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The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
John Putnam Demos
Vintage, 1995
Excellent
John Demos has created a very approachable and unusual narrative of dramatic events on the New England frontier in the early 1700's. The experiences of the Deerfield, MA residents who are captured by raiding natives are remarkable enough. The fact that some, such as ...
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Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle
Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, ...
William Morrow, 2009
A must have book
Any person who seeks an understanding of the FARC conflict in Colombia should read this book. Excellent!!!
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The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity
Soong-Chan Rah
Intervarsity Press, 2009
A strong read for those who want to prepare their church for cultural transformation
Christianity is a religion that spans many races and peoples, but why is it so divided against itself? "The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church From Western Cultural Captivity" is one man's call for a revolution in church going peoples to embrace the faith as a ...
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Follow the River
JAMES ALEXANDER Thom
Ballantine Books, 1986
A Gripping, Must-Read Book
This is one of my all-time favorite books. It will grab ahold of you from the beginning and never let go. It's a fascinating page-turner you won't be able to put down.
What makes it even more amazing? It's based on a true story.
I find myself thinking about ...
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The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman (Women in the West)
Margot Mifflin
University of Nebraska Press, 2009
Page Turner
Most books about women captured by the Indians are filled with how awful life was. This book shows that not all Indians were brutes and often times the women that were captured were not mistreated. Great read, remarkable courage .
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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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Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity
Nancy Pearcey
Crossway Books, 2008
Restoring the Christian Mind
Christians in North America tend to view their Christianity strictly in terms of their individual commitment to Jesus Christ, and they see their part in the Great Commission as sharing their faith and bringing others also into such a saving relationship. Yet they are ...
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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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The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
Scott Zesch
St. Martin's Griffin, 2005
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
Outstanding and informative. Reads like a novel not a history piece. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the indian wars.
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Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
Esther Perel
Harper Paperbacks, 2007
Telling it like it is.
This book is, by far, one of the best books on sex in marriage I have ever read. Period. It deals with human appetites and motivations openly, honestly, and without condemnation. It is not for the faint of heart. As I like to tell my clients, "this book is for the ...
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Women's Indian Captivity Narratives (Penguin Classics)
Various
Penguin Classics, 1998
absolutely amazing eye-opening look at a forgotten chapter of american history
This collection is brilliantly put together, with very informative introductions by the editor that explain each story's historical and personal context. The stories themselves are pure women's voices from different eras of american history and incredibly valuable. ...
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Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands
Juliana Barr
The University of North Carolina Press, 2007
Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere.
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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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Regions of Captivity
Ana Mendez Ferrell
Destiny Image, 2009
Excellent! There is No Other Way to describe it!
As a trained deliverance minister, I found this book to be an answer to prayer! Deliverance has been taught as being a long drawn out process and that is NOT how Jesus did it. Ana teaches that we can, by the Spirit, prophetically bring people out of the bondages that ...
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The Account of Mary Rowlandson and Other Indian Captivity Narratives (Dover Books on Americana)
Mary Rowlandson
Dover Publications, 2005
Interesting for research.
I found this helpful in reference to what pioneer life was like before these United States of America.
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