The Long Journey And Other Stories

Author : D. Mills,Jerry Mills
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Country life
ISBN : 9781457501203

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The Long Journey and Other Stories by D. Mills,Jerry Mills Pdf

About the Cover This simple sketch is over 100 years old. It hung in the farm house I was raised in as a small boy. The artist was a relative on the Jackson side of my family tree. The original sketch now hangs in the cabin where I live. My grandmother tried to explain the meaning of the sketch to me when I was eight years old, but it was way over my head. Now that I have entered the final chapter of my long journey, I look at the sketch a lot differently than I did when my grandmom talked to me about it so long ago. The old man is not only old but very wise. The sweet, mellow smell from his pipe is now an integral part of him. The fragrance of Spring completely surrounds the young girl. As she tells him about his upcoming long journey, you can see the slight smile on his face. He knows his next journey will be soon and very short. I suspect that he will give her very little advice. He knows that unraveling the mysteries and finding your own answers are what make our long journeys worthwhile. Poppy About the Stories You may find some of them are sad, some funny, and some a little mysterious. However, I hope they rekindle and stir emotions you have hidden deep inside you-for a very long time.

Author : Malachi Whitaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 1910263141

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The Journey Home and Other Stories by Malachi Whitaker Pdf

Author : Bess Streeter Aldrich
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803259085

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Journey Into Christmas and Other Stories by Bess Streeter Aldrich Pdf

Contains twelve short Christmas stories about reunited families, fellowship, and restored faith including 'I Remember,' a story about the author's childhood in Iowa.

Author : Helen Notzl
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Janette Oke
Publisher : Bethany House
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781441202956

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Love's Long Journey (Love Comes Softly Book #3) by Janette Oke Pdf

Book 3 of Love Comes Softly. Clark and Marty's daughter, ready to start her own life, must rely on faith in the face of homesickness and mounting hardships.

Author : Sharlene MacLaren
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Sandra Markle,Mia Posada
Publisher : Millbrook Press ™
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467742870

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The Long, Long Journey by Sandra Markle,Mia Posada Pdf

Crackle! Crackle! Crunch! What's hatching from that egg? It's a young bar-tailed godwit. She will spend the summer in Alaska learning to fly, find her own food, and escape from scary predators. Her long, long journey begins in October when she flies to New Zealand. This 7,000-mile flight is the longest nonstop bird migration ever recorded. Follow along on her amazing voyage!

Author : Sheila Terman Cohen
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780870205385

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Mai Ya's Long Journey by Sheila Terman Cohen Pdf

The story of Mai Ya Xiong and her family and their journey from the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand to a new life in Madison, Wisconsin, is extraordinary. Yet it is typical of the stories of the 200,000 Hmong people who now live in the United States and who struggle to adjust to American society while maintaining their own culture as a free people. Mai Ya's Long Journey follows Mai Ya Xiong, a young Hmong woman, from her childhood in Thailand's Ban Vinai Refugee Camp to her current home in Wisconsin. Mai Ya's parents fled Laos during the Vietnam War and were refugees in Thailand for several years before reaching the United States. But the story does not end there. Students will read the challenges Mai Ya faces in balancing her Hmong heritage and her adopted American culture as she grows into adulthood.

Author : Divyaroop Bhatnagar
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781684662920

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Journey to the Hills and other Stories by Divyaroop Bhatnagar Pdf

It was a simpler life in the 1960’s. There was no television or hectic activity and families still took long, leisurely summer vacations in hill stations like Mussoorie. An army band played in the evenings at the Band Stand near the Library. Miss Mussoorie contests were the highlight of the season. People took long walks in the glorious sunshine and socialised with their friends on the Mall Road as the sun set over Vincent Hill. The schools were thriving, and summer visitors looked forward to their annual fetes. These stories are based on the experiences of an extended family during their summer holidays in Mussoorie in the 1960s seen through the eyes of children. So, dear reader, enjoy the gentle charms of a forgotten time and the innocence of childhood as you turn the pages of this little book.

Author : Rohinton Mistry
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551994406

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Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry Pdf

It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter falls ill; his promising son defies his father’s ambitions for him. He is the one reasonable voice amidst the ongoing dramas of his neighbours. One day, he receives a letter from an old friend, asking him to help in what at first seems like an heroic mission. But he soon finds himself unwittingly drawn into a dangerous network of deception. Compassionate, and rich in details of character and place, this unforgettable novel charts the journey of a moral heart in a turbulent world of change.

Author : Italo Svevo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Italy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Short Sentimental Journey and Other Stories by Italo Svevo Pdf

Author : Margaret Robison
Publisher : Random House
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588369222

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The Long Journey Home by Margaret Robison Pdf

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 : Mary Ann Lichacz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1928065147

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My Father's Store by Mary Ann Lichacz Pdf

Author : Alejandro Morales
Publisher : Arte Público Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781611928716

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Little Nation and Other Stories  by Alejandro Morales Pdf

“I’m sick of you punks,” Micaela said. “And I’m warning you now. I’m going to get you for that murder!” In the title story, the Latino community in East L.A. suffers horrible gang-related violence, and the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl is the last straw for Micaela Clemencia, a local teacher. With the help of other women in the neighborhood, Micaela keeps her promise to punish the murderer. And much to the dismay of the police and other city officials, the women take control of the barrio, their “little nation.” While some characters face a violent world driven by greed, others long for a sense of belonging or a place to call their own. In “Mama Concha,” a grandmother shares her ancient wisdom with her grandson, teaching him to appreciate the land and the fruits and vegetables she grows. In “The Gardens of Versailles,” a home with beautiful gardens is a local favorite, until it stands in the way of “progress” that will benefit the entire community. And in “Prickles,” an artist who is a grotesque oddity because of the thorny tumors that sprout all over his body develops a special, unusual relationship with the Virgin of Guadalupe. Alejandro Morales returns to his native Southern California community of Montebello in four of these five stories that examine identity and injustice. Originally written in Spanish, this compelling collection contains Adam Spires’ English translation of these thought-provoking stories, in which Morales explores the Chicano community’s marginalization and search for a space to call its own.

Author : Vladimir Korolenko
Publisher : LA CASE Books
Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sketches of a Siberian Tourist and other stories by Vladimir Korolenko Pdf

The writings of Vladimir Korolenko have been likened to “a fresh breeze blowing through the heavy air of a hospital.” The hospital is the pessimistic literature of the modern Russian intellectuals; the fresh breeze is the voice of the simple-hearted children of “Mother Russia.” These are for the most part tillers of the soil and conquerors of waste places; peasants, pioneers, and Siberian exiles; they often belong to the great class of “the insulted and the injured”: they suffer untold hardships, but their heads are unbowed and their hearts are full of courage and the desire for justice. Among them the great writer’s early life was spent.