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Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
Esther Perel
Harper Paperbacks, 2007
A cure for our sex negative culture!
Esther Perel has succeeded in challenging our widely held "truths" about sex and intimacy. She helps therapists and couples understand that the notions from the past two decades about what constitutes sex, love and intimacy must be reexamined given our sex negative ...
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Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban
Jere Van Dyk
Times Books, 2010
A 'captivating' book
I heard about the tragic news of the death of 10 aid workers killed in Afghanistan just as I was finishing journalist Jere van Dyk's book "Captive." "Captive" is the story of Mr. van Dyk's 2008 return visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan where he set out to conduct ...
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Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker
Carolyn Meyer
Graphia, 1992
Where the Broken Heart Still Beats, the story of Cynthia Ann Parker
Book arrived quickly and in new condition. Its a good book and easily read by younger readers.
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Follow the River
JAMES ALEXANDER Thom
Ballantine Books, 1986
true pioneer woman in hostile land
I first read this book in the mid 90's and was blown away!! then when I went on Vacation to the Blue Ridge this summer, This woman's spirit renewed a desire in me to FIND this book again! and boy, was it worth the search, as good the second time as the first. ...
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Life and Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon
Public Domain Books, 2006
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home
Laura Ling, Lisa Ling
William Morrow, 2010
Somewhere Inside
This book arrived sooner than I expected in great condition. It is an excelent book that kept me up until 3:00am because I couldn't put it down til I finished it.
Even though I knew of their captivity in North Korea, the details from both Lisa's and Laura's point of ...
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The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: with Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Mary Rowlandson
Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997
I put this book in the context of the time
I decided to read this book after having read "Mayflower". It was apparently the first American bestseller and was popular in Britain also at the time. I was curious about how she was treated by the Indians. It certainly showed these Indians as ordinary people - ...
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The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
John Putnam Demos
Vintage, 1995
Unredeemed child
Excellent business transaction. Shipped quickly, book is as stated and I am very happy.
I needed this book for a history class I am taking and although Ive only finished the first chapter it is great!
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The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
St. Martin's Press, 2004
Best I've read on Native American captures of women & children
A well written book describing the captures of children of European American families. Well researched. The book explains both the Native Americans way of life and why they captured children and the distraught parents from whom the children were taken. I have read ...
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Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity
Nancy Pearcey
Crossway Books, 2008
Fits well in the library
Nancy Pearcey, a smart educated woman in her own right, leverages past and current relationships with scholars of a caliber no less than the late Francis Schaeffer, Philip Johnson, etc... in a good attempt to unfragment the culture's current understanding and pay it ...
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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Penguin Classics)
Herman Melville
Penguin Classics, 1996
Contaminating contact with the white man
1841. A young man of 23 is looking for adventure, he signs a contract on a New England whaler and travels to the South Pacific. Life on the ship is not what he expected, the captain is a tyrant, the life is a bore, food is terrible. The ship reaches the Marquesas after ...
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Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
Francis Bok, Edward Tivnan
St. Martin's Griffin, 2004
Choose to read this one!
Two days ago I began to read "Escape from Slavery". I have hardly wanted to set it down since I picked it up. I have been saddened but incredibly inspired. I am forcefully reminded that freedom is a miracle too easily taken for granted. Until this week, I admit I was ...
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Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle
Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, ...
Harper Paperbacks, 2010
Captivating
Out of Captivity was a fascinating book about three regular, good guys who find themselves in a nightmare situation. The description of their time held captive my marxist thugs in the Colombia jungle makes it hard to put this awesome book down. Not only is it about ...
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The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity
Soong-Chan Rah
Intervarsity Press, 2009
Difficult, Rewarding, Prophetic
There were times in reading this book when I felt frustrated and angry, as the white evangelical culture I know and represent was utterly trashed. But so be it. Rah's critique is well-founded, right-on and painfully true once you can get over any defensiveness it ...
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Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves
Ira Berlin
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004
Lively, well-written overview of US slavery
I have not yet read Berlin's other book, so I can not compare the two, as some reviewers have done. I thought that the book was quite good. It has a rather peculiar point of view, which was very helpful to me, although it might be hard to follow for someone not ...
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