Haymaker In Heaven

Author : Edvard Hoem
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781571319814

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Haymaker in Heaven by Edvard Hoem Pdf

From one of Norway’s leading writers, translated into English for the very first time, comes a transatlantic novel of dreams, sacrifice, and transformation set at the turn of the twentieth century. The year is 1874. Nesje is a recent widower with a young son, working as a haymaker on an estate in the town of Molde and steadily clearing his own small holding. Then he meets Serianna—an outsider, looking for work, who takes him fishing and smokes a pipe and is thoroughly unlike anyone he’s met before. Soon the two fall in love and marry, and Nesje begins to dream of a prosperous future. But prosperity is hard to come by. Some Norwegians—including Serianna’s spirited sister, Gjertine—have begun to immigrate to the American West, attracted by the glimmer of land and commerce. One of Nesje’s sons follows, while another moves to the city and becomes a wealthy merchant, and another is adopted by Serianna’s childless brother and sister-in-law. In Norway and in America, however, the turn of the century is approaching: mechanization is superseding skilled labor, the moneyed classes are growing ever more powerful, and sacrifices don’t always deliver what was promised. Haymaker in Heaven is a sprawling saga—drawn from Edvard Hoem’s own family history—and a vivid portrait of two countries at a critical moment of intersection.

Author : Randy Alcorn,Lamplighter Media & Lifetogether Publishing
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1505370523

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Heaven Small Group Discussion Guide by Randy Alcorn,Lamplighter Media & Lifetogether Publishing Pdf

This Group Discussion Guide is the companion to the HEAVEN DVD with 7 video sessions taught by Randy Alcorn and based on his best-selling bookHEAVEN. Produced by Lamplighter Media and Lifetogether Publishing this study is based on the 5 Biblical purposes to enhance fellowship, discipleship, ministry, evangelism and worship. After watching the 15 minute video segment the group goes through this discussion guide. We recommend for each person in the group to have their own copy so they can utilize group forms, note pages, and personal assessments to chart and track their spiritual growth. For the optimal experience, included are daily reflections that coincide with Randy's 50 DAYS OF HEAVEN devotional. In between group sessions, there are 7 optional devotions to reflect on and apply to real-life applications. This study is also package in a LEADER KIT that comes with a Discussion Guide and DVD with additional savings. HEAVEN DVDs are also sold separately.

Author : Adam Schuitema
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501757129

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Haymaker by Adam Schuitema Pdf

In a political culture infused with debates about personal liberties, the role of government, and even the definition of "freedom" itself, Haymaker tells the story of an isolated Michigan town that becomes the flashpoint for some of the principal ideological debates of our day. When a libertarian organization selects the town as its flagship community, hundreds of its members migrate and settle within the town's borders. The resulting clash with local townspeople is violent and impassioned, even as the line that divides the two sides increasingly blurs. The story follows characters on both of these sides: an eccentric millionaire known as The Man in White, who is still viewed as an outsider even after living in Haymaker for thirty years; a policewoman trained in hostage and suicide negotiations who questions raising children in this new environment; a teenage girl devoted to basketball and her desire to leave home, who has a close but complicated relationship with her uncle, a local who fistfights outsiders in an annual challenge; a libertarian PR expert, just hoping to calm the storm; and the town's mayor, who owns a local diner and is raising a baby daughter as her husband becomes tragically unhinged. A town first settled by lumberjacks, prostitutes, and roughnecks, Haymaker's present becomes as volatile as its past. Haymaker is a story about the failure of best intentions and the personal freedom of individuals to do good or to harm. This witty and politically charged novel will certainly appeal to Michiganders and Midwesterners, but will also interest those looking for an entertaining fictional account of a situation that could plausibly play out in one of the many small, remote towns in the country.

Author : Nicholas Forstmann
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557345359

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Heaven's Demon by Nicholas Forstmann Pdf

Author : John Balaban
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0820324159

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Remembering Heaven's Face by John Balaban Pdf

The author recounts his years in Vietnam as a conscientious objector, serving as a teacher and a rescue worker for an organization that sent children with war injuries to the United States.

Author : Devyn Kennedy
Publisher : Devyn Kennedy
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Third Heaven's Throne by Devyn Kennedy Pdf

God has gone missing, and not simply between the sheets of the mortal residents of Perido. With little recourse, the rival religious groups, the church of Iron and chapel of steam, do the unthinkable and hire a firm of necromancers to track their missing diety. Enter Emma Elric, apprentice to Lyceum, and new-hire to Abelworth, Cain, and Lyceum. Eager to impress her boss, Emma will do whatever it takes, including selling parts of what make her up. Goh Si-Woo and Caitlyn Alderberry had devoted themselves to Iaralie. As the first to notice their God's disappearance, their anxiety has them working together, despite how bad it looks, to save the one thing that's given their lives meaning. The deeper they dig, the more their world changes, and the more they are forced to reexamine their beliefs. Third Heaven's Throne is about belief, how the stories we're told shape the world, and what happens when powerful people control those stories. It is full of flesh and bones, misery, anxiety, terrible jokes, and queer love.

