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A Long Way From Chicago (Puffin Modern Classics)

by Richard Peck

Published: 2004-04-12

Paperback: 148 pages

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Join Joey and his sister Mary Alice as they spend nine unforgettable summers with the worst influence imaginable-their grandmother!

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A Long Way Gone [CD] (Audiobook)

by Ismael Beah

Published: 2007

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In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What does war look like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled...

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

Published: 2007-02-13

Hardcover: 240 pages

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My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life.“Why did you leave Sierra Leone?”“Because there is a war.”“You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?”“Yes, all the time.”“Cool.”I smile a little.“You ...

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A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

Published: 2008-01-07

Paperback: 400 pages

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Long Way Home

by Laura Caldwell

Published: 2010-09-14

Kindle Edition: 320 pages

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Nineteen-year-old Jovan Mosley, a good kid from one of Chicago's very bad neighborhoods, was coerced into confessing to a crime he didn?t commit. Charged with murder, he spent five years and eight months in a prison for violent criminals. Without a trial.Jovan grew up on the rough streets ...

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A Long Way Home

by Margaret Brownley

Published: 2012-03-09

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THEY WERE FROM OPPOSITE WORLDS?Libby Summerfield can?t wait to get out of Deadman's Gulch?a lawless mining town filled with gunfights, brawls, and uncivilized mountain men?men like Logan St. John. Stranded there with a new baby, the pretty widow tries to make the best of it. But she vows ...

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The Long Way Home

by Robin Pilcher

Published: 2010-03-30

Hardcover: 304 pages

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?The Long Way Home is Robin Pilcher at his best. I devoured every word of this masterful storyteller.??Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author In the vein of Maeve Binchy, Rosamunde Pilcher, and Nicholas Sparks, New York Times bestselling author Robin Pilcher returns with his...

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The Long Way Home

by Karen McQuestion

Published: 2012-05-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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Four women bound by chance take the trip of a lifetime in Karen McQuestion's fifth novel The Long Way Home. For Wisconsinites Marnie, Laverne and Rita, life isn't working out so well. Each is biding time, waiting for something better, something to transport them out of what their li...

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Long Way Home: A Young Man Lost in the System and the Two Women Who Found Him

by Laura Caldwell

Published: 2012-06-15

Paperback: 328 pages

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By all accounts, Jovan Mosley was a good kid. He was working on a way out of his tough Chicago neighborhood and had been accepted at Ohio State University when he was forced to confess to a murder he did not commit. He then spent five years and ten months in jail without a trial. His effor...

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Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World

by Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman

Published: 2005-11-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan McGregor -- acclaimed actor and self-confessed bike nut -- noticed that it was possible to ride all the way round the world, with just one short hop across the Bering Strait from Russia to A...