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| Author | : Marilynne Robinson |
| Publisher | : Harper Perennial |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2009-09-22 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781554681228 |
Glory Boughton has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years—comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with torment and pain. A troubled boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. He is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Reverend Boughton’s most beloved child. Brilliant, beguiling, lovable and wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with John Ames, his godfather and namesake. Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. It is arguably Marilynne Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.
| Author | : Rachel Seiffert |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2014-07-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307908828 |
Stevie comes from a long line of people who have cut and run. Just like he has. Only he’s not so sure he was right to go. He’s been to London, taught himself to get by, and now he’s working as a laborer not so far from his childhood home in Glasgow. But Stevie hasn’t told his family—what’s left of them—that he’s back. Not yet. He’s also not far from his uncle Eric, another one who left—for love this time. Stevie’s toughened himself up against that emotion. And as for his mother, Lindsey . . . well, she ran her whole life. From her father and Ireland, from her husband, and eventually from Stevie, too. Moving between Stevie’s contemporary Glaswegian life and the story of his parents when they were young, The Walk Home is a powerful novel about the risk of love, and the madness and betrayals that can split a family. Without your past, who are you? Where does it leave you when you go against your family, turn your back on your home; when you defy the world you grew up in? If you cut your ties, will you cut yourself adrift? Yearning to belong exerts a powerful draw, and Stevie knows there are still people waiting for him to walk home. An extraordinarily deft and humane writer, Rachel Seiffert tells us the truth about love and about hope. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
| Author | : Sam Choo |
| Publisher | : Hope Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 125 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : |
Embark on an extraordinary journey through the world of long-distance walking in "The Long Walk Home: The Joy of Long-Distance Walking." This captivating book is your passport to adventure, self-discovery, and the profound joy found in putting one foot in front of the other. From the bustling streets of Singapore to the serene Himalayan peaks, join intrepid walkers like Angela Maxwell and Levison Wood as they traverse continents, push their limits, and uncover the transformative power of slow travel. Their stories, along with practical insights and inspiring reflections, invite you to explore the world at three miles an hour – a pace that allows you to truly see, feel, and connect with your surroundings. But this book is more than just tales of epic journeys. It's a celebration of the small joys, the unexpected encounters, and the personal growth that come with every step. Whether you're a seasoned trekker or someone who's never walked further than your local park, "The Long Walk Home" will inspire you to lace up your boots and discover the world anew. Learn how to plan your own walking adventure, navigate challenges with a smile, and find beauty in the everyday. Explore how technology can enhance your journey without detracting from the essence of the walk. And discover how the lessons learned on the trail can bring lasting joy and meaning to your daily life. "The Long Walk Home" is not just about reaching a destination – it's about finding your way to a happier, more connected self. Are you ready to take that first step? Open this book and let the journey begin. Your long walk home awaits.
| Author | : Joan Grindley |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2010-05-20 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1450226418 |
A Long Walk Home is the third book in a trilogy written about the women in the author's life the first being Julia, her maternal grandmother; the second Emma, her mother, and concluding with the authors own story. As with her forebears, it is a story of faith, determination and survival in a world fraught with challenges.
| Author | : James S. Kelly |
| Publisher | : Archway Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2022-06-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1665721219 |
Larry Stephens is an American airman serving in Vietnam while his beloved wife Jeanie patiently awaits his homecoming. The worst occurs when Larry is shot down over North Vietnam. He somehow manages to evade the enemy and return home. However, Larry does not receive the hero’s welcome he expected. Instead, he is accused of desertion and collaboration with the enemy. To make matters worse, Jeanie has taken a lover and filed for divorce, and the Vietnamese have sent agents to bring Larry back to face trial. Seemingly betrayed and alone, Larry fights to clear his name, win back his wife, and escape the teams sent to kidnap him. He sought to serve his country with honor; now, all he wants is to return home to his family in peace.
| Author | : Val Wood |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 528 |
| Release | : 2009-03-26 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1409080870 |
At only thirteen, Mikey Quinn is arrested for stealing a rabbit to feed his family. Despite his age, he’s shown no mercy by the wealthy lawyer who sends him to prison. He returns home to find that his mother has died and his younger siblings taken into the workhouse. With only his determination, Mikey makes his way to London to seek a better life for his family. Whilst there, he meets Eleanor who he recognises as the daughter of the lawyer who ruined his life. Desperate, they band together forging a new life for themselves on the streets of London. Overlooking their initial differences, the two come to rely on each other and, when the time comes to return to Hull, they face the long walk home together.