Author : Morley Callaghan
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008927977

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More Joy in Heaven by Morley Callaghan Pdf

"In this novel, which many people consider to be his best, Morley Callaghan displays his usual insight into human relationships and weaknesses, and questions the conventional morality of the Canadian community. More Joy in Heaven is the story of Kip Caley, an ex-criminal, intent on becoming a useful and honourable human being. His struggle with himself and with a society which will not let him regain his human dignity is presented with great perception and sympathy."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1097030987

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Made in Heaven: Draft Script, Never Produced by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307595324

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Montecore by Jonas Hassen Khemiri Pdf

At the start of this dazzlingly inventive novel from Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Abbas, a world-famous photographer and estranged father to a young novelist—also named Jonas Hassen Khemiri—is standing on a luxurious rooftop terrace in New York City. He is surrounded by rock stars, intellectuals, and political luminaries gathered to toast his fiftieth birthday. And yet how did Abbas, a dirt-poor Tunisian orphan and Swedish émigré, come to enjoy such success? Jonas is fresh off the publication of his first novel when answers to this question come in the form of an unexpected e-mail from Kadir, a lifelong friend of Abbas and an effervescent storyteller with delightfully anarchic linguistic idiosyncrasies. The portrait Kadir paints of Abbas—from a voluntarily mute boy who suffers constant night terrors, to a soulful young charmer, to a Swedish immigrant and political exile—proves to be vastly different from Jonas’s view of his father. As the two jagged versions reconcile in Kadir and Jonas’s impassioned correspondence, we’re given a portrayal of a man that is at once tender and feverishly imagined. With an arresting blend of humor and wit, Montecore marks the stateside arrival of an already acclaimed international novelist. Winner of the PO Enquist Literary Prize for accomplished European novelists under forty, Jonas Hassen Khemiri has created a world that is as heartbreaking as it is exhilarating. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : William C. Dietz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439172704

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Starcraft II: Heaven's Devils by William C. Dietz Pdf

One marine squad, led by young upstart Jim Raynor and giant Tychus Findlay, are prepared to battle a corrupt government as it works for interplanetary domination in this action-packed thriller set in the StarCraft universe. For the poor, hardworking citizens of the Confederacy’s fringe worlds, the Guild Wars have exacted a huge toll. Swayed by the promise of financial rewards, a new batch of recruits joins the fight alongside a slew of mysteriously docile criminals—and a few dubious military leaders. Eighteen-year-old Jim Raynor, full of testosterone and eager to make things right at home, ships off to boot camp, but he soon discovers that the official mission is not what he’s really fighting for. For the first time ever, StarCraft enthusiasts will learn the ori­gins of the enduring friendship between Jim Raynor and the streetwise soldier Tychus Findlay. Watch as they battle on the front lines of a fierce interplanetary war and bear witness to the Confederacy’s rank corruption—corruption so reprehensible that it rains immeasurable death and destruction upon the government’s own people.

Author : Fleur Jaeggy
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811229043

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Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy Pdf

On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parks’ consummate translation (with its “spare, haunting quality of a prose poem,” TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.

Author : Jen Hatmaker
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780718031862

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Of Mess and Moxie by Jen Hatmaker Pdf

Life is messy for each of us. But Jen Hatmaker reminds us that it's okay to admit that we're all in the same boat. Join New York Times bestselling author and honorary big sister Jen as she shares hilarious tales, shameless honesty, and unconditional hope for the woman who's forgotten her moxie. We will endure discouragement, heartbreak, failure, and suffering. All of us. And more than once. But we are the very same folks who can experience triumph, perseverance, joy, and rebirth. More than once. And in more than one category. And in more than one season. And that? That's moxie. Moxie reaches for laughter, for courage, for the deep and important truth that women are capable of weathering the storm. We are not victims, we are not weak, we are not a sad, defeated group of sob sisters. Yes, life is hard, but we are incredibly resilient. Of Mess and Moxie shines a light on Jen's own triumphs and tragedies into a sigh of relief for all normal, fierce women everywhere. Whether it's the time she drove to the wrong city for a fourth-grade field trip or the way she learned to truly forgive, she offers a reminder to those of us who sometimes hide in the car eating crackers that we do actually have the moxie to get back up and face our messes head-on. After all, this race is not a contest--there's enough abundance to go around. This book will give you the encouragement you need to remember that: Your mess is normal You are not in competition with your peers--your seat at the table is secure You have incredible gifts to offer Come alongside Jen as she teaches us that we can all choose to live undaunted and in the moment, no matter what the moments hold, and we really can lead vibrant, courageous, grace-filled lives.

Author : V. C. Andrews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997-04
Category : Dysfunctional families
ISBN : 0671010050

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Heaven by V. C. Andrews Pdf

Follows the experiences of Heaven, one of the very poor Casteel children who are sold to different families by their father. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Yoko Ogawa
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101911815

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The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa Pdf

Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young writer discovers that her editor is in danger, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her f loorboards, and together they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. Powerful and provocative, The Memory Police is a stunning novel about the trauma of loss. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * TIME * CHICAGO TRIBUNE * THE GUARDIAN * ESQUIRE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * FINANCIAL TIMES * LIBRARY JOURNAL * THE A.V. CLUB * KIRKUS REVIEWS * LITERARY HUB American Book Award winner

Author : James M. Vincent
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802477917

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The MBI Story by James M. Vincent Pdf

Moody Bible Institute will celebrate 125 years of ministry in 2011. The "official" history of MBI is being updated by Jim Vincent, to be released in time for Founder's Week in February, 2011. Jim Vincent (BA, UCLA; MA, UIC), was a member of faculty, an editor of Moody Magazine, and is today a senior editor for Moody Publishers. Jim helped update The Story of MBI (released in 1986), and has written Parting the Waters and co-authored A Vision with Wings. This volume will be the most comprehensive, up to date review of the history, ministry and impact of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. A four color photo insert is planned, along with a helpful appendix with the original constitution and bylaws, as well as a timeline of significant dates and events.