Jessica: 4351 books
Grace in Their Hearts: The Testimonies of the Hymn Writers
Devotionals, #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Hymns are powerful. Their words and music can soothe or encourage, comfort or motivate. Here is a chance to learn about twenty-three of the hymn-writers who, with grace in their hearts, wrote of God's constancy, grace and love, inviting us to worship with them.
Each vignette ends with...
by Jessica Bradshaw
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Only a year has passed since Jude West found – and then lost – her Soulmate, but everything has changed: Jude is a despondent college co-ed, lonely, brooding, and about to flunk out of school. Surrounded by disembodied spirits and target to a legion of demons, she has no desire to reengage in...
All or Nothing
A Short History of Abstinence in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
A completely original exploration of the abstinence movement in America — from alcohol to sex to meat.
America's long love affair with abstinence goes back to the early nineteenth century, when thousands of men and women suddenly stopped drinking hard liquor. Consistency then demanded that...
by Jessica Hassett
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
The RMS Titanic wasn't just a passenger ship and this short; part fact, part fiction piece, details life on board the ill-fated ship.
Sure Mercies: Old Testament Devotional ~ Book 2
Old Testament Devotionals, #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
A broken-hearted queen, a lyric prophet, a promised Messiah…be immersed in the prophecies and promises of the Lord through Isaiah...
Jerusalem. 683 B.C. Hepzibah, Queen Mother of Judah, is distraught when her son orders the death of her father, the Prophet Isaiah.
Now her son is returning...
This Grand Experiment
When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2017
In the volatility of the Civil War, the federal government opened its payrolls to women. Although the press and government officials considered the federal employment of women to be an innocuous wartime aberration, women immediately saw the new development for what it was: a rare chance to obtain...
by Jessica Serrano, Daniel Manriquez
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
How old is the earth? Have you ever wondered what happened to the dinosaurs? And the Neanderthals? Was there a pre-Adamic civilization? And what about the watchers, Nephilim, the aliens, the pyramids, and the all-seeing eye? What does all that mean? Is there a connection? And were those who died during...
Inventing George Whitefield
Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Evangelicals and scholars of religious history have long recognized George Whitefield (1714-1770) as a founding father of American evangelicalism. But Jessica M. Parr argues he was much more than that. He was an enormously influential figure in Anglo-American religious culture, and his expansive missionary...
Words from an Open Heart
Illustrated by Madison Patenaude
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Hi, my name is Jessica Cronk. Im 27 years old. I have a disability known as spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy with stable hydrocephalus. Because of this, Im wheelchair dependent and weaker on the right side of my body, Im easily startled, and my head is a bit bigger than most because of extra fluid...
Young Athletes, Couch Potatoes, and Helicopter Parents
The Productivity of Play
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Major newspapers, news programs, and magazines across the country have recently addressed the current issues of childhood obesity, the link between exercise and improved academic focus, and the importance of diet and exercise in improving the health of our children. As many schools consider cutting...
The Lives in Objects
Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
In The Lives in Objects, Jessica Yirush Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, equally attentive to British American and Southeastern Indian cultures of production, distribution, and consumption. Stern upends the long-standing assertion...
by Jessica Kaye, Richard Brewer
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
Bruce Springsteen's melancholy "Meeting Across the River," a song rarely performed but beloved by his countless fans, serves as the inspiration for this eclectic mix of short stories written by an array of acclaimed authors.
"Meeting Across the River," from Bruce Springsteen's...
The Gift of Failure
How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In the tradition of Paul Tough’s How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel’s *The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, *this groundbreaking manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappointment and...
Full Frontal Feminism
A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The #1 must-read book for a new generation of feminists who refuse to accept anything less than equality and justice for all women
Now in its updated second edition, Full Frontal Feminism embodies the forward-looking messages that bestselling author Jessica Valenti propagated as founder of...