Sweetland

Author : Michael Crummey
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472115872
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweetland written by Michael Crummey and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twelve generations, the inhabitants of a remote island in Newfoundland have lived and died together. Now, in the second decade of the 21st century, they are facing resettlement. They have each been offered a generous compensation package to leave the island for good. There’s just one proviso: everyone must go. Gradually, all of the residents surrender to the inevitable. All of the residents, that is, but one: old Moses Sweetland. Motivated in part by a sense of history and belonging, and concerned that his somewhat eccentric great-nephew will wilt on the mainland, Moses resists the coercion of family and friends in order to hold onto the only place he’s ever called home. As his options dwindle, Moses Sweetland concocts a scheme to remain the island’s only living resident. Cut off from the outside world, with the food supply diminishing and weather shredding away the last evidence of human habitation, Sweetland finds himself, finally, in the company of ghosts . . . Written with incomparable emotional power and depth, Sweetland is a story about loyalty and courage, about the human will to persist even when all hope seems lost.

Author : Will Weaver
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873517024
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweet Land written by Will Weaver and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "A Gravestone Made of Wheat", the basis of the independent film Sweet Land.

Author : Nancy Sweetland
Publisher : Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0802851673
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God's Quiet Things written by Nancy Sweetland and published by Eerdmans Young Readers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations and rhyming text depict the quiet wonder of God's creation.

Author : Ben Sweetland
Publisher : David De Angelis
ISBN 13 : 8867553526
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grow Rich While You Sleep written by Ben Sweetland and published by David De Angelis. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover why 95% of all human problems stem from a negative mind - traits such as timidity, domestic discord, business failure, bad memory, tenseness, unhappiness, worry, etc. This book shows how to use the deepest thinking part of you - while you sleep! Get whatever you want out of life . . . money, personal influence, love, respect and admiration. You will discover: - 6 exercises that develop your latent creative powers into a mental powerhouse - 5 ways to make your Creative Mind work for you - a formula for building a success consciousness that will lead you to success in any direction - how to develop your powers of concentration - how to accentuate the positive ... and gain a magnetic personality - how to go on a mental diet ... to gain radiant mental and physical health and feel younger than your years, even at 70! CONTENTS How This Book Helps You Grow Rich 1. Riches: An Interpretation 2. Sleep: How To Enjoy Peaceful Sleep 3. Your Real Seat of Intelligence 4. Man Is Mind 5. Getting Acquainted with the Real You 6. You Are What You Think You Are 7. You Are Twice as Good as You Think You Are 8. Money: A Myth 9. Riches: A Matter of Consciousness 10. A Study in Contrasts 11. Grow Rich in All Things—While You Sleep 12. Accepting the Supremacy of Mind over Matter 13. Mental Exercises vs. Physical Exercises 14. Thoughts Are Pictures; Pictures Are Patterns 15. Your Mental Eraser 16. Building a Consciousness of Success 17. Discovering the Law of Abundance 18. You Become Rich Right Now 19. Psychosomatic Ailments: Are They Real? 20. Developing a Health Consciousness 21. Accentuate the Positive 22. Help Yourself by Helping Others 23. Electrosonic Means of Aiding You 24. Your New Life of Health, Wealth and Happiness

Author : Daisy Rolland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578424422
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Enjoy Sweetland written by Daisy Rolland and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some things, kids are just the experts. This illustrated guide to sweets - written by author and certifiable kid Daisy Rolland - is a nonstop celebration of yummy treats, creativity, and friendship. Chapters include Eating Sweets, Making Sweets, Sneaking Sweets, Sharing Sweets, Hiding Sweets, among others. Explore new ways to enjoy sugary snacks, experiment with games and challenges, discover secret hiding spots for your candy, and learn how to draw sweets of all kinds. Do you have a sweet tooth? This guide will show you how to get the most out of your candy and sweets, and have fun while doing it! For lovers and explorers of all ages.

