A Life's Journey A Working Class Saga

A Life's Journey A Working Class Saga
Author: Barry Merchant
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1326062603

After spending his first twenty years with his supportive working class parents in a village largely run by middle-class professional values, Richard decides to move away. As a young boy growing up surrounded by farming people, including his father, two uncles and many other family members, his mother had always encouraged him not to end up as a farm worker. After a short spell working for a local furniture company, and running away with an underage girl to Scotland, he goes to sea for a while. Afterwards, slowly but surely, he begins to develop an enjoyable and productive career in forestry, working around the country, each time moving to a higher and better paid job. After nearly thirty years away from his place of birth, although he does visit his family and friends during that time, he decides to move back to where his parents were living, where he develops a new career and finds a new partner. But perhaps he had paid a high price for leaving his home village in the first place!

A Quest for Self Discovery

A Quest for Self Discovery
Author: Barry Merchant
Publisher: Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2016-05-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1861515928

ÿLes Tatter, born into a hard-working East End family and growing up during the First World War, finds the poverty, hardship and class prejudice around him almost too much to bear. He runs away from home, goes on the road with a pair of kind hearted tramps and finally ends up finding peace and salvation in a monastery. But his hopes turn to ashes again when he receives bad news from home. Who can he turn to when his world collapses around him? A novel of hardship and redemption set in the years after World War One.

The Warden and the Wolf King

The Warden and the Wolf King
Author: Andrew Peterson
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2024-05-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593601424

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER • Our intrepid heroes are caught in the middle of an epic showdown between good and evil in the fourth and final novel in the beloved Wingfeather Saga, with more than one million copies sold! NOW AN ANIMATED SERIES • Based on Andrew Peterson’s epic fantasy novels—starring Jody Benson, Henry Ian Cusick, and Kevin McNally. Executive Producer J. Chris Wall with Shining Isle Productions, and distributed by Angel Studios. All winter long, people in the Green Hollows have prepared for a final battle with Gnag the Nameless and the Fangs of Dang. Janner, Kalmar, and Leeli are ready and willing to fight alongside the Hollowsfolk. But when the Fangs make the first move and invade Ban Rona, the children are separated. Janner is alone and lost in the hills; Leeli is fighting the Fangs from the rooftops of the city; and Kalmar, who carries a terrible secret, is on a course for the Deeps of Throg. Monsters and Fangs and villains lie between the children and their only hope of victory in the epic conclusion of The Wingfeather Saga. Full of characters rich in heart, smarts, and courage, The Warden and the Wolf King is a tale children of all ages will cherish, families can read aloud, and readers' groups are sure to enjoy discussing for its many layers of meaning. Extra features include new interior illustrations from Joe Sutphin, funny footnotes, a map of the fantastical world, inventive appendices, and fanciful line art in the tradition of the original Frank L. Baum Wizard of Oz storybooks. Can’t get enough of Aerwiar? Collect the whole set! ON THE EDGE OF THE DARK SEA OF DARKNESS • NORTH! OR BE EATEN • THE MONSTER IN THE HOLLOWS • THE WARDEN AND THE WOLF KING • WINGFEATHER TALES • PEMBRICK’S CREATUREPEDIA • A RANGER’S GUIDE TO GLIPWOOD FOREST

Identity, Space, and Everyday Life in Contemporary Northeast China

Identity, Space, and Everyday Life in Contemporary Northeast China
Author: Zhen Troy Chen
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2024-01-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9819945305

This edited volume is first of its kind to document and critically analyse the changes took place snice China’s opening-up and reform and its impact on Dongbei, China’s North-East region, known for its remote and vast landscape, unique and othered culture, rich resources, mighty infrastructures and industries, geopolitical significance. Through presenting up-to-date and multidimensional case studies, the book covers three major aspects of Dongbei, which put people at the heart of our scholarly focus, namely people’s mediated life through traditional and new media; people’s social, cultural, and living spaces; artistic and fictional representations of people’s everyday life.

The John Reddisson Saga - My Early Life

The John Reddisson Saga - My Early Life
Author: Freddy Johnson
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2014-11-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1781484260

John Reddisson is born into a London working-class family in the early 1930s. The Second World War arrives and John is evacuated to Kent, Cornwall and South Wales. He later attends grammar school in London. He gains a place to study languages at Cambridge after National Service. We accompany John to the Italian Riviera on travel courier work. After Cambridge, he joins the Army Education Branch and we follow him on postings to Kent and Singapore. Finally, John attends an eighteen-month Russian course, including several months spent living with a White Russian family in Paris.

