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Missionaries

Author : Phil Klay
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984880667
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Missionaries written by Phil Klay and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of President Obama's Favorite Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | One of the Wall Street Journal Ten Best Books of the Year "Missionaries is a courageous book: It doesn’t shy away, as so much fiction does, from the real world.” —Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The New York Times Book Review “A sweeping, interconnected novel of ideas in the tradition of Joseph Conrad and Norman Mailer . . . By taking a long view of the ‘rational insanity’ of global warfare, Missionaries brilliantly fills one of the largest gaps in contemporary literature.” —The Wall Street Journal The debut novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment A group of Colombian soldiers prepares to raid a drug lord's safe house on the Venezuelan border. They're watching him with an American-made drone, about to strike using military tactics taught to them by U.S. soldiers who honed their skills to lethal perfection in Iraq. In Missionaries, Phil Klay examines the globalization of violence through the interlocking stories of four characters and the conflicts that define their lives. For Mason, a U.S. Army Special Forces medic, and Lisette, a foreign correspondent, America's long post-9/11 wars in the Middle East exerted a terrible draw that neither is able to shake. Where can such a person go next? All roads lead to Colombia, where the US has partnered with local government to keep predatory narco gangs at bay. Mason, now a liaison to the Colombian military, is ready for the good war, and Lisette is more than ready to cover it. Juan Pablo, a Colombian officer, must juggle managing the Americans' presence and navigating a viper's nest of factions bidding for power. Meanwhile, Abel, a lieutenant in a local militia, has lost almost everything in the seemingly endless carnage of his home province, where the lines between drug cartels, militias, and the state are semi-permeable. Drawing on six years of research in America and Colombia into the effects of the modern way of war on regular people, Klay has written a novel of extraordinary suspense infused with geopolitical sophistication and storytelling instincts that are second to none. Missionaries is a window not only into modern war, but into the individual lives that go on long after the drones have left the skies.

How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position

Author : Tabish Khair
Publisher : Interlink Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1623710464
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position written by Tabish Khair and published by Interlink Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A HILARIOUS, SATIRICAL NOVEL FROM AWARD-WINNING INDIAN WRITER. Funny and sad, satirical and humane, this novel tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men whose trajectories cross in Denmark: the flamboyant Ravi, the fundamentalist Karim, and the unnamed and pragmatic Pakistani narrator. As the unnamed narrator copes with his divorce, and Ravi—despite his exterior of skeptical flamboyance—falls deeply in love with a beautiful woman who is incapable of responding in kind, Karim, their landlord, goes on with his job as a taxi driver and his regular Friday Qur’an sessions. But is he going on with something else? Who is Karim? And why does he disappear suddenly at times or receive mysterious phone calls? When a “terrorist attack” takes place in town, all three men find themselves embroiled in doubt, suspicion, and, perhaps, danger. An acerbic commentary on the times, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position is also a bitter-sweet, spell-binding novel about love and life today.

The Poisonwood Bible

Author : Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061804819
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Poisonwood Bible written by Barbara Kingsolver and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.

Prophets of Eternal Fjord: A Novel

Author : Kim Leine
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871408899
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Prophets of Eternal Fjord: A Novel written by Kim Leine and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Danish Golden Lauren Award Winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize Shortlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award An ALA RUSA Notable Book (Fiction) The award-winning, internationally best-selling saga of a Greenlandic community torn apart by the forces of colonialism and the one priest whose wavering guidance will determine its fate. From the swarming streets of Copenhagen to the frozen villages of Greenland, The Prophets of Eternal Fjord is a grand, magisterial story of epic proportion. Earning rave reviews and scores of readers across the world, Kim Leine's masterpiece—sweeping across the sea in a whaler and scurrying, panicked, from the Great Fire of 1795—arrives on American shores erupting with pathos, lust, faith lost and found, and a cast of characters clinging to life amidst persecution and calamity. Idealistic, foolhardy Morten Falck, the hapless hero, is a newly ordained priest sailing to Greenland in 1787 to convert the Inuit to the Danish church. He's rejected the prospect of a sleepy posting in a local parish and instead departs for the forsaken Sukkertoppen colony, where he will endeavor to convert the locals. A town battered by unremittingly harsh winters and simmering with the threat of dissent, it is a far cry from the parish he envisioned; natives from neighboring villages have unified to reject colonial rule and establish their own settlement atop Eternal Fjord. A bumbling and at times terrifically destructive mix of Shakespeare's Falstaff and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Arthur Dimmesdale, he's woefully ill prepared to confront this new sect. Torn between his instinctive compassion for the rebel congregation perched atop Eternal Fjord and his duty to the church, Falck is forced to decide where he belongs. His exploits in this brutal backwater include an accidental explosion after a night curled around a keg, a botched surgery, a love affair with a solitary and fatalistic widow, and an apprenticeship with an eager young scholar that ends in tragedy. Based on authentic events in the 1780s and '90s, The Prophets of Eternal Fjord moves from the quiet rooms of the Copenhagen bourgeoisie to the stark, hardscrabble village of the Fjord where Falck finds himself—surprisingly—at home. Kim Leine's textured, earthy prose evokes the sting of the cold, the itch of the wool, and the burn of the roughest swig of aquavit. In gritty detail, Leine reveals the corrosive effects of colonial rule—both on the colonized, bitterly ground down as they are, and on the colonizers, compromised and corrupted by their baseless power. In rich, Dickensian descriptions, Leine charts the tragic events that intertwine seemingly disparate lives, illuminating the brutal and tender impulses of those seeking redemption and the shifting line between religion and mysticism. The Prophets of Eternal Fjord is a visceral panorama of a fragile colony caught in the throes of history, marking the American debut of a major international writer.

