A Long Walk Home

Download or read book Home written by Marilynne Robinson and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glory Boughton has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years—comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with torment and pain. A troubled boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. He is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Reverend Boughton’s most beloved child. Brilliant, beguiling, lovable and wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with John Ames, his godfather and namesake. Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. It is arguably Marilynne Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.

Download or read book A Long Walk Home written by Judith Tebbutt and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book A Long Walk Home written by Rachel Clark and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Long Walk Home is Rachel Clark’s evocative and moving account of her treatment and experiences with health professionals in Britain and Australia while she was living with, and dying from, cancer. It includes an Epilogue by her twin sister Naomi Jefferies, and learning points for health professionals by John Hasler and David Pendleton.

Download or read book A Long Walk Home written by James S. Kelly and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry Stephens is an American airman serving in Vietnam while his beloved wife Jeanie patiently awaits his homecoming. The worst occurs when Larry is shot down over North Vietnam. He somehow manages to evade the enemy and return home. However, Larry does not receive the hero’s welcome he expected. Instead, he is accused of desertion and collaboration with the enemy. To make matters worse, Jeanie has taken a lover and filed for divorce, and the Vietnamese have sent agents to bring Larry back to face trial. Seemingly betrayed and alone, Larry fights to clear his name, win back his wife, and escape the teams sent to kidnap him. He sought to serve his country with honor; now, all he wants is to return home to his family in peace.

Download or read book A Long Walk Home written by Joan Grindley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Long Walk Home is the third book in a trilogy written about the women in the author's life the first being Julia, her maternal grandmother; the second Emma, her mother, and concluding with the authors own story. As with her forebears, it is a story of faith, determination and survival in a world fraught with challenges.

Download or read book The Long Walk Home written by Matt Carter and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a few questions that lie just below the surface for many Christians. Does God really love me despite my failures? Can God use me for good in this world despite all my sin and shortcomings? Do my doubts and questions about faith make God think less of me? Do I have a future in the family of God despite my past? In the biblical story of the Prodigal Son, Jesus answers all those questions that lurk in the heart of so many believers. In The Long Walk Home, author and pastor Matt Carter takes a fresh look at this age-old story and helps the reader discover and experience, once again, the radical, never-ending love of God for His sons and daughters.

Download or read book Long Walk Home written by DiAnn Mills and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an Arab Christian pilot for a relief organization, Paul Farid feels called to bring supplies to his war-torn countrymen in southern Sudan. But with constant attacks from Khartoum’s Islamic government, the villagers have plenty of reasons to distrust Paul, and he wonders if the risks he’s taking are really worth his mission. American doctor Larson Kerr started working with the Sudanese people out of a sense of duty and has grown to love them all, especially Rachel, her young assistant. But despite the years she’s spent caring for them, her life feels unfulfilled. It’s a void that both Paul and Rachel’s older brother, Colonel Ben Alier of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, notice. When Rachel is abducted, Paul, Ben, and Larson agree to set aside their differences to form an unlikely alliance and execute a daring rescue. Their faith and beliefs tested, each must find the strength to walk the path God has laid before them, to find their way home.