Fatherhood category: 792 books
Dads of Disability
Stories for, by, and about fathers of children who experience disability (and the women who love them!)
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Dads of Disability is a collection of 41 essays and poems rich in context and imagery that illustrate a father's perception of and reaction to being a father of a child that experiences disability. From before and through birth, to diagnosis, to the workplace, to serious medical or behavioral issues,...
One Day You'll Thank Me
Lessons from an Unexpected Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
There is a sorry lack of smart, relatable books for fathers on the marketplace, particularly ones that avoid tired stereotypes or outdated family roles. McGlynn's memoir is a welcome, heart-warming and unsentimental side of fatherhood—one that goes all too often unheard and uncelebrated, even in...
Once Upon a Farm
Lessons on Growing Love, Life, and Hope on a New Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
National Bestseller
Sometimes it’s not only what we plant but where we’re planted.
Now raising their four-year-old daughter, Indiana, alone, after Joey’s passing, Rory Feek digs deeper into the soil of his life and the unusual choices he and his wife, Joey, made together and the...
Someone Could Get Hurt
A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir about fatherhood and the ups and downs of raising a family in modern America
No one writes about family quite like Drew Magary. The GQ correspondent and Deadspin columnist’s stories about trying to raise a family have attracted millions of readers online....
by Ed McGlasson
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Former NFL lineman and pastor Ed Tandy McGlasson challenges dads to excel in fatherhood and equips them to do so. He demonstrates how we can set up goal lines in the lives of children, marking when they enter into adulthood. He contends it is a must -- and a father's job does not end there. In a powerful...
The Council of Dads
My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
The Council of Dads is a profoundly moving and illuminating new work from Bruce Feiler, author of the monumental New York Times bestsellers Walking the Bible, Abraham, and Where God Was Born. The acclaimed writer’s most intimate book, The Council of Dads is Feiler’s personal story of illness and...
Man vs. Child
One Dad's Guide to the Weirdness of Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Moms have hundreds of parenting advice books willing to tackle the more cringe-inducing questions of parenthood. But what about books for the other half of the equation: the dads? *Man vs. Child *is a funny, fresh take on the parenting guide, written from the dad’s perspective.
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Dad Magazine
America's #1 Magazine for "Pop" Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Packed with dad jokes and parenting humor, this parody "magazine" is the perfect gift for Fathers Day or cool dads anytime.
This hilarious dad-centric satire is the first "magazine" written exclusively by dads, for dads! Complete with hard-hitting feature reporting (“What’s...
by Dan Chiasson
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
These are powerfully original poems about the sweetness and pain of adulthood and fatherhood by the critically acclaimed poet Dan Chiasson.
A child’s improvised game of “Where’s the moon, There’s the moon” is the shaping metaphor for this collection, but adult matters of seeking and...
Dad's Playbook
Wisdom for Fathers from the Greatest Coaches of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
This book for dad collects more than 100 inspiring quotes from the greatest coaches of all time. After all, dads do what the best coaches do: they motivate, mentor, discipline, and love. Author and parenting expert Tom Limbert takes wisdom from John Madden, Vince Lombardi, Tommy Lasorda, Phil Jackson,...
Daddy Needs a Drink
An Irreverent Look at Parenting from a Dad Who Truly Loves His Kids-- Even When They're Driving Him Nuts
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
In the tradition of Dave Barry, an irreverent look at fatherhood from a dad who truly loves his kids—even when they’re driving him nuts.
“Robert Wilder’s hilarious and boldly candid essays about the realities of parenting go down like gin and tonic on a hot summer afternoon.”—People
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Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?
Confessions of a Gay Dad
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
In 2005, Dan Bucatinsky and his partner, Don Roos, found themselves in an L.A. delivery room, decked out in disposable scrubs from shower cap to booties, to welcome their adopted baby girl—launching their frantic yet memorable adventures into fatherhood. Two and a half years later, the same birth...
Dads Under Construction
Adventures in Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Many men today feel set adrift from the notion of themselves as "father." Times have changed, and the old, familiar, traditional models of parenting no longer work. Society has not yet evolved a strong and workable new model of parenting, or, in particular, of fathering.
Dr. Neil...
Fathers & Sons & Sports
Great Writing by Buzz Bissinger, John Ed Bradley, Bill Geist, Donald Hall, Mark Kriegel, Norman Maclean, and others
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Powerful stories about the way sports can bring together fathers and sons, to work out their differences and express their love for each other.
Fathers & Sons & Sportspresents apowerful lineup of real-world stories about fathers and sons playing one-on-one in the game of life, written...