My Long Trip Home
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My Long Trip Home
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Author : Mark Whitaker
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-10-18
My Long Trip Home written by Mark Whitaker and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In a dramatic, moving work of historical reporting and personal discovery, Mark Whitaker, award-winning journalist, sets out to trace the story of what happened to his parents, a fascinating but star-crossed interracial couple, and arrives at a new understanding of the family dramas that shaped their lives—and his own. His father, “Syl” Whitaker, was the charismatic grandson of slaves who grew up the child of black undertakers from Pittsburgh and went on to become a groundbreaking scholar of Africa. His mother, Jeanne Theis, was a shy World War II refugee from France whose father, a Huguenot pastor, helped hide thousands of Jews from the Nazis and Vichy police. They met in the mid-1950s, when he was a college student and she was his professor, and they carried on a secret romance for more than a year before marrying and having two boys. Eventually they split in a bitter divorce that was followed by decades of unhappiness as his mother coped with self-recrimination and depression while trying to raise her sons by herself, and his father spiraled into an alcoholic descent that destroyed his once meteoric career. Based on extensive interviews and documentary research as well as his own personal recollections and insights, My Long Trip Home is a reporter’s search for the factual and emotional truth about a complicated and compelling family, a successful adult’s exploration of how he rose from a turbulent childhood to a groundbreaking career, and, ultimately, a son’s haunting meditation on the nature of love, loss, identity, and forgiveness.
The Longest Trip Home
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Author : John Grogan
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-06
The Longest Trip Home written by John Grogan and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Meet the Grogans Before there was Marley, there was a gleefully mischievous boy navigating his way through the seismic social upheaval of the 1960s. On the one side were his loving but comically traditional parents, whose expectations were clear. On the other were his neighborhood pals and all the misdeeds that followed. The more young John tried to straddle these two worlds, the more spectacularly, and hilariously, he failed. Told with Grogan's trademark humor and affection, The Longest Trip Home is the story of one son's journey into adulthood to claim his place in the world. It is a story of faith and reconciliation, breaking away and finding the way home again, and learning in the end that a family's love will triumph over its differences.
Road Trip Home
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Author : Steven E. Ellis
language : en
Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.
Release Date : 2016-11-28
Road Trip Home written by Steven E. Ellis and has been published by First Edition Design Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-28 with Religion categories.
The Trip Back Home
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Author : Janet S. Wong
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2000
The Trip Back Home written by Janet S. Wong and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A young girl and her mother travel to Korea to visit their extended family.
The Longest Trip Home
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Author : John Grogan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Longest Trip Home written by John Grogan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Journalists categories.
The story of a son in the making--a universal journey of love, faith, and family that explores what it means to break away and find the way home once again.
The Longest Trip Home
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Author : John Grogan
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-05-28
The Longest Trip Home written by John Grogan and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
**FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING MARLEY & ME** 'Genuinely heartrending' NEW YORK TIMES 'Wry and witty' WASHINGTON POST 'Grogan makes readers feel they have a seat at the family dinner table' PEOPLE * * * * * * Finding your place in the world can be the longest trip home. In his bestselling Marley & Me, John Grogan perfectly described one family's love for their wondrously neurotic dog. He made us laugh and cry, and showed how unconditional love can come in many forms. Now, in The Longest Trip Home, John writes with the same honesty, openness and humour about the relationship between a son and his parents. As a 'bad' boy in a good family, John didn't always live up to his parents' expectations, but as a man he came to understand the love they gave him every day of his life. In The Longest Trip Home John describes his painful, funny and poignant journey into adulthood. A fateful call from his father would lead him on the next leg of his journey - the trip back home. At its heart, this is a universal story about growing up, and making peace with your parents before it's too late. As warm and moving as Marley & Me, The Longest Trip Home is a tribute to the power of family and love.
Born And Raised In Sawdust
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Author : Lewis Thigpen Ph.D. PE
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2019-10-21
Born And Raised In Sawdust written by Lewis Thigpen Ph.D. PE and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Born and Raised in Sawdust: My Journey Around the World in Eighty Years is the deeply moving autobiography of Lewis Thigpen as a black boy growing up in a loving family in a small, tight knit community in the deep South during the extremely segregated Jim Crow era. It captures his life on the farm and in school in a revealing, instructive, yet colorful way despite the discrimination he encountered. Fearful of being a farm worker or common laborer for the rest of his life, he joined the U.S. Army, where racism persisted even though President Truman had ordered desegregation of the entire military in 1948. He served for three years. Against the odds, Thigpen persevered. Despite adversity and lack of money, he attended college, earned the Ph.D. degree, and became a renowned engineer, research scientist, and scholar. He rose to become chair of mechanical engineering at a distinguished university. The book is an easy read, designed for those who choose to pick it up at a bookstore, order it online, check it out at their public library, or download it to Kindle or other apps. It is a valuable addition to the canon of biographies, histories, literary works and cultural studies of the South. It captures the mood of Southern writers such as Flannery O’Conner, Pearl Cleage, William Faulkner, Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. Readers interested in family history and ancestry will love tracing through Dr. Thigpen’s family tree, photographs and drawings. One photo shows him holding a silver salmon, the outcome of one of his favorite hobbies—fishing. In his autobiography, Dr. Thigpen brings the clarity and conciseness of an engineer and research scientist who has written and published numerous articles in refereed journals.
Seeing Things
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Author : Gerry Eugene
language : en
Publisher: Next Chapter
Release Date : 2023-01-16
Seeing Things written by Gerry Eugene and has been published by Next Chapter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-16 with Fiction categories.
Seeing Things is collection of lyrical narratives that focus on joy, grief, courage, fear, love. The twenty-three visions in this collection wrestle with the universal verities of our lives. Each chapter of the volume is a stand-alone vision, yet the chapters work together to create a single voice, building and spotlighting the strength we all must find as we move through our lives. The book focuses on the drawing-in of family, friends, and nature in those moments that shape us in the crucible.
Ballou S Monthly Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
Ballou S Monthly Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with categories.
My Long Road Home M
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Author : Jack David Berns
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date :
My Long Road Home M written by Jack David Berns and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.