The Long Home

Author : William Gay
Publisher : MP Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849821001

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The Long Home by William Gay Pdf

In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the boy can imagine - until he learns of it first-hand. Gay's remarkable debut novel, 'The Long Home', is also the story of Amber Rose, a beautiful young woman forced to live beneath that evil who recognizes even as a child that Nathan is her first and last chance at escape. And it is the story of William Tell Oliver, a solitary old man who watches the growing evil from the dark woods and adds to his own weathered guilt by failing to do anything about it. Set in rural Tennessee in the 1940s, 'The Long Home' will bring to mind once again the greatest Southern novelists and will haunt the reader with its sense of solitude , longing, and the deliverance that is always just out of reach.

Author : Tawni Waters
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781492645443

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The Long Ride Home by Tawni Waters Pdf

After the loss of her mother, Harley can barely handle her grief. But the start of summer marks new beginnings, and Harley leaves for a cross-country road trip to scatter her mother's ashes with Dean, her friend (with benefits). The two ride by motorcycle, reconnecting with people who knew her mother along the way. But it's not long before Harley realizes she's pregnant...with Dean's child. And as Harley learns that her mother faced similar choices during her own pregnancy, Harley must come to terms with her mother's past to make a difficult decision about her own future.

Author : J.T. Stilson
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781490854830

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The Long Home by J.T. Stilson Pdf

The friendship of three buddies, Adam, Nim, and Rocky, goes bad. Two die, but all of them enter into new life with the Prince in charge of world affairs. The mystery of their deaths in the old age looms in the background. Will anyone be held responsible? A crusty detective takes up their cause but is blocked. Adam endures the wilderness to find his family. They lead him to his new mission: to teach thousands of orphans about life and love. Nim deals with loss and an enemy from the past, and Rocky changes his identity. One of them plans insurrection. This book explores future relationships set in a global society where time doesnt seem to matter. Working within a righteous society governed by the Prince, citizens must invent technology to advance industry, economy, art, and science, while learning new traditions of the spirit world and worship. Immortals live peacefully with mortals who dont always comply. Evil has been restrained, except in the hearts of some. Can tensions be resolved to assure peace? Only Rule in heaven knows, and Hes not ready to reveal answers. Its a wild ride.

Author : Samuel Farmar Jarvis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:HXUWN7

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The Long Home of Man: by Samuel Farmar Jarvis Pdf

Author : Christian Wiman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124221073

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The Long Home by Christian Wiman Pdf

Winner of the 11th annual Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, "The Long Home" is Christian Wiman's

Author : Gail Caldwell
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812979114

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Let's Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER They met over their dogs. Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp (author of Drinking: A Love Story) became best friends, talking about everything from their love of books and their shared history of a struggle with alcohol to their relationships with men. Walking the woods of New England and rowing on the Charles River, these two private, self-reliant women created an attachment more profound than either of them could ever have foreseen. Then, several years into this remarkable connection, Knapp was diagnosed with cancer. With her signature exquisite prose, Caldwell mines the deepest levels of devotion, and courage in this gorgeous memoir about treasuring a best friend, and coming of age in midlife. Let’s Take the Long Way Home is a celebration of the profound transformations that come from intimate connection—and it affirms, once again, why Gail Caldwell is recognized as one of our bravest and most honest literary voices.

Author : Justin Sand
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781039101524

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The Long Way Home by Justin Sand Pdf

When James decides to go after his sister who had mysteriously disappeared from a good foster home, he enters a world that he could only grasp through the movies he had seen. The long way home is a book about one young man’s journey through the depths of Canadian Organized Crime. James moves from a small city on Vancouver Island to Hamilton, Ontario into the home of one of the most notorious gangsters in Canadian History. The story follows James as he comes to know and change into the surroundings he has discovered. A metamorphosis takes place and James is transformed into all things he has always hated to survive. The long way home is a story about loyalty and family. How far are you willing to go for the ones you love? How far would they be willing to go for you?

Author : Judith Tebbutt
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571303038

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A Long Walk Home by Judith Tebbutt Pdf

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 : Saroo Brierley
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0143786504

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Author : Alan Hlad
Publisher : A John Scognamiglio Book
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496721693

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The Long Flight Home by Alan Hlad Pdf

A USA Today Bestseller Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II, The Long Flight Home is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours—a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice. It is September 1940—a year into the war—and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan—loyal, intelligent, beautiful—but none more so than Duchess. Hatched from an egg that Susan incubated in a bowl under her grandfather’s desk lamp, Duchess shares a special bond with Susan and an unusual curiosity about the human world. Thousands of miles away in Buxton, Maine, young crop-duster pilot Ollie Evans decides to join Britain’s Royal Air Force. His quest brings him to Epping and the National Pigeon Service, where Susan is involved in a new, covert mission to air-drop hundreds of homing pigeons in German-occupied France. Many will not survive. Those that do will bring home crucial information. Soon a friendship between Ollie and Susan deepens, but when his plane is downed behind enemy lines, both know how remote the chances of reunion must be. Yet Duchess will become an unexpected lifeline, relaying messages between Susan and Ollie as war rages on—and proving, at last, that hope is never truly lost. “Hlad adeptly drives home the devastating civilian cost of the war.” —Booklist

