Long Trip Home

Author : Robert Temple Frost
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781622129249

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Long Trip Home by Robert Temple Frost Pdf

Akoni and Micah are two brothers who live in Lahaina, on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Akoni is the older and has a standup paddleboard that Micah likes to ride on while his brother paddles. After teaching Micah to paddle, Akoni has an idea to modify an ocean-going kayak into a standup paddle kayak so the two brothers can paddle across the seven-mile wide channel that separates Maui from Molokai, where their grandmother lives. With their kayak modified and their parents' permission granted, the boys embark on their journey. Helped along their way by gentle trade winds, the brothers encounter playful dolphins and have a too-close encounter with an enormous passenger liner. However they arrive on Molokai safely and are warmly welcomed by their grandmother. Visiting their grandmother on Molokai, the boys learn things about their family and their Hawaiian heritage they'd never known before. Inspired by their newfound understanding of their familial and cultural heritage, they strike out across the channel for home. But this time the going is treacherous. Strong winds and currents force them out into open sea. The boys' pleasant journey becomes a struggle for survival as Micah and Akoni unexpectedly find themselves on a Long Trip Home. Although a "mainlander" author Robert Temple Frost loves Hawaii and Maui in particular. Now retired after 37 years as a research lab administrator, Robert is the author of two previous self-published works, The Knowers - First Move and The Knowers - Second Move. His first novel, Okinawan Adventure, was published by Charles E. Tuttle back in 1958. Photo of Ryan Feinan on Front cover taken by author. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/RobertTempleFrost

Author : Mark Whitaker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451627565

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My Long Trip Home by Mark Whitaker Pdf

In a dramatic, moving work of historical reporting and personal discovery, Mark Whitaker, award-winning journalist, sets out to trace the story of what happened to his parents, a fascinating but star-crossed interracial couple, and arrives at a new understanding of the family dramas that shaped their lives—and his own. His father, “Syl” Whitaker, was the charismatic grandson of slaves who grew up the child of black undertakers from Pittsburgh and went on to become a groundbreaking scholar of Africa. His mother, Jeanne Theis, was a shy World War II refugee from France whose father, a Huguenot pastor, helped hide thousands of Jews from the Nazis and Vichy police. They met in the mid-1950s, when he was a college student and she was his professor, and they carried on a secret romance for more than a year before marrying and having two boys. Eventually they split in a bitter divorce that was followed by decades of unhappiness as his mother coped with self-recrimination and depression while trying to raise her sons by herself, and his father spiraled into an alcoholic descent that destroyed his once meteoric career. Based on extensive interviews and documentary research as well as his own personal recollections and insights, My Long Trip Home is a reporter’s search for the factual and emotional truth about a complicated and compelling family, a successful adult’s exploration of how he rose from a turbulent childhood to a groundbreaking career, and, ultimately, a son’s haunting meditation on the nature of love, loss, identity, and forgiveness.

Author : Bruce C. Smith
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253111418

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The War Comes to Plum Street by Bruce C. Smith Pdf

How World War II changed New Castle, Indiana. “This is a unique look at the war, far from the front lines, but equally impacting life on the home front.” —Bookviews.com The War Comes to Plum Street brings to life the Second World War through the eyes of a small group of neighbors from a Midwestern town. Bruce C. Smith presents their stories just as they happened, without explanation or interpretation. To experience the war as they did, insofar as it is possible, we must understand how they perceived everyday events and recognize the incompleteness of their knowledge of what was taking place in Europe and the Pacific. The inhabitants of Plum Street in New Castle, Indiana, resemble many other average Americans of their day. As we discover how they experienced those fateful years, these Americans may have something to teach us about how we live in our own turbulent time. “This remains a superb story. Bruce C. Smith has a wonderful eye for detail and a compelling perspective and voice. We care about this place and the people who live here.” —James H. Madison, author of Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana “The book is worth reading for what it offers about the emotional life of the times. Smith recognizes that in a small community and, more particularly, on a single street, lives are enmeshed . . . Ultimately, this book is deeply personal, but it reminds us that life is lived at a deeply personal level.” —HistoryNet.com

Author : Heidi Shelton-Jenck
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781604185775

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New Testament Take-Home Books That Move!, Grades K - 2 by Heidi Shelton-Jenck Pdf

Have fun with faith using New Testament Take-Home Books That Move! for grades K–2! This 128-page book features 28 captivating, easy-to-assemble storybooks that children love because the New Testament jumps off the pages right before their eyes! These book-making projects enrich children's joy and knowledge of the Bible. The book also includes patterns, instructions, and teaching tips.

