When Daddy Came Home
When Daddy Came Home

Author: Barry Turner

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2014-07-17

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1473505151

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Compelling and moving real-life accounts of the impact on family life of the return of the troops at the end of the Second World War. Summer 1945. Britain was in jubilant mood. At last, the war was over. Soon the men would be coming home. Then everything would be fine: life would get back to normal. Or would it? Six long years of war had profoundly changed family life. For years, Dad had been a khaki figure in a photograph on the wall, a crumpled letter from overseas, an occasional visitor on weekend leave. Now he was here to stay, a stranger in a group that had learned to live without him - and was not always prepared to have him back. Most homecomings were joyful, never-to-be-forgotten moments of humour and hope. Others were hard. And there was no one to deal with the tears and the trauma. It would take hope and courage for families to live and love together again.

When Dad Came Home
When Dad Came Home

Author: Vanessa Hatley-Owen

Publisher:

Published: 2018-11

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780947506506

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The war was over and Dad was coming home at last! But the days and weeks go by, and when he does return Dad is not the happy man that young Rita once knew and Thomas thinks he remembers. Struggling to understand his sadness and fears, the kids accompany him as he readjusts to home life, all the while singing his favourite song. One day, while they help him fix the deck, Dad starts to join in the song ... Hatley-Owen beautifully captures a children's view of the return of the war and the realities of shell shock for the men who returned after the First World War ended on 11 November 1918.

Just Because
Just Because

Author: Mac Barnett

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 1536215341

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Curious minds are rewarded with curious answers in a fantastical bedtime book by Mac Barnett and Isabelle Arsenault. Why is the ocean blue? What is the rain? What happened to the dinosaurs? It might be time for bed, but one child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep just yet. Little ones and their parents will be charmed and delighted as a patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child’s nighttime wonderings. Any child who has ever asked “Why?” — and any parent who has attempted an explanation — will recognize themselves in this sweet storybook for dreamers who are looking for answers beyond “Just because.”

Notting Hill Girl
Notting Hill Girl

Author: Denise Watson

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2010-04-13

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1481792466

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A frank and disturbing view of a child's descent into a world of drug addiction and gang violence, Notting Hill Girl is a candid exploration of a life that is reflected in every city today. A dramatic insight into what life was like for a teenage girl in one of England's most notorious neighbourhoods, Notting Hill Girl serves as a lesson to us all in what is happening in our society, and how simple choices can help people to shape their own destiny.

There is No Music
There is No Music

Author: Lula Kirk

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2021-12-13

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13: 1662453442

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There Is No Music is based on incidents that happened in life to people that were struggling to live in a place in time where you could not hear joy, peace, security, love, trust, patience, and loyalty. There is no music when a child is abused or misused by an adult. There is no music when you just want your civil rights, but you are punished because you want equal rights, and you have to leave where you live and have no place to go. There is no music when you are abused by people who see you every day and say they love you but do not have the heart to love and keep you safe. There is no music when we allow Satan to captivate our lives because of our selfishness.

Going Back to Find What We Lost in the Storm
Going Back to Find What We Lost in the Storm

Author: Latesha Williams

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2011-09

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1616639466

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God, the almighty and strong, teaches us in his word that we can do all things through him that strengthens us—something one young woman has to learn at a young age. This is a story of a child, a young woman, who faces and endures some of the most impossible situations in life. Scarred by molestation and physical and mental abuse, she must fend for her three young siblings, even as she sees her own childhood slip away. But just when she feels when her life sliding into total devastation, God sends an angel that teaches her to have the courage to walk, to fight the good fight, and to use the experiences to have a better future. Going Back to Find What Was Lost in the Storm is an inspiring, encouraging, uplifting book that will empower you to have faith in God and yourself.

Long Journey Back
Long Journey Back

Author: G.B. “Sonny” Clayton

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2011-05-04

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1462859399

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A person can make many choices in their life, how it turns out is what choice one makes. My sons have made some bad ones, hopefully they will learn from their mistakes. I made so many bad choices in my life; I only wish I could do them over again. But you learn by making mistakes. Sean and Danny's lives will forever be altered by their bad selections. Sean will have lost almost 6 years of watching his little girls grow up, at least Danny is only facing 15% of his 5 years. He hopefully he will be home by August of this year. No one has ever said life is easy or fair. Life is what you make it. Like Sinatra said in song, "I've got the world on a string, setting on a rainbow' , at one time that was me. I had it all, I thought there was no end to it, but a bad choice ruined it all. As I sit here pondering over my life. I truly know now, that this was for me, "The Long Journey Back".

It's Crystal Clear and All About the Dad
It's Crystal Clear and All About the Dad

Author: Diane Brooks

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2022-01-26

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1662463324

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That feeling of doom that reaches the bottom of one’s stomach was back in a big way as Andi was waiting again for a doctor to tell her that her own daughter was out of the woods, that she would be fine against all odds, and that the stem cell insurgence would be the cure-all. The bone marrow search to help Maddie, her one and only child, leads her to a world of mystery, travel, confusion, and disbelief in her own name and heritage.