Heart-wrenching father-son story that looks at an ugly divorce from the father's perspective.Opposite of the typical deadbeat dad story where the father disappears on page 3. This book deals with the conflict between a man's ambition and his desire to be a good parent.Gillenkirk is an advocate of co-parenting and will be talking on the topic in various venues in the US.The book is rich in baseball details. Gillenkirk did his research i ...
This book is a step-by-step guide to helping families cope after being impacted by the heartache and pain caused by divorce. No matter what kind of divorce we may endure, we must remember to preserve the sense of family for our children and their children. This attitude of preservation will allow the healing that provides the essential peace for our children and ourselves. Vindictive cruelty riddles some divorces. This only serves to crush the s ...
The author, at age 82, is one of few living survivors of the Holocaust era and whose memoir relates many eye-witness, first-person accounts of Nazi-era atrocities. This memoir reveals shared experiences among many European immigrants seeking resettlement in America during the 1930s and 40s. The author is a retired distinguished award-winning Communication professor from the University of Minnesota. For Jews, especially those living in the midwes ...
• Museum of Stones links a mother’s past and present in a dizzying narrative as she raises an unusual son. • The unnamed narrator carries the name of every mother who has stared into the face of her newborn, having no idea of what is about to unfold. • Everything in the narrator’s life is refracted against this singular event, often giving way to memories at a dizzying speed. The interconnections of time, place and emotion flood her thoughts ...
