The Long Journey Home
Author | : Michael Gilbert |
Publisher | : Arrow |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 1995-05-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780099441601 |
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Author | : Michael Gilbert |
Publisher | : Arrow |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 1995-05-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780099441601 |
Author | : Margaret Robison |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2011-05-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1588369226 |
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 | : Sharlene MacLaren |
Publisher | : Whitaker House |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2008-06-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1603741372 |
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 | : Helen Notzl |
Publisher | : FriesenPress |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2018-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1525508199 |
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 | : Cecily Blench |
Publisher | : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2021-06-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1838773827 |
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
Author | : Os Guinness |
Publisher | : WaterBrook |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2003-11-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1578568463 |
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.”
Author | : Randall Mullins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-10-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Book of poems
Author | : Julius Lester |
Publisher | : Point |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1988-02-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780590414333 |
Six short stories drawn from history record black Americans' struggle for freedom during the days of slavery, chronicling the lives of a blues singer, a cowboy, two lovers forced apart when the girl is sold, and a traveler on the Underground Railroad.
Author | : Michael Reschny |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-08-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781958750117 |
A 250 year family history journey. From Germany in the late 1700's, to Russia then escaping before the Communism Revolution and immigrating to Canada.
Author | : James K. Allen |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1412010187 |
A candid and concise expose on the development and shaping of religion, beginning with the first century church and including the modern day church, from that perspective of Roman politics and power, through what appears to be purposefully designed and promoted error. Moreover, a serious look at how those errors, through intimidation and repetition have become traditions that have systematically blinded and pulled people away from the teachings of Christ, and the Truth.