Werner Manke

The Immigrant and the Long Road Home (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Immigrant

Christian Hofmann was a teenager who had outstanding abilities in sports and a mental drive to match them all. The future for him in his native German looks more than promising. At a time when his name began often to appear in newspaper headlines throughout the country, his family obtained Canadian immigrant status, a privilege for which the family had long hoped. Once in the country's area where their sponsor family stipulated they needed to settle, he found no opportunity to join a soccer team, nor did a gymnastics club exist where his outstanding skills could be honed to the professional level. Only the local people's love for hockey, which soon captivated Christian, kept the teen from making good his thoughts of fleeing to his homeland. He had also not anticipated to receive the many expressions and physical confrontations of hate from both adults and young people, not for what he said or did, but for where he had been born. With the passing of time expressions of hate grew fewer, but time did not erase them all. Christian made friends quickly and near the end of high school he met Charity, the love of his life and the woman with whom he would share his future. His faith, wisdom, hard work, willingness to drop activities he loved, and his attitude not to give up, led him to become one of the leading specialists in the field of brain and heart diseases and surgery. The spreading of his expertise led him to reconnect with some of the tormentors of his youth who looked to him to help them overcome illness thought incurable at the time. At the end of a day filled with difficult hours, Christian reviewed his life, and all God had given him. In the stillness of the night he realized he had come home. He had come to love Canada as much as he had once loved the country of his forefathers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Werner Manke
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798231314720
• Artikelnr.: 74973478

Autorenporträt

If one had to describe W. H. Manke in five words the most appropriate words might be: He's passionate about many things.

Manke's family, faith and health rank at the top of his list. He enjoyed a career in education as teacher, principal and Director of Instruction, and retired after thirty years to have time to pursue other interests. The years in education taught him much about how humans learn. Day-to-day observations, common sense and a good deal of research gave him an understanding about what it takes for people to be successful. He holds a degree with concentrations in English and Education and a Master's degree in Educational Administration and Strategic Planning. Ask him what he enjoys doing since retirement he'll tell you, "Ranking at the top with other activities I love to watch my grandchildren at play, to read and to write. In the last few years I completed five full length novels, published two, and I've recently completed writing Storms over Hawking Manor, a sequel to the first novel I published, Secrets of Hawking Manor." The later book he edited and formatted at the end of 2014 for Smashwords' distribution to publishers and retailers that sell E-Books. He had also written a number of articles, short stories and many poems during those years.

When he is not near his grandchildren he might be found writing, researching or reading. He loves to play, coach and watch a number of sports that include soccer, hockey, skiing, fishing as well as collecting. He delights in the beauty of nature and the arts. Certain types of paintings and poems and the lyrics and melodies of some songs and hymns cause him to marvel at people's talents. He continues to study history. Ask him why he does, he will say, "We can make this a better world, if we consider the actions of individuals and countries of the past, good and bad, that history shows us and include that knowledge in our guidebook to roads not yet taken."

He believes humans are the crowning work of creation, sees each person as unique, one of a kind, priceless and able to achieve the greatest deeds as well as sink to the most hideous crimes. He believes our most urgent task is to guide all children to become compassionate, confident and informed citizen willing to take on the challenge to create a peaceful world where no child goes hungry.