Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines’s now-cl…
...the fruit of much research and study on Dorothy's part, captures the heart of the message of Saint Therese of Lisieux and reveals also the depth of Dorothy's own spirituality. At the time when Doro…
THIS 44 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Master and Man and Other Parables and Tales, by Leo Tolstoy. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1417913304.
Just as I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. Here, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six deca…
Nothing can mend a broken heart quite like family. Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most important, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer af…
Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational …
Shelve Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
Se cercate dell'avventura, in questo romanzo ne troverete a bizzeffe. Se cercate della letteratura, con questo romanzo ne farete una scorpacciata. I luoghi e i tempi: Asti, Repubblica Sociale Italiana…
L'uomo sulla terrazza è antico quasi come la città che sta guardando. Il suo gatto Zibetto, più nero di tutti i gatti neri, come lui conosce troppe storie. L'uomo è il conte Dracula. Ama la scienza, l…
Todd McCray, hero of A Dog Named Christmas, is now twenty-four years old and working at a local animal shelter, where he meets and quickly becomes best friends with Laura, a young volunteer. Laura, li…
Shelve A Christmas Home (A Dog Named Christmas #2)
Boss Spearman knew the end was near for open range men like him, cattlemen who drove their herds through the country to graze and then moved on. Local stockmen were staking claims to grazing areas thr…
In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down d…
For nine seasons, Mary McDonough was part of one of the most beloved families in television history. Just ten years-old when she was cast as the pretty, wholesome middle child Erin, Mary grew up on th…
Homeschool mom Jennifer Pepito was letting fear and insecurity push her around, but then she recaptured her confidence as a mom within the pages of classic literature like The Hiding Place and Pride a…
Shelve Mothering by the Book: The Power of Reading Aloud to Overcome Fear and Recapture Joy
From one of America's most transformative politicians and activists, a powerful and inspiring memoir that sheds light on a harrowing personal journey and reveals how urgently we need our political lea…
Shelve The Forerunner: A Story of Pain and Perseverance in America
The dangerous, trailblazing work of a white journalist and black leader who struck a shocking early blow against legal segregation In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and un…
Shelve 30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
For many of the 40 million Americans who undergo it each year, anesthesia is the source of great fear and fascination. In Counting Backwards, pediatric anesthesiologist Dr. Henry Jay Przybylo delivers…
Shelve Counting Backwards: A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia
Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase "read until you understand," a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to her. She has made it central to this book about l…
Shelve Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings meets Educated in this harrowing, deeply hopeful memoir of family, faith and the power of books—from acclaimed journalist and human rights activist Goldie Taylor A…
This work offers a unique, first-hand, and intimate account of growing up and living as a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, popularly known as the Mormon Church. But …
Shelve From the Susquehanna to the Tiber: A Memoir of Conversion from Mormonism to the Roman Catholic Church
