Voices From the Past

Composed of more than 300 eyewitness accounts, official documents, parliamentary debates and newspaper reports, Voices From the Past tells the stor...

366 quotations - one for every day of the (leap) year - each with a fascinating historical story

Reducere. Fresh Voices from the Periphery is evidence that history matters - not only the study of the past - but also by shedding light on how events of the...

"Describes the Siege of Vicksburg and the Battle of Gettysburg, including Pickett's Charge, that turned the tide of the American Civil War. Include...

In celebration of 100 years of women police officers in the Met, a reflection, in the voices of those who served, of what women have endured, accom...

This title focuses on the goals, changes, and political conflicts of the Reconstruction era, especially the advances and setbacks related to civil ...

366 quotations - one for every day of the (leap) year - each with a fascinating historical storyPublisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s): W.B. MarshNumber of...

"Describes the social and political differences between the American North and South that lead to the secession of eleven states, the formation of ...

Offers a distinctive free church vision for pastoral leadership, attending to voices from the past four centuries as they speak about the practice ...

Provides behind-the-scenes explanations from nineteen former BJU students from the past few decades who now identify as LGBT+. They write about the...

Reducere. An inspiring collection of daily devotions and prayers from great Christian writers of the past, including Augustine, Charles Spurgeon, John Bunyan...

Reducere. In this historical fiction novel, thirteen-year-old Cinda Parker knows she and her brother Ian have a special mental connection. When a mysterious ...

Reducere. HIS POWERS--INHUMAN HIS PASSION--BEYOND IMMORTAL... All her life, Ashlyn Darrow has been tormented by voices from the past. To end the nightmare, s...

Reducere. Since recovering from amnesia five years ago, Jessica Mack has done her best to ignore the voices that plague her from the spirit world. But when F...

In "Voices in St. Augustine" thirteen-year-old Joey Johnson becomes intrigued with an abandoned house and the voices he hears coming from its garde...

Reducere. In the true spirit of Irish storytelling, Leigh Ebberwein weaves an uplifting and powerful tale of the cross-generational impact of reckless choice...

Reducere. Reclaim Your Headspace and Find Your One True VoiceAs a hospital chaplain, J.S. Park encountered hundreds of patients at the edge of life and death...

Reducere. Though they carry an eternal curse, the Lords of the Underworld are irresistiblyseductive--and unimaginably powerful... Don't miss a single book in...

Reducere. Stretching from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee, the Natchez Trace is one of the oldest, most historically significant routes in Ameri...

Reducere. Plague, pestilence, and pandemics have been a part of the human story from the beginning and have been reflected in art and writing at every turn. ...

Reducere. Description"Green Card Youth Voices: Immigration Stories from an Atlanta High School" is a collection of twenty-one personal essays written by refu...

Drawing on the voices of some of its most famous residents - from Virginia Woolfe to Charles Dickens - it explores the hidden secrets and the surpr...

Reducere. In the past three decades, the number of interracial marriages in the United States has increased by more than 800 percent. Now over four million c...

Reducere. The rich diversity of Australian poetry stands in no need of makeovers or prescriptions. What will benefit it is attentive and brilliant readers, o...

Reducere. Determined not to fall into ruts of boredom and anxiety during a global pandemic, Laurel McHargue decided to dabble in the rising trend of jigsaw p...

DescriptionLater Emperors is four poems, each of which approaches Roman history from a very different perspective. It is also four voices, each one...

Reducere. Medieval and early modern literature was fascinated with the material remains of the past. Scenes involving the discovery, description, circulation...

DescriptionCyprus' capital Nicosia has been split by a militarized border for decades. In this collection, writers from all sides of the divide re-...

Reducere. Ellis Island was the gateway to America and the promise of freedom for thousands. Its walls are rich with stories. Its walls are rich with stories....

The Big Easy is about to be buried in big trouble.Again.For Ofelia Archer, that means she's knee-deep in an investigation ... even though she's not...

Reducere. Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jaz...

Reducere. Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award fo...

Reducere. From London to Corsica to Paris--as a young woman pursues the truth about her late mother, two captivating love stories unfurl. Kate Darling's enig...

Reducere. "The stories these cowboys tell are exciting and lively. Reading the book is like meeting them face to face and sharing in the active lives they le...

Reducere. Knowing that queer voices have been making themselves heard in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria decades before Stonewall, editors Gary Schmidt and...

