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Author: BRYAN. BLEARS Publisher: 2qt Limited (Publishing) ISBN: 9781914083389 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 286
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A compelling debut novel, based on a true story... 'If you had told me then how it was going to end, three thousand miles and almost two years later, would I still have walked out of the door and set off on my journey?' Twenty-year-old Cameron has left everything behind. Sleeping rough on the streets, witness to the extreme conditions facing Manchester's homeless community, he is propelled on a physical and spiritual journey which will take him far away from the life he once knew... A surprising story about mental health, friendship and redemption, this compelling debut will take you on a journey across Europe and beyond, as Cameron and his travelling companion, Jacob, navigate packs of wolves, perilous border crossings and the harsh realities of life on the road.
Author: BRYAN. BLEARS Publisher: 2qt Limited (Publishing) ISBN: 9781914083389 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
A compelling debut novel, based on a true story... 'If you had told me then how it was going to end, three thousand miles and almost two years later, would I still have walked out of the door and set off on my journey?' Twenty-year-old Cameron has left everything behind. Sleeping rough on the streets, witness to the extreme conditions facing Manchester's homeless community, he is propelled on a physical and spiritual journey which will take him far away from the life he once knew... A surprising story about mental health, friendship and redemption, this compelling debut will take you on a journey across Europe and beyond, as Cameron and his travelling companion, Jacob, navigate packs of wolves, perilous border crossings and the harsh realities of life on the road.
Author: Wendy Sanford Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1647421683 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 320
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From an author of the best-selling women’s health classic Our Bodies, Ourselves comes a bracingly forthright memoir about a life-long friendship across racial and class divides. A white woman’s necessary learning, and a Black woman’s complex evolution, make These Walls Between Us a “tender, honest, cringeworthy and powerful read.” (Debby Irving, author, Waking Up White.) In the mid-1950s, a fifteen-year-old African American teenager named Mary White (now Mary Norman) traveled north from Virginia to work for twelve-year-old Wendy Sanford’s family as a live-in domestic for their summer vacation by a remote New England beach. Over the years, Wendy's family came to depend on Mary’s skilled service—and each summer, Mary endured the extreme loneliness of their elite white beachside retreat in order to support her family. As the Black “help” and the privileged white daughter, Mary and Wendy were not slated for friendship. But years later—each divorced, each a single parent, Mary now a rising officer in corrections and Wendy a feminist health activist—they began to walk the beach together after dark, talking about their children and their work, and a friendship began to grow. Based on decades’ worth of visits, phone calls, letters, and texts between Mary and Wendy, These Walls Between Us chronicles the two women’s friendship, with a focus on what Wendy characterizes as her “oft-stumbling efforts, as a white woman, to see Mary more fully and to become a more dependable friend.” The book examines obstacles created by Wendy’s upbringing in a narrow, white, upper-class world; reveals realities of domestic service rarely acknowledged by white employers; and draws on classic works by the African American writers whose work informed and challenged Wendy along the way. Though Wendy is the work’s primary author, Mary read and commented on every draft—and together, the two friends hope their story will incite and support white readers to become more informed and accountable friends across the racial divides created by white supremacy and to become active in the ongoing movement for racial justice.
Author: J. L. Berg Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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From USA Today Bestselling author J.L. Berg, comes a breathtaking story that shows us how love truly can conquer all¿even the most damaged of hearts. Within these walls, he became my solace, my sanctuary and my strength. I am not strong. I am just a survivor of circumstance.Isn't that what we all do? Survive?Each of us has our own set of circumstances to muddle through. Mine are just more¿complicated. Born with a severe heart defect, I've seen the inside of a hospital room more than my own bedroom. I was drowning, a prisoner to the illness that owned me, until he appeared. He thinks he's blocked out the world with his tattoos and hard exterior, but I see the real Jude, the one he so desperately wants to forget. But is he the answer to my prayers or will he break my already damaged heart forever?My name is Lailah Buchanan, and this is our story of hope, redemption and sacrificing it all for the one you love.
Author: Heidi Mendez Harrison Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1514477483 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 100
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Behind these walls, it all starts overnew rules, new people, new stress, new food, and a new environment. Theres time to think, think about things I didnt before, things I hate, things I need, and the reasons Im here. Im here because of the decisions I and others have made. Im taking the fall for most and doing more time than I ever have and being put down further than I already am. Im taking disrespect, feeling as if I dont belong and never did. With all the stress building up, its hard not to explode. After being in here for so long, I barely know myself. I put on a mask, hiding my emotions and feeling nothing but being alone, unappreciated, unrecognized. Sometimes I think Im becoming a society soldier being formed into someone I dont know. I wake up every morning after sleeping like crap and see the lights that never turn off, the white brick walls, a metal toilet, a door in my favorite color. I sleep on a concrete slab, but I guess its not that bad. Im no stranger to moving. Ive slept on, eaten, and been through worse. Ive been to the point of no return, but that one thought keeps me pushin, and Im glad it has because without it, I might not have been here today. With all Ive learned and continued to learn, Im starting to see a future, and Im starting to plan, to take control, to form my life. With all the time Ive had in here to relax, I find it hard with everything on my mindmy mom, my dad, my future, my failures, and how Im going to change to create myself. One of the hardest things is being away from everything Ive worked formy work, my family, my friends, and my future. And behind these walls, some just dont understand what some of us go through. Some say were just reckless kids or we never should have been born, but what they dont know is that were just lost in an ever-growing world that is always changing and because of one decision, our lives were changed. So my message to you is this: think before every decision because your time and freedom are the most important things in our lives. Dont waste your time and freedom behind any walls besides the ones you built and build.
