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  • About Foir Miles From Buford's (The Beale Papers)

    by Thomas J. Davis ...
    This book details a solution to a code found in a pamphlet (The Beale Papers) printed in Virginia in 1885 which purported to describe the location of a lost treasure in Bedford County, Virginia. Unfortunately for treasure hunters, the author shows there never has been a treasure. The whole story of the treasure is an allegory. The real story, which emerged as the author broke the code, is detailed ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Devil Likes to Sing

    by Thomas J. Davis ...
    It's C. S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters) meets Christopher Moore (Lamb) in this quirky fable about human aspirations and the nature of temptation. Timothy McFarland is a failed theology student turned gift book writer. His 101 Good Things about Christmas has sold millions. But Timothy finds that his success has changed nothing; in fact, he seems more stuck in his life than ever. Wanting to be more ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Aluminum Christmas Tree

    A Novel

    by Thomas J. Davis ...
    The shiny aluminum tree was the symbol of everything he thought was right in their lives and everything she thought was wrong. It was 1958 and Jimmy Jackson had it all: a wife, two kids, and the promotion that was his ticket to success. Finally, he could afford all those things he had gazed at in the Sears Roebuck catalog. But now that he had the money, would he find that the true cost was more ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Religion in Philanthropic Organizations

    Family, Friend, Foe?

    Edited by Thomas J. Davis ...
    Religion in Philanthropic Organizations explores the tensions inherent in religious philanthropies across a variety of organizations and examines the effect assumptions about "professional" philanthropy have had on how religious philanthropies carry out their activities. Among the organizations discussed are the Salvation Army, the World Council of Churches, and Catholic Charities USA. The essays ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Confessions of a Good Christian Guy

    The Secrets Men Keep and the Grace that Saves Them

    by Tom Davis, Thomas J. Davis, Tammy Maltby ...
    Dealing with the secret pain in the lives of many "good Christian" men.In a continuation of Confessions of a Good Christian Girl, Tammy Maltby is back with coauthor Tom Davis to get specific about the brokenness and pain in the lives of good Christian men. This isn't a lurid expose but an honest and courageous look at the secrets most often lurking behind "victorious" Christian facades.Chapters ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Documents of the Harlem Renaissance

    by Thomas J. Davis, Brenda M. Brock ...
    Series series Eyewitness to History
    This book explores the transformative energy and excitement that African Americans expressed in aesthetic and civic currents that percolated during the opening of the 20th century and proved to be a force in the modernization of America.This engaging reference text represents the voices of the era in poetry and prose, in full or excerpted from anecdotes, editorials, essays, manifestoes, orations, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • History of African Americans

    Exploring Diverse Roots

    by Thomas J. Davis ...
    This rich cultural history of African Americans outlines their travails, triumphs, and achievements in negotiating individual and collective identities to overcome racism, slavery, and the legacies of these injustices from colonial times to the present.One of every five Americans at the nation's beginning was an African American-a fact that underscores their importance in U.S. growth and ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    by Thomas J. Davis ...
    Series series Landmarks of the American Mosaic
    More than the story of one man's case, this book tells the story of entire generations of people marked as "mixed race" in America amid slavery and its aftermath, and being officially denied their multicultural identity and personal rights as a result.Contrary to popular misconceptions, Plessy v. Ferguson was not a simple case of black vs. white separation, but rather a challenging and complex ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

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    A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

    Edited by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post, Town & Country, ... Read more

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  • The African Americans

    Many Rivers to Cross

    by Donald Yacovone, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is the companion book to the six-part, six-hour documentary of the same name. The series is the first to air since 1968 that chronicles the full sweep of 500 years of African American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent and the arrival of the first black conquistador, Juan Garrido, in Florida in 1513, through five centuries of ... Read more

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  • The Whites of Their Eyes

    The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History

    by Jill Lepore ...
    Series series The Public Square
    From Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jill Lepore, the story of the American historical mythology embraced by the far rightAmericans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution—so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty—so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the ... Read more

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  • A Dreadful Deceit

    The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America

    by Jacqueline Jones ...
    In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. Antonio and Owens had nothing in common but the color ... Read more

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