life change events

Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer, orphaned when his parents both commit suicide on the same day, goes to live with his aunt and uncle in Nova Scotia in 1941 and falls in love with Tilda, his cousin by adoption, but things go tragically wrong when Tilda brings home German student Hans Mohring, a young man viewed with suspicion by everyone in town.

Still grieving the loss of his wife and the rest of his life, Alan Christoffersen starts walking the one thousand miles between South Dakota and St. Louis. Along the way, he meets a mysterious woman who follows him for nearly a hundred miles, a ghost hunter who searches for his wife in graveyards, and an elderly Polish man who gives Alan a lift and shares a memorable story with him.

"An obese former academic shut-in and a poor kid dreaming of a successful baseball career are linked together by a former student who transforms their lives"--Provided by publisher.

Alan Christoffersen, attacked and left to die on the road only sixteen days into his cross-country trek to Key West, wakes in a Spokane, Washington, hospital to realize that he has not only lost his wife, home, and business, but has now been deprived of the ability to walk, and he accepts a generous offer to recuperate at the home of a mysterious woman named Angel, who he learns needs some help along her journey, too.

Through an off-campus job at Fort Lewis, twenty-year-old Emily Anderson meets young Army reservist, Justin Baker, and their deep, emotional love, built on the foundation of faith, blossoms into plans for marriage, while Emily's newly reunited birth parents find their opposing views on war, politics, and faith threatening their chances for love.

Adam March, a career-focused businessman, loses the wife and child he never had time for--along with his job--and begins bussing tables in a homeless shelter, but when he meets Chance, a stray dog who managed to escape the dog-fighting ring, both man and canine will get a second opportunity at a life with love.

Popular, talented Kevin Schuler, devastated when his friends and teammates are killed in a bus accident, starts high school with a cloud of grief hanging over his head, and only through running does he find a measure of peace.

Presents biographical sketches of eighty-three famous people, including actors, comics, entrepreneurs, presidents, and activists; and highlights the special moments they credit with changing their lives.