Author: Teal Swan Publisher: Archway Publishing ISBN: 1480861162 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 77
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Connection can exist at any level of our being: We can be mentally linked, emotionally linked, energetically linked, and/or physically linked to something. The Connection Process presents three powerful esoteric processes that restore you from a state of separation to a state of connection with yourself and others. By engaging in the processes, youll be able to: perceive fundamental truths about yourself and others; see, hear, feel, and understand yourself and others; and develop a deep sense of connectedness with the world. Think about how good it would feel for someone to completely understand youand how great it would be if they were so perceptive of your internal world that they knew exactly what you need or what to say. Think of how good it would be to enjoy harmony in your relationships instead of suffering through conflicts. Connect with yourself, others, and the world around you with your heart, body, emotion, and mindand enjoy the lasting joy that comes from making true connections.
Author: John Rodden Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317249410 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 346
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The Walls That Remain explores the trauma of German reunification in 1990 as it affected ordinary Eastern and Western Germans. Told mainly in their own words, this book features the voices of those Germans who have suffered as well as profited from the transformations in German society since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and Germany's reunification in October 1990.
Author: David Frye Publisher: Scribner ISBN: 1501172719 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 304
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“A lively popular history of an oft-overlooked element in the development of human society” (Library Journal)—walls—and a haunting and eye-opening saga that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live. With esteemed historian David Frye as our raconteur-guide in Walls, which Publishers Weekly praises as “informative, relevant, and thought-provoking,” we journey back to a time before barriers of brick and stone even existed—to an era in which nomadic tribes vied for scarce resources, and each man was bred to a life of struggle. Ultimately, those same men would create edifices of mud, brick, and stone, and with them effectively divide humanity: on one side were those the walls protected; on the other, those the walls kept out. The stars of this narrative are the walls themselves—rising up in places as ancient and exotic as Mesopotamia, Babylon, Greece, China, Rome, Mongolia, Afghanistan, the lower Mississippi, and even Central America. As we journey across time and place, we discover a hidden, thousand-mile-long wall in Asia's steppes; learn of bizarre Spartan rituals; watch Mongol chieftains lead their miles-long hordes; witness the epic siege of Constantinople; chill at the fate of French explorers; marvel at the folly of the Maginot Line; tense at the gathering crisis in Cold War Berlin; gape at Hollywood’s gated royalty; and contemplate the wall mania of our own era. Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as “provocative, well-written, and—with walls rising everywhere on the planet—timely,” Walls gradually reveals the startling ways that barriers have affected our psyches. The questions this book summons are both intriguing and profound: Did walls make civilization possible? And can we live without them? Find out in this masterpiece of historical recovery and preeminent storytelling.
Author: Audrey Y. Woodsum Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1312843969 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 265
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Avis Williams is spending her summer before college working as an intern at The Los Angeles Times. Due to the cracks of her past, however, trust is not an option. Yet over the summer she learns to trust not only her sister for the first time, but also her new acquaintance and boss, Ben. The novel follows her growth and development as she learns to let people in - becoming vulnerable, yet maintaining her independence.
Author: Rev. Carroll Pickett Publisher: Crossroad Press ISBN: Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 299
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FORMER TEXAS PRISON CHAPLAIN REV. CARROLL PICKETT, WORKING WITH TWO-TIME EDGAR AWARD WINNER AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR CARLTON STOWERS, PROVIDES THIS ELOQUENT, UNFLINCHING LOOK AT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. Within These Walls is the powerful memoir of Rev. Carroll Pickett, who spent fifteen years as the death house chaplain at “The Walls,” the Huntsville unit of the Texas prison system. In that capacity, Reverend Pickett ministered to ninety-five men before they were put to death by lethal injection. They came with sinister nicknames like “The Candy Man” and “The Good Samaritan Killer,” some contrite, some angry—a few who might even have been innocent. All of them found in Reverend Pickett their last chance for an unbiased confessor who would look at them only as fellow humans, not simply as the convicted criminals the rest of society had already dismissed them as. This firsthand experience gave Reverend Pickett the unique insight needed to write an impassioned statement on the realities of capital punishment in America. The result is a thought-provoking and compelling book that takes the reader inside the criminal mind, inside the execution chamber, and inside the heart of a remarkable man who shares his thoughts and observations not only about capital punishment, but about the dark world of prison society
Author: BRYAN. BLEARS
Author: BRYAN. BLEARS
Author: Wendy Sanford
Author: J. L. Berg
Author: Heidi Mendez Harrison
Author: Teal Swan
Author: Jeannette Walls
Author: John Rodden
Author: David Frye
Author: Audrey Y. Woodsum
Author: Rev. Carroll Pickett