A Long Journey Back

Author : Chris R. Pownall
Publisher : Pneuma Springs Publishing
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781907728280

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This is the real life account of a remarkable young man who suffered a near fatal head injury and describes his astounding battle to regain his life. Rob Pownall was just eighteen when he had an unfortunate accident, which was to dramatically change his life. Following life saving surgery he lay in a coma for several days before waking up only to find himself completely paralysed and unable to speak. The story is told by Rob’s father Chris R. Pownall, author of ‘Funny How Things Work Out’ and ‘Onwards and Upwards’. This book is intended to be an inspiration to others who might find themselves in a similar situation, and need something to give them hope and encourage them to strive for the best possible recovery. Rob received the finest medical care under the British NHS (National Health Service) and demonstrated great determination and courage; he worked hard every single day as part of his rehabilitation, maintained a positive mental attitude which greatly helped him through his long journey back from what first appeared to be a hopeless and impossible situation. Book reviews online: PublishedBestsellers website.

Author : Jeanne Bandolina
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798649583541

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Minutes before landing, a policeman enters the cockpit of a Galaxy Airlines jet and convinces Captain Alex Decker to request a different gate. Alex reluctantly heeds the warning, and minutes later, an explosion rocks the concourse where Alex should have parked his plane. On the heels of the tragic fire at the North Carolina airport, Captain Decker teams up with FBI Agent Maria Rodriguez, inadvertently pulling him back into a world he'd tried to leave behind after the death of his wife, Sarah.Plagued by haunting dreams, PTSD, and repeated encounters with the mysterious policeman that no one else sees, Alex begins to question his sanity as he's drawn deeper into the investigation. As Alex and Maria travel from North Carolina to Africa and Central America in pursuit of an unknown and deadly adversary, the stakes escalate. The deeper they delve into who's behind the explosion and the trail of clues the policeman is trying to lead Alex to, the more personal-and deadly-the journey becomes.

Author : Linda Penninga
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781467860826

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The Civil War is over and the South is reeling from the loss and devastation of the war. Colleen and Steven must now travel from Virginia to their home in Georgia. The road is fraught with hardship and peril; from bear attacks and cave dwellers, to Unionists out for revenge. Even after reaching home, their journey does not end. They are faced with the struggles of rebuilding their home, dealing with devastating losses, finding their place in a new South, and mending what the war has torn apart. It is a time of reconstruction, Black Codes, and the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan. This is the story of the South and its people, rising from the ashes of war; the journey back from grief, death, and adversity.

Author : Margaret Robison
Publisher : Random House
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588369222

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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 : Tab Murallon Manlegro
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781512783070

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The novel is an epic tale of mankind during his long journey from birth, to his sojourn on earth until his final homecoming. Though it has biblical allusions, it is not intended to be a direct interpretation of the Scriptures or any other Holy Book. It is not also intended to challenge any traditional or contemporary teachings and dogmas. The book opens with the author’s self introduction narrating an episode in his childhood, until he reached maturity. He stated the basis of his beliefs, and narrated his own version of Creation and man’s unexpected evacuation from his compassionate Father’s home. The long saga of man on earth began and continued for many generation. One time, the Creator was compelled to clean the filthy earth with a devastating flood. In the new life, the Abrahamic journey was launched, leading to the birth of the promised Healer, God’s son Jesus. Jesus Christ introduced upgrades to the old traditions and practices. He offered His own flesh and blood to invigorate man’s being. He gave up his life in crucifixion doing the Saving errand. After three days, Jesus came back to life and gave His relieved followers the mission to spread around the world and gather the people around Him so they can go home to Paradise.

Author : Martha Dunn
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781329016514

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The Long Journey Home by Martha Dunn Pdf

The memoirs of Martha Dunn, a young German Red Cross nurse, as she journeyed from Vienna to her home in the Black Forest during the immediate aftermath of World War II in Allied-occupied Germany and Austria.

Author : Helen Notzl
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781525508189

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Long Journey Home by Helen Notzl Pdf

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 : William H.C. Hatteroth III
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781664138186

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Robin's Long Journey Home by William H.C. Hatteroth III Pdf

With help from their friend Michel, Robin and Springfield are now in possession of something called a decoder. Believing this decoder belongs to a spy organization they call The Falcon Crest group, it is vital they leave France and return to England as quickly as possible.

Author : Ashley Farley
Publisher : AHF Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781956684278

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Long Journey Home: Southern women's fiction and romance by Ashley Farley Pdf

From beyond the grave, Ashton’s mother leaves a mysterious legacy that upends her world. Eileen Darby, the heiress to the Merriweather fortune, has entrusted her oldest daughter with the family's waterfront estate on Catawba Sound in South Carolina's Lowcountry, bequeathing virtually nothing to her other three children. This lavish bequest is more than a gift; it's a cryptic message, a puzzle interlaced with the troubled history of their dysfunctional family. As Ashton embarks on renovating the old home, she finds herself haunted by secrets lurking in the shadows of her memory. What is her mother trying to communicate, and what will she uncover as she delves into the murkiest corners of the memories she can't recall?" Ashton’s husband is a proclaimed financial wizard, a mastermind who claims to have turned her recent investment into a fortune. Yet, he refuses to provide the account statements to verify it. With their marriage teetering on the brink, Ashton's dwindling trust gives way to mounting suspicions. Is he genuinely the financial virtuoso he purports to be, or is there a more sinister game afoot? As her marital bonds unravel, Ashton finds herself ensnared in a tangled web of deception. Each thread she tugs unravels a path leading her ever closer to a truth she may not be ready to confront. When she loses her way, she looks to a friend from her past to help her find herself again. In this thrilling journey of discovery and deceit, Ashton must confront the ghosts of her past and the demons of her present. Long Journey Home is a twisted labyrinth of mystery and betrayal, where every corner holds another clue and every path leads Ashton deeper into uncertainty.