Author : Martha Raddatz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101206799

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The Long Road Home by Martha Raddatz Pdf

ABC News’ Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz shares remarkable tales of heroism, hope, and heartbreak in her account of “Black Sunday”—a battle during one of the deadliest periods of the Iraq War. The First Cavalry Division came under surprise attack in Sadr City on Sunday April 4, 2004. Over 7,000 miles away, their families awaited the news for forty-eight hellish hours—expecting the worst. In this powerful, unflinching account, Martha Raddatz takes readers from the streets of Baghdad to the home front and tells the story of that horrific day through the eyes of the courageous American men and women who lived it. “A masterpiece of literary nonfiction that rivals any war-related classic that has preceded it.”—The Washington Post

Author : Paul Turnbull,Michael Pickering
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781845459598

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The Long Way Home by Paul Turnbull,Michael Pickering Pdf

Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artifacts from western museums and scientific institutions. Since the late 1970s their efforts have led museum curators and researchers to re-evaluate their practices and policies in respect to the scientific uses of human remains. New partnerships have been established between cultural and scientific institutions and indigenous communities. Human remains and culturally significant objects have been returned to the care of indigenous communities, although the fate of bones and burial artifacts in numerous collections remains unresolved and, in some instances, the subject of controversy. In this book, leading researchers from a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences reflect critically on the historical, cultural, ethical and scientific dimensions of repatriation. Through various case studies they consider the impact of repatriation: what have been the benefits, and in what ways has repatriation given rise to new problems for indigenous people, scientists and museum personnel. It features chapters by indigenous knowledge custodians, who reflect upon recent debates and interaction between indigenous people and researchers in disciplines with direct interests in the continued scientific preservation of human remains. In this book, leading researchers from a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences reflect critically on the historical, cultural, ethical and scientific dimensions of repatriation. Through various case studies they consider the impact of repatriation: what have been the benefits, and in what ways has repatriation given rise to new problems for indigenous people, scientists and museum personnel. It features chapters by indigenous knowledge custodians, who reflect upon recent debates and interaction between indigenous people and researchers in disciplines with direct interests in the continued scientific preservation of human remains.

Author : John Demont
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771025136

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The Long Way Home by John Demont Pdf

The province's premier journalist tells the story he was born to write. No journalist has travelled the back roads, hidden vales and fog-soaked coves of Nova Scotia as widely as John DeMont. No writer has spent as much time considering its peculiar warp and weft of humanity, geography and history. The Long Way Home is the summation of DeMont's years of travel, research and thought. It tells the story of what is, from the European view of things, the oldest part of Canada. Before Confederation it was also the richest, but now Nova Scotia is among the poorest. Its defining myths and stories are mostly about loss and sheer determination. Equal parts narrative, memoir and meditation, The Long Way Home chronicles with enthralling clarity a complex and multi-dimensional story: the overwhelming of the first peoples and the arrival of a mélange of pioneers who carved out pockets of the wilderness; the random acts and unexplained mysteries; the shameful achievements and noble failures; the rapture and misery; the twists of destiny and the cold-heartedness of fate. This is the biography of a place that has been hardened by history. A place full of reminders of how great a province it has been and how great—with the right circumstances and a little luck—it could be again.

Author : Jamie Maslin
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781632200334

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The Long Hitch Home by Jamie Maslin Pdf

Tasmania to London. 800 hitchhiking trips. One year. Intrepid traveler and author Jamie Maslin does it again as he undertakes one of the most grueling, enlightening, and hilarious journeys of his life. How many rides does it take to hitch from Tasmania to London? Intrepid traveler and rogue wanderer Jamie Maslin decides to find out. The Long Hitch Home is a vibrant travelog of well-researched social, cultural, and historical introductions to the score of countries Maslin passed through. Whether writing about the exotic backstreets of cities few of us will get to see firsthand, or the unique geographical wonders of far off countries, Jamie Maslin gives a thrilling account of what it is like to hit the road and live with intensity and rapture.

Author : Amber J. Keyser,Kiersi Burkhart
Publisher : Quartz Creek Ranch
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781467792561

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The Long Trail Home by Amber J. Keyser,Kiersi Burkhart Pdf

Twelve-year-old Rivka is tired of everything about being Jewish, but during a summer at Quartz Creek Ranch, she is inspired to explore and embrace her heritage.