Gold Of Our Fathers

Author : Kwei Quartey
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616956318

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Gold of Our Fathers by Kwei Quartey Pdf

The chief inspector in the Ghana police force investigates a gold miner’s death in this “atmospheric” mystery set in West Africa (Entertainment Weekly). “Fans of The #1 Ladies’ Detective Agency may have a new hero: Detective Inspector Darko Dawson.” —The Wall Street Journal Darko Dawson has just been promoted to chief inspector in the Ghana police service—and it even comes with a (rather modest) salary bump. But he doesn’t have much time to celebrate, because his new boss is transferring him from Accra, Ghana’s capital, out to remote Obuasi in the Ashanti region, an area notorious for the illegal exploitation of its gold mines. When Dawson arrives at the Obuasi headquarters, he finds it in complete disarray. The office is a mess of uncatalogued evidence and cold case files, morale is low, and discipline among officers is lax. Then, on only his second day on the job, the body of a Chinese mine owner is unearthed in his own gold quarry. As Dawson investigates the case, he quickly learns how dangerous it is to pursue justice in this kingdom of illegal gold mines, where the worst offenders have so much money they have no fear of the law. Chosen for Entertainment Weekly’s “Must List,” Gold of Our Fathers is “exceptional . . . A window into another culture” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Author : Irving Howe
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504047555

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World of Our Fathers by Irving Howe Pdf

The National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling history of Yiddish-speaking immigrants on the Lower East Side and beyond. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls to pass through Ellis Island and start over in the New World. This is a “brilliant” account of their stories (The New York Times). Though some moved on to Philadelphia, Chicago, and other points west, many of these new citizens settled in New York City, especially in Manhattan’s teeming tenements. Like others before and after, they struggled to hold on to the culture and community they brought from their homelands, all the while striving to escape oppression and find opportunity. They faced poverty and crime, but also experienced the excitement of freedom and previously unimaginable possibilities. Over the course of decades, from the 1880s to the 1920s, they were assimilated into the great melting pot as the Yiddish language slowly gave way to English; work was found in sweatshops; children were sent to both religious and secular schools; and, for the lucky ones, the American dream was attained—if not in the first generation, then by the second or third. Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, World of Our Fathers explores the many aspects of this time and place in history, from the political to the cultural. In this compelling American story, Irving Howe addresses everything from the story of socialism, the hardships of the ghetto, and the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that killed scores of garment workers to the “Borscht Belt” resorts of the Catskills in colorful and dramatic detail. Both meticulously researched and lively, it is “a stirring evocation of the adventure and trauma of migration” (Newsweek).

Author : Wu Sing-yung, MD, PhD（吳興鏞教授)
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781977243867

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Father's Gold Secret by Wu Sing-yung, MD, PhD（吳興鏞教授) Pdf

All of the historical facts about the U.S. gold aid that was given to China. How American Gold in China changed history in 1949 and is still having an impact on our lives today. You will gain a much better understanding of the Sino-American relationship and today’s world after reading this book.

Author : Shawn Lawrence Otto
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781571319128

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Sins of Our Fathers by Shawn Lawrence Otto Pdf

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist: A “wonderfully vivid” crime novel about race, money, and the American Dream (Publishers Weekly, starred review). A banker in small-town Minnesota, J.W. has been caught embezzling funds to support his gambling addiction. He’s on the verge of losing everything when his boss offers him a scoundrel's path to redemption: sabotage a competing, Native banker named Johnny Eagle. A single father, Eagle recently returned to the reservation, leaving a high-powered job in the hope of simultaneously empowering his community and saving his troubled son. When J.W. moves onto the reservation and begins to work his way close to Eagle, hundreds of years of racial animosities rise to the surface, inexorably driving the characters toward a Shakespearean and shattering conclusion, in this elegant, page-turning novel by the screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated House of Sand and Fog. “A rousing and satisfying climax. Otto’s wonderfully vivid debut narrative is reminiscent of well-known crime novelist William Kent Krueger.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Captivating from the first page.”—The Missourian

Author : Steven L. Shepherd
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807062472

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Our Fathers by Steven L. Shepherd Pdf

No one questions that men are profoundly influenced by their fathers, but the shape and substance of that influence varies with each family. In this, the first anthology of nonfiction prose to explore this issue in depth, editor Steven Shepherd has collected a diverse and invariably compelling group of narratives about sons and their fathers. "Fourteen excellent essays by some of our best writers," says Anne Morris of the Austin American-Statesman. Among the contributors: James Baldwin, who reflects in his classic "Notes of a Native Son," on the father he barely knew, "partly because we shared, in our different fashions, the vice of stubborn pride." The brothers Geoffrey and Tobias Wolff, who write of their father from dramatically different perspectives. A second-generation undertaker, Thomas Lynch, who writes lovingly of burying his father. And the acclaimed scholar of African-American culture, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who grew up with a father who "was not a race man," yet their arguments were vital to the son's education.

