A Long Way from Home
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A Long Way from Home: When Life Comes Full Circle, You Will Realize All You Ever Needed, You Already Had,...
By Beverly Denise ThomasExcerpts from: "A Long Way From Home" When life comes full circle, you will realize All you ever needed, you already had You just refused to listen Envisioned Freedom Denise, like the prodigal son, was eager to vacate the family nest and ...
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A Long Way from Home
By Alice Walshwith red, blue, orange, and green kites. “They look like bright colorful birds.” A look of sorrow crossed Mama's face, but she remained silent. Disappointed, Rabia put the photographs back in the envelope. She never tired of hearing ...
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A Long Way from Home: A Novel
By Peter Carey“My cousin is an Anderson,” he said. Anderson was a big Bacchus Marsh family. Of course I knew the name. “She is married to George Halloran.” I knew Halloran, of course. He had built a scandalous “extension” for Mrs. Markus.
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A Long Way from Home: The Tuberculosis Epidemic Among the Inuit
By Pat Sandiford GrygierThis compared with a sum of between $ 2.50 and $ 3.00 a day paid to southern institutions . By the end of the war , the missions found that their costs had risen so much that the amount they received from the government did not cover ...
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A Long Way from Home
By Claude McKayMcKay's account of his long odyssey from Jamaica to Harlem and then on to France, Britain, North Africa, Russia, and finally back to America.
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A Long Way from Home
By Peter CareyIrene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in western Victoria. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent over roads...
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A Long Way from Home
By Connie BriscoeA sweeping historical novel details three generations of slaves, from Susan and her daughter Clara to Clara's daughter whose father is never revealed, all of whom work on the plantation of President James Madison and his wife Dolley, in an ...
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A Long Way from Home
By Cathy GlassThere was also a box of Christmas decorations, even though it was only August. They bought bottled water, and some bread and ham for their lunch, as it was too expensive to keep eating in the hotel and there weren't any cheap ...
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A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties
By Tom Brokaw... Veterans of Foreign Whores." Did I say that? Yes, and in the other room my mentor was convulsed. At least I didn't break up. By the fall of 1956, when I was sixteen, I had been working around the station long enough, ...
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A Long Way from Home
By Claude McKayA Jamaican-born writer describes his experiences traveling throughout the world following World War I, and recalls his friendships with celebrities of the Twenties and Thirties
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A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland
By Tom BrokawReflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty years From his parents’ life in the ...
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A Long Way From Home
By Peter CareySet in the 1950s in the embers of the British Empire, painting a picture of Queen and subject, black, white and those in-between, this brilliantly vivid novel illustrates how the possession of an ancient culture spirals through history - ...
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A Long Way from Home
By E. Alice WalshThirteen-year-old Rabia and her family have fled Afghanistan and are on their way to America on the morning of 9/11, and when their plane is diverted to Newfoundland, their future is called into question. 9/11, refugees, Muslim/American ...
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A Long Way from Home
By Cathy GlassThe true story of 2 year-old Anna, abandoned by her natural parents, left alone in a neglected orphanage.