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    Walking on Water
    Walking on Water
    Walking on Water
    Audiobook5 hours

    Walking on Water

    Written by Richard Paul Evans

    Narrated by Richard Paul Evans

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    About this audiobook

    With this New York Times bestseller, the beloved Walk series ends as Alan Christoffersen reaches his destination and the beginning of a new life: “Definitely a journey worth taking” (Booklist).

    After the death of his beloved wife, after the loss of his advertising business to his once-trusted partner, after bankruptcy forced him from his home, Alan Christoffersen embarked on a daring cross-country journey—a walk across America, from Seattle to Key West, with only the pack on his back. Through it all he learned life-changing lessons about love, forgiveness, and most of all, hope.

    Now Alan must again return west to face yet another crisis, one that threatens to upend his world just as he had begun to heal from so much loss, leaving him unsure of whether he can reach the end his journey. It will take the love of a new friend, and the wisdom of an old friend, to help him to finally leave the past behind and find the strength and hope to live again.

    Walking on Water is a beautiful story of one man’s search for a new beginning, of “humorous moments, heartwarming moments, moments of self-discovery, and moments of profound wisdom” (Deseret Morning News).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateMay 6, 2014
    ISBN9781442367388
    Walking on Water
    Author

    Richard Paul Evans

    Richard Paul Evans is the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than forty novels. There are currently more than thirty-five million copies of his books in print worldwide, translated into more than twenty-four languages. Richard is the recipient of numerous awards, including two first place Storytelling World Awards, the Romantic Times Best Women’s Novel of the Year Award, and five Religion Communicators Council’s Wilbur Awards. Seven of Richard’s books have been produced as television movies. His first feature film, The Noel Diary, starring Justin Hartley (This Is Us) and acclaimed film director, Charles Shyer (Private Benjamin, Father of the Bride), premiered in 2022. In 2011 Richard began writing Michael Vey, a #1 New York Times bestselling young adult series which has won more than a dozen awards. Richard is the founder of The Christmas Box International, an organization devoted to maintaining emergency children’s shelters and providing services and resources for abused, neglected, or homeless children and young adults. To date, more than 125,000 youths have been helped by the charity. For his humanitarian work, Richard has received the Washington Times Humanitarian of the Century Award and the Volunteers of America National Empathy Award. Richard lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife, Keri, and their five children and two grandchildren. You can learn more about Richard on his website RichardPaulEvans.com.

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    • 5/5
      Well I'm sorry that this series had to end. Couldn't we have a few more book? I mean, Alan could have walked all the way back to the West Coast via a Southernly route, right???
    • 5/5
      Wonderful series! You won’t be disappointed that you read them!!
    • 5/5
      Loved the series . Great writer. Thank you. Looking forward to listening to more of his books.
    • 5/5
      So real! So real was every word. I experienced death so many times. Was never able to face my grief or even think about it. Life goes on and you got to keep it moving. But after reading this series, I can have compassion for my experiences with my losses.
    • 4/5
      This is the final book in The Walk series and it tied up the story nicely. As other reviewers said, it is a diary and some of the entries can be tedious, but that is what makes it seem like a real diary to me. Like the other books in the series, the walk is interrupted, this time by his father's heart attack. Alan flies home to be with his father and of course, encounters Nicole. He finds his father's "family tree" which is more like a life story and he finds out a lot of things about him that he did not know before. He has still not made a decision about Falene and has not yet called her. Kalaimai also makes a reappearance in this final chapter. He again meets some strange characters once he heads back out and there are some profound discussions in this book. Alan finally makes it to Key West and makes some decisions about how to spend the rest of his life. A wonderful series with some tedium, some excitement and a lot of thought provoking ideas. I really enjoyed this series and hope to be able to introduce and share it with others.
    • 4/5
      . In this fifth and final installment in the Walk series Alan Christofferson is continuing his walk from Seattle to Key West; the walk he started after the death of his wife and the subsequent loss of his home and business. Unfortunately, once again, his walk is interrupted as he heads back to his father’s home in Pasedena, CA. He wonders if he will be facing bad news and loss once again and whether he will ever complete his walk. Despite everything that happens his time at home is time well spent as he learns some unknown things about his family and, even more importantly, about himself. He also must face some hard choices. Almost reluctantly he starts again on his trek, determined to reach Key West … now not only to complete his walk but also to fulfill a promise to his father.

      I’ve been “following” Alan on his walk for the past four years and was almost sad to know that this would be the last leg of the journey. I enjoy Alan’s wise tidbits at the beginning of each chapter, I’ve enjoyed the people he has met, laughed at some of the escapades and almost cried at others.

      This has been a simple and lovely series to read. No car chases, buildings blowing up, machine guns, international conspiracies, swearing, gratuitous sex or vampires in these books. Just an inspiring story of a man on a quest and the wonderfully eclectic group of people and adventures he encounters along the way. These are the kind of books that you make you sigh when you finally close the cover. They are just the kind of books Richard Paul Evans is known for writing.
    • 5/5
      Book of a series. Great story. One of those books you don't want to put down.
    • 3/5
      Ohhhh dear. I did not realize this was actually part of a series and I'm afraid I was very glad I was listening to the "last"one---which filled in what had gone on before easily. Read by the author, I was somewhat overwhelmed by the concentration on each and everything he ATE on this walk. Yes, the historical and descriptive additions about the places he went through were good and of course his actual problems he was trying to solve truly made the story, but one book was enough. He wrote a letter to listeners which he read at the end, thanking them for comments on his series---saying how helpful his books were to them. Maybe if I had read the entire series I would feel differently but this one told the whole story probably in condensed form.