Author : Walter Payton,Don Yaeger
Publisher : Random House
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375506420

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Never Die Easy by Walter Payton,Don Yaeger Pdf

"Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best." His legacy is towering. Walter Payton—the man they called Sweetness, for the way he ran—remains the most prolific running back in the history of the National Football League, the star of the Chicago Bears' only Super Bowl Championship, eleven times voted the most popular sports figure in Chicago's history. Off the field, he was a devoted father whose charitable foundation benefited tens of thousands of children each year, and who—faced with terminal liver disease—refused to use his celebrity to gain a preferential position for organ donation. Walter Payton was not just a football hero; he was America's hero. Never Die Easy is Walter Payton's autobiography, told from the heart. Growing up poor in Mississippi, he took up football to get girls' attention, and went on to become a Black College All-American at tiny Jackson State (during which time he was also a finalist in a Soul Train dance contest). Drafted by the Bears in 1975, he predicted that he would last only five years but went on to play thirteen extraordinary seasons, a career earning him regular acknowledgment as one of the greatest players in the history of professional football. And when his playing days were over, he approached business and charity endeavors with the same determination and success he had brought to the football field, always putting first his devotion to friends and family. His ultimate battle with illness truly proved him the champion he always had been and prompted a staggering outpouring of love and support from hundreds of thousands of friends and admirers. Written with veteran journalist and author Don Yaeger in the last weeks of Walter Payton's life, Never Die Easy presents Walter's singular voice—warm, plainspoken, funny, self-aware—along with the voices of the friends, family, teammates, and business associates who knew him best at all stages of his life, including his wife, Connie, and their children, Brittney and Jarrett; his teammate and friend Matt Suhey; former Bears head coach Mike Ditka; and many, many others. Walter made Don Yaeger promise that his book would be "inspirational and leave people with some kind of lesson . . . and make sure you spell all the words right." Never Die Easy keeps all those promises.

Author : Jonathan Fraser Light
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476617442

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The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed. by Jonathan Fraser Light Pdf

More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America’s culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues’ decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.

Author : C. Robert Wolfe
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781434385116

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My Time by C. Robert Wolfe Pdf

My Time Most people live their lives on a day to day basis. Our planning calendar is booked for three to seven days in the future. We seldom take a step back and look at recent events in perspective. This book is intended to provide that perspective look at events that shaped the course of our lives. Only in retrospect do we realize the changes that have occurred and influenced events of our lives. This process might be compared to watching an "Old time silent movie". How strangely people dressed and acted in "those days". We get a sense of values and attitudes of that time. Then we see movies made during the 1930's. There is a difference in dress, in automobiles, in the telephones seen in those movies. Customs have changed and attitudes have changed since those early silent movie days. This book links day to day living with the evolving events that impact our lives, shape attitudes and philosophies, as individuals, as states and nations. It has been said, "The only thing certain is change."

Author : Susan Cutsforth
Publisher : Melbourne Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781922129321

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Our House is Certainly Not in Paris by Susan Cutsforth Pdf

Sequel to the bestselling Our House is Not in Paris. Join for the first time, or continue to share in this sequel, the French renovee trials and triumphs of Susan and Stuart Cutsforth, an 'ordinary' Australian couple. Our House is Certainly Not in Paris is a magical memoir about their renovation of an old farmhouse in France. They devote their holidays to breathing life back into its ancient stone walls. It is so charmingly written that the reader is transported to their petite village and the people in this book become like old friends. This is a story about achieving dreams. It makes you want to grab life with both hands.

Author : Donald E. Smith
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781467857086

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Travel and the Human Condition by Donald E. Smith Pdf

In his quest to look for adventure in exotic lands, the author found himself. The book includes his daily journals kept while traveling in Tanzania, Java ,and the former Soviet Union.It includes, also, brief glimpses of life in Denmark, Sweden, Hungary and England. The journals exphasize the lives of people whom he met, not the usual descriptions of statues, monuments and museums. The book is the story of one man's attempt to find meaning for his life as he seeks to learn how other people live out their lives in far-away places.

