[PDF] Sweet Land eBook

Author : Will Weaver
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0873517024

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Includes "A Gravestone Made of Wheat", the basis of the independent film Sweet Land.

Author : Will Weaver
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0873518802

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The feature film Sweet Land was based on this short story about a Norwegian American farmer and his German immigrant common-law bride. Excerpted from Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories.

Author : Michael Crummey
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 25,92 MB
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1472115872

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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 : Thomas J. Sugrue
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0812970381

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Sweet Land of Liberty is Thomas J. Sugrue’s epic account of the abiding quest for racial equality in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South. 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. 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.

Author : Robert Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1317893654

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A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the ordinary men and women who were mobilised by the grass-roots activities of civil-rights workers and community leaders. He begins with the development of segregation in the late nineteenth century, but his main focus is on the continuing struggle this century. It is a dramatic story of many achievements - even if in many respects it is also a record of unfinished business.

Author : Amir Nizar Zuabi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 2014-07-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1472589408

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They call it a civil war, but there is nothing civil in this. Nothing civil at all. They came from Damascus, from Halab, from Banias where the bombs fall day and night and the wounded children look like sleeping angels. Now they live in camps and abandoned buildings in Lebanon or Jordan. Now Syria is just a distant memory, a home forever lost. This urgent and extraordinary play explores the crisis in Syria through the stories of its two million refugees. Oh My Sweet Land received its UK premiere at the Young Vic Theatre, London, on 9 April 2014.

Author : Charles Carleton Coffin
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 25,61 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780938558484

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Maranatha Publications has reprinted Charles Coffin's 1881 history of the founding of the United States with the desire to make the present generation aware of the role that the founding fathers attributed to Divine Providence.

Author : Will Weaver
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780873515566

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The changing midwest as captured in new stories and select favorites by award-winning writer Will Weaver

Author : Michael Crummey
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0871407914

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Winner of the CBC Bookie Award for Fiction Winner of the Newfoundland & Labrador Book Award Finalist for the the BMO Winterset Award Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award An Audie Awards Finalist 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.