Have you ever wondered if you're on the right path? For decades, veteran music and entertainment executive Lanny West thought he was living the rock 'n' roll life of his dreams ... until one day, when he woke up to the nightmare it had become. In Father, Son and the Unholy Road: The Dark, Twisted Truth of My Journey from Cocaine to Christ, West takes readers on a harrowing journey to the edge of self destruction and back, tracing a 60-year path through the seedy underbelly of radio, concert promotion, nightclub management and more. Shocking violence, shady characters and music stitch a unique life story together, before an unexpected collision with true love creates a change of heart, and born-again redemption grows from the fallout. Plus, the discovery that family is more than it seems.
Father Voids or Him roids offers a poignant, insightful, and honest look at what it's like to grow up without a father and, more importantly, how that absence affects them on an emotional and spiritual level. It invites readers to reflect on their experiences and recognize their insecurities, bitterness, and resentment for what they are, so they can embark on a healing journey and break free from the long-held pain they've endured all their lives. Follow Author James F. Lucas Jr's path to self-healing and discover how he filled the void left behind by a father's absence and a stepfathers emotional under presents
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A poignant memoir of love, trauma, and recovery after a life-changing stroke, twinned to a powerful account of his father's experience in World War II, by a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. "A beautiful, compelling memoir...Raban's final work is a gorgeous achievement." --Ian McEwan, New York Times best-selling author of Lessons In June 2011, just days before his sixty-ninth birthday, Jonathan Raban was sitting down to dinner with his daughter when he found he couldn't move his knife to his plate. Later that night, at the hospital, doctors confirmed what all had suspected: that he had suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke, paralyzing the right side of his body. Once he became stable, Raban embarked on an extended stay at a rehabilitation center, where he became acquainted with, and struggled to accept, the limitations of his new body--learning again how to walk and climb stairs, attempting to bathe and dress himself, and rethinking how to write and even read. Woven into these pages is an account of a second battle, one that his own father faced in the trenches during World War II. With intimate letters that his parents exchanged at the time, Raban places the budding love of two young people within the tumultuous landscape of the war's various fronts, from the munition-strewn beaches of Dunkirk to blood-soaked streets of Anzio. Moving between narratives, his and theirs, Raban artfully explores the human capacity to adapt to trauma, as well as the warmth, strength, and humor that persist despite it. The result is Father and Son, a powerful story of mourning, but also one of resilience.
A duke's daughter, despised and outcast by all. A crown prince, feared by even the emperor. Juvelian is a villainess so universally hated that when she is accused of jealously poisoning the princess of the Ashet Empire, her own father leaves her to die a traitor's death. Faced with the threat of interrogation by the infamously tyrannical Crown Prince Maximillian, she takes her own life. And that's how the story ends--at least, that's how it was supposed to end. Now, a reborn Juvelian has joined the cast, and she is determined to rewrite the finale. But even if she manages to change the ending, she will still need to contend with her father's feral prot g --a young man who sees Juvelian as an obstacle to his dangerous ambitions. This volume collects episodes 1-14 of the webcomic Father, I Don't Want This Marriage.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. This manhwa adaptation of Hong Heesu's webnovel is now available in English print for the first time. Juvelian, infamous daughter of the legendary Duke Floyen, must rebuild her reputation if she is going to survive the events that led to the end of her previous life. Amid scandalous rumors of a secret lover, she makes careful plans for the debut of her reformed self at an aristocratic birthday party. But finding a suitable escort for the event proves more difficult than Juvelian expected. When she discovers that her father is making plans of his own--ones that see her married off to the tyrannical crown prince--Juvelian is determined to thwart them. The only problem: She'll need to convince Max, her father's unpredictable prot g , to join the scheme. This volume collects episodes 15-31 of the webcomic Father, I Don't Want This Marriage.
Is Lady Juvelian at greater risk of dying at the hands of her father's political enemies . . . or of falling in love? This manhwa adaptation of Hong Heesu's webnovel is now available in English print for the first time. Desperate to appear unavailable for marriage to the tyrannical Crown Prince Maximilian--the villain of her previous life--Juvelian has proposed a contract relationship with her father's rebellious prot g . At first glance, he's the perfect choice, but a veil of misunderstandings hides a dark truth that could challenge Juvelian's attempts to change her future. Meanwhile, political schemes and old grudges are moving in the shadows of the imperial court, and Juvelian's father, Duke Floyen, stands at the heart of them. As the crown prince seeks to solidify his power, the emperor tightens his hold over the duke. This volume collects episodes 32-48 of the webcomic Father, I Don't Want This Marriage.
Their relationship is fake, but the heated rivalry between Juvelian's new "boyfriend" and her ex is all too real. This manhwa adaptation of Hong Heesu's webnovel is now available in English print for the first time. With the ink drying on the contract for their fake relationship, Lady Juvelian and Max take their first awkward steps into high society as a couple. While tea parties and balls might be enough for Juvelian to start feeling comfortable with this new arrangement, they do little to assuage her father's disapproval. Under the best of circumstances, he would never allow his student to date his daughter, but as soon as he discovers that Max has real feelings for Juvelian, he makes plans to tear them apart. Those plans may have to wait, however, for the deranged emperor has schemes of his own, and in order to protect Juvelian, her father and Max might find themselves on the same side. What no one expects, of course, is for Juvelian to take matters of her fate entirely into her own hands... This volume collects episodes 49-64 of the webcomic Father, I Don't Want This Marriage.
What if there was a grave oversight in the Bible for centuries, even thousands of years: An over sight so important to it's understanding that we have had the wrong interpretation of it since? If you saw in your own Bible a hidden clue as to the exact generation the apocalypse was to happen, would you believe it? And if you found another thing never seen in the Bible by the world till now, which gives fact of "many gods" in the universe only "one" to us, and more importantly, a new God to us... named Father Lord God Almighty Jesus... would you believe your eyes? If you saw in your Bible that your God said he creates evil, and for a test to man would you believe it?
You're a man who listened to your teenage son tell you how he's what you've never been able to admit about yourself: queer. When you punished him with silence, he ran away finally--to the distant city. You followed--desperate to find him. Only what you found instead was another boy--who saw through you right off, and proceeded to act upon it.Now you can't seem to forget what that boy did. Can't seem to get him out of your head. Or your runaway son, either. Every waking hour, they both haunt you. Till you finally take off for the city again--determined to have the one, if you can't get back the other.In "Father Found--the latest installment of a cycle that already includes "An Omen in the Bone and "Son in Homing Flight--Mr. Frary explores the troubled soul of a man fueled by guilt: over a son he might have lost forever and over his desire for a difficult young stranger who just might hold the key to a way--out.
