Nancy: 4645 books
Defiant Brides
The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The story of two Revolutionary–era teenagers who defy their Loyalist families to marry radical patriots, Henry Knox and Benedict Arnold, and are forever changed
When Peggy Shippen, the celebrated blonde belle of Philadelphia, married American military hero Benedict Arnold in 1779, she anticipated...
by Nancy Isenberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women's rights movement. Rather than herald the singular achievements of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, she examines the confluence of events and ideas--before and after 1848--that, in her view, marked the real birth of feminism. Drawing...
Behind the Mask of Chivalry
The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 1994
On Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta. With a flag fluttering in the wind beside them, a Bible open to the twelfth chapter of Romans, and a flaming cross to light the night sky above, William Joseph Simmons...
Used and Rare
Travels in the Book World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Journey into the world of book collecting with the Goldstones-rediscover the joy of reading, laugh, and fall in love with books all over again.
The idea that books had stories associated with them that had nothing to do with the stories inside them was new to us. We had always valued the history,...
Deconstructing Penguins
Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Books are like puzzles,” write Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone. “The author’s ideas are hidden, and it is up to all of us to figure them out.” In this indispensable reading companion, the Goldstones–noted parent-child book club experts–encourage grownups and young readers alike to adopt...
by Nancy Koester
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
The history of Christianity in the United States is a fascinating and lively story. In this revised and expanded account, Nancy Koester introduces students to the major events and movements that influenced the tradition.
This comprehensive and highly accessible overview of Christian history...
Tomorrow's Kin
Book 1 of the Yesterday's Kin Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Tomorrow's Kin is the first volume in and all new hard science fiction trilogy by Nancy Kress based on the Nebula Award-winning Yesterday's Kin.
Locus 2017 Recommended Reading List
The aliens have arrived... they've landed their Embassy ship on a platform in New York Harbor, and will...
Influencing Hemingway
People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Ernest Hemingway embraced adventure and courted glamorous friends while writing articles, novels, and short stories that captivated the world. Hemingway’s personal relationships and experiences influenced the content of his fiction, while the progression of places where the author chose to live...
Creating East and West
Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works. These compositions included Crusade orations and histories; ethnographic, historical, and religious studies...
Travellin' Mama
A Parent's Guide to Ditching the Routine, Seeing the World and Taking the Kids Along for the Ride
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
For every North American mom who dares forge her own way, when all around her are the suburban ideals of keeping up and conforming, there are a zillion others who will consistently say: “I’d love to do this or that but I can’t because of the kids.”
Travellin’ Mama is about showing...
But Enough About Me
Why We Read Other People's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2002
In her latest work of personal criticism, Nancy K. Miller tells the story of how a girl who grew up in the 1950s and got lost in the 1960s became a feminist critic in the 1970s. As in her previous books, Miller interweaves pieces of her autobiography with the memoirs of contemporaries in order to...
Rewriting Life Scripts
Transformational Recovery for Families of Addicts
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Finally a treatment approach that embraces the whole family!
In one sense, alcoholics and drug addicts are the fortunate ones. They have to learn a new way to live or risk death, incarceration, and loss of everything they hold dear.
But what about the other members of their family? Because...
by Nancy F. Koehn
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Harvard Business School professor Nancy F. Koehn provides a powerful lesson on brand stewardship in time of crisis. Her subject: Oprah Winfrey. When the integrity of your brand is in danger, Koehn advises, follow Oprahs lead. Return to your core values. Level with your customers. Prove that you mean...
Naked Came the Phoenix
A Serial Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Thirteen of today's hottest female crime novelists--one thrilling mystery: Naked Came the Phoenix
The promise of discretion and pampering-and a long-overdue reconciliation with her mother-draws Caroline Blessing, the young wife of a newly-elected Congressman, to the fancy Phoenix Spa. But after...