Download or read book Home Is Not Far written by Dr. Owete S. Owete and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home Is Not Far is the biography of a Nigerian family. It narrates the history and character of the family in Emu-Uno, Delta State, Nigeria. The book describes the values, challenges, and successes of the family in context with the traditions and socio-cultural structure of the Emu Kingdom. This family thrived through a culture of respect for elders and leadership by elders. This family’s culture was typical of the Ukwuani tribe and of Nigeria, and yet unique unto itself. In this home, even the goddess of water found her place of peace.
Download or read book Not Far from Home written by Daniel F. Gerhartz and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Home is Far Away written by Dawn Powell and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Home is Far Away is the most precisely autobiographical of Powell’s fifteen novels. In this family chronicle set in early twentieth century Ohio, young Marcia Willard’s family struggles to keep up with the rapidly changing times, and Marcia endures disillusionment, cruelty, and betrayal to forge a survivor’s sense of independence. John Updike has compared Powell with Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, “and those other Midwestern writers who felt something epic in the national shift from rural to urban, from provincial sequestration to metropolitan liberation.” By 1941, when Powell set to work on My Home Is Far Away, she was better known for the smart, boozy, bawdy, hilarious send-ups of Manhattan high and low life. She had begun to attain a reputation for high sophistication and nothing could be less “sophisticated” – in the glittering, all-knowing, furiously present-tense, big-city manner Powell had perfected – than My Home Is Far Away. This was the month of cherries and peaches, of green apples beyond the grape arbor, of little dandelion ghosts in the grass, of sour grass and four-leaf clovers, of still dry heat holding the smell of nasturtiums and dying lilacs. This was the best month of all and the best day. It was not birthday, Easter, Christmas, or picnic, but all these things and something else, something wonderful, something utterly unknown. The two little girls in embroidered white Sunday dresses knew no way to express their secret joy but by whirling each other dizzily over the lawn crying, “We’re moving, we’re moving! We’re moving to London Junction!” My Home Is Far Away is one of the very few examples of a book written for adults, with an adult command of the language, that maintains the vantage point of a hungry, serious child throughout. It might be likened to a memoir that has been penned not with the usual tranquility of distance but rather with the sense that everything happening to the characters is happening right now, without any promise of eventual escape, without any assurance that childhood, too, shall pass away. My Home is Far Away had been out of print for sixty years when Steerforth reissued it in 1995. It received immediate widespread acclaim, and was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where Terry Teachout called it “one of the permanent masterpieces of childhood, comparable with David Copperfield, What Maisie Knew and the early reminiscences of Colette,” and where he proclaimed Powell to be “one of this country’s least recognized great novelists.”
Download or read book Travels not far from home written by Aubin St. Helier and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travels Not Far from Home written by Aubin SAINT HELIER and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Distance Too Far Home to Blessing Book 2 written by Lauraine Snelling and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astrid Bjorklund wants to use her medical training to serve God and feels that He might be leading her in the direction of missionary work. Smarting from a misunderstanding with Joshua Landsverk, the young man she thought she loved, she heads east to a missionary training school, hoping to eventually use her skills in some remote outpost in Africa. When she is called home unexpectedly to help in a family medical emergency, Astrid learns of a deadly measles outbreak on the nearby Indian reservation. She immediately senses the Spirit tugging her to help the Indians and wonders if her "mission field" is not so far away as she had imagined. But if she follows God's call, will love pass her by?
Download or read book Far From Home written by Lorelie Brown and published by Riptide Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **The marriage was of convenience. The feelings? Not so much.** My name is Rachel. I'm straight ... I think. I also have a mountain of student loans and a smart mouth. I wasn't serious when I told Pari Sadashiv I'd marry her. Except Pari needs a green card, and she's willing to give me a breather from drowning in debt."
Download or read book Home So Far Away written by Judith Berlowitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictional diary set in interwar Germany and Spain allows us to peek into the life of Klara Philipsborn, the only Communist in her merchant-class, German-Jewish family. Klara’s first visit to Seville in 1925 opens her eyes and her spirit to an era in which Spain’s major religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, shared deep cultural connections. At the same time, she is made aware of the harsh injustices that persist in Spanish society. By 1930, she has landed a position with the medical school in Madrid. Though she feels compelled to hide her Jewish identity in her predominantly Christian new home, she finds that she feels less “different” in Spain than she did in Germany, especially as she learns new ways of expressing her opinions and desires. And when the Spanish Civil War erupts in 1936, Klara (now “Clara”) enlists in the Fifth Regiment, a step that transports her across the geography of the embattled peninsula and ultimately endangers a promising relationship and even Clara’s life itself. A blending of thoroughly researched history and engrossing fiction, Home So Far Away is an epic tale that will sweep readers away.
