Rebecca: 4598 books
From Revolution to Reunion
The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The American Revolution was a vicious civil war fought between families and neighbors. Nowhere was this truer than in South Carolina. Yet, after the Revolution, South Carolina’s victorious Patriots offered vanquished Loyalists a prompt and generous legal and social reintegration. From Revolution...
Christmas Proposals
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Italian executive Roberto Romeo seems very taken by his pretty sales assistant. So as the snow falls and the Christmas festivities begin, he sets about finding a new role for her… as his fiancée!
THE TYCOON'S CHRISTMAS ENGAGEMENT by Rebecca Winters Annie can scarcely believe it when her...
The Baptism of Early Virginia
How Christianity Created Race
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices of English Virginians. She finds the seventeenth century a critical time in the development and articulation of racial ideologies—ultimately in the idea of "hereditary...
by Rebecca Solnit
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Enriched by...
Words from the Other Woman
The True Account of a Redeemed Adulteress
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
The compelling true account of one womans experience as the other woman in an extra-marital affair: As a little girl, Rebecca dreamed of what she would become when she grew up. She didn't dream of becoming an adulteress, but thats precisely what happened in her early twenties. Words from the Other...
Savage Dreams
A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
"A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book."—Larry McMurtry
In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later–in 1951–and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting...
Hollow City
The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Reporting from the front lines of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg sound a warning bell to all urban residents. Wealth is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty.
Feminism and Popular Culture
Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
When the term “postfeminism” entered the media lexicon in the 1990s, it was often accompanied by breathless headlines about the “death of feminism.” Those reports of feminism’s death may have been greatly exaggerated, and yet contemporary popular culture often conjures up a world in which...
Broken for Good
How Grief Awoke My Greatest Hopes
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
A daughter's narrative about life with and without her father, whose death plunges her into deep grief but gradually becomes her most compelling reason to hope.
Like so many Christian women, Rebecca, her mother, and her two sisters love a man who does not walk beside them in faith. As his cancer...
by Rebecca Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
The second Turnham Malpas novel from bestselling author Rebecca Shaw.
The village is bedevilled by talk, and all is not as it seems in the village of Turnham Malpas...
Does pushy newcomer Venetia have her eye on Peter, the handsome rector? Is Jeremy, her husband, really making a success...
by Rebecca West
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
After fighting in the trenches during the First World War, Captain Chris Baldry returns home a different man. Shell-shocked and finding it difficult to cope, Captain Baldry’s mental trauma takes a toll on both himself and the family who anxiously awaited his safe return.
The Return of the...
by Rebecca West
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
In the final installment of Rebecca West’s Saga of the Century trilogy, family, marriage, and love alter the sisterly bonds that have seen them through poverty, war, and scandal
In the years after the war, Mary and Rose Aubrey have found success as accomplished pianists. In spite of their...
by Rebecca Raisin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
’Oh, how I loved this book!’ - Reviewed the Book Escape to Paris this summer and prepare to be swept off your feet… Anouk LaRue used to be a romantic, but since she had her heart well and truly broken her love life has dissolved into nothing more than daydreams of the perfect man. Retreating...
by Rebecca Rideal
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
1666 was a watershed year for England. An outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War, and the devastating Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions.
Shedding light on these dramatic events and their context, historian...