Author: Janette Oke Publisher: Bethany House ISBN: 1441202951 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 237
Book Description
Book 3 of Love Comes Softly. Clark and Marty's daughter, ready to start her own life, must rely on faith in the face of homesickness and mounting hardships.
Author: Matt Mikalatos Publisher: NavPress ISBN: 1641582987 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 193
Book Description
The Journey to Love is our first step toward learning to accept love from others and to love those around us. Finding love in our everyday lives and relationships can be difficult. In this collection of 40 short, story-driven readings, Matt Mikalatos helps us open ourselves to love in the world around us and to set aside control and embrace the wild, untamed vulnerability of loving and being loved. This is an easy book to read over 40 days—or finish in a couple of hours. Each entry includes questions and exercises to help with reflection, transformation, or discussion with friends or a book club. The goal is to find ourselves more loving and able to receive more love. Are you ready to join the Journey to Love?
Author: Rohinton Mistry Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 057124856X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 421
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Such a Long Journey is set in (what was then) Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in which the conflict impinges on the lives of Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his family. It was the brilliant first novel by one of the most remarkable writers to have emerged from the Indian literary tradition in many years. It was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, and won the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Author: Margaret Robison Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1588369226 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 402
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First introduced to the world in her sons’ now-classic memoirs—Augusten Burroughs’s Running with Scissors and John Elder Robison’s Look Me in the Eye—Margaret Robison now tells her own haunting and lyrical story. A poet and teacher by profession, Robison describes her Southern Gothic childhood, her marriage to a handsome, brilliant man who became a split-personality alcoholic and abusive husband, the challenges she faced raising two children while having psychotic breakdowns of her own, and her struggle to regain her sanity. Robison grew up in southern Georgia, where the façade of 1950s propriety masked all sorts of demons, including alcoholism, misogyny, repressed homosexuality, and suicide. She met her husband, John Robison, in college, and together they moved up north, where John embarked upon a successful academic career and Margaret brought up the children and worked on her art and poetry. Yet her husband’s alcoholism and her collapse into psychosis, and the eventual disintegration of their marriage, took a tremendous toll on their family: Her older son, John Elder, moved out of the house when he was a teenager, and her younger son, Chris (who later renamed himself Augusten), never completed high school. When Margaret met Dr. Rodolph Turcotte, the therapist who was treating her husband, she felt understood for the first time and quickly fell under his idiosyncratic and, eventually, harmful influence. Robison writes movingly and honestly about her mental illness, her shortcomings as a parent, her difficult marriage, her traumatic relationship with Dr. Turcotte, and her two now-famous children, Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison, who have each written bestselling memoirs about their family. She also writes inspiringly about her hard-earned journey to sanity and clarity. An astonishing and enduring story, The Long Journey Home is a remarkable and ultimately uplifting account of a complicated, afflicted twentieth-century family.
Author: Helen Notzl Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1525508199 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 380
Book Description
A four-year-old girl survives a harrowing escape across the heavily armed border of Czechoslovakia with her mother and brother after the Communist takeover in 1948. The family leaves everything behind to flee to freedom in Canada. Years later, as a young woman living in Toronto, she finds herself drawn to the country of her birth and returns to Prague, along the way finding love, danger, heartbreak, and her family's legacy. Helen Notzl's poignant memoir takes readers on a voyage between two starkly different and conflicting worlds - from affluence and fulfillment in Canada to passion and revolution in Prague. Must she choose between the two? With intense drama, vivid narration, and brilliant detail, Long Journey Home tells the story of a woman's quest for those things that truly matter to all of us: love, family, identity and homeland.
Author: Maureen Kincaid Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1098083857 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 97
Book Description
Miracle: The Long Journey Home is a personal narrative of tragedy and loss and one survivor's forty-year journey from trauma and hatred to joy and love through the grace of God. As a seventeen-year-old, the author was the victim of gun violence resulting in the death of a friend and coworker when an armed assailant entered the McDonald's restaurant at which she worked in 1979. The story tells of the trauma experienced by all present that night and the long journey that the author would take over forty years, leading her back to the gunman who committed the crimes and back to our Heavenly Father. Parallel to the author's story is the gunman's background and experience from childhood through his spiritual conversion while incarcerated. The spiritual journey of both the author and the gunman allowed not only for her to forgive him, but to embrace him as her friend and spiritual mentor. This is not an ordinary story of forgiveness, but rather a story of how a deep love of God cleanses the soul of all hatred and anger, leaving only love. The author describes a faith journey that will inspire all, especially those who have been traumatized as survivors of tragedy. Moreover, it will inspire a belief in the power of God to manifest His goodness in the darkest of days of despair, bringing light to even a prison cell where redemption can be born and the unlikeliest of friendships becomes possible.
Author: Sandra Markle Publisher: Millbrook Press ™ ISBN: 1467742872 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 40
Book Description
Crackle! Crackle! Crunch! What's hatching from that egg? It's a young bar-tailed godwit. She will spend the summer in Alaska learning to fly, find her own food, and escape from scary predators. Her long, long journey begins in October when she flies to New Zealand. This 7,000-mile flight is the longest nonstop bird migration ever recorded. Follow along on her amazing voyage!
Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300214324 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 608
Book Description
The American classic—as you’ve never experienced it before. This multimedia edition, edited by William Davies King, offers an interactive guide to O’Neill’s masterpiece. -- Hear rare archival recordings of Eugene O’Neill reading key scenes. -- Discover O’Neill’s creative process through the tiny pencil notes in his original manuscripts and outlines. -- Watch actors wrestle with the play in exclusive rehearsal footage. -- Experience clips from a full production of the play. -- Tour Monte Cristo Cottage, the site of the events in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and Tao House, where the play was written. -- Delve into O’Neill’s world through photographs, letters, and diary entries. And much, much more in this multimedia eBook.
Author: Kathy Highley Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1524539570 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 327
Book Description
Thirty years into a very long sentence, Butch Cavanaugh sat stewing in his prison cell. Numerous requests for parole had been denied. Nonetheless, Butch had thrived behind prison walls. Hed developed a set of muscles that had nothing to do with his physique. A power he had never experienced in the outside world made him a successful bully on the insidemuscles that had afforded him favors and a measure of respect, muscles that gave him confidence. But the years had begun to take their toll, and he had no desire to remain a prisoner for the rest of his life. Pushing seventy, he did not want to die in a cell with his throat cut. Someone more clever and more persuasive waited to challenge his headship at the end of every decade.
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