Download or read book The Journey Back written by Priscilla Cummings and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenage boy faces his past and seeks redemption in the gripping companion book to Red Kayak Nine months in a juvenile detention facility was the punishment for his crime. After just a month he makes a bold escape that nearly kills him and soon an angry fourteen-year-old Digger is on the run. When injuries stop him, Digger hides at a riverside campground, where he befriends a young boy and a girl his own age. New friends, a job caring for rescued horses, and risking his life to save another make Digger realize that the journey back is not just about getting home. But he come to terms with his troubled past and face what he's really running from?
Download or read book The Journey Back written by Houston A. Baker (Jr.) and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses 18th-century black writers, the autobiographical writings of slaves, the works of Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Baraka, and Brooks, and traditional approaches to African-American literature.
Download or read book The Journey Back to Now written by Robert Sherrill and published by RCS Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey suggests the passage from one place to another. Each journey is different. Some paths prove more turbulent. Some days are more sunny. But the journey always makes you better. The Journey Back to Now is the autobiographical work of Robert Sherrill, a Nashville native, and shows how the paths he took led him back to his now. TJB2N chronicles how through poverty, street life, drug charges and time in prison, Robert was able to find redemption and a second chance at life. Battling addiction, succumbing to the vices of life on the corner and struggling to find himself, Robert became entangled in a web hard to escape from. While he reached new heights, the price of notoriety and success turned out to be pretty high. Losing everything was the exact thing he needed to get him on his journey back to now.
Download or read book The Journey Back to the Beginning written by James Lagoski and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As I sit down to write this page introducing the ninth chapter of The Journey, I find myself grateful for the life I've been granted. Time can be a harsh measurement while we're in this physical state stumbling past endeavors meant to help us find ourselves. So I never began to understand events that began this gift I call "The Journey" 13 years ago would lead my life where it is today. I've been literally taught how to mentally explore depths and boundaries of knowledge detailing our own existence by a power I could never adequately begin to explain or describe. Because the truth is far too vast and it's complicated by endless connecting of questions, possibilities and answers, each intertwined around our personal experiences within this lifetime. And today watching all aspects of previous predictions unfold, I am saddened by facts that will disrupt life as we've known it.
Download or read book Journey written by Aaron Becker and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winner of the prestigious Caldecott Honor, and described by the New York Times as 'a masterwork', Aaron Becker's stunning, wordless picture book debut about self-determination and unexpected friendship follows a little girl who draws a magic door on her bedroom wall. Through it she escapes into a world where wonder, adventure and danger abound. Red marker pen in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon and a flying carpet which carry her on a spectacular journey ... who knows where? When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage and kindness can set her free. Can it also guide her home and to happiness? In this exquisitely illustrated book, an ordinary child is launched on an extraordinary, magical journey towards her greatest and most rewarding adventure of all...
Download or read book My Journey Back Home written by Dawn Watson and published by Editora Gente Liv e Edit Ltd. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes pain makes its mark on our lifes in such profound ways that it feels like they start to define who we are. The more we try to hide the pain by wearing masks to show the world that "everything is fine", the more that pain does not allow us to have a life full of real love and real joy. My story is about this kind of pain. But beyond that, it's about the real process of healing. It's about how I finally understood the reason for so much suffering. Amid all the mess in my life, I found my way back to my safe harbor, to my truth and my self-love. In this book, my deepest desire is to take you the reader on a journey of love, understanding and acceptance, so that you can: Leave behind the cycle of suffering and experience the relief and support you will need for the next steps; Rebuild your relationships, starting with yourself followed by everyone who is important in your life; Reconnect with your self-value and your own truth, so that you can live according to your purpose in life; Experience forgiveness and allow yourself to be truthfully happy; Free the strength inside yourself!
Download or read book Street Players written by Kinohi Nishikawa and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uncontested center of the black pulp fiction universe for more than four decades was the Los Angeles publisher Holloway House. From the late 1960s until it closed in 2008, Holloway House specialized in cheap paperbacks with page-turning narratives featuring black protagonists in crime stories, conspiracy thrillers, prison novels, and Westerns. From Iceberg Slim’s Pimp to Donald Goines’s Never Die Alone, the thread that tied all of these books together—and made them distinct from the majority of American pulp—was an unfailing veneration of black masculinity. Zeroing in on Holloway House, Street Players explores how this world of black pulp fiction was produced, received, and recreated over time and across different communities of readers. Kinohi Nishikawa contends that black pulp fiction was built on white readers’ fears of the feminization of society—and the appeal of black masculinity as a way to counter it. In essence, it was the original form of blaxploitation: a strategy of mass-marketing race to suit the reactionary fantasies of a white audience. But while chauvinism and misogyny remained troubling yet constitutive aspects of this literature, from 1973 onward, Holloway House moved away from publishing sleaze for a white audience to publishing solely for black readers. The standard account of this literary phenomenon is based almost entirely on where this literature ended up: in the hands of black, male, working-class readers. When it closed, Holloway House was synonymous with genre fiction written by black authors for black readers—a field of cultural production that Nishikawa terms the black literary underground. But as Street Players demonstrates, this cultural authenticity had to be created, promoted, and in some cases made up, and there is a story of exploitation at the heart of black pulp fiction’s origins that cannot be ignored.
