It's been a life changing year for four-year-old Anna Baron. Her father has died during the flu epidemic of 1919, and her distraught mother is taking her children back to her home in Czechoslovakia. Feeling hurt by her mother and saddened by the death of her father, at least Anna has her older sister to love and comfort her. The family travels to Europe from Youngstown, Ohio only to experience the misery, poverty and turmoil caused by the conclusion of World War I. Soon after arriving, Anna's mother decides to return to America, taking her beloved older sister and leaving Anna behind with relatives for five years. Within one year, Anna has lost her father, her mother, and her country. She and her sister are now torn apart and separated by two continents. With the help of her caring family, Anna must now face the world on her own. Facing her mortality at the age of eighty-nine, Anna tells her story to her two great-granddaughters during the Thanksgiving reunion. She details her personal history, including her departure from America, her abandonment by her mother in a strange foreign country, and her eventual return to America. Anna has been telling her story to her family for three generations to preserve their heritage, teach a lesson in history and how the human spirit has the strength to overcome unthinkable odds, and also so that her story will never be forgotten.

Goodbye America

Teen & Young Adult

Malie, Rita

Biographies

High-Pitched Hum Inc

When April finally opens the door to the past, she comes face to face with her guilt. Inspired by true events, Supreme Sacrifice takes you on a journey spanning three decades, which begins in a steel mill town in the Midwest during the height of unionism in the 1960s. April is the pride and joy of her father, Josef Straka, a first generation American, once a successful businessman at the top of his game, whose alcoholism soon brought the family to the depths of despair. April's spiritual journey begins when her father dies in a mysterious car crash. Every night she is plagued with a dark cloud of haunting, recurring nightmares. Her days aren't much better living in this blue-collar, steel city shrouded in post-industrial gloom and overcast skies. Married young, she struggles to complete her academic studies, which launch her into the business world. She and her husband decide to move to the South. Just when she thought she had left her past behind forever, nightmares return coincidentally on the heels of a stormy, complicated relationship with a new friend. April is introduced to new spiritual tools and friends who help pull her back from the edge and into an obsessive search for the answers to her father's accident. Storm clouds slowly begin to part when she learns how to tap the power and strength from within by changing how she sees her past, forgiving herself and others. Malie spins a compelling story of a young woman's journey to self-discovery, and the transformation of April's awakening and ultimate redemption to accomplish her dreams.

Supreme Sacrifice: A Woman's Journey From The Bondage of Guilt to the Freedom of Forgiveness: A woman's journey from the bondage of guilt to the freedom of forgiveness.

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Balboa Press

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