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The Banker and the Blackfoot: An Untold Story of Friendship, Trust, and Broken Promises in the Old West
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In the late 19th century, the border separating Canada and the United States was largely ignored by American traders and the Blackfoot people. ...Read Review
The Pilgrim Journey: A History of Pilgrimage in the Western World
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The Pilgrim Journey offers a brief history of Christian pilgrimages over the last two thousand years. Harpur fully explores the notion of what ...Read Review
The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women’s Movement
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The Beguines were laywomen who lived in productive Catholic communities – kind of like urban kibbutzim for women – from about 1200 on across Europe. They ...Read Review
Island: How Islands Transform the World
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Island is a compact but dense study of ocean islands from cultural, biological, geological, literary, and historical perspectives. There is much interesting information ...Read Review
A Private History of Happiness, Ninety-Nine Moments of Joy from Around the World
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Happiness being an elusive encounter in our modern age, we often need to know that it truly can be found. Turning to the ...Read Review
Queen Elizabeth in the Garden: A Story of Love, Rivalry, and Spectacular Gardens
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In this book (previously published in the UK under the title Elizabeth in the Garden) garden historian Trea Martyn concentrates on a relatively ...Read Review
Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America’s Founding Fathers
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The Founding Fathers of the United States (or The Founders, to use a more contemporary term) and their religious values continue to play ...Read Review
Catherine of Siena: A Passionate Life
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I have long been intrigued by what little I know of Catherine of Siena, one of only three women Doctors of the Church (...Read Review
The Great Medieval Heretics: Five Centuries of Religious Dissent
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In a period of history when the Catholic Church ruled supreme, religious dissenters challenged the boundaries not only of belief but also of ...Read Review
Mr. Langshaw’s Square Piano
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The author’s search for a second-hand harpsichord on which to play early music led her on a journey that will fascinate the ...Read Review