Fieldwork

Author : Mischa Berlinski
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848873085
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Fieldwork written by Mischa Berlinski and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction Set in Thailand, a brilliantly original and page-turning first novel of anthropologists, missionaries, demon possession, sexual taboos, murder, and one obsessed young American reporter. When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa goes along for the ride, planning only to enjoy himself as much as possible. But when he hears about the suicide of a young woman, Martiya van der Leun, in the Thai prison where she was serving a life sentence for murder, what begins as mild curiosity becomes an obsession. It is clear that Martiya was guilty, but what was it that led her to kill? 'A killer novel... A great story... You can't stop reading.' Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly

The Missionary Guardian

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Missionary Guardian written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How I Became a North Korean

Author : Krys Lee
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399563938
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book How I Became a North Korean written by Krys Lee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lee takes us into urgent and emotional novelistic terrain: the desperate and tenuous realms defectors are forced to inhabit after escaping North Korea.” –Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s Son "The more confusing and horrible our world becomes, the more critical the role of fiction in communicating both the facts and the meaning of other people’s lives. Krys Lee joins writers like Anthony Marra, Khaled Hosseini and Elnathan John in this urgent work." –San Francisco Chronicle Yongju is an accomplished student from one of North Korea's most prominent families. Jangmi, on the other hand, has had to fend for herself since childhood, most recently by smuggling goods across the border. Then there is Danny, a Chinese-American teenager whose quirks and precocious intelligence have long made him an outcast in his California high school. These three disparate lives converge when they flee their homes, finding themselves in a small Chinese town just across the river from North Korea. As they fight to survive in a place where danger seems to close in on all sides, in the form of government informants, husbands, thieves, abductors, and even missionaries, they come to form a kind of adoptive family. But will Yongju, Jangmi and Danny find their way to the better lives they risked everything for? Transporting the reader to one of the least-known and most threatening environments in the world, and exploring how humanity persists even in the most desperate circumstances, How I Became a North Korean is a brilliant and essential first novel by one of our most promising writers. A FINALIST FOR THE 2016 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal One of The Millions' most anticipated books of the second half of 2016 One of Elle.com's "11 Best Books to Read in August" One of Bookpage's "Six Stellar Summer Debuts"

In the Missionary Position

Author : Emily Prager
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780099538110
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book In the Missionary Position written by Emily Prager and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you want to join in a football game or play pool with blood dripping from your penis? Is there any chance that you'd be anything but short-tempered, irrational and depressed with blood dripping from your penis? 'The Man's Exam on Female Troubles' explains just some of the 'problems' women endure and questions whether men, given the same biology, wouldn't behave in the same way. . . In this hilarious collection of journalism Emily Prager offers us her views on every-thing from the royal family to abortion. Covering twenty-five years of her writing for the NATIONAL LAMPOON, TITTERS, PENTHOUSE, the NEW YORK OBSERVER, the GUARDIAN and the NEW YORK TIMES Styles Section, IN THE MISSIONARY POSITION is a fascinating social history of two decades as well as giving refreshingly irreverent advice on surviving Christmas, plastic surgery and safe sex.

A Better Life

Author : Rebecca Smith
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310357586
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Better Life written by Rebecca Smith and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founder of Better Life Bags, Rebecca Smith, teaches us how to take little steps, say yes when God calls, and follow the passion He has given us. Let love stretch you. As the founder of one of the most popular custom handbag companies in the country, Rebecca Smith knows a thing or two about business. A highly successful entrepreneur in a world where the focus is on scalability, brand strategy, and global marketing, Rebecca Smith also knows the truth: that every success she's experienced at Better Life Bags has been the result of very small, very ordinary, very obedient steps of faith. Moving from Savannah, Georgia, to Hamtramck, Michigan, was culture shock enough for Rebecca. But trying to feel at home in a city where twenty-six different languages were spoken and most of the inhabitants were immigrants seemed downright impossible. It was only when Rebecca recognized that God had called her to this specific neighborhood at this particular moment in time that his plans began to unfold for her. Stepping forward into the place God had called her - a place that seemed messy and uncomfortable and unfamiliar - Rebecca discovered the true secret to success: when we slow down, pay attention, and trust that still, small voice of God to guide us, we just might change the world. Though Rebecca never set out to build a brand or create an empire, God saw Rebecca's heart for others, and began to multiply her efforts in ways she could have never imagined, creating a company where women from different cultures, faiths, and backgrounds work together for the good of others - for a better life. As you read this inspiring story, you will discover how to hear and follow God's voice for yourself as you slow down, take one small step at a time, and make a difference in the world right where you are.

