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Download or read book Long Journey Home written by Os Guinness and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2003-11-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you woken up to the journey of life? Have you reached a point where you long for “something more”? Have the things you have striven to achieve turned out to be far less than enough? Do you desire to unriddle life’s mystery and pursue a life rich with significance? Long Journey Home is a seeker’s road map to the quest for meaning. Rich in stories and profoundly personal as well as practical, it explores the great philosophies of life and charts the road toward meaning taken by countless thoughtful seekers over the centuries. Written for those who care and those who are open, “it assumes no faith in the reader, only the recognition that the humanness of life as a journey is something we should all care about enough to seek to make sense of it and to make up our minds for ourselves.”
Book Synopsis The Long Journeys Home by : Nick Bellantoni
Download or read book The Long Journeys Home written by Nick Bellantoni and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moving stories of two Indigenous men in the United States and the return of their remains to their homelands. Henry ‘Opkaha‘ia (ca. 1792–1818), Native Hawaiian, and Itankusun Wanbli (ca. 1879–1900), Oglala Lakota, lived almost a century apart. Yet the cultural circumstances that led them to leave their homelands and eventually die in Connecticut have striking similarities. p kaha ia was orphaned during the turmoil caused in part by Kamehameha’s wars in Hawai’i and found passage on a ship to New England, where he was introduced and converted to Christianity, becoming the inspiration behind the first Christian missions to Hawai’i. Itankusun Wanbli, Christianized as Albert Afraid of Hawk, performed in Buffalo Bill’s “Wild West” to make a living after his traditional means of sustenance were impacted by American expansionism. Both young men died while on their “journeys” to find fulfillment and both were buried in Connecticut cemeteries. In 1992 and 2008, descendant women had callings that their ancestors “wanted to come home” and began the repatriation process of their physical remains. Connecticut state archaeologist Nick Bellantoni oversaw the archaeological disinterment, forensic identifications, and return of their skeletal remains back to their Native communities and families. The Long Journeys Home chronicles these important stories as examples of the wide-reaching impact of American imperialism and colonialism on Indigenous Hawaiian and Lakota traditions and their cultural resurgences, in which the repatriation of these young men have played significant roles. Bellantoni’s excavations, his interaction with two Native families, and his participation in their repatriations have given him unique insights into the importance of heritage and family among contemporary Native communities and their common ground with archaeologists. His natural storytelling abilities allow him to share these meaningful stories with a larger general audience. “Bellantoni recovers from obscurity the remarkable life journeys, dreams, and deaths of two Native men and the two worlds they lived in.” —Paul Grant-Costa, Yale Indian Papers Project “Based on meticulous forensic research, Bellantoni’s tale of two indigenous youth from different cultures and time periods, and their struggles to survive cultural upheavals, clearly reveals the chaotic effects of American colonialism on Native peoples. The book is a major contribution to the field of Postcolonial Studies.” —Lucianne Lavin, author of Connecticut‘s Indigenous Peoples
Book Synopsis Long Journey Home by : Jane Zebrowski-Blumahn
Download or read book Long Journey Home written by Jane Zebrowski-Blumahn and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A knock on the door in the middle of the night sent shivers through my body...A terrifying thought...It's our turn now! OR: Struggle for survival of a young Polish girl in Siberia during turbulent WWII years.
Book Synopsis The Long Journey Home by : David Burgess
Download or read book The Long Journey Home written by David Burgess and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Long Journey Home, Pastor Burgess who, with his wife Carol, invited people to journey with them on tours to various locations in the world, now invites you and me to join them in their final tour, as Carol takes The Long Journey Home with Pastor Burgess right by her side all the way home. Discover what he means as he comments in his book, "No matter how much we try to prepare for the loss of a loved one, we should expect our souls to hurt, perhaps even to the point of devastation," yet "there is a living hope even in the darkest moments of our lives. Join Pastor Burgess on The Long Journey Home as Carol's husband, caregiver, friend, and pastor as he discovers a deeper kind of love for Carol that he never knew as it grew and blossomed from a "living faith and hope" in the promises of a loving God. The truths you will learn on this journey will bless you so that you too can be a greater blessing in the lives of your loved ones. -Rev. Galen Gruelke, officiating pastor at Carol's funeral and interment Such a heartwarming story! A must read. The author tenderly takes us on a journey through his wife's devastating diagnosis to their final goodbye. This story is meant for you if you're in a committed relationship or if you are a person of faith. -Suzanne Williams, with her daughter Erinne, introduced in chapter 12
Book Synopsis Long Journey Home by : Julius Lester
Download or read book Long Journey Home written by Julius Lester and published by Dial. This book was released on 1972 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Rambler, a runaway slave roaming the countryside with a guitar, who knows the only way to stay free is to keep moving. Louis is another runaway, fleeing the plantation where he was raised, because he is about to be sold. And Jake and Mandy's marriage is damaged by slavery'and destroyed by freedom. Here is the African-American experience, brought alive by a master storyteller.'Lester has an eye for capturing the essence of a human experience.'AHis work? boldly proclaims the heritage of African-Americans.' ? The New York Times Book Review
Book Synopsis The Long Journey Home by : Margaret Robison
Download or read book The Long Journey Home written by Margaret Robison and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Long Journey Home by : Sharlene MacLaren
Download or read book Long Journey Home written by Sharlene MacLaren and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2008-06-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?
