Emmy is West Texas through and through: she loves the land, she loves her hometown, she loves football, both professional and her town's high school team, the 'Stangs. She also knows she's a lesbian, and in her Southern Baptist evangelical community, that's going to be an issue, both for Emmy and her amicably separated parents, Lucy and Steve. After a disastrous conversation with her dad, Emmy meets Cameron, a whip-smart grad student from Massachusetts...

Traces the life and achievements of the Baptist pastor who became a driving force behind the African American civil rights movement.

An introduction to the life Martin Luther King, Jr. Including how he organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott and African American people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights.

A biography of the African American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, who, encouraged by the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, inspired the nation to begin a non-violent campaign for equality.

"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"-- Provided by publisher.

Using simple text, presents the life and accomplishments of the great civil rights leader.

Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle.
Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative, and discreet, means of income. In Georgia's case it is six well-heeled lovers — one for each day of the week, with Mondays off — none of whom knows about the others.
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The activist and TED speaker Phelps-Roper reveals her life growing up in the most hated family in America. Rich with suspense and thoughtful reflection, her life story exposes the dangers of black-and-white thinking and the need for true humility in a time of angry polarization.

"A trusted historian and Baptist pastor's wife tells how the rise of a new and important leadership role for conservative Protestant women, the pastor's wife, intersects with the decline of women's independent leadership in the church"-- Provided by publisher. In Becoming the Pastor's Wife, Beth Allison Barr, a pastor's wife for twenty-five years, combines personal experience and academic research to explore the history and impact of the pastor's...

Introduces the life and legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.