• 9780824520120
Michael L. Lindvall (Author)

The Good News from North Haven

A Year in the Life of a Small Town

This charming collection of slice-of-life stories about the Rev. David Battles and life in a mythical Midwest town caused a sensation when it was first released. With over 55,000 copies in print and a review…

  • Imprint: Crossroad
  • Imprint: Crossroad
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  • Title: The Good News from North Haven
  • Subtitle: A Year in the Life of a Small Town
  • Page Count: 192
  • Available Formats: Trade-paper (9780824520120), Trade-paper (9780824520137), Mobipocket (9780824550363), Epub (9780824550356)
  • Trim Size: 5.125 x 7.5
  • Publication Date: 01/09/2002
  • Edition: Trade Paper
  • BISAC 2 : FICTION / Christian/Collections & Anthologies
  • BISAC 3: RELIGION / Christian Living/General
  • Original language: English
  • Retail US: Trade-paper (18.95), Trade-paper (16.95), Mobipocket (17.99), Epub (17.99)
  • Retail Canada: Trade-paper (20.95), Trade-paper (No CAD Price), Mobipocket (), Epub ()
  • Retail Canada: 20.95
  • Review 1: “A debut collection of … sermon-like takes covering a year in the life of a Presbyterian minister in a small Minnesota town — by a native of Minneapolis. Alter-ego Reverend David Battles arrived in the tiny town of North Haven fresh from seminary school and on his way to grander pulpits, but he and his family have discovered in their four years of small-town life that instead of outgrowing this backwater they've become attached to its every quirk and comfort — and have themselves become a local institution along the way.” —Kirkus

Michael L. Lindvall (Author)

Michael L. Lindvall, was born in 1947 in Minnesota into a tradition of what he likes to call “straight-backed Scandinavian piety”. His family moved throughout Minnesota’s “wonderfully same little communities that love to tell and retell good stories” before settling in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Reverend Lindvall is the author of Leaving North Haven, also available from Crossroad Carlisle Books. A Presbyterian pastor and graduate of Princeton Seminary, the author currently resides with his family in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

  1. “Wandering through the same country as Garrison Keillor and Robert Fulghum, Lindvall has a kind hearted, humorous way of exposing human fears and foibles.”
    --Library Journal
  2. “A debut collection of … sermon-like takes covering a year in the life of a Presbyterian minister in a small Minnesota town?.?by a native of Minneapolis. Alter-ego Reverend David Battles arrived in the tiny town of North Haven fresh from seminary school and on his way to grander pulpits, but he and his family have discovered in their four years of small-town life that instead of outgrowing this backwater they've become attached to its every quirk and comfort? by a native of Minneapolis. Alter-ego Reverend David Battles arrived in the tiny town of North Haven fresh from seminary school and on his way to grander pulpits, but he and his family have discovered in their four years of small-town life that instead of outgrowing this backwater they've become attached to its every quirk and comfort?—?and have themselves become a local institution along the way.
    --Kirkus

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