When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846

6 best books like When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (Rámon A. Gutiérrez): Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America, Witches Abroad, Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, The Preaching Life, The Lonely Londoners, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

Author	Beth Macy
ISBN	0316523178

Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs; from disparate cities to once-idyllic farm towns; it's a heartbreaking trajectory that illustrates how this national...

Witches Abroad

Author	Terry Pratchett
ISBN	0061020613

Be careful what you wish for...

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skills—which unfortunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other (not quite so good and wise) godmother when DEATH came for Desiderata....

Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America

Author	T.J. Stiles
ISBN	0307592642

From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.

In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in...

The Preaching Life

Author

Barbara Brown Taylor

In her bestselling preaching autobiography Barbara Brown Taylor writes of how she came to be a preacher of the gospel as a priest in the Episcopal Church. In this warm and poignant collection, Barbara Brown Taylor’s humor and wisdom delve into the meaning of Christian symbols and history—both...

The Lonely Londoners

Author	Sam Selvon
ISBN	0582642647

From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant life in London in the 1950s.

'His Lonely Londoners has acquired a classic status since it appeared in 1956 as the definitive novel about London's West Indians.' — Financial Times

'The...

The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815

Author	Richard White
ISBN	0521424607

An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations – stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans...