Growing Pains of a Hapless Househusband

Growing Pains of a Hapless Househusband
Author: Sam Holden
Publisher: Arrow
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Sam Holden's hilarious exploits as a hapless househusband continue as this story chronicles the next year in the life of the Holden family. Sam has largely reconciled himself with the trials and tribulations of being a stay-at-home dad, but that hardly means settling down to sweet and simple family life.

Diary of a Hapless Househusband

Diary of a Hapless Househusband
Author: Sam Holden
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2011-02-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1446456404

When father-of-two Sam loses his job, he reluctantly agrees to stay at home while his wife returns to work. Secretly thinking this whole parenthood thing a breeze of leisurely jaunts to the park, reading the paper while the children play quietly and occasionally attending a civilised play date or two, Sam quickly realises just what exactly it means to be a stay-at-home parent. Inevitably, domestic mayhem ensues. Just trying to get dressed in the morning and out of the house without going to A&E is a feat, as is managing the children's complicated play-date schedule while fending off the unwelcome advances of Jodhpur Mum at the playground. And Sam's foolproof 72-step Childcare Programme doesn't seem remotely up to the task. Desperate to get his life back on track, Sam seizes upon a variety of mad schemes, but just as things look like they're beginning to fall into place, he makes a very surprising discovery ...

Absent

Absent
Author: Sherri Vanderveen
Publisher: Penguin Books Canada
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2009
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A man runs away after burning down his house, and returns to his damaged family twenty-eight years later.

Good Eggs

Good Eggs
Author: Rebecca Hardiman
Publisher: Atria Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982164298

“A joyous, exuberantly fun-filled novel of second chances. An absolute delight from start to finish!” —Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author “Bracing, hilarious, warm, this novel is as wayward and mad as the human heart.” —Judy Blundell, New York Times bestselling author A hilarious and heartfelt debut novel following three generations of a boisterous family whose simmering tensions boil over when a home aide enters the picture, becoming the calamitous force that will either undo or remake this family—perfect for fans of Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Evvie Drake Starts Over. When Kevin Gogarty’s irrepressible eighty-three-year-old mother, Millie, is caught shoplifting yet again, he has no choice but to hire a caretaker to keep an eye on her. Kevin, recently unemployed, is already at his wits’ end tending to a full house while his wife travels to exotic locales for work, leaving him solo with his sulky, misbehaved teenaged daughter, Aideen, whose troubles escalate when she befriends the campus rebel at her new boarding school. Into the Gogarty fray steps Sylvia, Millie’s upbeat home aide, who appears at first to be their saving grace—until she catapults the Gogarty clan into their greatest crisis yet. With charm, humor, and pathos to spare, Good Eggs is a delightful study in self-determination; the notion that it’s never too late to start living; and the unique redemption that family, despite its maddening flaws, can offer.

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Author: Louise Rennison
Publisher: HarperTeen
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2000-05-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Rennison presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of Georgia Nicholson, a teenage British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.

500 Years of New Words

500 Years of New Words
Author: Bill Sherk
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2004-09
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1550025252

If you ever use words and find yourself wondering where they came from, who wrote them first, and why they became necessary, then you will savour 500 Years of New Words, a new volume that takes you on an exciting journey through the English language from the days before Shakespeare to the first decade of the twenty-first century. The entries are arranged not alphabetically but in chronological order based on the earliest known year that each word was printed or written down.