02754cam a2200409 i 4500 684223410 TxAuBib 20230308120000.0 220724s2022||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2022938334 9781638084464 hardback : alk. paper $38.95 1638084467 hardback : alk. paper $38.95 (OCoLC)1337083892 TxAuBib rda Austin, Lynn N, author. Long way home [large print] / Lynn N. Austin. Center Point Large Print edition. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2022. 557 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Regular print version previously published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Includes discussion questions. "In this gripping portrait of war and its aftermath from bestselling author Lynn Austin, a young woman searches for the truth her childhood friend won't discuss after returning from World War II, revealing a story of courage, friendship, and faith. Peggy Serrano couldn't wait for her best friend to come home from the war. But the Jimmy Barnett who returns is much different from the Jimmy who left, changed so drastically by his experience as a medic in Europe that he can barely function. When he attempts the unthinkable, his parents check him into the VA hospital. Peggy determines to help the Barnetts unravel what might have happened to send their son over the edge. She starts by contacting Jimmy's war buddies, trying to identify the mysterious woman in the photo they find in Jimmy's belongings. Seven years earlier, sensing the rising tide against her people, Gisela Wolff and her family flee Germany aboard the passenger ship St. Louis, bound for Havana, Cuba. Gisela meets Sam Shapiro on board and the two fall quickly in love. But the ship is denied safe harbor and sent back to Europe. Thus begins Gisela's perilous journey of exile and survival, made possible only by the kindness and courage of a series of strangers she meets along the way, including one man who will change the course of her life."-- Provided by publisher. 20230308. St. Louis (Ship) Fiction. World War II 1939-1945 Veterans Fiction. Refugees Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Post-traumatic stress disorder Fiction. Large Type Books. Historical fiction. Romance. Christian fiction. BTCLS