Download or read book Far from Home written by Sarah Parker Rubio and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2019 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small boy has to leave his home suddenly, leaving his extended family and most of his possessions behind. In the middle of a very trying journey, a kind stranger tells the boy the story of Jesus' escape to Egypt.
Download or read book Far from Home written by Joseph M. Stowell and published by . This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live out a 'radical reliance' on God.When it is forgotten that God belongs at the center of all we do, Christianity becomes a task maintained by responsibilities and requirements. God becomes a distant figure in our lives. Joseph Stowell has written Far From Home to help readers regain a sense of intimacy and reliance upon the God of the universe.
Download or read book Far From Home written by Charlotte Hardy and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Convinced that life offers more than she can find in her small Irish village, Brid Flynn is reluctant to marry local boy Garrett Doyle. He may be the most eligible bachelor in her village, but she is not sure she loves him. And his quiet, persistent manner makes her uneasy. Then an accident brings Lord Harry Leighton, the handsome younger son of the local landowner, into her life. His beautiful features, gentle demeanor, and British accent remind Brid of the world outside of Ireland. In turn, Brid's beauty and wonderful singing voice captivate the young aristocrat. Brid is sure that the Prince Charming she has been waiting for has arrived at last. And when Harry asks her to follow him to London, she can imagine no obstacle to hold her back. But many a dream has been turned to dust by unforeseen circumstances - and Brid's new life may not be as carefree as she has envisioned.
Download or read book Far from Home written by Lillian Schlissel and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lillian Schlissel is a professor emerita of English and American Studies at Brooklyn CollegeCUNY. She is the author of numerous books, including The Western Women's Reader (with Catherine Lavender) and Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West. Byrd Gibbens is a professor of English at the University of New Mexico, Valencia campus, and the author of This Is a Strange Country: Letters of a Western Family 1880-1906.Elizabeth Hampsten is a professor of English at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, and the author of Settlers' Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains.
Download or read book Houses Far From Home written by Margaret Rodman Critchlow and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The houses far from home featured in this book are located in Vanuatu, a chain of islands between Fiji and Australia in the southwest Pacific. Once known as the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides, the islands were jointly administered by the British and French from 1906 to 1980. In this innovative and revealing study of a unique colonial project, Margaret Rodman tells the stories of these houses, exploring the profound differences of perspective, experience, and power that domestic spaces reveal and offering a novel look at the history of British colonialism in the Pacific. Each chapter has at its heart a house where readers can explore dimensions of race, gender, and power that domestic spaces reveal. Moving across time, between different islands and actors, between oral memories and archival documents, Margaret Rodman provides a richly documented "multi-sited ethnography" of the social history of the New Hebrides.
Download or read book Far Away Home written by Susan Denning and published by Tstd, LLC/ DBA No Limit Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's 1867 in New York City and Aislynn Denehy's close friend, Tim Nolan is forced west to find work in a Utah mining camp. Aislynn follows, enduring the treacherous trail only to find life in the raucous Treasure Mountain camp brings small joys and big challenges."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Brothers Far from Home written by Jean Little and published by Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2003 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 200,000 books in print, Dear Canada has fast become the historical fiction series for young girls. It has been two long years since Eliza's beloved older brother, Hugo, went away to war. Caught up in his enthusiasm, she couldn't understand her parent's less-than enthusiastic reaction. Now that her other brother Jack has also enlisted, she yearns for the safe return of both brothers. If only she had a friend that she could talk to about her feelings....
Download or read book Embrace the Wind written by Susan Denning and published by Tstd, LLC/ DBA No Limit Press. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aislynn Maher trusted the wrong man. To conceal her disgrace, she leaves her home and turns to the contentious US marshal of the Wyoming Territory, Orrin Sage, who is hiding a secret of his own. In Cheyenne, with its prejudice and lawlessness, it's not just difficult to do what you believe is right ─ it's potentially deadly.
Download or read book The Night is Dark and I Am Far from Home written by Jonathan Kozol and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1990 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bold inquiry into the values and goals of America's schools."--Cover.
