Land Memoir

Growing up in a family where everyone was just fine, Don Follis learned early on to keep his arms crossed and his emotions at bay. While his spiritual life groaned for development, the land of numb held him back. He didn’t think about the connection between his emotional and spiritual lives.

February, 1940. After a decade of worldwide depression, World War II had begun in Europe and Asia. With Germany on the march and Japan at war with China, the global crisis was in a crescendo. America's top songwriter, Irving Berlin, had captured the nation's mood a little more than a year before with his patriotic hymn "God Bless America."

Bishop E.W. Jackson’s life story unites Americans around a shared legacy of freedom. As a great grandson of slaves, he believes that the promise of liberty has always belonged to all Americans. For some, only their heirs would be the full beneficiaries.

På 70-talet finns det inget som heter barncancer. Men det hindrar inte Cecilia Grape från att få diagnosen leukemi när hon endast är sex år gammal. Där och då börjar den långa kampen för att bli frisk, trots att oddsen är emot henne. År 1972 överlever endast tio procent av barn med leukemi. Inom vården är barnen åsidosatta och anses inte förstå sig på smärta. Som ett resultat av detta får Cecilia tillbringa sin tid ensam på sjukhuset, utan en förälders trygga famn att hjälpa henne igenom den nästintill outhärdliga behandlingen.

When Marlene Bumgarner and her husband moved to a rural plot of land in 1973, she thought of herself as simply a young mother seeking an affordable and safe place in which to raise her child. By the time she left the land nearly a decade later, she had written two books and a weekly newspaper column, served as contributing editor to a national magazine, a college instructor, and a sought-after public speaker. Her natural food store The Morgan Hill Trading Post was the first one in her community.

Wie so viele Mütter befürchtet auch Susanne Veit, dass ihre Kinder vor lauter Social Media und Online-Games irgendwann nicht mehr wissen, wie Schneeflocken schmecken und Lavendel duftet. Allen Unkenrufen zum Trotz wagt sie den Schritt aufs Land, kauft Hasen und Hühner und legt einen Gemüsegarten an. Eine Reise beginnt, die die fünfköpfige Familie grundlegend verändert. Der Bericht einer Mutter, deren Kinder heute Holz hacken, Weidenzäune spannen und für die Hühner Würmer suchen.

More than 50 years ago, an assassin's bullet robbed us of one of the most eloquent voices for 20th-century human rights and justice. Drawing on a new generation of scholarship about the civil rights era, To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of King as an advocate of racial harmony to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class, and his call for "nonviolent resistance" to all forms of oppression, including economic injustice.

Winifred and Bernard inherited the high European cultural ideals and attitudes that came of being born into prosperous German-Jewish émigré families. To young Ian, who would visit from Holland every Christmas, they seemed the very essence of England, their spacious Berkshire estate the model of genteel English country life at its most pleasant and refined. It wasn't until years later that he discovered how much more there was to the story.

Die Kreuzfahrer, die zurück in ihre Heimatdörfer humpelten und vertrocknete Palmblätter aus dem Heiligen Land auf die Altäre der Kirchen legten, hatten 1099 gesiegt: Jerusalem war in christlicher Hand. Was zählte der gemeinsame Glaube, wenn es um Gold und Macht ging?

This glance back through history views the trials and triumphs of each U.S. President while showcasing their faith in Christian principles that sheds light on what is known as the biblical “restitution of all things”.

Dominique Laxalt was 16 when he left the French Pyrenees for America. He became a sheepherder in the Nevada desert and nearby hills of the Sierra. Like all his fellow Basque immigrants, Dominique dreamed of someday returning to the land of his beginnings. Most Basques never made the journey back, but Dominique finally did return for a visit with family and friends. Sweet Promised Land is the story of that trip, told by his son Robert, who accompanied him to the pastoral mountain village of Tardets in France.

When Seth Kantner's Ordinary Wolves was published, it was a literary revelation of sorts. In a raw, stylized voice, it told the story of a white boy growing up with homesteading parents in Arctic Alaska and trying to reconcile his largely subsistence and Native-style upbringing with the expectations and realities tied to his race. It hit numerous bestseller lists, was critically acclaimed, and won a number of awards.

Søren Vase, der er født i begyndelsen af 1920’erne, voksede op i en fattig hedeegn ved Mariager Fjord under 1920’ernes og 1930’ernes verdensomspændende, økonomiske krise. I erindringsbogen "Fra lyngens land" fortæller han om en barn- og ungdom, hvor det tætte forhold til naturen allerede tidligt satte sit præg på ham og hans måde at omgås andre mennesker på. Søren Vase (1923-2008) var en dansk forfatter, skoleinspektør, jæger og fisker.

A compilation of short stories concerned with Mexican life around the turn of the century, The Compromised Land reflects the Hispanic tradition and its continuity of values and origins. The central theme of the volume is that of the immigrant who crosses the border from Mexico to the United States in search of work and a better way of life.

So viel mehr als der ESC: Max Mutzke über Momente, die ihn geprägt haben. Aufgewachsen in einem unkonventionellen, künstlerisch geprägten Haushalt, hat Max Mutzke schon früh viel fürs Leben gelernt. Als "Bullerbü-Idyll" beschreibt er seine Kindheit und Jugend im Schwarzwald. Doch Max und seine fünf Geschwister blieben von Schicksalsschlägen nicht verschont. Die Flucht nach vorne, in die Selbstbestimmung und in die Kreativität, führte ihn 2004 ins Showbusiness. Dort stellt er bis heute, zwanzig Jahre später, eine absolute Ausnahme dar: charismatisch und sich selbst zu hundert Prozent treu geblieben.

Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Shortly after her husband’s death, Blackburn became fascinated with Doggerland, the stretch of land that once connected Great Britain to Continental Europe but is now subsumed by the North Sea. She was driven to explore the lives of the people who lived there—studying its fossil record, as well as human artifacts that have been unearthed near the area.

Beth McRae’s 40 years as a midwife have been packed full of unforgettable moments, from the terrifying experience of witnessing her first birth as a naïve student nurse—in the days when the words birth plan were unheard of and what women wanted was a long way from being part of any plan—to working in one of the most isolated corners of Australia.

Stranger in Every Land chronicles my journey out of the good ol' USA and into exotic Asian countries and inviting Pacific islands where I stayed long enough to no longer completely identify with my country of origin - but never long enough to fully be regarded as a native.

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