Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America, Paperback - Sharon Davies

Reducere. It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenson ...

Publisher: Poetry Wales PressAuthor(s): Nia WynNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 196 x 125 x 14Cover type: Paperback / softback...

An 18th-century adventure - a true story of love, murder and survival...

Twenty-five years ago and counting, Louisa, my true, essential, always-there-for-everything friend, died. We were 22. When Anita Lahey opens her bi...

Reducere. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina crashed a forty-foot tidal wave over the Marine Life Oceanarium in Gulfport, Mississippi. The dolphin house w...

Up-to-date one-volume edition of a standard textFor decades students and scholars have turned to the two-volume Documentary History of Religion in ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bonnie WardWinds of Skilak traces a young couple's adventurous move from the suburbs of Ohio to a remote island on ill-temp...

Reducere. This book by Miguel De La Torre offers a fascinating guide to the history, beliefs, rituals, and culture of Santer a -- a religious tradition that,...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly Novem...

A "well-written, engaging detective story" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs--and the wildlife...

Louis Le Prince invented the motion picture in 1890. The man's name was Thomas Edison. This book is the story of the birth of motion pictures, rest...

Reducere. Starving and certain that I would die in my dingy jail cell in Spain, I made a deal with God. I fell to my knees, promising to give up all drugs an...

Reducere. The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told is an inspiring personal narrative about a filly who broke through the male-dominated world of horseracing an...

New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. It i...

Reducere. The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told is an inspiring personal narrative about a filly who broke through the male-dominated world of horseracing an...

Reducere. DescriptionAn unforgettable memoir about a mixed-race Jewish woman who, after fifteen years of estrangement from her racist great-aunt, helps bring...

Reducere. Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs,...

Reducere. "History comes alive" (Kirkus Reviews) in the wild and true story of the first Indy 500 and the dawn of the automotive age--now in paperback. Forty...

Religion in America: The Basics is a concise introduction to the historical development of religions in the United States. It is an invitation to e...

Reducere. Jonathan Kwitny, hailed as the John le Carre of non-fiction crime, is one of America's top investigative journalists. In this explosive expose he r...

Reducere. On Dee Branch's first date with Johnnie Oliver, a fourth-generation funeral director, she knew she was in for a unique relationship when he had to ...

DescriptionCleopatra, the last Queen of Egypt, is dead and her kingdom is now a province of the Roman Empire. Enticed by the wealth of Egypt's sout...

DescriptionInterrogating Secularism is a call to rethink binary categories of "religion" and "secularism" in contemporary Arab American fiction and...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael O. EmersonAuthor: Christian SmithThrough a nationwide telephone survey of 2, 000 people and an additional 200 face-...

Reducere. Life doesn't always work out the way we planned. Things happen that we have no control over, and circumstances seem overwhelming. I never thought I...

Reducere. How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousnes...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sharon G. FormanIllustrator: Lisa J. TeitelbaumForeword by: Ryan and Jon DanielsWhy is this night different from all other ...

Reducere. Fans of Thich Nhat Hanh's Peace is Every Step and Anger, and Deepak Chopra's Buddha, will appreciate Hanh's wisdom and storytelling in his novel Th...

Reducere. DescriptionWit, wisdom, and revelations from sixty years of life on the road. Driving one highway after another at sunrise, winding through the mou...

When her French fianc told her about the other woman in his life, she began to wonder if there was more to love--and the universe--than she had dar...

Reducere. A lonely woman is torn between the bonds of family and the potential of new love in this moving novel from the author of A Wrinkle in Time. Caught ...