For twelve generations, the inhabitants of a remote island in Newfoundland have lived and died together. Now, in the second decade of the 21st century, they are facing resettlement. They have each been offered a generous compensation package to leave the island for good. There’s just one proviso: everyone must go. Gradually, all of the residents surrender to the inevitable. All of the residents, that is, but one: old Moses Sweetland. Motivated in part by a sense of history and belonging, and concerned that his somewhat eccentric great-nephew will wilt on the mainland, Moses resists the coercion of family and friends in order to hold onto the only place he’s ever called home. As his options dwindle, Moses Sweetland concocts a scheme to remain the island’s only living resident. Cut off from the outside world, with the food supply diminishing and weather shredding away the last evidence of human habitation, Sweetland finds himself, finally, in the company of ghosts . . . Written with incomparable emotional power and depth, Sweetland is a story about loyalty and courage, about the human will to persist even when all hope seems lost.

Includes "A Gravestone Made of Wheat", the basis of the independent film Sweet Land.

Illustrations and rhyming text depict the quiet wonder of God's creation.

Discover why 95% of all human problems stem from a negative mind - traits such as timidity, domestic discord, business failure, bad memory, tenseness, unhappiness, worry, etc. This book shows how to use the deepest thinking part of you - while you sleep! Get whatever you want out of life . . . money, personal influence, love, respect and admiration. You will discover: - 6 exercises that develop your latent creative powers into a mental powerhouse - 5 ways to make your Creative Mind work for you - a formula for building a success consciousness that will lead you to success in any direction - how to develop your powers of concentration - how to accentuate the positive ... and gain a magnetic personality - how to go on a mental diet ... to gain radiant mental and physical health and feel younger than your years, even at 70! CONTENTS How This Book Helps You Grow Rich 1. Riches: An Interpretation 2. Sleep: How To Enjoy Peaceful Sleep 3. Your Real Seat of Intelligence 4. Man Is Mind 5. Getting Acquainted with the Real You 6. You Are What You Think You Are 7. You Are Twice as Good as You Think You Are 8. Money: A Myth 9. Riches: A Matter of Consciousness 10. A Study in Contrasts 11. Grow Rich in All Things—While You Sleep 12. Accepting the Supremacy of Mind over Matter 13. Mental Exercises vs. Physical Exercises 14. Thoughts Are Pictures; Pictures Are Patterns 15. Your Mental Eraser 16. Building a Consciousness of Success 17. Discovering the Law of Abundance 18. You Become Rich Right Now 19. Psychosomatic Ailments: Are They Real? 20. Developing a Health Consciousness 21. Accentuate the Positive 22. Help Yourself by Helping Others 23. Electrosonic Means of Aiding You 24. Your New Life of Health, Wealth and Happiness

The feature film Sweet Land was based on this short story about a Norwegian American farmer and his German immigrant common-law bride. Excerpted from Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories.

Sweet Land of Liberty is Thomas J. Sugrue’s epic account of the abiding quest for racial equality in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South. Sugrue’s panoramic view sweeps from the 1920s to the present–more than eighty of the most decisive years in American history. He uncovers the forgotten stories of battles to open up lunch counters, beaches, and movie theaters in the North; the untold history of struggles against Jim Crow schools in northern towns; the dramatic story of racial conflict in northern cities and suburbs; and the long and tangled histories of integration and black power. Filled with unforgettable characters and riveting incidents, and making use of information and accounts both public and private, such as the writings of obscure African American journalists and the records of civil rights and black power groups, Sweet Land of Liberty creates an indelible history.

Winner of the CBC Bookie Award for Fiction Winner of the Newfoundland & Labrador Book Award Finalist for the the BMO Winterset Award Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award An Audie Awards Finalist The epic tale of an endangered Newfoundland community and the struggles of one man determined to resist its extinction. The scarcely populated town of Sweetland clings to the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline has finally reached a head, with the mainland government offering each islander a generous resettlement package— the only stipulation being that everyone must leave. Fierce and enigmatic Moses Sweetland, whose ancestors founded the island, is determined to refuse. As one by one his neighbors relent, he recalls the town’s rugged history and its eccentric cast of characters. For fans of The Shipping News, Michael Crummey’s prose conjures up the mythical, sublime world of Sweetland’s past amid a storm-battered landscape haunted by local lore. In a spare style that belies “huge emotional depth and heart” (Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You), Crummey masterfully weaves together the past and present, creating in Sweetland a spectacular portrait of one man’s battle to survive as his world vanishes around him.