Cal is not the readin' type. Living way high up in the Appalachian Mountains, he'd rather help Pap plow or go out after wandering sheep than try some book learning. Nope. Cal does not want to sit ston
Cal does not like to read. Living high up in the Appalachian Mountains, he'd rather help his father than sit with a book. That book woman just won't take no for an answer. She continually rides up the
The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own t
The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything — everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own
The story of a woman (her name is never given), sent away from her family by her brother, the Bishop, after she is found exploring her sexuality at age seventeen. In a series of twenty-four snapshots,
Poetry. A first book of immense originality. Narrative poems that draw the reader in to a personal connection with the poet. Dell Lemmon displays the breezy urbanity of the New York School, the autobi
For a book that sent shock waves through the European literary establishment and, since its original publication in 1906 has gone through seven editions along with highly cclaimed translations into a
Based on case studies of a clinical psychologist, this book theorizes that battered women become trapped in a learned helplessness syndrome, become convinced that there is nothing they can do to help
Based on the book of Esther, A Woman of Faith helps women recognize God's hand—not only in Esther's life but in their own lives. In this dynamic eight-chapter study, participants learn that
Elise's life is going wonderful but she encounters two problems in the 1st chapter that she later mentions in the book. She is hearing voices. After discovering she has a problem, how she handles it i
What is it that really makes a woman a woman? Is it anatomy? Does she behave differently than men? Does it matter how others perceive her? In this sharp, funny, and insightful book, Cynthia Eller disc
"Can anything new be said about modern Egyptian nationalism? Beth Baron's book Egypt as a Woman, one of the best modern Egyptian history books to appear in several years, leaves no doubt that it can.
"The book begins in the not-so-distant future, in a United States that has yielded to the People's Republic of China--Beijing has written off trillions of dollars of US debt in return for a permanent
"The book begins in the not-so-distant future, in a United States that has yielded to the People's Republic of China--Beijing has written off trillions of dollars of US debt in return for a permanent
God Created YOU to be A Woman of Wisdom! This 10-lesson study on the Book of Proverbs by bestselling author and beloved Bible teacher Dee Brestin zeroes in on qualities that describe A Woman of Wisdo
A new book from a poet whose work is "wild with imagination, unafraid, ambitious, inventive" (Jorie Graham)Located in a menacing, gothic landscape, the poems that comprise A Woman of
