27 men who transitioned from female-to-male illuminate their roles as male community members: Fathers, sons, brothers, husbands, boyfriends, friends, and mentors. Offering an incredible range of cultural, class, ethnic, spiritual, and generational backgrounds, their writing addresses topics including birthing and raising children, gay male sexuality, facing racism, and finding solace in religion.  Not since Max Wolf Valerio’s 'The Testosterone Files' and Jamison Green’s 'Becom...

Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book.Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking—he runs his own woodshop—Paddle Your ...

Even before Lady Diana Spencer married into the most revered family on earth, she had her suspicions that the kith and kin of Prince Charles were not all they seemed-to-be. No sooner had she become the Princess of Wales and moved into Kensington Palace than her fears were confirmed: the House of Windsor constituted a flawed dynasty. Diana’s Nightmare reveals the previously untold secrets Diana discovered about her royal relatives. This book exposes how intensely Charles and Camilla Parker ...

With piercing wit and perceptive analysis, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Kathleen Parker explores how men, maleness, and fatherhood have been under siege in American culture for decades. She argues that the feminist movement veered off course from its original aim of helping women achieve equality and ended up making enemies of men. The pendulum has swung from the reasonable middle to a place where men have been ridiculed in the public square and the importance of fatherhood has been dimin...

A life coach and educator shares his experience and wisdom to guide parents in nurturing their families with their own values.Children don't arrive with an instruction book. Raising children and providing for their physical as well as emotional needs is a difficult job for which we receive little training. It should not be surprising that parenting has become isolating, frustrating, and often robs both parent and child of the joy and satisfaction of this critical l...

By 2012 there had been many changes in the area and many new faces were seen mainly because of the new housing now available. Sadly there had been many deaths in the area among them Stan Jackson, Tot Clark, Denis Chisholm, Ian Chisholm, Jakey Bryan, Alan Seaton, George Quinn just to mention a few. But life has got to go on and it does; Coxhoe is now a little bustling village where it would seem everyone wants to live, all of the businesses it would seem are doing well and the front street is ...

My Parents From God: Overcoming Spiritual WarfareIn a child`s growing up moments, in times of trouble, in happiness, this books brings stability and triumph. It eradicates failure, hostility and confusion in the family. It teaches children of all ages and young adults how to bring God`s protection in their own personal circumstances as they grow up. It brings righteousness out of children and helps them to see the light and live happy, holy lives and attain success as they venture ...

Elizabyth A. Hiscox's Reassurance in Negative Space is a debut collection with the seasoned deftness of a master in its keen intelligence, wit, innovative diction, unflinching handling of loss and grief, and deep lyricism. Hiscox muses with revelatory insights on such wide-ranging topics as multifarious netsuke, nuclear fallout, artichokes “coming into new brilliance,” the DMV line, the Zen of “the sublime [that] can spring from small things.” By turns ecstatic and somber, profane and sacr...

Weaving multiple storylines with vivid description of characters, Haske’s debut novel brings new life and a unique voice to the fiction of rural America. North Dixie Highway is a story of family bonds, devolution, and elusive revenge.When Buck Metzger’s childhood is interrupted by the disappearance of his grandfather, several family members and close friends plot revenge on the suspected killer. From remote towns in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, to the Texas/Mexico border, t...

Wife, mother, writer and comedic improviser Marjorie Preston wrote down the interesting things her toddler daughter Emma said from the age of 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 to create the ebook "Emmaisms." Emma has coined the terms “rusty bananas,” “friendish” and “Strawbears,” among others. One night at bedtime, it's “Mommy go? No. Stay here, I love you so” and the next it's “Go to sleep mama, 'cuz you're singing too much.”  From the opinionated to the scatological to...

In Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s, suicide—not accident as previously assumed—was the leading cause of agricultural fatalities among farmers. Men were five times more likely to die by suicide than by accident. What was causing these men—but not women—to want to kill themselves? Ramírez-Ferrero suggests that the root causes lie not in purely economic or personal factors but rather in the processes of modernization. He shows how cultural and social changes have a dramatic effect on men's id...

How Do I Expect Him To Love Me When I Don't Love Myself explains two simple, but overlooked principles of life that gives guidance not only to couples, but to anyone who desires to make life an amazing experience. In this book, Larissa shares her personal struggles in marriage with low self-esteem and her vain search of love through marriage. This book will teach you the importance of self-discovery and help you understand why it is important to seek love inside of yourself.