Dear Dad

Author: Louie Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781311597311
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
The New York Times bestseller--now with new material. Louie Anderson has appeared many times on "The Tonight Show", and his comedy specials on HBO and Showtime have won him wide acclaim. In this series of emotionally charged letters to his alcoholic father, Anderson reveals the sense of shame and insecurity that fuels his comic routines.

Dear Dad

Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 0733643159
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 143

Book Description
If you could tell your dad anything, what would it be? Steve Waugh, Trent Dalton, Samuel Johnson, Kathy Lette, John Williamson, Susie Youssef, Michala Banas, Glenn Shorrock, Matilda Brown, Joel Creasey, Shannon Noll, Michelle Law, Ben Gillies, Hilde Hinton, Normie Rowe, Mark Brandi, Brian Mannix, Julie Koh, Sara Storer, Russell Morris, Catherine Deveny, Sophie Green, Brooke Davis, Toni Tapp Coutts, Clare Wright, Danny Green, John Paul Young, Kurt Fearnley and many more ... A heartfelt, honest and very human book of letters that will make you smile and make you cry. It is the perfect gift for the dad in your life. And a reminder to say how you feel before it is too late.

Dear Dad

Author: Bradley Trevor Greive
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449414087
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
Getting to the heart of the role fathers play in our lives, this volume blends poignant pictures and special thoughts to communicate appreciation and love for all Dad's efforts over the years.

Dear Dad

Author: Ky-Mani Marley
Publisher: Farrah Gray Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780972709996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Marley surname perpetuates Jamaican royalty, resonates from worldwide recognition and represents the pioneer of a cultural, political and social revolution. In the near-thirty years since the death of the world's greatest reggae-music icon, music lovers, truth seekers, and a new generation of social-activists alike have flocked to the musical catalog of Bob Marley like new believers on a pilgrimage for soul inspiration. Though Marley's iconic life was cut short before his time, his legacy lives on as vibrantly as it did when he walked among us. This is not only true because of his timeless music, but because of the musical genius of the extraordinary children he left behind. Born in Falmouth, Jamaica in 1976 as the tenth son of legendary reggae icon Bob Marley, Ky-Mani Marley discovered his musical talents late in life, rising to become an international music artist and film actor. Ky-Mani has not only written and performed songs of redemption around the world, like his famous father, but has lived and survived to recant his own personally redemptive story in the face of some very stark urban realities unbefitting any human, let alone a 'Marley.' Dear Dad, is an arresting narrative of a son locked out of his iconic father's shelter for the first half of his life and forced to survive the poverty-stricken, predator-infested streets of one of Miami's most violent ghettos, Liberty City. Initially estranged from his siblings and cut off from any financial benefit of the Marley Estate, young Ky-Mani's gritty ascent from a bullet-riddled life to the world stages he now commands as a Grammy-nominated recording artist are chronicled in this gripping biography. Today a dedicated father and family man traveling to all corners of the world, performing no less than 100 shows per year, Marley knew he¹d reached a plateau of transformation in his life when he was named 'Philanthropist of the Year' by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, Better World Awards. His life is truly a 'redemption song.'

Dear Father, Dear Son

Author: Larry Elder
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936488452
Category : African American families
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"A man's relationship with his father: every boy, every man lucky enough to have a father in his life has to figure that out. My own father? I thought I knew him- even though he seldom talked about himself. And what I knew I hated - really, really hated. Cold, ill-tempered, thin-skinned, my father always seemed on the brink of erupting. Scared to death of him, I kept telling myself to find the courage to 'stand up to him.' When I was fifteen, I did. We did not speak to each other for ten years. And then we did- for eight hours. 'Dear Father, Dear Son' takes a journey of American history through the eyes of a father- from his dirt-poor Jim Crow Southern childhood, to the segregated Marine Corps of World War II, to a janitor turned California business man. Hard memories. One man discovered a son he never really knew. And the son found a man, a friend, a father who had really been there all along."--p.[4] of dust jacket.

Dear Dad, It's Over

Author: M Dickson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936214679
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description
Comedian M Dickson's parents divorced when she was nearly seven years old and it took her a whole lot longer than her mother to realize that a relationship with her father was a bad idea. DEAR DAD, IT'S OVER. turns custody into candor one story at a time from the perspective too frequently forgotten, the child's. The often hilarious and always heart-tugging journey captured on these pages will resonate with anyone who has experienced divorce, an absent parent or step-family. Equal parts heartache and laughter, the essays and memories weave together the perfect picture of the roller coaster ride of growing up divided. About the Author M Dickson is a nationally touring stand-up comic. When she's not on the road she can be found at home in Toms River, New Jersey listening to country music and obsessing over all of Jim Henson's work.

Dear Mum

Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 0733645941
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
If you could tell your mum anything, what would it be? Samuel Johnson, Amanda Keller, Vika and Linda Bull, Guy Pearce, Elizabeth Tan, Rebecca Gibney, Peter Helliar, Clare Wright, Hilde Hinton, Gillian O'Shaughnessy, Adam Spencer, Brooke Davis, Lawrence Mooney, Patti Newton, Shane Jacobson, Julie Koh, Susie Youssef, Lehmo, Favel Parrett, Matilda Brown and many more ... A heartfelt, honest and very human book of letters that will make you smile and make you cry. It is the perfect gift for the mum in your life. And a reminder to tell her how you feel before it is too late.

Dear Dad

Author: John W. Fountain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981485805
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Dear Dad chronicles the impact of fathers or fatherlessness at a time when a national initiative and even President Barack Obama have sounded the clarion call for responsible fatherhood amid a continuing crisis of paternal absenteeism. This at a time when U.S. Census figures show that 4 out of 10 American children are being born to single mothers with the number of unwed births among African Americans rising to 7 out of 10."In some ways, this is a how-to manual: How to overcome; how to succeed; how to live on; how to be a better father; how to forgive our fathers; and, even, how to love, remember, and honor our fathers," Fountain said. "Dear Dad is for everyone who has a father, for everyone who has lost one, loved one, or longed for one, for everyone who happens to be one, and for everyone who longs to be a better one." Contributors to the anthology include: Chicago Sun-Times Editor-in-Chief Don Hayner; former New York Times and Wall Street Journal writer Nichole Christian; Chicago Tribune reporter Lolly Bowean; Stephanie Gadlin, press secretary to Congressman Bobby Rush; Bloomberg News journalist Mario Parker; veteran Washington Post writer Hamil Harris; Chicago native, journalist and documentarian Teresa Sewell; Sylvester Monroe, former senior editor of Ebony magazine; Vincent Allen, pastor and founder of Agape Fellowship Ministries in Virginia; former Chicago Tribune reporter and freelance writer Monica Fountain; Chicago musician R. Darryl Thomas; former Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Rosa Maria Santana; nationally known writer and editor Joseph Kirby; English professor and creative writer Anne Valente; and former Chicago Sun-Times architecture critic Lee Bey.

Tiny Beautiful Things

Author: Cheryl Strayed
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307949338
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu Original series • The internationally acclaimed author of Wild collects the best of The Rumpus's Dear Sugar advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. Rich with humor and insight—and absolute honesty—this "wise and compassionate" (New York Times Book Review) book is a balm for everything life throws our way. Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild—is the person thousands turn to for advice.

Dear Dad

Author: Bradley Trevor Greive
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740750240
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 102

Book Description
Masterful blend of poignant pictures and special thoughts that wil show Dad how much he means to his family.