Author : David Lancaster,Jolene Lancaster
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781514482377

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Angels in the Darkness by David Lancaster,Jolene Lancaster Pdf

A cosmic event and man's insanity murdered Planet Earth but there are few left to mourn its passing. A thick cloud of dust blankets the globe and blocks the life-giving sunlight for years. It is the dawn of a brave new world, a nuclear winter of total darkness and frigid temperatures. Things that go bump in the night usually herald someone's death. Two and four-legged predators stalk the stygian darkness looking for food or someone to enslave. Out of the ashes rises an armored paramilitary group who stands between the weak and defenseless and those who would prey on them

Author : Jeff Blackstock
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735236622

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Murder in the Family by Jeff Blackstock Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book Diplomat father. Murdered mother. Emotionally neglected children. An apparent cover-up. Family dinners will never be the same. "I think that my father murdered my mother." That terrible belief spurs author Jeff Blackstock to investigate the circumstances of his mother Carol's death when he was a child. Carol Blackstock died at age 24 in 1959--poisoned by arsenic--but the cause of her death remained shrouded in mystery for decades. Jeff's father George Blackstock was a career diplomat in Canada's foreign service, posted to glamorous Buenos Aires with his wife Carol and their three children. A little more than a year after the family's arrival, the vivacious young mother, now emaciated and in terrible pain, was transferred to Montreal for treatment of a mysterious illness that proved fatal. In the following year, George Blackstock remarried, and a young woman named Ingrid became the feared stepmother to Jeff and his two siblings. Carol's parents soon had suspicions about their son-in-law George but were unable to get justice for their daughter. Class privilege--George was the scion of a Toronto establishment family and Carol was from modest beginnings--and an aversion to scandal all figured in an apparent cover-up. But secrets have a way of eventually disrupting all families. A damning autopsy report about arsenic poisoning, found among their grandmother's effects, leads Jeff Blackstock and his sister to horrifying revelations about their father. Eventually, they confront him and accuse him of their mother's murder. But George offers only vague explanations that don't add up. George died a broken man, mostly abandoned by his adult children. A compelling story of a high-society murder, a heartbreaking tale of emotionally neglected children, and an inquiry into the power and privilege of the Anglo upper classes of the time, Murder in the Family chronicles the shocking legacy of deeply buried secrets and betrayal in one's own family.

Author : James H. Wittebols
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0786417013

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Watching M*A*S*H, Watching America by James H. Wittebols Pdf

It has been said that M*A*S*H was a show set in the 1950s which reflected the shifting values of the 1970s and early 1980s. Hawkeye Pierce, Radar O'Reilly, Trapper John McIntyre, Sherman Potter, Margaret (Hot Lips) Houlihan, B.J. Hunnicutt, Frank Burns, Charles Emerson Winchester, Max Klinger--these and the many other characters who populated the MASH 4077 used the Korean War as a backdrop to comment on many of the social issues of their day. Using a unique blend of comedy and drama, the show's first three seasons (1972-1975) focused on the anti-Vietnam War sentiment that consumed much of America. As Vietnam ended, M*A*S*H moved on to concentrate on other contemporary issues--the women's movement, the rise of the religious right in American politics, the new narcissism that marked the early 1980s, the heightened awareness of underage or excessive alcohol use, and the increased emphasis on family in American life. How the series presented these issues and its success in doing so are the subjects of this critical study. An episode listing--brief plot outline, casts and credits, air dates, and titles--is also provided.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HXPFZS

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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Brian Wyllie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1720350779

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The Long Trip Home by Brian Wyllie Pdf

This Travelogue details the author's three-month, circuitous trip home to the United States from a two-year period in the Peace Corps in Brasil. When twenty-four-year-old Brian Wyllie completed his stint in the Peace Corps in 1971, he cleared customs nearly a dozen times in a three-month span on his journey home from Brasil to the United States. In this travelogue, Wyllie narrates his circuitous route through twelve countries in South America and the Caribbean on a meager budget. In this true story, Wyllie recounts an array of encounters with interesting characters in a variety of places. Employing a go-with-the-flow attitude, he began his journey through exotic territory with only a rough itinerary. He shares a plethora of information including both unique modes of transportation and accommodations, as well as the reasonable cost of travel. Both captivating and inspiring, The Long Trip Home provides a telling glimpse into the culture and life of these countries in the early 1970's. Wyllie's adventurous spirit led him to people and places that shaped his outlook on life and travel.

Author : John D. Langwell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781453549315

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Tears of the Past by John D. Langwell Pdf

THE CONTENT OF THIS LITTLE BOOK IS A PART OF MY GHETTO THERESIENSTADT COLLECTION AND IT IS BEING PUBLISHED TO COMMEMORATE THE LIBERATION OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN EUROPE IN 1945.