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Author : James L. Ferrell
Release : 2012-01-01
Genre : Forgiveness
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 009/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Falling to Heaven by : James L. Ferrell
Download or read book Falling to Heaven written by James L. Ferrell. This book was released on 2012-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeanne Peterson
Release : 2010-03-30
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 55X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Falling to Heaven by : Jeanne Peterson
Download or read book Falling to Heaven written by Jeanne Peterson. This book was released on 2010-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FALLING TO HEAVEN is the story of two American Quakers who trek into Tibet in 1954. In this work of historical fiction, Emma and Gerald Kittredge leave their secure Quaker community and travel to the Tibetan city of Shigatse where they soon find companionship with their neighbors, Dorje and Rinchen, and their small family. But the arrival of Maoist soldiers into their quiet life shatters everything. Gerald is captured by the soldiers, leaving a pregnant Emma facing an agonizing decision: flee Tibet or stay and risk imprisonment herself. Dorje and Rinchen are her only allies, but their lives are also thrown into turmoil when their son abandons the sanctuary of his monastery to fight in the resistance. Told in three distinct voices rich in their respective spiritual traditions, FALLING TO HEAVEN is ultimately a novel about faith: losing it and rediscovering it in places you'd never expect. FALLING TO HEAVEN conjures a panoramic tale that unfolds the mysteries of an ancient and peaceful way of life.
Author : John Lynch
Release : 2010-05-13
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 738/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Falling out of Heaven by : John Lynch
Download or read book Falling out of Heaven written by John Lynch. This book was released on 2010-05-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hauntingly told and emotionally charged, this is an immense story of consuming addiction and the betrayal of trust.
Author : Joshua Muravchik
Release : 2003
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 783/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Heaven on Earth by : Joshua Muravchik
Download or read book Heaven on Earth written by Joshua Muravchik. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Author : Andrew Scott Cooper
Release : 2016-08-02
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 984/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Fall of Heaven by : Andrew Scott Cooper
Download or read book The Fall of Heaven written by Andrew Scott Cooper. This book was released on 2016-08-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
