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10 best books like Everyday Life in Early America (David Freeman Hawke): The Confessions of Nat Turner, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, Exodus, Speak: The Graphic Novel, Eaters of the Dead, As a Driven Leaf, The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan

The Confessions of Nat Turner
AuthorWilliam Styron
ISBN0679736638
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession,...
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
AuthorNathaniel Philbrick
ISBN0670037605
HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN?

This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying...
Exodus
AuthorLeon Uris
ISBN0553258478
Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept...
Speak: The Graphic Novel
AuthorLaurie Halse Anderson
The modern classic Speak is now a graphic novel.

"Speak up for yourself-we want to know what you have to say."

From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless--an outcast--because...
Eaters of the Dead
AuthorMichael Crichton
ISBN0060891564
It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs—the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape...
As a Driven Leaf
AuthorMilton Steinberg
ISBN0874411033
The age of the Talmud is brought to life in a breathtaking saga. This masterpiece of modern fiction tells the gripping tale of renegade talmudic sage Elisha ben Abuyah's struggle to reconcile his faith with the allure of Hellenistic culture.
Set in Roman Palestine, As a Driven Leaf draws readers...
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
AuthorMaría Rosa Menocal
ISBN0316168718
Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, María Menocal now brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years.The story begins as a young prince in exile—the last...
Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews
AuthorJames Carroll
ISBN0618219080
“A rare book that combines searing passion with a subject that has affected all of our lives.”
—Chicago Tribune

Novelist, cultural critic & former priest James Carroll marries history with memoir as he maps the 2000-year course of the Church’s battle against Judaism &...
Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
AuthorLaurel Thatcher Ulrich
ISBN0679732578
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens -- and the considerable power -- of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her...
Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
AuthorNancy MacLean
ISBN0195098366
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...
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AuthorTrista Mateer
Taking National Poetry Month's poem-a-day challenge one step further, for her fourth collection, Trista Mateer has not only compiled a chapbook of her 2016 '30 for 30' poems, but she has also chosen to include nearly everything else written in the month of April. This comes in the form of handwritten...
Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance
AuthorLisa Jardine
ISBN0393318664
In this provocative and wholly absorbing work, Lisa Jardine offers a radical interpretation of the Renaissance, arguing that the creation of culture during that time was inextricably tied to the creation of wealth — that the expansion of commerce spurred the expansion of thought. As Jardine boldly...
First Person Rural
AuthorNoel Perrin
The subtitle of this book is "Essays of a Sometime Farmer" but it seems to me that Perrin has done enough work to call himself a full-time farmer.

Perrin's writing is somewhat inconsistent but the essays are overall enjoyable. Particularly the aspects of maple sugaring and his "recipe" for...
Virga & Bone: Essays from Dry Places
AuthorCraig Childs
ISBN1948814188
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The Happy Sleeper: The Science-Backed Guide to Helping Your Baby Get a Good Night's Sleep-Newborn to School Age
AuthorHeather Turgeon
Many parents feel pressured to "train" babies and young children to sleep. But kids don't need to be trained to sleep—they're built to sleep. Sleep issues arise when parents (with the best of intentions) overhelp or "helicopter parent" at night—overshadowing their baby's innate biological...
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