Just Looking Back

Author : Michael Pilbro
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504946596
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Looking Back written by Michael Pilbro and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 1943, I might have seen some progress in the fight against Nazi Germany, but bombs were still falling on the city in which I lived. Amidst this chaos, I entered the world on April 29, 1943, and began a life, which offered much variety and a fair degree of excitement. The work in a government agency, the years volunteering as a special police officer, the several failed marriages, and the finding of my birth family following my early adoption kept me extremely occupied for most of my life. I soon began to learn what life was all about. There were never any easy answers, and I resented the suggestion that I was just lucky! All I needed in my early years was, admittedly, some sweets and comics and sufficient entertainment to keep me happy. Later, life became harder and, often, decidedly unhappier. This is perhaps where I should begin. My life was amusing and sad in equal proportions, but above all, it represents a genuine account of a very average life lived by many in a very ordinary environment that seemed to answer more questions than were ever posed.

Author : Charles Miller a.k.a. Manzana
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1682139395
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Looking Back, Iand'm Still Blessed written by Charles Miller a.k.a. Manzana and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Delisted

Author : Sallie Biles
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450084354
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just to Look Back written by Sallie Biles and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the author, Just to Look Back is her collective memory of childhood relationships and family dynamics. She expresses this in her poems. She describes how she met many people during her lifetime, and as she has traveled along life’s path, most of these people are no longer around her. That’s why she has expressed how she remembers them and how they influenced her life.

Author : Lois Lowry
Publisher : Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780385326995
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking Back written by Lois Lowry and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People are constantly asking two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry where she gets her ideas. In this fascinating memoir, Lowry answers this question, through recollections of childhood friends and pictures and memories that explore her rich family history. She recounts the pivotal moments that inspired her writing, describing how they magically turned into fiction along the complicated passageway called life. Lowry fans, as well as anyone interested in understanding the process of writing fiction, will benefit from this poignant trip through the past and the present of a remarkable writer.

Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781492149248
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking Backward: 2000-1887 written by Edward Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian science fiction novel by Edward Bellamy, a lawyer and writer from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts; it was first published in 1887. According to Erich Fromm, Looking Backward is "one of the most remarkable books ever published in America".

Author : Lois Lowry
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395895436
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking Back written by Lois Lowry and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using family photographs and quotes from her books, the author provides glimpses into her life.

Author : Achut Deng
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374389713
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don't Look Back written by Achut Deng and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this propulsive memoir from Achut Deng and Keely Hutton, inspired by a harrowing New York Times article, Don't Look Back tells a powerful story showing both the ugliness and the beauty of humanity, and the power of not giving up. I want life. After a deadly attack in South Sudan left six-year-old Achut Deng without a family, she lived in refugee camps for ten years, until a refugee relocation program gave her the opportunity to move to the United States. When asked why she should be given a chance to leave the camp, Achut simply told the interviewer: I want life. But the chance at starting a new life in a new country came with a different set of challenges. Some of them equally deadly. Taught by the strong women in her life not to look back, Achut kept moving forward, overcoming one obstacle after another, facing each day with hope and faith in her future. Yet, just as Achut began to think of the US as her home, a tie to her old life resurfaced, and for the first time, she had no choice but to remember her past.

Author : Grandpa Chan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593188683
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking Back Life Was Beautiful written by Grandpa Chan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the Webby award-winning Instagram account Drawings for My Grandchildren, this beautifully-illustrated book celebrates the special love shared between grandparents and their grandchildren. Like many grandparents wishing to stay close to their grandchildren in a world in which so many families are spread across the globe, Korean grandparents Grandpa Chan and Grandma Marina, decided to learn how to use Instagram as a way to stay connected. What started as an intimate family project, their Instagram page @drawings_for_my_grandchildren has attracted a large following and their story has been featured in major press around the world. This book inspired by their Instagram page features Chan's watercolors accompanied by Marina's texts. Whether it's to celebrate Astro becoming a big brother to Lua or to share the story of how the grandparents met for the first time and fell in love during their college years, Looking Back Life was Beautiful echoes with the kind of family love that spans generations and traverses geography. A testament to the great wisdom only grandparents can provide to younger generations, Looking Back Life Was Beautiful will inspire families to always stay close and connected.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525521291
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Only Story written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes “a brilliant, rueful look at love—what we do for it, how we experience it and what makes it die” (People). One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, nineteen-year-old Paul comes home from university and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. There he’s partnered with Susan Macleod, a fine player who’s forty-eight, confident, witty, and married, with two nearly adult daughters. She is a warm companion, her bond with Paul immediate. And soon, inevitably, they are lovers. Basking in the glow of one another, they set up house together in London. Decades later, Paul looks back at how they fell in love and how—gradually, relentlessly—everything fell apart. As he turns over his only story in his mind, examining it from different vantage points, he finds himself confronted with the contradictions and slips of his own memory—and the ways in which our narratives and our lives shape one another. Poignant, vivid and profound, The Only Story is a searing novel of memory, devotion, and how first love fixes a life forever.

Author : Courtney Walsh
Publisher : NavPress
ISBN 13 : 1496421515
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Look Up written by Courtney Walsh and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After tirelessly climbing the ranks of her Chicago-based interior design firm, Lane Kelley is about to land her dream promotion when devastating news about her brother draws her back home—a quaint tourist town full of memories she’d just as soon forget. With her cell phone and laptop always within reach, Lane aims to check on her brother while staying focused on work—something her eclectic family doesn’t understand. Ryan Brooks never expected to settle down in Harbor Pointe, Michigan, but after his final tour of duty, it was the only place that felt like home. Now knee-deep in a renovation project that could boost tourism for the struggling town, he is thrilled to see Lane, the girl he secretly once loved, even if the circumstances of her homecoming aren’t ideal. Their reunion gets off to a rocky start, however, when Ryan can’t find a trace of the girl he once knew in the woman she is today. As he slowly chips away at the walls Lane has built, secrets from his past collide with a terrible truth even he is reluctant to believe. Facing a crossroads that could define his future with Lane and jeopardize his relationship with the surrogate family he’s found in the Kelleys, Ryan hopes Lane can see that maybe what really matters has been right in front of her all along—if only she’d just look up.