Act Of Faith

Act of Faith

📂 Standards 📅 2011 🏛 HarperCollins Publishers 🌐 English ⚖ 466 KB

When ideas were dangerous, one girl found the courage to act England, 1640. Sixteen-year-old Isabella is forced to flee her home when her father′s radical ideas lead him into a suicidal stand against Oliver Cromwell′s army. Taking refuge in Amsterdam and desperate to find a means to survive, Isabell

Acts of Faith

✍ Caputo, Philip 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 567 KB

### From Publishers Weekly *Starred Review.* Caputo's ambitious adventure novel, set against a backdrop of the Sudanese wars, makes for a dense, riveting update on Graham Greene's *The Quiet American*. The American in this case is Douglas Braithwaite, a ''mercenary with a conscience'' who founds Kn

Acts of Faith

✍ Caputo, Philip 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 566 KB

SUMMARY: Philip Caputo’s tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of conscience whose courage and idealism sometimes coexist with treacherous moral blindness. There’s the en

Acts of Faith

✍ Caputo, Philip 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 522 KB

### From Publishers Weekly *Starred Review.* Caputo's ambitious adventure novel, set against a backdrop of the Sudanese wars, makes for a dense, riveting update on Graham Greene's *The Quiet American*. The American in this case is Douglas Braithwaite, a ''mercenary with a conscience'' who founds Kn

Acts of Faith

✍ Caputo, Philip 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 521 KB

SUMMARY: Philip Caputo’s tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of conscience whose courage and idealism sometimes coexist with treacherous moral blindness. There’s the en

Acts of Faith

✍ Caputo, Philip 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 537 KB

Caputo's ambitious adventure novel, set against a backdrop of the Sudanese wars, makes for a dense, riveting update on Graham Greene's The Quiet American. The American in this case is Douglas Braithwaite, a "mercenary with a conscience" who founds Knight Air, a charter airline that conveys relief su