An American Marriage

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Reducere. DescriptionThe dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, a free, black poet who resisted the pressures of arranged marriage, truly embodying the ideals o...

Reducere. An epic saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and th...

Reducere. The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-et...

Reducere. Almost one hundred years of personal short stories and full color photographs chronicling the life of a 20th Century American pioneer. The stories ...

Reducere. Winner of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture (2005)Readers of Cheaper by the Dozen remember Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972) as the ...

DescriptionA groundbreaking examination of polygamy showing that monogamy was not the only form marriage took in early America Today we tend to thi...

Reducere. This first-ever biography of American painter Grace Hartigan traces her rise from virtually self-taught painter to art-world fame, her plunge into ...

This engaging and highly readable family history follows ten generations of a mainstream middle-class family through three and a half centuries of ...

Reducere. Taylor G. Petrey's trenchant history takes a landmark step forward in documenting and theorizing about Latter-day Saints (LDS) teachings on gender,...

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Reducere. A Most Glorious Ride presents the complete diaries of Theodore Roosevelt from 1877 to 1886. Covering the formative years of his life, Roosevelt's e...

Reducere. In this personal, multifaceted memoir, Hala Buck, a professional artist and integrative therapist, reflects on her mixed Muslim and Christian famil...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book maps how American Methodists have responded to sexual change since World War II. It argues that the current United Methodist i...

Reducere. In this definitive history of a unique tradition, Tyler D. Parry untangles the convoluted history of the broomstick wedding. Popularly associated w...

Reducere. They say there was or there wasn't in olden times a story as old as life, as young as this moment, a story that is yours and is mine. Once in a Pro...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jon F. SensbachRebecca's Revival is the remarkable story of a Caribbean woman--a slave turned evangelist--who helped inspir...

Reducere. In Veil and Vow, Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation...

Reducere. This three-volume set contains a comprehensive history of the von Cramm and Cram families in Germany, Great Britain, Canada and the United States o...

Reducere. Uninhibited, vivacious, and a startling talent, Carole Lombard was the darling of her day. Her wit and charm made her the social as well as artisti...

DescriptionThe generational and social thinking changes that caused an unprecedented shift toward support for gay marriage How did gay marriage--so...

Reducere. On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its po...

Reducere. It's 1968. Himiko Hamilton struggles in a graceless marriage in a country that is not her own. Having come from Japan at the end of World War II an...

Reducere. This is the extraordinary story of a true American Patriot. Captured by the North Vietnamese and imprisoned for seven and a half years, Colonel (re...

From a thrilling new talent, Lisa Taddeo, Three Women is a mesmerizing work of narrative journalism--reported over eight years--about the sex lives...

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In the summer of 2020, the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital apologized to their former intersex patients who endured early childhood sur...

Reducere. Today's Fundamentalist Mormons in the American West resist assimilation like their forefathers. Centered on faith, they survive despite efforts to ...

"Graceful yet precise, poetic yet deeply rooted in research, this exploration of an overlooked painter is gorgeous -- a joy to read. Molly Peacock'...

In 2017, a white supremacist rally at the University of Virginia forced many to consider how much progress had been made in a country that, nine ye...

Reducere. A Most Glorious Ride presents the complete diaries of Theodore Roosevelt from 1877 to 1886. Covering the formative years of his life, Roosevelt's e...

Reducere. In 1984, the White Mountain communities of Pinetop and Lakeside in east-central Arizona undertook a "marriage of convenience" and incorporated. His...

Reducere. During her lifetime, Audre Lorde (1934-1992), author of the landmark Cancer Journals, created a mythic identity for herself that retains its vitali...

DescriptionFor fans of Meg Wolitzer and Maggie Shipstead: a sweeping debut novel following an American artist who returns to Germany--where she fel...

Introducing the First Biography of the Life and Ministry of R. C. Sproul R. C. Sproul (1939-2017) was a pastor, a professor, an author, and the fou...

Reducere. In the early 1950s, a Mexican American man named Gus has become a top Texas civil rights attorney--a climb that has been bedeviled by his competing...

Reducere. In 1752 an enslaved Pennsylvania ironworker named Ned purchased his freedom and moved to Virginia on the upper James River. Taking the name Edward ...

Reducere. Set in an idyllic village named Avalon, a warm and wonderful new novel from Ireland's #1 bestselling author. #1 international bestselling author Ca...

Reducere. "860 glittering pages" (Janet Maslin, The New York Times): The first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actres...

Reducere. This completely revised and updated classic resource serves as an introduction to the Jewish life cycle. The first part of the book uses a question...

Reducere. An incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in th...

"A chilling portrait of the ways that abuse can be hidden behind a glittering fa ade. It's also a compelling story of a woman learning to navigate ...

Reducere. From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compil...

Reducere. A remarkable collection of deeply felt writings on the experience of studying the embodied spiritual discipline of Bharata Natyam, the Classical Da...

Reducere. The New York Times bestselling author of Her Last Flight returns with a gripping and profoundly human story of Cold War espionage and family devoti...

Reducere. Uninhibited, vivacious, and a startling talent, Carole Lombard was the darling of her day. Her wit and charm made her the social as well as artisti...

Reducere. Ten percent of book profits will go to the Susan Angeline Collins Scholarship at Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa. Get ready to delve into a ...

DescriptionA major reappraisal of the life of legendary entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., Gonna Do Great Things is at once an intimate portrait and an ...

Reducere. FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of a Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angel...

DescriptionThe journal of Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (1735-1807) is perhaps the single most significant personal record of eigh...

In Warrior Spirit, Running to the Sound of Gunfire a young Airborne Ranger is shot off of his motorcycle while attempting to rescue 1000 American m...

Reducere. One of our best American writers, Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies. Cast out of...

An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Ab...

For fans of Daniel Silva and David Baldacci comes a gripping thriller based on real world events that will have you riveted until the final page is...

Explore the Captivating Life of Thomas EdisonThomas Edison was born into a hard-working but attentive family. He struggled in school and became dea...

Reducere. She built a monument for all time. Then she was lost in its shadow. Discover the fascinating woman who helped design and construct an American icon...

Reducere. From National Book Award-nominated writer Andrea Lee comes a gorgeously evocative epic about love, clashing cultures, and identity, set in the trop...

Reducere. An Irish mother faces her destiny in California as the acclaimed trilogy comes to an end--"a vibrant picture of American history in the mid-19th ce...

Twice a princess, twice exiled, Neslishah Sultan had an eventful life. When she was born in Istanbul in 1921, cannons were fired in the four corner...

Reducere. First published in 1996, Mary Street Alinder's biography of Ansel Adams remains the only full biography of one of the greatest American photographe...

Reducere. An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself. Michele Harper is a female, African American e...

Reducere. Perfect for fans of Barbarian Days, this memoir in essays follows one man's decade-long quest to uncover the hidden meaning of skateboarding, and e...

Reducere. A man is endangered by his family's long-ago Nazi ties in this "riveting" thriller by a New York Times-bestselling author (Rolling Stone).His marri...

Reducere. A collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations. For poet Victoria Chang, memory "isn't something that b...

Reducere. This is the extraordinary story of a true American Patriot. Captured by the North Vietnamese and imprisoned for seven and a half years, Colonel (re...

Reducere. This biography of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), a giant of American literature who invented both the horror and detective genres, is a portrait of e...

Reducere. Catholic Greg Bourke's profoundly moving memoir about growing up gay and overcoming discrimination in the battle for same-sex marriage in the US.In...

Reducere. It is 1946 and Berlin is a ruined city, the Nazis vanquished, but memories of the city in 1934 haunt Sally as she returns to investigate war crimes...