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Author : R. Delderfield
Release : 2009-09
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 85X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Theirs Was the Kingdom by : R. Delderfield
Download or read book Theirs Was the Kingdom written by R. Delderfield. This book was released on 2009-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stirring saga of England in the late 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution takes hold, forever changing the landscape of England and her people.
Author : R. Delderfield
Release : 2009-09-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 868/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Theirs Was the Kingdom by : R. Delderfield
Download or read book Theirs Was the Kingdom written by R. Delderfield. This book was released on 2009-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eagerly awaited reissue of the second novel in R. F. Delderfield's classic God Is an Englishman series Theirs Was the Kingdom is a stirring saga of England in the late 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution takes hold, forever changing the landscape of England and her people. The 1880s in England were a laissez-faire decade of national optimism and prosperity, of rampant colonialism, typhoid epidemics, and a Diamond Jubilee. This follow-up novel to God Is an Englishman continues the saga of the Victorian giant of commerce Adam Swann, his tough-minded wife Henrietta, and their five children. This prolific tale records the triumphs and tragedies of a memorable family and a nation at the height of its imperial power. A beloved novel by a beloved author, Theirs Was the Kingdom is a luminous historical novel of a family's fortune and a nation's destiny.
Author : Christopher Carlisle
Release : 2021-02-11
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 125/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis For Theirs Is the Kingdom by : Christopher Carlisle
Download or read book For Theirs Is the Kingdom written by Christopher Carlisle. This book was released on 2021-02-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Cabot, a millennial Boston lawyer in the midst of a personal crisis, is deployed to Montreal for eighteen months, where he chances on the Bishop of the Anglican Church. Mired in a multimillion-dollar project to build a metro stop and shopping mall underneath the cathedral, the Bishop asks Cabot to review his legal rights to stop a plan he adamantly opposes. Unwittingly drawn into the world of the church, Cabot asks the Bishop about an outdoor community he has seen after dark in the streets of Old Montreal. So prompts Cabot’s first encounter with its enigmatic cleric, Luke Hale. The renegade priest, and once apprentice to a shaman, inspires Cabot to embark on a spiritual journey through the privileged life he is living. But when a young, charismatic American rector becomes Dean of the cathedral, money and greed jeopardize Hale’s community, Cathedral in the Night. On the journey, Cabot comes to question the church’s commitment to the poor, and to confront the loss of his country’s moral compass in an increasingly bankrupt time.
Author : Joshua Partlow
Release : 2016-09-20
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 652/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Kingdom of Their Own by : Joshua Partlow
Download or read book A Kingdom of Their Own written by Joshua Partlow. This book was released on 2016-09-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the United States, brilliantly portrayed here by the former Kabul bureau chief for The Washington Post. The United States went to Afghanistan on a simple mission: avenge the September 11 attacks and drive the Taliban from power. This took less than two months. Over the course of the next decade, the ensuing fight for power and money—supplied to one of the poorest nations on earth, in ever-greater amounts—left the region even more dangerous than before the first troops arrived. At the center of this story is the Karzai family. President Hamid Karzai and his brothers began the war as symbols of a new Afghanistan: moderate, educated, fluent in the cultures of East and West, and the antithesis of the brutish and backward Taliban regime. The siblings, from a prominent political family close to Afghanistan’s former king, had been thrust into exile by the Soviet war. While Hamid Karzai lived in Pakistan and worked with the resistance, others moved to the United States, finding work as waiters and managers before opening their own restaurants. After September 11, the brothers returned home to help rebuild Afghanistan and reshape their homeland with ambitious plans. Today, with the country in shambles, they are in open conflict with one another and their Western allies. Joshua Partlow’s clear-eyed analysis reveals the mistakes, squandered hopes, and wasted chances behind the scenes of a would-be political dynasty. Nothing illustrates the arc of the war and America’s relationship with Afghanistan—from optimism to despair, friendship to enmity—as neatly as the story of the Karzai family itself, told here in its entirety for the first time.
Author : Robert D. Lupton
Release : 2010-09-14
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 295/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Theirs Is the Kingdom by : Robert D. Lupton
Download or read book Theirs Is the Kingdom written by Robert D. Lupton. This book was released on 2010-09-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gripping discovery of God's grace where we least expect to find it—in the decaying core of the city." —Ronald A. Nikkel, president, Prison Fellowship International "The story of Lupton's ministry is one of the most inspiring in America. Those of us who are trying to accomplish something of value in urban settings look to him and his co-workers as models." —Tony Campolo, author of Stories That Feed Your Soul Urban ministry activist Robert Lupton moved into a high crime area of Atlanta intending to bring Christ’s message into the ghetto—but his humbling discovery of a spiritual life already flowering in the city’s urban soil forces the minister to reexamine the deepest parts of his own soul, confronting his own patronizing, materialistic attitudes and the biases he himself held against the urban poor.
