Larry J. Zimmerman

Despite their many differences, all Native Americans share a profound appreciation of the cycles of nature and a belief in the cosmic interconnectedness of all things. Professor Larry J. Zimmerman tells the tragic tale of their conquest and dispossession, followed by their survival against the odds and the renewal of pride in a distinctive cultural heritage. Learn about American Indian traditions and the history behind them that create a unique Native American identity. Their crafts and their reverence for the land are also both described in detail - inspiring us to turn our thoughts to the natural world and our own place in it.

Has CD: Healing with Spirit inside!

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

North Carolina

Healing With Spirit CD

Looks at religion and the social customs of Native Americans of North America, focusing on tribes, territories, spirits, symbols, myths, cosmos, and other topics.

The Sacred Wisdom of the American Indians

71adc8d1-0a94-4b39-b287-cb6eb53793ed-1

Lisa Patton

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Utah

A Novel

Bestselling author Lisa Patton digs into exciting new territory with Rush, a story about mothers and daughters, sisterhood, tradition, and doing the right thing, now in trade paperback Experience the phenomenon from a front row seat... It’s move-in day for college freshmen on the Ole Miss campus. Nobody wants to fit in more than Cali, a bright, small town girl with family secrets too scandalous for the well-to-do to imagine. Sorority rush is weeks away and without a pedigree, Cali doesn’t have much of a chance at membership. Her dorm room alone is as plain as a cardigan sweater, while the girls next door have one that would make the finest of designers swoon. Wilda, Alpha Delta Beta alum and rush advisor, has a daughter rushing in the fall, but Lilith, the well-heeled House Corp President, sees Wilda as a pushover and will stop at nothing to ensure her own daughter’s legacy bid. Inside the Alpha Delt house, Miss Pearl has been housekeeper and second mother to the girls for years, even though it reminds her of a painful part of her past. When a chance for promotion arises, Lilith slams her Chimmy Choo heel down fast, crushing Miss Pearl’s hopes of a better future. But once Wilda and the girls find out, they devise a plan destined to change Alpha Delta Beta—and maybe the entire Greek system—forever. Lisa Patton's Rush takes a sharp nuanced look at a centuries-old tradition while examining the complex relationships between women and what happens when they dare to use their voices. Achingly poignant yet chock-full of humor, Rush is an uplifting novel universal to us all.

Rush

6a0ff812-2d2e-42d2-a173-73eea77f3a0f-1

Carol V. Aebersold

Chanda Bell

Coe Steinwart

Girl elf. Worn dust jacket but excellent book condition. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

Light Girl

The Elf on the Shelf - Girl LT

6df387c1-deec-4943-8e27-f5de7c296f0b-1

Really nice shape. Clean. No marks. Solid binding.

 🎼 Music CD is also included. 320 pages of Christmas cheer 🎄

See pics 📸


EE

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Michigan

Treasury of Stories and Songs

Contains fifteen familiar Christmas stories and twenty-five carols and songs of the season, with words to multiple verses, musical notation, and guitar chords.

⭐ Merry Christmas book & CD

bdda3d66-d46e-408c-9762-e63212e88732-1

New York

An Anthology

A highly distilled form of Japanese poetry, haiku consist of 17 syllables, usually divided among three lines. This unique collection spans over 400 years (1488-1902) of haiku history by the greatest masters: Basho, Issa, Shiki and many more, in translations by top-flight scholars in the field. Editor Faubion Bowers provides a Foreword and many informative notes to the poems.

The Classic Tradition of Haiku

ab3a8a52-7c09-487b-aed8-c8361ceec3ba-1

Alan Abraham Kay

Jo Kay

A New Approach to Creating a Personal Family Celebration

Make Your Own Passover Seder gives you the information needed to create a customized seder that expresses your and your family’s particular spiritual, political, and personal values and sentiments. No matter what your religious persuasion¾Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, Renewal, or not Jewish at all¾this guide provides a wise and learned approach that is filled with warmth and creativity. Make Your Own Passover Seder offers new ideas and myriad options based on the authors' own experience and hundreds of other examples of seders throughout the world.

