A Devil and a Good Woman, Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin, Paperback - Susan Millar Williams

Julia Peterkin revolutionized American literature by writing seriously about the lives of plain black farming people. In five bold, lyrical books s...

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Reducere. This book is about lives lived out on the borderlands, lives for which the central interpretative devices of the culture don't quite work. It has a...

Darrell Williams is a man on a mission. His mission is to make up for all of the wrong he has done in his life by living daily in the light of the ...

Reducere. A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historians C-SPAN's yearlong histo...

DescriptionServing Time Too: A Memoir of My Son's Prison Years is the universally accessible story of a mother and son: what she knew about him; wh...

Reducere. Hazel Scott was a champion for civil and women's rights. Born in Trinidad in 1920, she moved with her family to the United States in 1924. She was ...

For readers of ``A Year of Magical Thinking`` by Joan Didion and ``Bad Blood`` by Lorna Sage comes an intensely honest and surprisingly witty liter...

Reducere. Is this girl a devil in disguise or a misunderstood angel? Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T. Meet Maria Kawai--she's gorgeous and whi...

Reducere. Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the African American experience. Rejecting the prevailin...

Reducere. "A gripping account of how decent people can be taken in by a charismatic and crazed tyrant" (The New York Times Book Review). In 1954, a past or n...

Reducere. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. will forever be linked to the historical 2008 presidential campaign of the Senator Barack Obama. Although unwillingly thrus...

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Four women. Four generations. One ancient house that will stand the test of time. Pen Melyn, the centre of four women's lives, set on an isolated i...

'I defy anyone not to snort, howl and recoil' The Sunday Times'Full of wicked asides, tart observations and sharp remarks that could only have orig...

Reducere. Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, but everything changed on an April day in 1912, when the sinking of the ...

Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. I...

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What would you do if you thought you would have to work - and make your own money - forever? You probably will. Because, most likely your pension w...

Reducere. Discipline seems like a hard word, but discipline is your lifeline, something that you learn to embrace and thank God for as you grow in him. The a...

Reducere. National Jewish Book AwardThis ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources originally written in 15 languages by or about...

Reducere. Anatural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love& Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories showwomen op...

Reducere. DescriptionAnatural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love& Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories s...

Description In 1855, Glasgow socialite Madeleine Smith began a flirtation with Pierre L'Angelier, a handsome clerk--for her a mere diversion. But ...

Reducere. France, 1940. Nazi forces march towards Paris. Lili Rosenswig's wealthy and eccentric family is ensconced in their country chateau with their sumpt...

Hans Fallada was a drug addict, womanizer, alcoholic, jailbird and thief. This title tells the story of Hans Fallada, whose real name was Rudolf Di...

Reducere. In the sequel to the enormously successful Casting the First Stone, Kimberla Lawson Roby brings back a character readers love to hate.Curtis Black ...

Reducere. The daughter of an illustrious Russian general, Lou von Salome left her home in the heart of Tsarist Russia to conquer intellectual Europe at the t...

Reducere. Finalist, 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. "Lucille Clifton is one of the four or five most authentic and profound living American poets."--Denise L...

Reducere. Susan Travers dreamed of an adventurous life, but had little chance of it until the Second World War destroyed her cafe society world and freed her...

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Reducere. Immortalized in the spellbinding documentary Dear Zachary, this angry, raw, and brutally honest memoir of murder and loss chronicles a system's fai...

A practical roadmap to exercise for the hypermobile.Publisher: Victory Belt PublishingAuthor(s): Adell BridgesIllustration(s): 1 Illustrations, uns...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: M. Scott PeckThe legendary bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, whose books have sold over 14 millio...

Publisher: Instant ApostleAuthor(s): Michael WilliamsNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 16Cover type: Paperback / so...

DescriptionA Dangerous Woman is Susan Ronald's revealing biography of Florence Gould, fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid ...

The essential guide for ethical decision-making in the 21st century, The Power of Ethics depicts "ethical decision-making not in a nebulous philoso...

When a loved one is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, is the primary focus on what the loved one forgets? If so, we overlook critical aspects of ...

This is the book that Andrea McLean wished for as she found herself in uncharted territory, grappling with the physical aftershock of a hysterectom...

Susan Orlean has been called "a national treasure" by The Washington Post and "a kind of latter-day Tocqueville" by The New York Times Book Review....

Reducere. A Hero Lives in My Family: A Story for Kids of First Responders - First Responders are Heroes Helping Heroes include: police officers, emergency me...

Reducere. From a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children, a timely investigation into how big tech is hijac...

Publisher: Inter-Varsity PressAuthor(s): J Gary MillarNumber of pages: 272Collection: New Studies in Biblical TheologyPublication date: 2016Dimensi...

DescriptionWhether you are a new Christian, or have been for a while and feel in need of a refresher, or have been around church for years but thin...

Reducere. NEW and expanded for 2020 in its edition, Confessions of a Christian Witch is the raw, real expose of one witch's exit from the cult of Jehovah's W...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Carola LoveringNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 210 x 26Cover type: Paperback / s...

DescriptionToo Good to Go, Too Bad to Stay is a simple, comprehensive guide that offers a 5-step plan to help men and women heal from a toxic relat...

Publisher: Amazon PublishingAuthor(s): Susan WalterNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 139 x 209 x 23Cover type: Paperback / soft...