette, Glen Campbell, Don Williams, Hank Locklin and many more and was awarded gold, silver and platinum discs. Yet, throughout her extraordinary career, she has never forgotten where she came from, and it is the love and inspiration of her husband, Tom, her close family and her worldwide fan base that have made her the warm and generous star we know and love. Here Philomena Begley takes us from her happy beginnings as a bread-man's daughter in Pomeroy through the devastating loss of her brother Patsy and the risks of touring Ireland at the height of the Troubles, right up to her fiftieth anniversary in show business in 2012 – her 'gold and silver days'.

Constructing Transnational and Transracial Identity
Constructing Transnational and Transracial Identity

Author: Sigalit Ben-Zion

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-11-26

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1137472820

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Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. This ethnography provides a unique perspective on how these transracial adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense of identity along the intersection of ethnicity, family, and national lines.

The Mentalization Guidebook
The Mentalization Guidebook

Author: Janne Oestergaard Hagelquist

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0429921438

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This book provides inspiration for using mentalization when working with vulnerable children, adolescents, and their families. It includes the basic models of mentalization and provides ways to support the neglected and traumatised to find a better understanding of themselves and their struggles.

Kicking On
Kicking On

Author: Dave Hannigan

Publisher: The O'Brien Press

Published: 2012-08-29

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1847173845

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'With three seconds remaining in the Super Bowl, it falls to the New York Giants' place-kicker Shaun Reedy. ... He's kicked it ... but no, it's gone left and wide......' Peter, Davey, and the rest of the Dromtarry Under-11 Gaelic football team are busy training for the start of a new season when a mysterious visitor arrives in town; Shaun Reedy, ex-American footballer, gets involved with the boys' team – far away from the glamour, the money and the pressure that turned him off his own sport– and falls in love with the GAA. When something happens in Dromtarry that changes all their lives, they discover that it's having the guts to take a shot at goal – whatever the outcome – is what matters ...

Frank Forst and Bertha Gulath of St. Louis, 1900
Frank Forst and Bertha Gulath of St. Louis, 1900

Author: William Louis Forst

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Ancestors and descendants of Frank Aloysius Joseph Forst (1884-1940), a son of Aloysius Forst and Catherine Boul. Family was living in North St. Louis, Mo. Frank married Bertha Teresa Gulath (1885-1966) in 1909. She was the daughter of Frank C. Gulath and Mary Theresa Schwarz. They were parents of eight children. Descendants live in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Maryland and elsewhere. The Forst-Boul ancestry comes from France and the Gulath-Schwarz families came from Germany.

The War Against Parents
The War Against Parents

Author: Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780395957974

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A white feminist and a black human rights activist join in a rare partnershipto address the burning social issue of our time: the abandonment of America'sparents.