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Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice

Rebecca Todd Peters · Beacon Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In an age where Roe v. Wade is in danger of being overturned, a minister and ethicist offers a Christian defense of abortion, arguing that we need to trust women to make moral decisions about their pregnancies, their families, and their futures.

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Pioneer Girl Perspectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder

Nancy Tystad Koupal (ed.) · SOUTH DAKOTA ST HIST SOC

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867 1957) finished her autobiography, Pioneer Girl, in 1930 when she was sixty-three years old. Throughout the 1930s and into the early 1940s, she drew upon her original manuscript to write a successful series of books for young readers. Wilder s vision of life on the American...
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This House is Haunted: The True Story of the Enfield Poltergeist

Guy Lyon Playfair · White Crow Books
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback

This is the Amazing Story of the Enfield Poltergeist On August 31st 1977, normal life ended for Mrs Harper and her four children in their modest council house in a hitherto quiet corner of the north London suburb of Enfield. Compared to what was to come, the initial phenomena were relatively...
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Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

Chris Gosden · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

Three great strands of belief run through human history: Religion is the relationship with one god or many gods, masters of our lives and destinies. Science distances us from the world, turning us into observers and collectors of knowledge. And magic is direct human participation in the universe:...
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