The Official Report of the Missionary Conference of the Anglican Communion ... 1894

Author : George Andrew Spottiswoode
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Official Report of the Missionary Conference of the Anglican Communion ... 1894 written by George Andrew Spottiswoode and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mission House

Author : Carys Davies
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1783784326
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book The Mission House written by Carys Davies and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleeing his demons and the dark undercurrents of life in Britain, Hilary Byrd takes refuge in a south Indian mission house next door to the presbytery where the Padre and his adoptive daughter, Priscilla, live. As Hilary's friendship with Priscilla grows, so too do the religious and nationalist tensions around them, and the mission house may not be the safe haven it seems. Meticulously crafted and tenderly subversive, The Mission House is a deeply human story of the wonders and terrors of connection in a modern world.

The Shark God

Author : Charles Montgomery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226534862
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Shark God written by Charles Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author analyses and documents the people who had lived on the islands of Melanesia during the late nineteenth century, and chronicles the experiences of his great-grandfather, who was a missionary in the South Pacific.

Five Wives

Author : Joan Thomas
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443458554
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Five Wives written by Joan Thomas and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION A GLOBE AND MAIL, CBC BOOKS, APPLE BOOKS, AND NOW TORONTO BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In the tradition of The Poisonwood Bible and State of Wonder, a novel set in the rainforest of Ecuador about five women left behind when their missionary husbands are killed. Based on the shocking real-life events In 1956, a small group of evangelical Christian missionaries and their families journeyed to the rainforest in Ecuador intending to convert the Waorani, a people who had never had contact with the outside world. The plan was known as Operation Auca. After spending days dropping gifts from an aircraft, the five men in the party rashly entered the “intangible zone.” They were all killed, leaving their wives and children to fend for themselves. Five Wives is the fictionalized account of the real-life women who were left behind, and their struggles – with grief, with doubt, and with each other – as they continued to pursue their evangelical mission in the face of the explosion of fame that followed their husbands’ deaths. Five Wives is a riveting, often wrenching story of evangelism and its legacy, teeming with atmosphere and compelling characters and rich in emotional impact.

The Missionary Herald

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Missionary Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1828-1934 contain the Proceedings at large of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

Wait for God to Notice

Author : Sari Fordam
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 1736494600
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Wait for God to Notice written by Sari Fordam and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wait for God to Notice is a love letter to an adopted country with an unstable past and an undeniable endurance to heal. In 1975, Uganda’s Finance Minister escaped to England saying, “To live in Uganda today is hell.” Idi Amin had declared himself president for life, the economy had crashed, and Ugandans were disappearing. One year later, the Fordham family arrived as Seventh-day Adventist missionaries. Fordham narrates her childhood with lush, observant prose that is also at times quite funny. She describes her family’s insular faith, her mother’s Finnish heritage, the growing conflict between her parents, the dangerous politics of Uganda, and the magic of living in a house in the jungle. Driver ants stream through their bedrooms, mambas drop out of the stove, and monkeys steal their tomatoes. Wait for God to Notice is a memoir about growing up in Uganda. It is also a memoir about mothers and daughters and about how children both know and don’t know their parents. As teens, Fordham and her sister, Sonja, considered their mother overly cautious. After their mother dies of cancer, the author begins to wonder who her mother really was. As she recalls her childhood in Uganda—the way her mother killed snakes, sweet-talked soldiers, and sold goods on the black market—Fordham understands that the legacy her mother left her daughters is one of courage and capability. Sari Fordam has lived in Uganda, Kenya, Thailand, South Korea, and Austria. She received an M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota, and now teaches at La Sierra University. She lives in California with her husband and daughter. This is her first book.

Adoniram Judson

Author : Jason G. Duesing
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433677652
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Adoniram Judson written by Jason G. Duesing and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new biography of Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson (1788 - 1850), written to honor the 200th anniversary of his first mission trip from the U.S. to the Far East that would in turn mark the start of Americans joining the modern missions movement.

The Girl and the Guardian

Author : Joshua D Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578777740
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book The Girl and the Guardian written by Joshua D Jones and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PERSIA, 480 BC. Mordecai takes guardianship of his orphan cousin, Esther. Persia's King kidnaps the girl and forces her into his bed. Mordecai refuses to kneel before the Viceroy who unleashes terror in revenge. The teenage queen risks a violent death to find the help they need as they battle an ancient evil set on the destruction of their people BRITAIN, 21st Century. Oliver, a depressed London film student in search of meaning and beauty, visits his coffee guzzling grandfather in the Scottish highlands. With the old man's help, he discovers Mordecai and Esther⸺and the answers to so much more. WARNING: this is not your grandmother's sanitised, rose-petalled Esther. Read the scripture-saga as told by a Scottish grandfather to his grandson, Oliver, in a potent blend of dry humour, robust theology, and dark storytelling⸺the first in the Oliver Anderson Trilogy. 'Joshua's books pack a deep punch, leaves you unable to put them down, and deliver fantastic humour!' -Simcha Nathan, Israeli author of Awakened