What's it like to find your true calling...Only to face many trials and tribulations before it is realized? In this engaging and heartfelt autobiography, Wilfred Holder carries readers on an insightful journey detailing key moments of a truly fulfilled life. Though Wilfred hails from the small village of Bartica, Guyana, the land of gold, he was not fortunate enough to be born with a golden spoon in his mouth. Nevertheless, he nurtured big dreams and watched these dreams and desires materialize by holding firmly to the values of perseverance, courage, passion and determination. From all his years as a renowned Caribbean financial advisor, an insurance agent, family man, and pillar of the Marriage Encounter Movement and Family Life associated with the Catholic Church, he powerfully shares both the heartache and profound joy encountered on his path to living his true calling. From rock bottom to the glorious peaks of success, his inspiring tales of overcoming failure personal or professional will resonate with readers everywhere, on all walks of life. His story is a must read for anyone feeling discouraged about their circumstances or shying away from living their true calling. The wise words of Wilfred Holder not only uplift and advise but invoke introspection of our own dreams and the actions to take to realize our full potential.

With breathtaking descriptions and humorous anecdotes from his 2,176-mile journey along the Appalachian Trail, Paul Stutzman reveals how immersing himself in nature and befriending fellow hikers helped him recover from a devastating loss.

In 1945 he assumed a faculty position at the University of Utah where he taught each morning for twenty-nine years, spending afternoons and weekends in his business pursuits.

With the confession of several years of secrets, Daffy Gustavs life changed forever. As he leads others down an emotional path lined with heartfelt poems that detail the disbelief, pain, frustrations, and eventual healing that followed his divorce and estrangement from his children, Gustav shines a light on the unfortunate effects of heartache. Gustav, who one day came home from work and discovered an empty house, shares poetry that provide a realistic glimpse into what it is really like to experience the breakup of a marriage, to lose your children, to endure monumental financial challenges, to survive betrayal from other family members, to grapple with a variety of emotions that accompany such a life-shattering chain of events, and finally, to be guided to change. Through it all, Gustav provides inspiration to others that it is indeed possible to find hope, inner-peace, and love after suffering a personal tragedy. From Hell to Heaven, One Mans Journey shares introspective reflections from an honest man as he learns to survive lifes greatest heartaches and transform his anger into understanding love.

At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River--alone. He needed "something to pare the fat off my soul...to make me grateful, again, for being alive." The 1,700 miles between the Colorado's source in Wyoming and its conclusion at Mexico's Gulf of California contain some of the most spectacular vistas on earth, and Fletcher is the ideal guide for the terrain. As his privileged companions, we travel to places like Disaster Falls and Desolation Canyon, observe beaver and elk, experience sandstorms and whitewater rapids, and share Fletcher's thoughts on the human race, the environment, and the joys of solitude.

Donning a backpack for a long, lonely walk, the author of "Marching Through Georgia: My Walk with Sherman" retraces the Cherokee Trail of Tears, the 900 miles his ancestors had been forced to travel in 1838. Map.