Someone to Tell It To: Sharing Life's Journey

Someone to Tell It To: Sharing Life's Journey
Author: Tom Kaden
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2014-06-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 149083902X

This is the account of two men who believe that we are created for deep, meaningful, and emotionally intimate relationships. The authors have found these relationships with their wives, and they are models for their children. They experience this kind of relationship with each other. They share how vital these relationships are through their non-profit: Someone To Tell It To. They create safe environments for people to share the stories of their lives openly and unashamedly. They encourage others to find safe people in their lives to foster relationships that provide true support, unconditional love, and grace. This book shares the authors stories and the stories of others who are seeking meaning and purpose in their lives, especially when faced with challenges and questions. Someone To Tell It To may remind us that we are not alone in our fears, or in our feelings of inadequacy and uncertainty. Readers may be motivated to create more vital connections in their lives, connections that can be life-giving and soul-enriching, that can bring peace in the dark seasons of our lives. Having someone to tell it to, as author Miles Franklin writes, is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

The Kissinger Saga

The Kissinger Saga
Author: Evi Kurz
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2009-03-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0297856928

An unrivalled insight into the early life of Henry Kissinger 'A triumph of journalistic digging, and it makes for a little gem of a book.. a magnificent story about boyhood, identity and belonging' SUNDAY TIMES 'Tells a fascinating and tragic story.. Kurz does a fine job of tracing the early history of the Kissinger family and evoking their happy days before the coming of Nazism' LITERARY REVIEW 'No interviews about my private life' has always been Henry Kissinger's response to curious journalists. But journalist Evi Kurz from Furth, the Kissingers' home town in southern Germany, proposed a family portrait and eventually won the trust of both brothers. This is the story of two Americans of German-Jewish descent: one of them a key figure in Cold War diplomacy and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the other a top businessman - two lives which are exemplars of the American dream. When Henry was born in 1923 and Walter in 1924 the Kissingers had for decades been part of a flourishing Jewish midde class in Furth, a market town in northern Bavaria. Evi Kurz describes the gradual but remorseless destruction of this community in the 1930s; the Kissinger family's decision to flee to London and then New York in 1938; the war years in America; and the hugely successful careers in postwar America of both brothers, who always remembered their home and roots in a small German town.

Life Journey

Life Journey
Author: Serge P. Petroff
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0595511155

The Russian revolution in 1917 and ensuing civil war caused a massive exodus of upper class, intelligentsia, and military families from Russia. The author's parents were part of that exodus, having stayed on until the very end of the Russian Civil War during which the author's father, Major General Paul Petroff, played an important role in the struggle against the Bolsheviks. They lived in northern China, Shanghai, Japan, and, after years of wandering, arrived in California where they became U.S. citizens and part of the American establishment. As you leaf through the memoir, you will find that the family witnessed the War of the Chinese Warlords, the militarization of Japan where the author's father had a law suit against the government for the recovery of gold bullion deposited by him for safekeeping with the Japanese Military Mission in 1920, the air raids over Tokyo, post-war American politics, the Cold War, the difficult years of the Vietnam War debate, and the Iraq War. Carefully documented from family archival materials, the memoir is a richly woven account of an odyssey that spanned eighty-five years of the author's life, from Harbin, China to the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

Tale of Life (Essence Series #2)

Tale of Life (Essence Series #2)
Author: E. L. Todd
Publisher: E. L. Todd
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2014-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1497387256

When Calloway returns to school after the winter break, high school only becomes more difficult, and not academically. Beatrice, the girl who he's had his eye on since the beginning of high school, finally acknowledges him. Calloway doesn't understand what any of it means. They are still trying to locate the portal, and when chance strikes, they believe they found the answer. But now they have to decide what to do, Should they tell Weston or go on their own? Hawk's torments are ever present for Calloway. When it becomes too much, Calloway turns to his mentor, Mr. Avey, for help. There's only so much Calloway can take. With graduation, prom, and the Hara-kirs chasing them every step of the way, Calloway and his two friends have to stay a step ahead. If not, the game could end for good.

Journey

Journey
Author: Marta Randall
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2018-12-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0359271650

Fleeing the disapproval of Earth's patrician families, Jason and Mish Kennerin have come to Aerie; distant, insular, inhabited by the enigmatic kasirene. Here they carve out a new life for themselves and their growing family, until the death of a nearby planetary system forces them to open their world, and their lives, to the chaos of change and the genesis of an empire they both crave and resist.