The Long Long Journey

Download or read book The Long, Long Journey written by Sandra Markle and published by Millbrook Press ™. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!

Download or read book The Long, Long Journey written by Rex Goyer and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one mans journey through the pain of losing his beloved wife of more than twenty-two years when she died suddenly and unexpectedly in her sleep. It is filled with intense emotions rarely seen or even talked about as he recounts the story of this tragedy. If you have been touched by the loss of a spouse or a close loved one or know someone who has, this book offers comfort, hope, and healing to those with a hurting heart. It explores some of the hard questions and often common feelings that so many will find themselves confronting when that one special person steps from time to eternity. Most likely, you will find yourself crying, remembering, and sometimes even laughing right along with the author as you travel through The Long, Long Journey.

Download or read book Such a Long Journey written by Rohinton Mistry and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Such a Long Journey is set in (what was then) Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in which the conflict impinges on the lives of Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his family. It was the brilliant first novel by one of the most remarkable writers to have emerged from the Indian literary tradition in many years. It was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, and won the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Download or read book Love's Long Journey (Love Comes Softly Book #3) written by Janette Oke and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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 330 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.

Download or read book The Long Journey of Gracia Mendes written by Marianna D. Birnbaum and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After her arrival in 1553, she became the most prominent businesswoman of the community and a patron of Jewish causes. Her life exemplifies the perseverance of the Jewish culture to survive and triumph even in extremely adverse conditions."--BOOK JACKET.