Author : Charles Ota Heller
Publisher : Abbott Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781458201218

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Prague: My Long Journey Home by Charles Ota Heller Pdf

Author Charles Ota Heller's early childhood in Czechoslovakia was idyllic, but his safe and happy world didn't last long, Three years after his birth, Germany forced an occupation of his country; afterward, most of his young life consisted of running and hiding. His life, just like those of the other youths who lived in Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s, was shaped forever by the dangers, horrors, and unsettling events he experienced. In this memoir, Heller, born Ota Karel Heller, narrates his family's story—a family nearly destroyed by the Nazis. Son of a mixed marriage, he was raised a Catholic and was unaware of his Jewish roots, even after his father escaped to join the British army and fifteen members of his family disappeared. Prague: My Long Journey Home tells of his Christian mother being sent to a slave labor camp and of his hiding on a farm to avoid deportation to a death camp. With the war coming to a close, Heller tells of how he picked up a revolver and shot a Nazi when he was just nine years old. Heller, now an assimilated American, left the horrors of the past—along with his birth name—behind to live the proverbial American Dream. In his memoir, he recalls how two cataclysmic events following Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution brought him face-to-face with demons of his former life. On his personal journey Heller discovered and embraced his heritage—one which he had abandoned decades earlier.

Author : G.B. “Sonny” Clayton
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781462859399

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Long Journey Back by G.B. “Sonny” Clayton Pdf

A person can make many choices in their life, how it turns out is what choice one makes. My sons have made some bad ones, hopefully they will learn from their mistakes. I made so many bad choices in my life; I only wish I could do them over again. But you learn by making mistakes. Sean and Danny's lives will forever be altered by their bad selections. Sean will have lost almost 6 years of watching his little girls grow up, at least Danny is only facing 15% of his 5 years. He hopefully he will be home by August of this year. No one has ever said life is easy or fair. Life is what you make it. Like Sinatra said in song, "I've got the world on a string, setting on a rainbow' , at one time that was me. I had it all, I thought there was no end to it, but a bad choice ruined it all. As I sit here pondering over my life. I truly know now, that this was for me, "The Long Journey Back".

Author : Sharlene MacLaren
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781603741378

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Long Journey Home by Sharlene MacLaren Pdf

The last thing Callie needs in her life is another man, so she's less than thrilled when Dan Mattson moves into the apartment across the hall. Will Dan and Callie be able to get past their baggage and give love another chance?

Author : Jane Zebrowski-Blumahn
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595151387

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Long Journey Home by Jane Zebrowski-Blumahn Pdf

Long Journey Home, is an autobiography beginning in Poland in 1939. This is a little known story of what happened in Poland during Russian occupation as seen through the eyes of a young girl. On June 20, 1941, a ten year-old girl living a quiet country life is suddenly awakened by a knock on the door in the middle of the night. Two Russian soldiers pointing rifles at parents gave orders to be ready to leave at dawn. Their destination was Siberia. One day after their arrest, Germany declared war on Russia and re-conquering the eastern part of Poland, moved swiftly into Russian mainland. Stalin unable to contain them, sought help from Western Allies. An amnesty pact was signed at the Kremlin with General Sikorski for the Polish Government-in-Exile, granting freedom to all Polish prisoners and deportees. It also provided for formation of a Polish volunteer army on Russian soil to be trained and shipped to the Western Front. Anyone having a close relative in that army could leave Russia. The author and her family were the lucky ones. Freed from Russia in August 1942, going through the Caspian Sea to Persia (now Iran), India, Mexico and, ultimately after six years of wanders, landing in the U.S.

Author : Richard A. Williams
Publisher : Richard A. Williams
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798218047474

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My Long Journey Home by Richard A. Williams Pdf

A coming of age true story about adjusting to everyday life when the dream of playing professional baseball is cut short. Go on an intimate journey through the eyes of a former minor league baseball player and his discovery of self-worth, faith, and redemption. As far as Rick Williams was concerned, being drafted out of high school by the Atlanta Braves was the realization of his dream and the solution to every problem. He could leave behind his turbulent home life in the California High Desert and focus on the game he grew up loving. But when baseball was ripped away, he could never have prepared for the massive void it left in his life and the pain that would define him and his future. No matter how hard he tried drugs, partying, womanizing, or Hollywood life, nothing could fill the emptiness inside. Only after decades of struggling with crippling fear, anxiety, and broken relationships would Rick finally discover a greater power and purpose along his journey home. This inspiring story will speak to anyone who has struggled with: THE END OF A SPORTS CAREER RELATIONSHIPS SELF-WORTH FAILURE FEAR AND ANXIETY ACCEPTANCE

Author : Robyn Donald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0263780007

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Long Journey Back ; Smoke in the Wind by Robyn Donald Pdf