| Author | : Liane Faulder |
| Publisher | : Brindle and Glass |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2011-02-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1897142978 |
The Canadian media were the first to bring Master Corporal Paul Franklin's story to the public, and it is only fitting that award-winning journalist Liane Faulder brings the full account of his return from a war zone. The Long Walk Home: Paul Franklin's Journey from Afghanistan documents the recovery of a soldier injured in a 2006 suicide bombing that left one Canadian diplomat dead, and two comrades in arms wounded. Although Franklin made a promise to his wife that he would come home alive, he needed the heroic help of soldiers on the scene and a medical team abroad to keep his word. He lost both of his legs above the knee as the result of his injuries, but returned home determined to walk again. Within four months of his injury, and against the odds and predictions of doctors, Franklin learned to walk on artificial legs. He continues to represent the courage of Canadian troops overseas as he rebuilds his life at home with his wife Audra and their young son, Simon. As a family on a journey to recovery, they are determined to stand, and walk, together. The Long Walk Home: Paul Franklin's Journey from Afghanistan is a story of loss, courage, love and hope. It inspires all of those — military and civilians alike — who wonder how they will take that next step when tough times challenge the body and the spirit.
| Author | : Judith Tebbutt |
| Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2013-07-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 057130303X |
This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to the depths of despair; of how I endured enforced isolation and near-starvation at the hands of Somali pirates; and of how I made a choice to survive by any and all means that I could muster.In September 2011 Judith Tebbutt and her husband David set out on an adventurous holiday to Kenya. A couple for thirty-three years, they had first met in Zambia: Africa had played a major part in their life together. After a joyous week on safari in the Masai Mara, they flew on to a beach resort forty kilometres south of Somalia. And there, in the early hours of 11 September, tragedy struck them.Judith was torn away from David by a band of armed pirates, dragged over sea and land to a village in the arid heart of lawless Somalia, and there held hostage in a squalid room, a ransom on her head. There, too, she learned the terrible truth that the responsibility of securing her release now rested with her son Ollie. But though she was isolated, intimidated and near-starved, Judith resolved to survive - walking endless circuits of her nine-foot prison, trying to make her captors see her as a human being, keeping her faith at all times in Ollie. Powerful, moving and at times quite devastating, this is Judith Tebbutt's story in her own words. It is a memoir of the life she shared with her beloved husband, an unflinching account of the ordeal that overturned her world, and a testament to the inner resilience and familial love that sustained her through captivity.There is nothing so bad in life as to have no hope - to believe you have been defeated, to give in to that. Now that I found myself in confinement, four thousand miles from home under a hostile sky, I would not accept that fate for myself.
| Author | : Diane Amos |
| Publisher | : Harlequin |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2012-05-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1459244125 |
DO TEENAGE GIRLS COME WITH INSTRUCTION MANUALS? The call came out of the blue—Annie’s sister Dana is in rehab…can her thirteen-year-old daughter come stay in Maine withAnnie? But the wild child in black and piercings is not the sweet little girl Annie remembers. So much for the new pink towels. Surly, sullen and scared, Summer puts a gigantic wedge between Annie and her lover, her friends, even her wonderful ex-motherin-law. Yet Annie has always described herself as a dandelion: not the prettiest flower perhaps, but the most determined and resilient. She refuses to give up on Summer. As days become weeks, downs (slowly!) become ups and risks turn into rewards. And for Annie, the long walk home to what matters most has been worth every step.
| Author | : David Cry |
| Publisher | : Hatherleigh Press |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2015-06-30 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 1578265681 |
A Short Walk Home is a heartfelt and inspirational memoir of a father raising and ultimately losing a child to the neurological disorder adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). Exploring the full extent to which a disease like ALD can shape and affect a life, as both David Cry and his family try to come to grips with the inevitable conclusion to their struggles, A Short Walk Home captures the helplessness and anger that every parent feels at being unable to save their children. Presented in prose both simple and true, A Short Walk Home shows us how to find peace and acceptance—at a time when we need it most. Drawn from the author’s personal experience, as well as years of working with individuals and families suffering from ALD, Cry's story is at once both very personal, and very accessible—a story of appreciating what you have, making the most of the time you have left, and finding solace in the face of grief. Contrasting sadness with hope, vulnerability with strength, and frustration with acceptance, A Short Walk Home demonstrates that grief, no matter how great, can give way to a greater understanding.
