The Long Walk

• Author : Stephen King
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 16 February 2016

A young boy has been selected to be one of 100 to take the Long Walk--a deadly contest of endurance and determination, in which each step could be his last.;8.

• Author : Kerry Greenwood
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 01 March 2011

What do you do when your mother falls ill and is sent to a rest home, and your father is away working on the Great Ocean Road? How do you survive when the only things you have are the clothes on your back and the promise you made to keep your family together? For Isa Wyatt, there's only one thing she can do. She gathers together her brothers and her sister, packs an old pram with their belongings, and sets

• Author : Raymond J. Castellani
• Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
• Release : 02 February 2017

The Long Walk Home – will most likely be the last book I write – I am eighty-three years old – this book is important to me – it goes over to a degree what has been said in my previous books – The End Was A Beginning – the first – the second The Silent Voice – in much more detail – it is threaded with the never- ending presence of loneliness – but more significantly it brings forth the Four Absolutes – Honesty – Purity – Unselfishness – Love – which were given

• Author : Scott C. Anderson
• Publisher : Lulu Press, Inc
• Release : 23 October 2017

This is a story of loneliness and fulfillment. A young man will leave the paradise of his blue-water world and start a journey to find and save his people. An occupation could be called slavery, depending on your viewpoint. Dhan Sokin will fight for his people, so they in turn can fight for their own freedom. A young woman will discover that the leaders of her people place a finite price on personal value. During a negotiation, a battleship captain

• Author : Devon W. Carbado,Donald Weise
• Publisher : Beacon Press
• Release : 21 August 2012

In this groundbreaking compilation of first-person accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon, editors Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise have recovered twelve narratives spanning eight decades—more than half of which have been long out of print. Told in the voices of the runaway slaves themselves, these narratives reveal the extraordinary and often innovative ways that these men and women sought freedom and demanded citizenship. Also included is an essay by UCLA history professor Brenda Stevenson that contextualizes these narratives,

• Author : Sean Rothery
• Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
• Release : 08 April 2014

Patronising advice by a doctor at a retirement course to ‘walk a couple of miles a day’ challenges architect Sean Rothery to take a proper walk and so, at the age of sixty-five, he sets out to walk the GR5, the Grande Randonée Cinq. From the steely grey North Sea to the intense blue Mediterranean, Sean’s 2,300km-long route follows a network of old trails, forest paths, canal banks, Alpine valleys and passes. Along the way, he recounts some

• Author : Kevin J. Ward
• Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
• Release : 15 November 2019

Sean Cleary has decided that on New Year's Eve, the night of his thirtieth anniversary, he no longer can go on with a marriage that seems to have lost any sense of love. At a large holiday gala, he begins walking to the woman he once adored, now waiting for him at the far end of a crowded corridor. Along this short journey, he encounters people and events that cause him to reflect on what happened to his relationship with

• Author : George Meegan
• Publisher : Book Venture Publishing LLC
• Release : 31 May 2018

In 2000, he brought out “Democracy Reaches the Kids!” This garnered the only “Extraordinary” US Visa ever issued in education. He’d found that western education itself was responsible for the loss of first nation languages & culture, worldwide — one every day. His discovery could instead guarantee them all! To preserve these treasures has become the central mission of George’s outgoing years.

• Author : Diane Amos
• Publisher : HarperCollins UK
• Release : 13 June 2014

DO TEENAGE GIRLS COME WITH INSTRUCTION MANUALS? The call came out of the blue–Annie's sister Dana is in rehab...can her thirteen-year-old daughter come stay in Maine with Annie? But the wild child in black and piercings is not the sweet little girl Annie remembers.

• Author : Jessica Lopez
• Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
• Release : 12 September 2022

Everyone has a story. Some share the story, and some never make it out alive to talk about it. A Long Walk to America shares real-life lessons from the young life of Los, a boy from El Salvador, who walks to America with his best friend. Los escaped from the civil war in his homeland in the 1990s as a child war soldier. Growing up in the civil war, he had seen death squads and violence every day. Los shares

• Author : I. H. Venden Driesen
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 1997

This Highly Stimulating Study On Indian Labour In Sri Lanka Makes A Rich Contribution To The Scholarly Areas Of Economics Growth, Immigrant Studies, Indo Sri Lankan Relations, South Asian Studies And Inter-Disciplinary Studies.

• Author : Elsa Joubert
• Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
• Release : 11 November 2014

Voted one of the hundred most important books published in Africa during the last century. Winner of the WA Hofmeyr Prize, the CNA Literary Award and the Louis Luyt Prize.Sharing the language and religion or the Afrikaners bent on her people's subjugation, Poppie Nongena - a Xhosa woman born in an Upington township - has no choice but to negotiate the riptide of structural violence that is apartheid South Africa. Rootless, her ailing husband emasculated by legislation and her

• Author : Slavomir Rawicz
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 29 June 2010

'I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves' Slavomir Rawicz Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 19 November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to twenty-five years in a gulag. After a three-month journey in the dead of winter to Siberia, life in a Soviet labour camp

• Author : Stephen King
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 01 January 2016

In this #1 national bestseller, “master storyteller” (Houston Chronicle) Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, tells the tale of the contestants of a grueling walking competition where there can only be one winner—the one that survives. “I give my congratulations to the winner among your number, and my acknowledgements of valor to the losers.” Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as The Long

• Author : John Holiday,Robert S. McPherson
• Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
• Release : 01 February 2023

"In the second part of the book, Holiday details the family and tribal teachings he has acquired over a long life. He tells his grandparents' stories of the Long Walk era, discusses local attitudes about the land, relates Navajo religious stories, and recounts his training as a medicine man. All of Holiday's experiences and teachings reflect the thoughts of a traditional practitioner who has found in life both beauty and lessons for future generations."--BOOK JACKET.