Everyone has a story to tell about their baby's daddy. These four friends, Lisa, Felicia, Angie, and Michelle, will tell their tales and discover that their sudden downfalls are somehow connected to the murder of the father of one of their children. As Lisa and Felicia embark on an investigative journey, they uncover deadly lies and secrets. After the two unearth that the quartet is tied to a drug lord who has placed a hit out on them, they find out that Jennifer, Felicia's neighbor, put her life on the line during her horrific escapade. Felicia embraces Jennifer for her heroic efforts and shelters her, but something goes wrong when their individual tales take an awful plunge. As action, mystery, suspense, infidelities, and murder attack this neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, everyone has one person to blame. Just as you think the story is over, someone has to continue the saga of the drug lord.

An amusing, touching and heart-warming look at the special relationship between father and child from the bestselling Giles Andreae, perfectly portrayed by Emma Dodd's charming and vibrant artwork. The follow-up to the award-winning I Love My Mummy.

"James, I want to marry you," "You have nothing to say?" "I can't. Not yet." "Isn't it too early?" "We've been together for almost three years now," Later, she discovered why he would not marry her when she looked into his phone... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Betty Johnsons’ life was what people considered to be normal - wonderful job at the bank, peaceful apartment in suburbia, and a good-looking partner who’s a well-renounce businessman - what more can she ask when all of her dreams are in the palm of her hands. All’s well until one incident changed her life - the life she had, shattered after finding out that the three-year relationship she had were all lies, she found out that she was just a mistress to a man who already had a perfect life.

There’s nothing more magical than interacting with a child, especially when you know you’re encouraging them to say their first true words. Starting as early as birth, you can begin to talk, play, and read with your child and become actively involved in the initial stages of communication. Talk, Play, And Read With Me Daddy will not only guide you, but provide you and your child with many stimulating activities and games that are developmentally appropriate and designed to help enhance your child’s speech and language skills. There are many interactive activities for infants (e.g., Making Sounds, Tubby Time, Playful Reading), toddlers (e.g., Sorting Fun, Picnic Time, My Fun Box), and preschoolers (e.g., Listen Up, Story Telling, Searching for Shapes). These fun-filled learning games can be played when you and your child have a few extra minutes during daily routines, playtime, or story time. You can also use this book when you are on the move, so make sure you carry it wherever you go.

A little boy's father seems so large to him that he needs a ladder to cuddle him and birds nest in his father's hair.

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of the impact of fathers on child development from prenatal years to age five. It examines the effects of the father-child relationship on the child’s neurobiological development; hormonal, emotional and behavioral regulatory systems; and on the systemic embodiment of experiences into the child’s mental models of self, others, and self-other relationships. The volume reflects two perspectives guiding research with fathers: Identifying positive and negative factors that influence early childhood development, specifying child outcomes, and emphasizing cultural diversity in father involvement; and examining multifaceted, specific approaches to guide father research. Key topics addressed include: Direct assessment of father parenting (rather than through maternal reports). The effects of father presence (in contrast to father absence). The full diversity of father involvement. Father’s impact on gender role differentiation. Father’s role in triadic interactions of family dynamics. Father involvement in psychotherapeutic family interventions. This handbook draws from converging perspectives about the role of fathers in very early child development, summarizes what is known, and, within each chapter, draws attention to the critical questions that need to be answered in coming decades. The Handbook of Fathers and Child Development is a must-have resource for researchers, graduate students, and clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in infancy and early child development, social work, public health, developmental and clinical child psychology, pediatrics, family studies, neuroscience, juvenile justice, child and adolescent psychiatry, school and educational psychology, anthropology, sociology, and all interrelated disciplines.

I thought I was an expert at resisting temptation, but she proved me wrong. What we did goes against every vow I made, but I don’t regret it for a second. When she left, she taught me the true meaning of devastation. Over the years, I’ve become an expert in dealing with grief, loss, and longing, helping others find the redemption I so desperately crave. When she appeared in my life again, it was like an angel sent to heal me. But she’s been keeping a secret that will change everything. Is the connection between us really heaven sent, or will the world get the better of us? How can I face seeing her again after it’s taken me so long to get over her? Of course, even I knew the truth. I was never over her.