Download or read book Long Journey Home written by Helen Notzl and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Long Journey Home by : Jane Zebrowski-Blumahn
Download or read book Long Journey Home written by Jane Zebrowski-Blumahn and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Long Journey Home by : Duane Christian
Download or read book The Long Journey Home written by Duane Christian and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in urbanized envirornments is no walk in the park. Many teenagers are left to their own resources to find a way in life. Enter Khiry, Dwayne, Tony, Michael, and Craig. These are five friends who try to rely on each other to make it through the growing pains of life while being raised in what society labels as dysfuncional families. As life comes their way, can they continue the bonds of friendship while making the decisions that will shape their lives forever? Can they learn to love one another unconditionally? This story wll make one look into their own lives as they grow to love the characters displayed
Book Synopsis The Long Journey Home by : Don Coldsmith
Download or read book The Long Journey Home written by Don Coldsmith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-05-19 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Native American track star training for the Olympics in the early part of the 1900s meets 1912 gold medal winner Jim Thorpe and Bill Pickett, the black cowboy who invented steer wrestling.
Book Synopsis The Long Journey Home by : Tab Murallon Manlegro
Download or read book The Long Journey Home written by Tab Murallon Manlegro and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis My Long Journey Home by : Richard A. Williams
Download or read book My Long Journey Home written by Richard A. Williams and published by Richard A. Williams. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis The Long Journey Home by : Cecily Blench
Download or read book The Long Journey Home written by Cecily Blench and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving and powerful novel of love, secrets and redemption in a country torn apart by war. For readers of Kate Furnivall and Dinah Jefferies. It's 1941 and Kate is living in Rangoon, Burma, a world away from her traditional English upbringing. When she meets Edwin, a young teacher from London, she senses that he too is looking for a place to call home, and soon a friendship develops between them. As their bond grows, Kate begins to learn of the secrets in Edwin's past and the tragic events that brought them both to Burma. But war is coming and, when the Japanese forces invade, Kate and Edwin are forced to flee, along with thousands of others. They begin a perilous journey to India but soon become separated. As Kate continues on alone, she can't get this troubled young man out of her head. With the fallout of war all around them, in a place far from home, will Kate and Edwin survive their journey and find the new beginning they both seek? 'A sweeping historical fiction masterpiece' My Weekly 'Evocative and atmospheric. Blench captures the wild and perilous journeys made by so many at the arrival of the war' Wilbur Smith The Long Journey Home is a Wilbur Smith adventure writing prize winner. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Readers are loving The Long Journey Home: 'Wow . . . The characters are beautifully alive, the locations so craftily described that I felt like I was there . . . a magnificent, well-researched novel.' Netgalley reviewer 'Written with compassion and thought . . . you really feel the emotions of the characters.' Netgalley reviewer 'The ending is delightful yet sad but at the same time life affirming. A soaring saga that will touch the reader and leave footprints on your heart.' Netgalley reviewer 'Well written with great detail . . . What a great writer Cecily Blench is.' Netgalley reviewer 'A real page turner from the very beginning . . . Cecily Blench is an excellent writer.' Netgalley reviewer 'Rich in emotion and description this book is just amazing . . . highly recommended.' Netgalley reviewer
Book Synopsis The Long Journey Home by : Laurel Means
Download or read book The Long Journey Home written by Laurel Means and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating family saga set in the 1860s prairie of Minnesota and the Dakotas. Pioneer and Civil War veteran Henry Morgan sets out on a dramatic journey that takes him through mazes, river currents, down dangerous trails, and up against dead ends. From an unlikely beginning, Morgan's hasty marriage to the young and illiterate Agnes Guyette has unforeseen consquences. As they attempt to claim a government land grant two hundred miles away in Green Prairie, MN, they must fight local Indians, hostile wilderness, and desperados determined to steal their land. Filled with nonstop action and unexpected plot twists and turns, this novel is a roller coaster ride of action, intrigue and high adventure.
Book Synopsis The Long Journey Home by : Andrew J. Schmutzer
Download or read book The Long Journey Home written by Andrew J. Schmutzer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe the only thing new about sexual abuse is quality discussion from several professions (psychology, theology, and pastoral care). Here are the insights of over two dozen psychologists, theologians, and those in pastoral care, all targeting the issue of sexual abuse. Designed as a resource for Christian educators, therapists, pastors, social workers, group leaders, and survivors, The Long Journey Home combines current research in mental health with rich theological reflection, global concern with fervent pastoral wisdom for the local faith community. Whether you are a counselor, professor, pastor, or spouse of a survivor, you hold in your hand a fresh resource of information and advocacy for those suffering from the devastating effects of sexual abuse and rape. The breadth of material, biblical insight, discussion questions, and helpful resources gathered here just may be the tool of a generation.
Book Synopsis Prague: My Long Journey Home by : Charles Ota Heller
Download or read book Prague: My Long Journey Home written by Charles Ota Heller and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Charles Ota Hellers early childhood in Czechoslovakia was idyllic, but his safe and happy world didnt 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 familys storya 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 pastalong with his birth namebehind to live the proverbial American Dream. In his memoir, he recalls how two cataclysmic events following Czechoslovakias Velvet Revolution brought him face-to-face with demons of his former life. On his personal journey Heller discovered and embraced his heritageone which he had abandoned decades earlier.
