The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America
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The book that launched environmental history now updated.
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Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. Th…
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Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present to us in surprising ways through our everyday routines. Framed around one ordinary day, this book expl…
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Douglass taught himself to read and write. In 1845, seven years after escaping to the North, he published…
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Paradise Lost
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of inn…
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The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You've Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended
What if it's not your fault that sex is bad in your marriage?
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American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-…
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Great Expectations
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The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers--pervades North American Christianity. From choices about careers to roles in loc…
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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A collection full of grotesque imagination and surreal urban legends.
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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that identifies the forces that have turned Donald Trump into a hero of the Religious Right.
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