Looking for ideas for the perfect Father’s Day gift? Check out these great Father’s Day reads from Ingenium Books. Here is a look at some of the books we’ve published (and their authors) that touch on an aspect of fatherhood or would be a great gift for a father or father figure. We hope you will check out one or more of these reads and give or refer them to a special person in your life.
A Father’s Day Gift for Thoughtful Dads
Recycled
A Reluctant Search for True Self Through Nurture, Nature, and Free Will by Jack F. Rocco, MD
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Jack Rocco’s memoir about adoption and identity makes a great Father’s Day gift — and its book birthday is on Father’s Day!
Jack was a baby when he was adopted by a blue-collar, Italian American family. Today a successful orthopedic surgeon, Jack’s identity was built around his Italian heritage and while he knew the story of his “Gotday,” he didn’t know the story of his birth day. His was a closed adoption, and he only knew that his birth parents were a young couple—an Italian father and a German Irish mother—who couldn’t afford a child.
Recycled takes you along on Jack’s journey of discovering his true but hidden identity. On a first date, Jack learns she was also adopted. As she describes finding and meeting her birth mother, Jack discovers that his belief about closed adoptions—that there’s no way to obtain details—and the birth story he’s been told may not be accurate. He becomes obsessed, devouring books about adoption and adoption trauma. He tries to follow long and twisted tentacles of nurture, nature, and free will—which parts of him were due to genetics? The nurturing environment of his adoptive home? And which parts did he actually have control over?
As some of the puzzle pieces of his life click into place, others remain disconnected and swirling out of reach. And then, he makes a discovery that shatters his very self-identity.
It was Jack’s grandfather who coined the term “recycled children.” Recycled is for those directly involved in adoption—adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents—and also for anybody wanting insight into the impact that early maternal and cultural separation has on a child. It is also for those coming to terms with mixed-race identity.
It’s one of the most thrilling, shocking, yet hopeful books about hidden identity and adoption that you’ll read this year and may help you during your own identity inquiry.
The Perfect Father’s Day Gift for Military History Buffs
Flying With Dad
A Daughter. A Father. And the Hidden Gifts in His Stories from WWII by Yvonne Caputo
Written with vivid detail, this encouraging, life-giving book is a tale of a World War II Veteran father and his daughter, who found the relationship with him she’d always longed for.
For fathers interested in WWII history or the impact of serving in the war, Flying With Dad is a wonderful Father’s Day read and a perfect gift.
Do you have a family member who served in the military, who perhaps saw war, and wondered what their experience was really like? Do you suspect there are past traumas that might be affecting their ability to open up? Do you wish you could feel closer and more connected to your mom, dad, or other family members? If yes, Flying with Dad will pull you into a real-life story that shows you how.
At age ten, author Yvonne Caputo vied for her dad’s attention. At twenty, they fought about race. At sixty, she struggled to talk with him about what mattered.
In Flying With Dad, Caputo charts her journey to her father through the re-telling of why he went from repairing planes to being a B-24 navigator in WWII, how heavy German flak led to post-war nightmares, and why he suffered years of guilt after one particular bombing run over Unterschlauersbach, Germany.
Over the years, Yvonne would ask her father questions about this past. She’d listen, pay attention, and found that he was paying attention to her as well. As she learned to meet him where he was, instead of where she wanted him to be, the result was an intimacy, a deep abiding respect, and a no-regrets final goodbye.
Flying with Dad is a heart-wrenching and heart-warming story of a daughter striving to understand her father and him opening up about the experiences that shapes so many soldiers and can get in the way of the rich relationships they and their children deserve.
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Father’s Day Gift for the Adventurer
Leaving the Safe Harbor
The Risks and Rewards of Raising a Family on a Boat by Tanya Hackney
If you’re looking for the perfect Father’s Day gift for the adventurer, the sailor, the man who dreams of a different kind of life, Leaving the Safe Harbor is it.
In this captivating memoir, Tanya Hackney invites you aboard s/v Take Two, where she and her family navigate the waters of life, homeschooling five children while embracing the challenges and rewards of living aboard a sailboat. From the exhilarating highs of island-hopping in the Caribbean to the humbling lessons learned during stormy nights at sea, every page brims with the raw beauty and unpredictable nature of the ocean.
As Hackney fearlessly steers her family through a decade of voyaging, readers are invited to witness the evolution of not just a family, but of individuals transformed by the sea’s relentless embrace. Through tales of teamwork, discipline, and unwavering perseverance, Leaving the Safe Harbor reminds us that the greatest adventures often lie just beyond the horizon.
Prepare to be inspired, entertained, and forever changed by this captivating tale of courage, resilience, and the unbreakable bonds forged at sea. Embark on your own journey of self-discovery with Leaving the Safe Harbor: The Risks and Rewards of Raising a Family on a Boat today.
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Dad Who Love a Good Thriller Will Love This Father’s Day Read
The 49th Protocol
A novel by Todd Gray
Need a Father’s Day gift for the guy who loves thrillers and detective novels? Experience the thrilling world of RCMP undercover agent Stewart MacGregor, known as Mac, as he delves into a seemingly routine assignment on the prestigious RCMP Musical Ride. Little does he know that this mission will catapult him into a high-stakes race, fraught with danger and international intrigue.
When an archivist uncovers a hidden part of a top-secret document within Sir Samuel Steele’s journal, the stage is set for a desperate quest to find the missing piece. The combination of these fragments could alter the destinies of two countries and shape the very fabric of our world.
As Mac peels back the layers of corruption within the RCMP, he unknowingly becomes entangled in this race for hidden knowledge. What starts as an investigation into harassment, bullying, and assault quickly spirals into a dangerous game, where the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Learn more about Todd Gray and The 49th Protocol
This Father’s Day Gift is for the Socially-Conscious
The Weaver’s Way
What An Ancient Art Can Teach You About Your Approach To Shaping Change by Corrina Grace
Fires, floods, the rising cost of living, and increasing inequality. We need a new approach to social change.
When you’re in search for just the right Father’s Day gift for the man who is socially-conscious, or thoughtful about leadership and its role in climate-impacted communities, Corrina Grace’s spectacular examination of our approach to shaping change is for you.
In The Weaver’s Way, Corrina Grace argues that the sense of safety and security that those of us in the West carry is a dangerous illusion. And the only way forward toward a more certain future is to throw off that illusion, rethink our understanding of how change happens, and find new tools for social change in the world around us.
But not just any approach will work. Whether it’s in the aftermath of a natural disaster or in the daily lives of those living in marginalized communities around the world, it’s become clear that the business-as-usual approach to change—change that makes a real difference—isn’t sustainable. Based on Corrina’s first-hand experience, social impact strategy is most successful when ordinary people are empowered to come together and weave their communities back together.
Drawing from those experiences, The Weaver’s Way provides a blueprint for shaping change that harnesses our deep inner instinct for connection and caring. Inspired by the intergenerational legacy of Guatemalan women weavers, The Weaver’s Way calls for all of us to come together, pick up the threads, and become Weavers.
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Find the Perfect Father’s Day Gift?
We hope you agree that these Father’s Day reads — the stories they tell and the messages they send — would be a great gift for your father or a father figure in your life. On this Father’s Day, and every day, help us celebrate fathers everywhere. Buy, read, and write a review for one (or all!) of these great books. And share them with the special fathers in your life.
Oh, and Happy Father’s Day!
