The Niche of Lights
5 best books like The Niche of Lights (Abu Hamid al-Ghazali): Bring Up the Bodies, Critique of Pure Reason, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, Banished Children of Eve: A Novel of Civil War New York
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0805090037 (ISBN13: 9780805090031)
The sequel to Hilary Mantel's international bestseller and Man Booker Prize winner Wolf Hall explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the downfall of Anne Boleyn.
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| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 0521657296 |
Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Riga: J. F. Hartknoch, 1781), 856 pp. 2nd (B) ed: 1787. [A-edition (Ak. 4:5-252); B-edition (Ak. 3:2-552)]. “Critique of Pure Reason.” Translated by Norman Kemp Smith (Macmillan 1929). Translated by Werner Pluhar (Indianapolis: Hackett 1996). Translated by Paul...
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
| Author | Maryse Condé |
| ISBN | 0345384202 |
"Stunning...Maryse Conde's imaginative subversion of historical records forms a critque of contemporary American society and its ingrained racism and sexism." THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE
At the age of seven, Tituba watched as her mother was hanged for daring to wound a plantation owner who...
| Author | Laurent Dubois |
| ISBN | 0674018265 |
The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Within a few years, the slave insurgents forced the French...
Banished Children of Eve: A Novel of Civil War New York
| Author | Peter Quinn |
| ISBN | 0140230033 |
Banished Children of Eve, a novel of America struggling to become a melting pot, marks the debut of a gifted storyteller. It is New York City, the time of the Civil War. The war has just entered its third bloody year, and the North is about to impose its first military draft, a decision that will spark the...