Download or read book Off Air written by Sheba Turk and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hit the gas pedal with your career! Sheba Turk is an anchorwoman like no other. Strong and capable, she forged a path to her successful career with perseverance and hard work. She seized the opportunities given to her and overcame enormous obstacles along the way. In her timely and moving book, Turk shows us that we, too, can smooth that bumpy path using the wisdom earned in the early stages of her own career. She covers topics ranging from mentorship to establishing your own brand. Off Air is perfect for anyone starting out on their own career path, particularly in media journalism or entertainment, or anyone interested in how to overcome their own obstacles, wherever their adventure may begin. A forward by Turk's mentor, Soledad O'Brien brings this journey full circle and adds an extra level of inspiration.
Download or read book It s Not About the Bike written by Lance Armstrong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The champion cyclist recounts his diagnosis with cancer, the grueling treatments during which he was given a less than twenty percent chance for survival, his surprising victory in the 1999 Tour de France, and the birth of his son.
Download or read book Loop of Jade written by Sarah Howe and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2015* *WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PETERS FRASER + DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2015* There is a Chinese proverb that says: ‘It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.’ But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots. With extraordinary range and power, the poems build into a meditation on hybridity, intermarriage and love – what meaning we find in the world, in art, and in each other. Crossing the bounds of time, race and language, this is an enthralling exploration of self and place, of migration and inheritance, and introduces an unmistakable new voice in British poetry.
Download or read book Red Kayak written by Priscilla Cummings and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brady loves life on the Chesapeake Bay with his friends J.T. and Digger. But developers and rich families are moving into the area, and while Brady befriends some of them, like the DiAngelos, his parents and friends are bitter about the changes. Tragedy strikes when the DiAngelos’ kayak overturns in the bay, and Brady wonders if it was more than an accident. Soon, Brady discovers the terrible truth behind the kayak’s sinking, and it will change the lives of those he loves forever. Priscilla Cummings deftly weaves a suspenseful tale of three teenagers caught in a wicked web of deception.
Download or read book Counting to God written by Douglas Ell and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in his academic science background and life-long independent study, the author presents his insights into how modern science supports of the existence of God.
Download or read book Journey Back To Watooka written by Steve Connolly and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open Journey Back To Watooka and take a reading leap out of your ordinary world into one that is truly unique, remarkable and mesmerizing ... that of Guyana. Locate it and master your mind to the magniffcent wonders of rainforest ora, fauna and flying things. Follow the Demerara ‘river of wonder’ upstream to the pulsating heart of bauxite country ... to Linden ...and to Watooka. Understand more about Guyana’s precious bauxite resource, about its history and of how the country, working with Canada, had helped to win WWII by producing aluminium to construct almost 40% of Allied war planes. Learn about the history and colourful culture of the only English speaking country in South America and the only country in the Caribbean that is not an island. Discover its rich past before, during and a er slavery. Enjoy seemingly endless stories of amazing people of six races entwined with history and achievement, not only in the country but also around the world. Counting explorers, slaves, quoted notables, common folks, politicians, government and business VIPs, engineers, academics, clergy, authors/poets, Amerindians, social workers and others, over 800 names are given mention. Enjoy this reading journey ... this ’story of stories’ written by a master story teller. And, learn about the promising future for this third world country about to cross forth into a first world future.
Download or read book The Beginning of the Journey written by Diana Trilling and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1993 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A uniquely revealing account of the coming-of-age of a remarkable literary couple: Lionel Trilling, the renowned professor of English at Columbia University and one of America's preeminent literary critics, and Diana Trilling, an outstanding critic of culture and politics. Photos.
Download or read book The Journey written by Frenci Sanna and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ". . . a wonderful teaching tool for those who are welcoming refugees into their community."—The New York Times With haunting echoes of the current refugee crisis this beautifully illustrated book explores the unimaginable decisions made as a family leave their home and everything they know to escape the turmoil and tragedy brought by war. This book will stay with you long after the last page is turned. From the author: The Journey is actually a story about many journeys, and it began with the story of two girls I met in a refugee center in Italy. After meeting them I realized that behind their journey lay something very powerful. So I began collecting more stories of migration and interviewing many people from many different countries. A few months later, in September 2014, when I started studying a Master of Arts in Illustration at the Academy of Lucerne, I knew I wanted to create a book about these true stories. Almost every day on the news we hear the terms "migrants" and "refugees" but we rarely ever speak to or hear the personal journeys that they have had to take. This book is a collage of all those personal stories and the incredible strength of the people within them.
Download or read book The Journey Back to Me written by Leondra Harris and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journey back to me started with my mind, body and spirit and oh did it feel so good. My mind would linger in the past at times but I know that when my God takes something away he will always have something better for me. My mind has been placed at ease. I am able to sleep the nights through now. I can breathe again. This is the peace of God that surpasses all understanding. This is the peace of me loving me on a different level. This is where I close my eyes and say hmm for God's goodness, grace and mercy. Now when I walk into my apartment there is a warmth of love. It was me that I have been missing. The greatest love was inside of me all along. Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world. I was the one that made my house a home.
Download or read book The Journey Back One Man s Fight written by Anne Papsodero and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a harrowing true story of how one man overcame a near-death experience and lived to tell about it. He fought every day with his wife and children by his side. Relearning everything from speaking to feeding himself, his wife never gave up hope. No matter what the cost, his wife would do it to make sure that he was well taken care of. She spent many sleepless nights wondering when he would be coming home. Balancing a full-time job, family, discord and her husband clinging to life, and kids, she was at her wits end and needed all the support she could get. Reluctantly she moved her mother-in-law in with her. Would her husband make a full recovery? Would life return to normal? That and many other questions still remained unanswered.
