The Winding Road Home

Popular fiction author Sally John's first series The Other Way Home (more than 65,000 copies sold) comes to life with a fresh, new cover for a new audience of readers. In A Winding Road Home, the fourth book of the series, two stories are beautifully woven together. Kate Kilpatrick has only one goal—a byline above the fold in a high profile newspaper. But Tanner Carlucci challenges her determination to put career above everything. Adele Chandler gave up on love long ago. A single mom, her priorities are raising her teenage daughter and directing the community's nursing home. Then two men enter her life and change it forever. Sorting through new decisions and consequences, Adele is forced to look at her heart and wonder if love can bloom there again. The Winding Road Home is an inspiring story about how God is a sure Guide through unplanned detours along life's way.

When Jesse and Alexandra's youngest child Becca is taken from their home in the middle of the night, a happy family's life shatters. Jesse's grief triggers a full-blown psychiatric crisis, which spurs a most unusual spiritual quest in an attempt to find a way to feel at home in what suddenly seems like a cruel world. In the midst of her own trauma, Alexandra is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, further pitching the family into desperation. Jesse's weekly breakfast with his two sons, along with Alexandra's determined efforts to fight the erasure of her memories, holds the family together despite the agonizing uncertainty surrounding all of them, and the futility of their ongoing search efforts for Becca. Jesse and Alexandra find themselves drawn into the horrifying world of missing and abducted children and the minds of their captors, and eventually adopt an abduction survivor named Maddy and her young children. Together, they forge a new and expanded family, and create a home where everyone can heal. This is a family saga, a love story, an account of child abduction and its exacting aftermath, a tale of hard-won hope, and a profound exploration of the spiritual potential of ordinary life in the face of the unthinkable.

In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, Revised Edition, Kenneth Womack brings the band's story vividly to life-from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs and mean streets of Hamburg through their early triumphs at the legendary Cavern Club and the massive onslaught of Beatlemania itself. By mapping the group's development as an artistic fusion, Womack traces the Beatles' creative arc from their first, primitive recordings through Abbey Road and the twilight of their career. In this revised edition, Womack addresses new insights in Beatles-related scholarship since the original publication of Long and Winding Roads, along with hundreds of the group's outtakes released in the intervening years. The updated edition also affords attention to the Beatles' musical debt to Rhythm and Blues, as well as to key recent discoveries that vastly shift our understanding of formative events in the band's timeless story.

The following story ensnares the lives of several families who live or have moved to Silver Springs, Arkansas. People find that there is something or someone living in the surrounding forest, which strikes and out and kills at any time. When June Raves sister in law is murdered and one of the detectives is found dead; his best friend is called in. Jay Martin, a private detective catches a plane from New York to help investigate the case. June and her brother Ray Walker become paranoid, thinking it could be someone in their past lives. Martin's investigation is somewhat interrupted by his growing love for Junes daughter Julie. We meet the rest of Junes family as tragedy strikes once again. We weave in and out of the Bowmont family's lives as we discover what heart- aches Mrs. Beaumont has endured from her husband and sons. We are taken all over the southern states as the investigation follows the Bowmont brothers; each are suspected of different crimes. Sheriff Hilstone and Jay Martin discover that once Slade Bowmont is captured, he would probably get off scot-free for his crimes. The ending will not be what you would expect, and it may even provoke you. Sometimes even the dealer of life that has dealt you all the losing hands, has mercy and deals you a hand that wins.

While on her earthly journey, God has taken Annalise McKay on a winding road of faith. In those moments, God always has had a message for her as well as a plan and purpose. Now with the intent of reminding other believers that God is always with us and for us, she shares candid insight into her personal journey of faith. While leading others through her challenges and inspirational lessons learned, McKay demonstrates evidence of God’s love as well as the purpose he designed for her. As she details her trials that included a first marriage to an angry and abusive non-believer who ultimately left her and their three children after eight years, McKay also discloses how her own lack of belief in Jesus’s love negatively altered the vision she had for herself and her identity, and how she finally learned to accept what it means to be a Christian and that God is always in control. The Winding Road is a testimony of faith that shines a light on a believer’s path through her trials to find hope, forgiveness, and the comforting knowledge that God truly loves all of us.

1925. England is prosperous; the nation has put the war behind it, and hope is in the air. The Jazz Age is in full swing in New York, where Polly Morland is the most feted beauty of the day. But a proposal of marriage from the powerful, enigmatic Ren Alexander takes her by surprise. Her cousin Lennie, expanding his interests from radio to television and talkies, worries that no one knows much about Ren; but his attempts to find out more threaten disaster. In London, the General Strike gives the country another chance to show its stiff upper lip, as everyone turns to and helps out. Emma drives an ambulance again, while Molly runs a canteen, and each unexpectedly finds love, and a new career. But the whirligig is slowing, shadows are gathering over Europe, and the good times are almost over. Morland Place is threatened by the worst disaster of its history, and the Old World reaches out a hand to pluck Polly from the New. The Wall Street Crash brings the fabulous decade to a shattering close, and nothing will ever be quite the same again; but new shoots emerge from the ruins, hope is reborn, and the Morlands prove again that family is everything, and will endure.

'Johnson writes with his usual warmth, wit and modesty' Sunday Times Winner of the Parliamentary Book Award, best memoir by a Parliamentarian, 2016 This is politics as you've never seen it before. From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnson’s multi-award-winning autobiography charts an extraordinary journey, almost unimaginable in today’s Britain. This third volume tells of Alan’s early political skirmishes as a trades union leader, where his negotiating skills and charismatic style soon came to the notice of Tony Blair and other senior members of the Labour Party. As a result, Alan was chosen to stand in the constituency of Hull West and Hessle, and entered Parliament as an MP after the landslide election victory for Labour in May 1997. But this is no self-aggrandizing memoir of Westminster politicking and skulduggery. Supporting the struggle of his constituents, the Hull trawlermen and their families, for justice comes more naturally to Alan than do the byzantine complexities of Parliamentary procedure. But of course he does succeed there, and rises through various ministerial positions to the office of Home Secretary in 2009. In The Long and Winding Road, Alan’s characteristic honesty and authenticity shine through every word. His book takes you into a world which is at once familiar and strange: this is politics as you’ve never seen it before...

The annual summer visit to the country home of the Old Ones, the uncles and aunts who raised Daddy, brings joy and good times.