Author : Legh Richmond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89097247381

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The Fathers of the English Church by Legh Richmond Pdf

Author : Parker Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Reformation
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50182458

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The Parker Society for the Publication of the Works of the Fathers and Early Writers of the Reformed English Church by Parker Society (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Sergio Ramírez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015014946605

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To Bury Our Fathers by Sergio Ramírez Pdf

The great panoramic novel by Cervantes Prize-winner Sergio Ramirez was the first Nicaraguan novel ever translated into English.

Author : James E. Kibler
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Newberry County (S.C.)
ISBN : 1570032149

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Our Fathers' Fields by James E. Kibler Pdf

This work chronicles six generations of the Hardy family, who purchased a South Carolina plantation in 1786 and farmed it for two centuries. The book also examines the natural history of the plantation and how it became one of the most valuable farms in the South.

Author : Viktor Rydberg
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780595299782

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Our Fathers' Godsaga by Viktor Rydberg Pdf

An epic introduction to Norse mythology for students of all ages. Based on the research of the 19th century Swedish poet and scholar, Viktor Rydberg, Our Fathers' Godsaga retells the mythology of Northern Europe in chronological order from Creation to Ragnarök. These are tales told by Vikings, epic tales of gods and giants, elves and dwarves, and of how their interaction and wars affect the first generations of human beings in the North. Based on a comprehensive examination of the source material, including the Icelandic Eddas and Sagas, this is likely the way Germanic mythology looked at the end of the heathen era. Many will recognize themes found here in J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion, particularly the tale of the elf-smith Völund and his quest for revenge against the Aesir, first detailed by Rydberg in his comprehensive Investigations into Germanic Mythology, 1886. This is an original translation of Viktor Rydberg's Fädernas Gudasaga, his own retelling of the complete Norse mythic epic, first published in 1887, and many times since. The text includes a complete catalog of mythic names & the original artwork, from the 1911 German translation, by renowned children's artist John Bauer (1882-1918). This classic Swedish text appears in English now for the first time.

Author : Leslie Leyland Fields,Jill Hubbard
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780849922930

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Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers by Leslie Leyland Fields,Jill Hubbard Pdf

“If our families are to flourish, we will need to learn and practice ways of forgiving those who have had the greatest impact upon us: our mothers and fathers.” Do you struggle with the deep pain of a broken relationship with a parent? Leslie Leyland Fields and Dr. Jill Hubbard invite you to walk with them as they explore the following questions: What does the Bible say about forgiveness? Why must we forgive at all? How do we honor those who act dishonorably toward us, especially when those people are as influential as our parents? Can we ever break free from the “sins of our fathers”? What does forgiveness look like in the lives of real parents and children? Does forgiveness mean I have to let an estranged parent back into my life? Is it possible to forgive a parent who has passed away? Through the authors’ own compelling personal stories combined with a fresh look at the Scriptures, Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers illustrates and instructs in the practice of authentic forgiveness, leading you away from hate and hurt toward healing, hope, and freedom. "A call to very hard, but very vital, work of the soul." —Dr. Henry Cloud, leadership expert, psychologist, and best-selling author "Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers is essential reading for anyone who wants to deal with those hurts in a constructive, healing, and God-honoring manner." —Jim Daly, president, Focus on the Family "Leslie Leyland Fields and Jill Hubbard take us into raw, messy stories so we can be transformed by that mysterious and painful grace in the force called forgiveness." —Scot McKnight, Northern Seminary

Author : Philip Schaff
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666739732

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A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, First Series, Volume 8 by Philip Schaff Pdf

Philip Schaff’s classic work colloquially known as The Early Church Fathers is an invaluable resource filled with the primary documents and early theological building blocks for the Christian church. Comprised of thirty-eight volumes, it is broken into three parts: the Ante-Nicene Fathers, and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First and Second Series.

Author : Alban Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10693553

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The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints by Alban Butler Pdf

Author : Alexander Roberts
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798385201679

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Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325, Volume 3 by Alexander Roberts Pdf

Philip Schaff’s classic work colloquially known as Early Church Fathers, is an invaluable resource filled with the primary documents, and early theological building blocks for the Christian Church. Comprised of 38 volumes it is broken into three parts, the Ante-Nicene Fathers, and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First and Second Series.

Author : Herbert Gold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9997411595

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Fathers by Herbert Gold Pdf