Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It s about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage. They bowed their heads to give thanks. The Pilgrims journey began as a joint venture of business and religion, but soon it became a matter of survival. With 102 men, women, and children packed into a dim, wet space below the main deck, the Mayflower set out on a terrifying 66-day crossing of the Atlantic. They dropped anchor well north of where they d intended, and just as the New England winter was setting in. With no choice but to spend the winter in the dank, frigid ship, they took ill. One by one, almost half of them died. The few individuals well enough to work rowed the dead into shore and buried them in graves left unmarked so the Indians wouldn't know how weak they were. Spring promised only a year of toil and difficulties as they attempted to settle new land in a place they called Plymouth. But then a miracle walked out of the woods...an Indian who had already crossed the Atlantic four times. He spoke English very well. He showed them how to catch the local fish and grow the local crops. He introduced them to the local people, and in an experience unique in colonial history, Europeans and Indians became friends and allies. And that autumn, the new and native Americans came together for a feast that lasted three days. Thanksgiving is a book of fact that all but breathes with the human drama of life, death, birth, hope, prayer, work, desperation, and thanks. Though these few dozen people were hardly the first Europeans to settle in North America, their values and beliefs grew into the American culture. We are what they were. Every American should read this book before bowing for grace on Thanksgiving Day.

Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America

History

Cheney, Glenn Alan

Americas

New London Librarium

Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It s about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage. They bowed their heads to give thanks. The Pilgrims journey began as a joint venture of business and religion, but soon it became a matter of survival. With 102 men, women, and children packed into a dim, wet space below the main deck, the Mayflower set out on a terrifying 66-day crossing of the Atlantic. They dropped anchor well north of where they d intended, and just as the New England winter was setting in.With no choice but to spend the winter in the dank, frigid ship, they took ill. One by one, almost half of them died. The few individuals well enough to work rowed the dead into shore and buried them in graves left unmarked so the Indians wouldn t know how weak they were. Spring promised only a year of toil and difficulties as they attempted to settle new land in a place they called Plymouth. But then a miracle walked out of the woods...an Indian who had already crossed the Atlantic four times. He spoke English very well. He showed them how to catch the local fish and grow the local crops. He introduced them to the local people, and in an experience unique in colonial history, Europeans and Indians became friends and allies. And that autumn, the new and native Americans came together for a feast that lasted three days. Thanksgiving is a book of fact that all but breathes with the human drama of life, death, birth, hope, prayer, work, desperation, and thanks. Though these few dozen people were hardly the first Europeans to settle in North America, their values and beliefs grew into the American culture. We are what they were. Every American should read this book before bowing for grace on Thanksgiving Day.

Thanksgiving:: The Pilgrims' First Year in America

This is a set of 6 CDs, an unabridged audio version of Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America, narrated by the author.

Glenn Alan Cheney

Sister Diane Dalle Molle and Sister Barbara Staley arrived in Swaziland at the height of an HIV epidemic that today afflicts a third of the population. Under under extremely difficult conditions in the harsh, semi-arid outback, they managed to establish a clinic, care for over 100 orphans, install a municipal-scale water system, and in so many ways achieve the impossible. This is the story of their work, the people they work with, and a country that is on the brink of extinction. The book includes an interview with Nation editor Bheki Makhubu, who was recently jailed for his opinions.

Love and Death in the Kingdom of Swaziland

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

This collection of press reports and editorial reflects events and emotions following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, with a foreword by U.S. Representative Joe Courtney.

How a Nation Grieves: Press Accounts of the Death of Lincoln, the Hunt for Booth, and America in Mourning

Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It s about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage.   They bowed their heads to give thanks.   The Pilgrims journey began as a joint venture of business and religion, but soon it became a matter of survival.   With 102 men, women, and children packed into a dim, wet space below the main deck, the Mayflower set out on a terrifying 66-day crossing of the Atlantic. They dropped anchor well north of where they d intended, and just as the New England winter was setting in.  With no choice but to spend the winter in the dank, frigid ship, they took ill. One by one, almost half of them died. The few individuals well enough to work rowed the dead into shore and buried them in graves left unmarked so the Indians wouldn t know how weak they were.   Spring promised only a year of toil and difficulties as they attempted to settle new land in a place they called Plymouth.   But then a miracle walked out of the woods...an Indian who had already crossed the Atlantic four times. He spoke English very well. He showed them how to catch the local fish and grow the local crops. He introduced them to the local people, and in an experience unique in colonial history, Europeans and Indians became friends and allies.   And that autumn, the new and native Americans came together for a feast that lasted three days. Thanksgiving is a book of fact that all but breathes with the human drama of life, death, birth, hope, prayer, work, desperation, and thanks.  Though these few dozen people were hardly the first Europeans to settle in North America, their values and beliefs grew into the American culture. We are what they were.   Every American should read this book before bowing for grace on Thanksgiving Day.

Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America - Large Print

Translations of 21 short stories by Machado de Assis, with Portuguese and English on facing pages. Most have never before appeared in English. Translators include Laura Cade Brown, Krista Brune, David George, Linda Ledford-Miller, Ana Lessa-Schmidt, Nelson López Rojas, John Maddox, Adam Morris, Rex P. Nielson, Leila Osman, Marissel Hernández Romero, Steven K. Smith, Lisandra Sousa, Luciana Tanure, and Nelson Vieira. Stories include Nuptial Song, Among Saints, Xerxes’ Tears, Cabriolet Anecdote, Fulano, Ex Cathedra, Live!, Maria Cora, The Second Life, Pecuniary Anecdote, Manuscript of a Sacristan, Galvão’s Lady, The Loan, A Lady, Canon or Metaphysics of Style, Trio in A Minor, The Academies of Siam, An Errant, A Visit from Alcibiade, Old Papers, A Captain of Volunteers

Ex Cathedra: Stories by Machado de Assis: Bilingual Edition

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Quilombo dos Palmares: Brazil's Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves

Brazil's Quilombo dos Palmares was a nation of fugitive slaves that thrived throughout the span of the 17th century. As many as 20,000 or more people — among them Africans, Indians, and whites — lived in several cities in mountains surrounded by dense forest. They were at almost constant war with the greatest empires on Earth. In its century of existence, Palmares brought together innumerable cultures to form its own language, religion, government, values, and way of life. Its last king, Zumbi, is believed to have been well educated, having studied Latin and the culture of Europe. In 1694, Palmares was exterminated. Nothing identifiably Palmarians remains — not one bit of art, not one shard of pottery, not one word about how people lived there. Glenn Alan Cheney's comprehensive and well documented history extends to modern times as archeologists search for any remnants of Palmares, and Brazilians search for its meaning in the context of the 21st century.

Reviewing Gary Greenberg's 2013 expose about American psychiatry, the New York Times's Dwight Garner wrote that "Greenberg paces the psychiatric stage as if he were part George Carlin, part Gregory House." But on a spring night in 2013, he found himself pacing the stage of a grade school gym as if he were Hester Prynne. Two registered sex offenders had come to live in the small town Greenberg had called home for thirty years, and his fellow citizens, terrified and enraged, had come out to pin the blame on him. In this riveting memoir about a modern-day witch hunt, Greenberg recounts with his trademark acerbic humor what it is like to be the target of an entire town's wrath. As he describes his Hawthornian moment, he vividly sketches the characters and landscapes that make up a classic New England village and reflects on sex, panic, betrayal, and the sometimes beautiful, sometimes terrible ties that bind communities together.This new expanded edition includes an epilogue.

Scotland

Greenberg, Gary

Arts & Literature

In 1697, the Portuguesebuilt the Estrada Real — the Royal Road — to bring gold and gems down from the mountains of Minas Gerais. The Estrada Real is still there — a dirt road winding through the cultural cradle of Brazil. It connects historic baroque cities, from Rio de Janeiro and Paraty to Ouro Preto and Diamantina. When Glenn Alan Cheney hiked the northern half of the road, he witnessed the waning days of a culture clinging to the 19th century while being thrust into the 21st. He spoke with people who remembered the days before electricity. He touched vestiges of slavery. And with the Tocquevillian eye of an astute foreign observer, he recorded details of a culture fading into history.

Journey on the Estrada Real: Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil — Second Edition

Travel

South America

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Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America

Thanksgiving:: The Pilgrims' First Year in America

Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America

Love and Death in the Kingdom of Swaziland

How a Nation Grieves: Press Accounts of the Death of Lincoln, the Hunt for Booth, and America in Mourning

Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America - Large Print

Ex Cathedra: Stories by Machado de Assis: Bilingual Edition

Quilombo dos Palmares: Brazil's Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves

Scotland

Journey on the Estrada Real: Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil — Second Edition