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News from Heaven

Author	: Jennifer Haigh
Publisher	: Harper Perennial
Release Date	: 2014-01-07
ISBN 10	: 0060889632
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (32 users)

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Download or read book News from Heaven written by Jennifer Haigh and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh—bestselling author of Faith and The Condition—returns to the territory of her acclaimed novel Baker Towers with a collection of short stories set in and around the fictionalized coal-mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania. Exploring themes of restlessness, regret, redemption and acceptance, Jennifer Haigh depicts men and women of different generations shaped by dreams and haunted by disappointments. Janet Maslin of the New York Times has called Haigh's Bakerton stories "utterly, entrancingly alive on the page," comparable to Richard Russo's Empire Falls.

Heat and Light

Author	: Jennifer Haigh
Publisher	: HarperCollins
Release Date	: 2016-05-03
ISBN 10	: 9780062199089
Pages	: 448 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (99 users)

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Download or read book Heat and Light written by Jennifer Haigh and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart—a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesn’t count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brother’s skepticism or the paranoia of his wife, Shelby, who insists the water smells strange and is poisoning their frail daughter. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drilling—until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives. Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, Heat and Light depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. Soaring and ambitious, it zooms from drill rig to shareholders’ meeting to the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to the ruined landscape of the “strippins,” haunting reminders of Pennsylvania’s past energy booms. This is a dispatch from a forgotten America—a work of searing moral clarity from one of the finest writers of her generation, a courageous and necessary book.

Baker Towers

Author	: Jennifer Haigh
Publisher	: Harper Collins
Release Date	: 2009-03-17
ISBN 10	: 9780061738661
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (386 users)

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Download or read book Baker Towers written by Jennifer Haigh and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, of union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its neighborhoods include Little Italy, Swedetown, and Polish Hill. For its tight-knit citizens -- and the five children of the Novak family -- the 1940s will be a decade of excitement, tragedy, and stunning change. Baker Towers is a family saga and a love story, a hymn to a time and place long gone, to America's industrial past, and to the men and women we now call the Greatest Generation. It is a feat of imagination from an extraordinary voice in American fiction, a writer of enormous power and skill.

Talking Book Topics

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2014-11
ISBN 10	: UFL:31262095324488
Pages	: 116 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (29 users)

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Crisis

Author	: Robin Cook
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN 10	: 344236860X
Pages	: 556 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 ( users)

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Download or read book Crisis written by Robin Cook and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der New Yorker Forensiker Jack Stapleton kommt seinem Schwager, einem Bostoner Arzt, zu Hilfe, der wegen eines Kunstfehlers angeklagt wird.