It is time to listen to the voices of wisdom from our collective past before it is too late.Publisher: John Hunt PublishingAuthor(s): James T. Powe...

Reducere. In Indian Voices, Alison Owings takes readers on a fresh journey across America, east to west, north to south, and around again. Owings's most rece...

Reducere. Mile for mile, St. Simons Island--one of Georgia's Golden Isles--boasts as much history as any community on the East Coast. Originally an Indian hu...

"One of the most thoughtful voices from within academia" (Washington Post) argues the American university is stuck in the past-and shows how we can...

Reducere. Beneath the nonstop cacophony of voices across social media, online forums, and news outlets lie the stubborn facts at the heart of the everyday st...

Reducere. Joe Grimm of the Detroit Free Press has combined a fascinating collection of old family letters, diaries, journals, photos, and other memorabilia i...

Reducere. As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless boo...

Reducere. The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in t...

Reducere. Have you ever stopped yourself from achieving a dream, even before you started? Was it because of critical internal voices giving you one or more r...

Reducere. After WWII, a small Italian town struggles to emerge from under the thumb of Fascism. With wit, tenderness, and irony, Elsa, the novel's narrator, ...

'Out on the Western edge of Europe, a first glance at the map makes Ireland seem a small and isolated place. However, many peoples have by turns es...

Reducere. Voices of the GameCurt Smith is "...the voice of authority on baseball broadcasting." --USA Today#1 New Release in Photography, Baseball Statistics...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Martin SchwabacherCelebrate the richness and diversity of the United States of America in this exciting series. Readers can...

Reducere. In her third collection, Caki Wilkinson steers us into flyover country--from its gun shows and high school gyms to the gates of Graceland--as she e...

Reducere. Culture Critiques from the Author of AnnihilationAn entertaining, eclectic chronicle of modern fantastical fiction, Monstrous Creatures delivers in...

Reducere. Description"Baruch Porras-Hernandez, long-time luminary of the Bay Area literary and performance worlds, offers up an urgent and searing inaugural ...

A spiritual, political, and interdisciplinary anthology of wisdom stories from Black liberation leaders and teachers. Afrikan Wisdom represents an ...

Reducere. 475In 1959, the Prince Edward County, Virginia public schools closed. For five years. Back then, it wasn't over a health pandemic, but because coun...

Reducere. In 1959, the Prince Edward County, Virginia public schools closed. For five years. Back then, it wasn't over a health pandemic, but because county ...

Reducere. "McPherson, through this oral history of Navajo Women living in Monument Valley, provides a unique story of cultural understanding specific to the ...

Reducere. From the dates of significant events in Cherokee history to how their language evolved from pictographs to written syllables, this fascinating look...

Reducere. Description"This is history at its most immediate and moving....A marvelous and memorable book." --Jon Meacham "The Only Plane in the Sky is a stun...

In How to Be Childless: A History and Philosophy of Life Without Children, Rachel Chrastil explores the long and fascinating history of childlessne...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Augusten BurroughsA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER about Christmases past and present from the #1 bestselling author of Running ...

A full-color illustrated collection of riveting, inspiring, and stereotype-shattering stories that reveal the beauty, diversity, and strength of Mu...

Reducere. Storytelling is a precious, vibrant tradition among the Native peoples of the Far North. Collected here for the first time are stories from the com...

Reducere. DescriptionAnn Cleeves has thrilled readers everywhere with her critically acclaimed mystery series set in the Shetland Islands, which began with t...

Reducere. While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist has a more immediate task: to set reader...

After a childhood as a street thief, Gabriella Goodhue thought she'd put her past behind her until a fellow resident at her boardinghouse is unjust...

Reducere. Poetry. LGBT Studies. It's our Sapphic sisters turn to shine In the spirit of the Library Journal-honored ASSARACUS comes LADY BUSINESS: A CELEBRAT...

One of pop culture's most iconic heroes reaches a milestone in this 750th-issue celebration Wonder Woman creators past, present, and future unite t...

Reducere. For the characters we meet in Toni Jensen's stories, the past is very much the present. Theirs are American Indian lives off the reservation, lives...

Oklahoma Book AwardHow many of us really know every side to Oklahoma's past and present?In this companion to his previous volume, "An Oklahoma I Ha...

The US presidential election in 2016 brought to a head myriad political activism around the world, around the rights of minorities, women, the LGBT...

Reducere. Beautiful and lyrical, Chioma Urama's A Body of Water is a poetic exploration of ancestry in the American South. These poems are the result of a co...