Author : Thomas J. Sugrue
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588367568
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweet Land of Liberty written by Thomas J. Sugrue and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest for justice in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South. Thomas Sugrue’s panoramic view sweeps from the 1920s to the present–more than eighty of the most decisive years in American history. He uncovers the forgotten stories of battles to open up lunch counters, beaches, and movie theaters in the North; the untold history of struggles against Jim Crow schools in northern towns; the dramatic story of racial conflict in northern cities and suburbs; and the long and tangled histories of integration and black power. Appearing throughout these tumultuous tales of bigotry and resistance are the people who propelled progress, such as Anna Arnold Hedgeman, a dedicated churchwoman who in the 1930s became both a member of New York’s black elite and an increasingly radical activist; A. Philip Randolph, who as America teetered on the brink of World War II dared to threaten FDR with a march on Washington to protest discrimination–and got the Fair Employment Practices Committee (“the second Emancipation Proclamation”) as a result; Morris Milgram, a white activist who built the Concord Park housing development, the interracial answer to white Levittown; and Herman Ferguson, a mild-mannered New York teacher whose protest of a Queens construction site led him to become a key player in the militant Malcolm X’s movement. Filled with unforgettable characters and riveting incidents, and making use of information and accounts both public and private, such as the writings of obscure African American journalists and the records of civil rights and black power groups, Sweet Land of Liberty creates an indelible history. Thomas Sugrue has written a narrative bound to become the standard source on this essential subject.

Author : Michael Crummey
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871407914
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweetland: A Novel written by Michael Crummey and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic tale of an endangered Newfoundland community and the struggles of one man determined to resist its extinction. The scarcely populated town of Sweetland clings to the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline has finally reached a head, with the mainland government offering each islander a generous resettlement package— the only stipulation being that everyone must leave. Fierce and enigmatic Moses Sweetland, whose ancestors founded the island, is determined to refuse. As one by one his neighbors relent, he recalls the town’s rugged history and its eccentric cast of characters. For fans of The Shipping News, Michael Crummey’s prose conjures up the mythical, sublime world of Sweetland’s past amid a storm-battered landscape haunted by local lore. In a spare style that belies “huge emotional depth and heart” (Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You), Crummey masterfully weaves together the past and present, creating in Sweetland a spectacular portrait of one man’s battle to survive as his world vanishes around him. Winner of Newfoundland Book Award Short-listed for the Governor’s General Award Winner of the CBC Bookie Award for Fiction Finalist for the Winterset Prize

Author : Will Weaver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781555971250
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gravestone Made of Wheat written by Will Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1990-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dozen stories deal with a heartbroken widower, hunters, farmers and truck drivers living in Minnesota.

Author : Michael Crummey
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307372294
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Galore written by Michael Crummey and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us. This is Michael Crummey’s most ambitious and accomplished work to date. An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, Galore is a portrait of the improbable medieval world that was rural Newfoundland, a place almost too harrowing and extravagant to be real. Remote and isolated, exposed to savage extremes of climate and fate, the people of Paradise Deep persist in a realm where the line between the everyday and the otherworldly is impossible to distinguish. Propelled by the disputes and alliances, grievances and trade-offs that bind the Sellers and Devine families through generations, Galore is alive with singular characters, and an uncommon insight into the complexities of human nature.

Author : Jim Ridolfo
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472900072
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Samaritans written by Jim Ridolfo and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Samaritans explores rhetorical delivery and cultural sovereignty in the digital humanities. The exigence for the book is rooted in a practical digital humanities project based on the digitization of manuscripts in diaspora for the Samaritan community, the smallest religious/ethnic group of 770 Samaritans split between Mount Gerizim in the Palestinian Authority and in Holon, Israel. Based on interviews with members of the Samaritan community and archival research, Digital Samaritans explores what some Samaritans want from their diaspora of manuscripts, and how their rhetorical goals and objectives relate to the contemporary existential and rhetorical situation of the Samaritans as a living, breathing people. How does the circulation of Samaritan manuscripts, especially in digital environments, relate to their rhetorical circumstances and future goals and objectives to communicate their unique cultural history and religious identity to their neighbors and the world? Digital Samaritans takes up these questions and more as it presents a case for collaboration and engaged scholarship situated at the intersection of rhetorical studies and the digital humanities.