Finding My Father

Finding My Father
Author: Deborah Tannen
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 110188584X

A #1 New York Times bestselling author traces her father’s life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to New York City in an intimate memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell. “An accomplished, clear-eyed, and affecting memoir about a man who is at once ordinary and extraordinary.”—Forward Long before she was the acclaimed author of a groundbreaking book about women and men, praised by Oliver Sacks for having “a novelist’s ear for the way people speak,” Deborah Tannen was a girl who adored her father. Though he was often absent during her childhood, she was profoundly influenced by his gift for writing and storytelling. As she grew up and he grew older, she spent countless hours recording conversations with her father for the account of his life she had promised him she’d write. But when he hands Tannen journals he kept in his youth, and she discovers letters he saved from a woman he might have married instead of her mother, she is forced to rethink her assumptions about her father’s life and her parents’ marriage. In this memoir, Tannen embarks on the poignant, yet perilous, quest to piece together the puzzle of her father’s life. Beginning with his astonishingly vivid memories of the Hasidic community in Warsaw, where he was born in 1908, she traces his journey: from arriving in New York City in 1920 to quitting high school at fourteen to support his mother and sister, through a vast array of jobs, including prison guard and gun-toting alcohol tax inspector, to eventually establishing the largest workers’ compensation law practice in New York and running for Congress. As Tannen comes to better understand her father’s—and her own—relationship to Judaism, she uncovers aspects of his life she would never have imagined. Finding My Father is a memoir of Eli Tannen’s life and the ways in which it reflects the near century that he lived. Even more than that, it’s an unflinching account of a daughter’s struggle to see her father clearly, to know him more deeply, and to find a more truthful story about her family and herself.

Finding My Father

Finding My Father
Author: Blair Linne
Publisher: The Good Book Company
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 178498647X

A personal story of learning to trust our heavenly Father when you feel your earthly father has let you down. Blair Linne’s personal story of growing up without a father at home reflects the experiences of millions. She weaves her personal story with thoughtful theological reflection, inviting readers to learn from God what "father" really means and to trust him, even if they feel their earthly father has let them down. This book will help readers to shift their eyes from what they do not have in their earthly fathers (who, whether present or absent, loving or the opposite, can never be perfect) to what they do have in their eternal Father, who will never disappoint, reject or abandon them. Readers will see that the gospel promises not just forgiveness but also a place in God's family, experienced in a local church, where they can enjoy the fullness of his fatherly joy, care, wisdom, provision, protection and security. Also includes a chapter by Blair’s husband, the Christian hip-hop artist Shai, on his own story of fatherlessness and faith.

Finding Father

Finding Father
Author: A. J. Jones
Publisher: XP Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2011
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1936101378

Finding My Father

Finding My Father
Author: Marian Poeppelmeyer
Publisher: Author Academy Elite
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2019-06-28
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781640856295

On Nov. 1, 1955, the bombing of US Air Lines Flight 629 outside Denver, Colorado, left 44 people instantly killed and a nation stunned. How does one family pick up their shattered lives and move on? Finding My Father delves into the ripple effect of tragedy and trauma in this family's life who lost a husband and father in this historical event.

Finding the Father

Finding the Father
Author: Herb Montgomery
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0828024693

That first lie Satan told in Eden--the one that said God was actually a selfish liar--has spawned a multitude of untruths about who God is and what His feelings toward us really are. The human perception of God has been askew ever since, and we've struggled to relate to this God we don't really (want to) know.Naturally, since our view of God is distorted, our attitudes and behavior are rebellious--perceptions change our thoughts, thoughts influence our feelings, and feelings determine attitudes and behavior. Herb Montgomery goes straight to the root of the problem and sweeps aside the misperceptions of God and His character that cause us to spurn the only one who truly loves us.Some of Christianity's long-held, though biblically unfounded, views are confronted--God's true attitude toward pain and suffering, where guilt comes from, and what His forgiveness accomplishes. And the question that plagues every human heart is irrevocably resolved: If God really loves us, why does He allow horrible things to happen?

Reading My Father

Reading My Father
Author: Alexandra Styron
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1416591818

"Reading My Father" is an intimate, moving, and beautifully written portrait of the novelist William Styron by his daughter, Alexandra.

Finding My Father's War

Finding My Father's War
Author: Walter J. Eldredge
Publisher: PageFree Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2004-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781589612020

Here, for the first time is the story of the 2nd Chemical Mortar Battalion, told in the pictures and memories of the veterans themselves with the son of a mortar company commander as their voice.

Finding My Father

Finding My Father
Author: A K (keith) Hartline
Publisher:
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2020-05-24
Genre:
ISBN:

FINDING MY FATHER is the story of Shannon Reynold's life, but also the story of many girls who, having been abandoned or physically and mentally abused by their fathers, spend their entire lives in search of affirmation through disastrous relationships with men, to escape from the pain and misplaced guilt through drug use. Shannon went down many wrong paths (and miraculously survived) until she found peace with the father her soul had always been seeking: God, her Heavenly Father!From a heavy crack addicted prostitute, sex slave and thief, to her redemption and triumph when she stood years later with her husband Pastor Scott Reynolds, from Galion Ohio, on a stage in Midland Texas in 2008 and received from then President George Bush, a Platinum Presidential Call to Service Award. Shannon Reynolds tells her story with raw honesty and candidness, holding nothing back. Inside the beginning of her book, you will find a Foreword by the worldwide famous NICKY CRUZ, who was the first Teen Challenge graduate/Dave Wilkerson's ministry and a blurb by Pastor Dave Williams from Lansing Michigan's Mt. Hope A/G church, both whom have books out themselves, in whom she and Scott has had the privilege of meeting and befriending after they married in 2002 during their 15 yrs of ministry. Enjoy!

Finding Chris, My Father

Finding Chris, My Father
Author: Vincent White
Publisher: Llr Publishing
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2011-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780615578859

A memoir of the author trying to find his biological father, while dealing with struggles in his daily life.