Make Your Own Passover Seder

64290592-5b1b-4d53-a8bf-4b99c9845234-1

Lucy Ferriss

Red marker on base, see photos. Otherwise excellent. 

New from the author of The Lost Daughter

Afia Satar is studious, modest, and devout. The daughter of a landholding family in northern Pakistan, Afia has enrolled in an American college with the dream of returning to her country as a doctor. But when a photo surfaces online of Afia holding hands with an American boy, she is suddenly no longer safe—even from the family that cherishes her.
 
Rising sports star Shahid Satar has been entrusted by his family to watch over Afia in this strange New England landscape. He has sworn to protect his beloved sister from the dangerous customs of America, from its loose morals and easy virtue. Shahid was the one who convinced their parents to allow her to come to the United States. He never imagined he’d be ordered to cleanse the stain of her shame...

READERS GUIDE INCLUDED

 

A Sister to Honor

af924a4b-6fd5-48b4-994c-232fa439e91f-1

Florida

The Last Slice 

Excellent condition, evidence of sticker removal inside front page. 

The pampered daughter of a wealthy Hasidic businessman, Batsheva Ha-Levi grows up in the affluent suburbs of Los Angeles. But everything changes when she turns eighteen and finds that her loving father has made a secret vow which will shatter her life, forcing her to marry a man she hardly knows and sending her to the exotic, golden city of Jerusalem. On her wedding day, she enters a strange and foreign world steeped in tradition and surrounded by myth. Shackled by ancient rules, she soon understands that to survive she will have no choice but to fight for her freedom, to reconcile her own need to live in the modern world with her ancestral obligations, and to choose between the three men who vie for her body, her soul, and her love.

Now a classic listed among the one hundred most important Jewish books of all time*, Jephte's Daughter is bestselling author Naomi Ragen's beloved first novel. With poignancy and insight, it takes readers on a groundbreaking and unforgettable journey inside the hidden world of women in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.

*100 Essential Books For Jewish Readers, Rabbi Daniel B. Sync and Lindy Frenkel Kanter

Jephte's Daughter

4c3941f0-d209-4a63-ac85-8799419fe200-1

The gingerbread man loose at Christmas 

Edge wear. Light curling to upper corner of front cover. Name crossed out inside. #paperback #ashanti #zulu #africa #tradition #alphabet #childrens #juvenilenonfiction #nonfiction #picturebook

California

Artists Leo and Diane Dillon won their second consecutive Caldecott Medal for this stunning ABC of African culture. "Another virtuoso performance. . . . Such an astute blend of aesthetics and information is admirable, the child's eye will be rewarded many times over."--Booklist. ALA Notable Book; Caldecott Medal.

Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions

bd365a75-8d24-4ce0-b42d-a0a5a0d10052-1

Kimberly B. Allen

Tales and Traditions, Customs and Curiosities

This beautiful book is both useful and informative. Learn about curious wedding traditions from cultures around the world.

Wedding Wonders

c7485a65-cfd8-4b64-a409-2c9a6bb7903f-1

Minnesota

Reservations for Six

#hardcover #ya #christmas #farm #country #tradition #holiday #memories

Oklahoma

A Treasury of Heartwarming Holiday Memories

Capturing just what makes Christmas in farm country so special, "A Farm Country Christmas" is a unique compilation that epitomizes the essence of this wonderful time of the year, celebrating not only the holiday, but the natural, wholesome, hard-working lifestyle that is farm living. Its blend of heartwarming stories about Christmas in the country and spectacular artwork and photos truly set "A Farm Country Christmas" apart from the competition. Stories include coming home to the farm, children’s Christmas pageants, decorating country-style, and of course, the farm country Christmas Day feast. Contributors include Ben Logan, Patricia Penton Leimbach, Paul Engle, L. M. Montgomery, Bob Artley, and others.

A Farm Country Christmas

b6134e74-0a80-4ff3-9697-60476158260c-1

Alexander Langlands

Oregon

How Traditional Crafts Are about More Than Just Making

Search of the lost meaning of craeft. Through a vibrant series of mini-histories, Langlands resurrects the ancient craftspeople who fused exquisite skill with back-breaking labour

Craeft

b1dc574b-d3ec-479d-8b55-bdf7005f862c-1

Louisiana

#hardcover #football  #college  #tradition #rivalries
This book is pre-owned in good condition with minor scratches and wear on cover. Please look at all pictures for more details. 

