Author: Sophie Judah
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The 19 stories in Judah's debut explore the little known Jewish community of Bene Israel in India over the course of more than a century. Though Judah touches on a wide array of topics in these vignette-like stories of life in the fictional town of Jwalangart̮he fusion of Jewish and Indian (both Hindi and Muslim) customs, the India-Pakistan partition, the birth of Israelt̮he most prevalent theme is the underappreciated strength and wisdom of the community's women.
Dropped from Heaven
Author: Sophie Judah
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The 19 stories in Judah's debut explore the little known Jewish community of Bene Israel in India over the course of more than a century. Though Judah touches on a wide array of topics in these vignette-like stories of life in the fictional town of Jwalangart̮he fusion of Jewish and Indian (both Hindi and Muslim) customs, the India-Pakistan partition, the birth of Israelt̮he most prevalent theme is the underappreciated strength and wisdom of the community's women.
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The 19 stories in Judah's debut explore the little known Jewish community of Bene Israel in India over the course of more than a century. Though Judah touches on a wide array of topics in these vignette-like stories of life in the fictional town of Jwalangart̮he fusion of Jewish and Indian (both Hindi and Muslim) customs, the India-Pakistan partition, the birth of Israelt̮he most prevalent theme is the underappreciated strength and wisdom of the community's women.
Falling Toward Heaven
Author: John Bennion
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560851400
Category : Christian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Alone at the airport, Howard Rockwood has some decisions to make. After two years away on an LDS mission, should he return to his Utahranch lifestyle or follow Allison, the educated, brown-eyed, non-Mormon girl who invades his dreams? Bennion gives a compelling tale that goes to show that you can take the boy out of Mormonism, but you can't take Mormonism out of the boy.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560851400
Category : Christian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Alone at the airport, Howard Rockwood has some decisions to make. After two years away on an LDS mission, should he return to his Utahranch lifestyle or follow Allison, the educated, brown-eyed, non-Mormon girl who invades his dreams? Bennion gives a compelling tale that goes to show that you can take the boy out of Mormonism, but you can't take Mormonism out of the boy.
The Fall of Heaven
Author: Andrew Scott Cooper
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 0805098984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administration In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He draws the turbulence of the post-war era during which the Shah survived assassination attempts and coup plots to build a modern, pro-Western state and launch Iran onto the world stage as one of the world's top five powers. Readers get the story of the Shah's political career alongside the story of his courtship and marriage to Farah Diba, who became a power in her own right, the beloved family they created, and an exclusive look at life inside the palace during the Iranian Revolution. Cooper's investigative account ultimately delivers the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty through the eyes of those who were there: leading Iranian revolutionaries; President Jimmy Carter and White House officials; US Ambassador William Sullivan and his staff in the American embassy in Tehran; American families caught up in the drama; even Empress Farah herself, and the rest of the Iranian Imperial family. Intimate and sweeping at once, The Fall of Heaven recreates in stunning detail the dramatic and final days of one of the world's most legendary ruling families, the unseating of which helped set the stage for the current state of the Middle East.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 0805098984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administration In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He draws the turbulence of the post-war era during which the Shah survived assassination attempts and coup plots to build a modern, pro-Western state and launch Iran onto the world stage as one of the world's top five powers. Readers get the story of the Shah's political career alongside the story of his courtship and marriage to Farah Diba, who became a power in her own right, the beloved family they created, and an exclusive look at life inside the palace during the Iranian Revolution. Cooper's investigative account ultimately delivers the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty through the eyes of those who were there: leading Iranian revolutionaries; President Jimmy Carter and White House officials; US Ambassador William Sullivan and his staff in the American embassy in Tehran; American families caught up in the drama; even Empress Farah herself, and the rest of the Iranian Imperial family. Intimate and sweeping at once, The Fall of Heaven recreates in stunning detail the dramatic and final days of one of the world's most legendary ruling families, the unseating of which helped set the stage for the current state of the Middle East.
Falling out of Heaven
Author: John Lynch
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007348738
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Hauntingly told and emotionally charged, this is an immense story of consuming addiction and the betrayal of trust.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007348738
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Hauntingly told and emotionally charged, this is an immense story of consuming addiction and the betrayal of trust.
Falling Into Heaven
Author: Mickey Robinson
Publisher: BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
ISBN: 1424549493
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Falling into Heaven is the true story of how a young skydivers life was changed when a fiery plane crash melted his face and mutilated his body. Miraculous healing and a spiritual adventure of a new life on earth followed this near death experience. Falling into Heaven is not just about a burned man getting better. It is about a dead man coming to life!
Publisher: BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
ISBN: 1424549493
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Falling into Heaven is the true story of how a young skydivers life was changed when a fiery plane crash melted his face and mutilated his body. Miraculous healing and a spiritual adventure of a new life on earth followed this near death experience. Falling into Heaven is not just about a burned man getting better. It is about a dead man coming to life!
