Book Description
Parents of teenage boys experience the obstacles, trials, and rewards of using international adoption to add a little girl--Katya, an orphan from Russia--to their family.
Author : John M. Simmons
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 2007-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780972591614
Parents of teenage boys experience the obstacles, trials, and rewards of using international adoption to add a little girl--Katya, an orphan from Russia--to their family.
Author : Radhanath Swami
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1608879852
The story of one man’s journey from his youth in suburban Chicago to an adult in spiritual India and a world of mystics, yogis, and gurus. Within this extraordinary memoir, Radhanath Swami weaves a colorful tapestry of adventure, mysticism, and love. Readers follow Richard Slavin from the suburbs of Chicago to the caves of the Himalayas as he transforms from young seeker to renowned spiritual guide. The Journey Home is an intimate account of the steps to self-awareness and also a penetrating glimpse into the heart of mystic traditions and the challenges that all souls must face on the road to inner harmony and a union with the Divine. Through near-death encounters, apprenticeships with advanced yogis, and years of travel along the pilgrim’s path, Radhanath Swami eventually reaches the inner sanctum of India’s mystic culture and finds the love he has been seeking. It is a tale told with rare candor, immersing the reader in a journey that is at once engaging, humorous, and heartwarming. Praise for The Journey Home “Here is an inspiring chapter of “our story” of spiritual pilgrimage to the East. It shows the inner journey of awakening in a fascinating and spellbinding way.” —Ram Dass, author, Be Here Now “He tells his story with remarkable honest—the temptations of the 1970s, his doubts, hopes, and disappointments, the culture shock, and the friendships found and lost . . . Add a zest of danger, suspense, and surprise, and Radhanath Swami’s story is a deep, genuine memoir that reads like a novel.” —Brigitte Sion, assistant professor of Religious Studies, New York University
Author : Frann Preston-Gannon
Publisher : Pavilion Children's
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1843652447
"A thought-provoking story with a powerful message about conservation" The Guardian The ice is melting so Polar Bear sets off in search of a new home. Join him on his adventures across the seas and discover the many friends he meets along the way. This beautifully illustrated story has a powerful message of conservation and is full of things for parents and children to talk about. Frann was the winner of an amazing Sendak Fellowship and spent a month living with the great Maurice Sendak himself at his home in Connecticut, USA. She worked on The Journey Home during her stay.
Author : Helen Hughes Vick
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 37,42 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781571400000
Walker leads his people from their cliff dwellings across the high desert to the Hopi mesas.
Author : Margaret Robison
Publisher : Random House
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1588369226
First introduced to the world in her sons’ now-classic memoirs—Augusten Burroughs’s Running with Scissors and John Elder Robison’s Look Me in the Eye—Margaret Robison now tells her own haunting and lyrical story. A poet and teacher by profession, Robison describes her Southern Gothic childhood, her marriage to a handsome, brilliant man who became a split-personality alcoholic and abusive husband, the challenges she faced raising two children while having psychotic breakdowns of her own, and her struggle to regain her sanity. Robison grew up in southern Georgia, where the façade of 1950s propriety masked all sorts of demons, including alcoholism, misogyny, repressed homosexuality, and suicide. She met her husband, John Robison, in college, and together they moved up north, where John embarked upon a successful academic career and Margaret brought up the children and worked on her art and poetry. Yet her husband’s alcoholism and her collapse into psychosis, and the eventual disintegration of their marriage, took a tremendous toll on their family: Her older son, John Elder, moved out of the house when he was a teenager, and her younger son, Chris (who later renamed himself Augusten), never completed high school. When Margaret met Dr. Rodolph Turcotte, the therapist who was treating her husband, she felt understood for the first time and quickly fell under his idiosyncratic and, eventually, harmful influence. Robison writes movingly and honestly about her mental illness, her shortcomings as a parent, her difficult marriage, her traumatic relationship with Dr. Turcotte, and her two now-famous children, Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison, who have each written bestselling memoirs about their family. She also writes inspiringly about her hard-earned journey to sanity and clarity. An astonishing and enduring story, The Long Journey Home is a remarkable and ultimately uplifting account of a complicated, afflicted twentieth-century family.
Author : Jeremy Pierre
Publisher : Shepherd Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1633421805
Author Jeremy Pierre and illustrator Cassandra Clark want to awaken children to a brave journey―a journey home. This beautifully illustrated tale traces the theme of God’s presence through the storyline of Scripture. People were created to be with God but lost their nearness to him at the fall. So God sent his Son Jesus Christ to cross that distance, making a way for people to follow him on their own journey home. This book seeks to connect a child’s experience of a hurting world with the larger story of God’s redemption of all things, inspiring them to courage and to joy for their journey. Immersive illustrations and poetic wordplay throughout will keep your child returning to the pages of this book. God With Us presents your children with: One Panoramic Theme: Your children will see in panoramic display one grand theme at the heart of Scripture’s story, from Genesis to Revelation: the presence of God. Jesus Christ: Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is presented to your children as the fulfillment of everything they were made to be. Realism About Life: This is an honest storybook about a fallen world, full of excitement and joy as well as sadness and fear. Luxurious Visuals: The full-color illustrations are intentionally arranged to move between large sweeping landscapes and small arresting moments, evoking in children a sense of awe at the grand scale of life, even in the daily moments. An Experience for the Eyes, Ears, and Heart: Art―in visual, audible, and verbal form―makes beautiful the things that God calls beautiful. This book will capture your children’s imagination. This dramatized, Read-Aloud Edition brings each chapter to life with narration, music, sound effects, and visual cues for children to enjoy.
Author : Susan Smith-Josephy
Publisher : Extraordinary Women (Caitlin P
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781894759540
In 1926, Lillian Alling, a European immigrant, set out on a journey home from New York. She had little money and no transportation, but plenty of determination. In the three years that followed, Alling walked all the way to Dawson City, Yukon, crossing the North American continent on foot. Finally, on a make-shift raft, she sailed alone down the Yukon River from Dawson City all the way to the Bering Sea. Lillian Alling has been the subject of novels, plays, epic poems, an opera and more tall tales than can be remembered, but as legendary as she may be, the true story of Lillian Alling has never been told. Lillian Alling: The Journey Home is a collection of personal documents, first-hand recollections, family tales and archival research that provide tantalizing new clues to Lillians story. Smith-Josephy places Lillian firmly in the context of history and among the cast of unique and colourful characters she met along her journey.
Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 1995-05-13
Category :
ISBN : 9780099441601
Author : Lucie Grimm
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 14,48 MB
Release : 2012-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781617507670
THE STORY OF A YOUNG GIRL'S JOURNEY FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA TO AMERICA DURING THE COMMUNIST INVASION OF THE 1980s. BASED ON A TRUE STORY. This book depicts the story of Performing Artist Lucie Zolcerova Grimm's immigration to the United States told through the eyes of a young Lucie.
Author : Kate DiCamillo
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 076364367X
Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories. Jr Lib Guild. Teacher's Guide available. Reprint.