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Dad (Book)
Steven Manchester
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R613
Discovery Miles 6 130
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Three generations of dads, playing traditional roles in each
other's lives, arrive simultaneously at significant crossroads. The
decisions they make and the actions they take will directly - and
eternally - affect each other. After a life of hard work and
raising children, Robert is enjoying his well-deserved retirement
when he discovers that he has an illness he might not be able to
beat. At 19, Jonah is sprinting across the threshold of adulthood
when he learns, stunningly, that he's going to become a father. And
Oliver - Robert's son and Jonah's dad - has entered middle age and
is paying its demanding price. While reconciling the time and
effort it has taken him to reach an unfulfilling career and an even
less satisfying marriage, he realizes that it's imperative that he
keep it all together for the two men who mean everything to him.
When different perspectives lead to misunderstandings that remain
unspoken - sometimes for years - it takes great strength and even
more love to travel beyond the resentment. Dad: A Novel chronicles
the sacred legacy of fatherhood.
Although they are relative latecomers on the evolutionary scene,
having emerged only 135-170 million years ago, angiosperms or
flowering plants are the most diverse and species-rich group of
seed-producing land plants, comprising more than 13,000 genera and
over 300,000 species. Not only are they a model group for studying
the patterns and processes of evolutionary diversification, outside
the laboratory they also play major roles in our economy, diet, and
our courtship rituals, producing our fruits, legumes, and grains,
not to mention the flowers in our Valentine's bouquets. They are
also crucial ecologically, dominating most terrestrial and some
aquatic landscapes. This fully revised edition of Phylogeny and
Evolution of the Angiosperms provides an up-to-date, comprehensive
overview of the evolution of and relationships among these vital
plants, as well as of our attempts to reconstruct these
relationships. Incorporating molecular phylogenetics with
morphological, chemical, developmental, and paleobotanical data, as
well as a more detailed account of early angiosperm fossils and
important fossil information for each evolutionary branch of the
angiosperms, the new edition integrates fossil evidence into a
robust phylogenetic framework. Also including a wealth of new color
images, this highly synthetic work further reevaluates long-held
evolutionary hypotheses related to flowering plants and will be an
essential reference for botanists, plant systematists, and
evolutionary biologists alike.
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Dad (Paperback)
Steven Manchester
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R544
Discovery Miles 5 440
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Three generations of dads, playing traditional roles in each
other's lives, arrive simultaneously at significant crossroads. The
decisions they make and the actions they take will directly - and
eternally - affect each other. After a life of hard work and
raising children, Robert is enjoying his well-deserved retirement
when he discovers that he has an illness he might not be able to
beat. At 19, Jonah is sprinting across the threshold of adulthood
when he learns, stunningly, that he's going to become a father. And
Oliver - Robert's son and Jonah's dad - has entered middle age and
is paying its demanding price. While reconciling the time and
effort it has taken him to reach an unfulfilling career and an even
less satisfying marriage, he realizes that it's imperative that he
keep it all together for the two men who mean everything to him.
When different perspectives lead to misunderstandings that remain
unspoken - sometimes for years - it takes great strength and even
more love to travel beyond the resentment. Dad: A Novel chronicles
the sacred legacy of fatherhood.
Rick and Abby grew up together, became best friends, and ultimately
fell in love. Circumstance tore them apart in their early teens,
though, and they went on to lives less idyllic than they dreamed
about in those early days. Rick has had a very successful career,
but his marriage flat-lined. Abby has a magical daughter, Paige,
but Paige's father nearly destroyed Abby's spirit.Now fate has
thrown Rick and Abby together again. In their early thirties, they
are more world-weary than they were as kids. But their relationship
still shimmers, and they're hungry to make up for lost time.
However, Paige, now nine, is not nearly as enthusiastic. She's very
protective of the life she's made with her mother and not open to
the duo becoming a trio. Meanwhile, Rick has very little experience
dealing with kids and doesn't know how to handle Paige. This leaves
Abby caught between the two people who matter the most to her. What
happens when the life you've dreamed of remains just inches from
your grasp?PRESSED PENNIES is a nuanced, intensely romantic, deeply
heartfelt story of love it its many incarnations, relationships in
their many guises, and family in its many meanings. It is the most
accomplished and moving novel yet from a truly great storyteller of
the heart.Finalist: 2014 USA Best Book Award
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