A Boot Fell from Heaven
Author: Kåre Bluitgen
Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Publishers
ISBN: 9781929132454
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"When God must travel down to Earth to find His lost boot, He is surprised and dismayed to find most people unwilling to help Him, or take time to listen to what He has to say ..."--Dust jacket.
Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Publishers
ISBN: 9781929132454
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"When God must travel down to Earth to find His lost boot, He is surprised and dismayed to find most people unwilling to help Him, or take time to listen to what He has to say ..."--Dust jacket.
When Heaven Fell
Author: William Barton
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
ISBN: 9780446601665
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Surviving the slaughter of the human race by the cybernetic Master Race, mercenary Athol Morrison and a group of desperate resistors return to an alien-occupied America in a daring attempt to overthrow the dark rulers of the universe. Original.
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
ISBN: 9780446601665
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Surviving the slaughter of the human race by the cybernetic Master Race, mercenary Athol Morrison and a group of desperate resistors return to an alien-occupied America in a daring attempt to overthrow the dark rulers of the universe. Original.
Heaven on Earth
Author: Joshua Muravchik
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1893554783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
"The search for the Promised Land took socialists in diverse directions: revolution, communes and kibbutzim, social democracy, communism, fascism, Third Worldism. But none of these paths led to the prophesied utopia. Nowhere did socialists succeed in creating societies of easy abundance or in midwifing the birth of a "New Man," as their theory promised. Some socialist governments abandoned their grandiose goals and satisfied themselves with making slight modifications to capitalism, while others plowed ahead doggedly, often inducing staggering human catastrophes. Then, after two hundred years of wishful thinking and fitful governance, socialism suddenly imploded in the 1990s in a fin du siecle drama of falling walls, collapsing regimes and frantic revisions of doctrine."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1893554783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
"The search for the Promised Land took socialists in diverse directions: revolution, communes and kibbutzim, social democracy, communism, fascism, Third Worldism. But none of these paths led to the prophesied utopia. Nowhere did socialists succeed in creating societies of easy abundance or in midwifing the birth of a "New Man," as their theory promised. Some socialist governments abandoned their grandiose goals and satisfied themselves with making slight modifications to capitalism, while others plowed ahead doggedly, often inducing staggering human catastrophes. Then, after two hundred years of wishful thinking and fitful governance, socialism suddenly imploded in the 1990s in a fin du siecle drama of falling walls, collapsing regimes and frantic revisions of doctrine."--BOOK JACKET.
Falling to Heaven
Author: James L. Ferrell
Publisher: Deseret Book
ISBN: 9781609089009
Category : Forgiveness
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher: Deseret Book
ISBN: 9781609089009
Category : Forgiveness
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
When Heaven Fell
Author: Carolyn Marsden
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763674303
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
"A story of family and the legacy of war full of subtle details about life in contemporary Vietnam. . . .Binh’s dreams will resonate with all young readers." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS (Ages 8-12) Every day nine-year-old Binh sells fruit and sodas to the girls whose families can afford to send them to school, and every night she returns to her one-room home to share a simple meal with her family. Everything changes, however, when her grandmother tells Binh she had a daughter during the war, a child who was sent away to America as a little girl. Now Di Hai -- Binh’s aunt, a teacher -- is coming to visit, and Binh can’t help but wonder what luxurious gifts she will bring. Yet when Di Hai arrives, there are so many confusing things about her: she’s taller than the men, she’s not married, and her presents are mere trinkets that could have come from Third Aunt’s tourist shop! Still, Binh secretly hopes Di Hai will take her to live in America. Can her aunt live up to her expectations? Carolyn Marsden tells Binh’s story with warmth and sensitivity as she ushers readers into the life and dreams of a young Vietnamese girl.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763674303
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
"A story of family and the legacy of war full of subtle details about life in contemporary Vietnam. . . .Binh’s dreams will resonate with all young readers." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS (Ages 8-12) Every day nine-year-old Binh sells fruit and sodas to the girls whose families can afford to send them to school, and every night she returns to her one-room home to share a simple meal with her family. Everything changes, however, when her grandmother tells Binh she had a daughter during the war, a child who was sent away to America as a little girl. Now Di Hai -- Binh’s aunt, a teacher -- is coming to visit, and Binh can’t help but wonder what luxurious gifts she will bring. Yet when Di Hai arrives, there are so many confusing things about her: she’s taller than the men, she’s not married, and her presents are mere trinkets that could have come from Third Aunt’s tourist shop! Still, Binh secretly hopes Di Hai will take her to live in America. Can her aunt live up to her expectations? Carolyn Marsden tells Binh’s story with warmth and sensitivity as she ushers readers into the life and dreams of a young Vietnamese girl.