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  • Soldier of Christ

    The Life of Pope Pius XII

    by Robert A. Ventresca ...
    "This well-crafted biography" presents "a balanced, but not uncritical, examination of the life of a controversial pope" ( Library Journal).Debates over the legacy of Pope Pius XII are so heated they are known as the "Pius wars." Soldier of Christ focuses instead on Eugenio Pacelli, the flawed yet gifted man himself. While offering insight into the pope's response to Nazism, Robert A. Ventresca ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge History of the Papacy: Volume 1, The Two Swords

    Edited by Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Robert A. Ventresca, Melodie H. Eichbauer, Miles Pattenden ...
    Throughout its history, the papacy has engaged with the world. Volume 1 addresses how the papacy became an institution, and how it distinguished itself from other powers, both secular and religious. Aptly titled 'The Two Swords,' it explores the papacy's navigation, negotiation, and re-negotiation, initially of its place and its role amid changing socio-political ideas and practices. Surviving and ... Read more

    $147.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of the Papacy: Volume 3, Civil Society

    Edited by Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Robert A. Ventresca, Melodie H. Eichbauer, Miles Pattenden ...
    Historically, the papacy has had – and continues to have – significant and sustained influence on society and culture. In the contemporary world, this influence is felt far afield from the traditional geographic and cultural center of papal authority in western Europe, notably in the Global South. Volume 3 frames questions around the papacy's cultural influence, focusing on the influence that ... Read more

    $147.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of the Papacy: Volume 2, The Governance of the Church

    Edited by Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Robert A. Ventresca, Melodie H. Eichbauer, Miles Pattenden ...
    This volume engages with the centrality of the popes within the Catholic Church and the claim of papal authority as it was exercised through the institution's various governing instruments. Addressing the history of the papacy in the longue durée, it highlights developments and the differences between the first and second millennium of the papacy. The chapters bring nuance to older ... Read more

    $147.99 USD

  • A Nation of Immigrants

    Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s

    Edited by Franca Iacovetta, Paula Draper, Robert Ventresca ...
    This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original contributions on understudied topics in the field.The readings highlight the social history of immigrants, their pre-migration traditions as well as ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • A Nation of Immigrants

    Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s

    Edited by Franca Iacovetta, Paula Draper, Robert Ventresca ...
    Series series The Canada 150 Collection
    This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original contributions on understudied topics in the field.The readings highlight the social history of immigrants, their pre-migration traditions as well as ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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    Glengarry and Beyond

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    Glengarry, Upper Canada's first major Scottish settlement, was established in 1784 by Highlanders from Inverness-shire. Worsening economic conditions in Scotland, coupled with a growing awareness of Upper Canada’s opportunities, led to a growing tide of emigration that eventually engulfed all of Scotland and gave the province its many Scottish settlements. Pride in their culture gave Scots a ... Read more

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  • Hardscrabble

    The High Cost of Free Land

    by Donna E. Williams ...
    When the Free Grants and Homestead Act was first introduced in 1868, fierce debates erupted in Ontario's Legislature over whether land in the Muskoka region should be opened to settlement or reserved for the Aboriginal population. From the beginning, many people vented serious doubts about the free grant scheme, citing the district's poor agricultural prospects. In the end, such caution was ... Read more

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  • My Mother's Secret

    A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story

    by J.L. Witterick ...
    Inspired by a true story, My Mother’s Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who save them all.Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people...until 1939, when the Nazis invade their homeland. Providing shelter to Jews in Nazi-occupied ... Read more

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  • The Kitchen House

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    by Kathleen Grissom ...
    Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of the highly anticipated Glory Over Everything, established herself as a remarkable new talent with The Kitchen House, now a contemporary classic. In this gripping novel, a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate at a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War.Orphaned during her ... Read more

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  • We Are Not Ourselves

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    by Matthew Thomas ...
    The instant New York Times bestseller The Washington Post calls a “stunning…superbly rendered” novel, and Entertainment Weekly describes as “a gripping family saga, maybe the best…since The Corrections.”As an Irish immigrant in Queens in 1941, Eileen has dreamed of more in her life—but when she and her family seem to be moving closer to that dream, devastation hits and they must learn how to not ... Read more

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  • The Lost Child of Philomena Lee

    A Mother, Her Son and a Fifty Year Search

    by Martin Sixsmith ...
    The Lost Child of Philomena Lee is the tale of a mother and a son whose lives were scarred by the forces of hypocrisy on both sides of the Atlantic and of the secrets they were forced to keep. A compelling narrative of human love and loss, Martin Sixsmith's moving account is both heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive.When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent ... Read more

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