Chants, Pranks, and Pageantry

A must-have for football fans of all ages, this handsomely designed gift book is a comprehensive illustrated guide to the greatest traditions and rivalries in college football. Every Saturday each fall, millions of Americans watch their favorite college teams take to the gridiron, battling to make it to the coveted national championship bowl game in January. From the Cornhuskers of the University of Nebraska to the Nittany Lions of Penn State, the USC Trojans to Alabama’s Crimson Tide, the University of Michigan Wolverines to the Clemson Tigers, each school has its own traditions, trivia, and rivalries. This concise, illustrated handbook is a collection of the past and present lore of college football’s major teams for both novices and diehard followers alike. Focusing on the top schools from each division, this handy guide contains original full-color illustrations that showcase the biggest traditions and rivalries in the sport, along with a short description and fun trivia. Learn about the pink visitor’s locker room at Iowa State, the prisoner exchange preceding the annual Army–Navy showdown, and the University of Miami team’s dramatic smoke-filled stadium entrance. The book also includes a special section of quick facts on some other schools that weren’t fully featured. Fascinating and informative, filled with seventy full-color illustrations, College Football Traditions and Rivalries is a must for every college football fan.

College Football Traditions and Rivalries

e6c5958a-8a64-4962-9abd-42df4a5e5fc2-1

#paperback #ya #worship #tradition #spirituality 

The Liturgical Tradition

"In asking the important question, "How can the liturgical tradition of spirituality become a resource for the contemporary spiritual quest?", Susan White shows us how that tradition nourishes, enriches and enlivens the relationship between the Christian believer and God."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Spirit of Worship

bcff9755-ab94-427e-8514-e9858b5e85e7-1

Using history as a starting point, Hertzi has created five doll projects, inspired by five very different cultural and historical icons. She explores the creative process, the meaning and significance of each figure, and teaches techniques that doll makers are currently experimenting with

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Exploring projects and processes through culteral traditions 

Art Doll Adventures

#paperback #ya #Christmas #religion #tradition #memories #family #lifetime

Creating Christmas Memories

4f0b4ca1-0cea-4b55-aaf5-c3b3ca3205f7-1

Eric Gansworth

In 1980 life is hard on the Tuscarora Reservation in upstate New York, and most of the teenagers feel like they are going nowhere: Carson Mastick dreams of forming a rock band, and Maggi Bokoni longs to create her own conceptual artwork instead of the traditional beadwork that her family sells to tourists--but tensions are rising between the reservation and the surrounding communities, and somehow in the confusion of politics and growing up Carson and Maggi have to make a place for themselves.

Give Me Some Truth

b8371555-5f02-4dd2-b967-b958cf8edf97-1

Book has been stored in a box, so it is new. 

Alabama

It’s a Southern Tradition 

Sweeteas

Anne Perry

In practically perfect condition. No writing or highlighting. Never read. 

Pennsylvania

In this intriguing, uplifting holiday mystery, an orphan boy investigates a woman's kidnapping, and discovers there's more at stake than a disappearance

A Christmas Revelation

367570fa-f65c-4821-9fe5-9620cf80214f-1

Susanne Pari

Bought but never read, minor wear from shelf-life 

New Jersey

Inspired by her own family's experiences following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Susanne Pari explores the entangled lives within an Iranian American family grappling with generational culture clashes, the roles imposed on women, and a tragic accident that forces them to reconcile their guilt or forfeit their already tenuous bonds. Set between San Francisco and New Jersey in the late-1990's, In the Time of Our History is a story about the universal longing to create a home in this world - and what happens when we let go of how we've always been told it should look.

Twelve months after her younger sister Anahita's death, Mitra Jahani reluctantly returns to her parents' home in suburban New Jersey to observe the Iranian custom of "The One Year." Ana is always in Mitra's heart, though they chose very different paths. While Ana, sweet and dutiful, bowed to their domineering father's demands and married, Mitra rebelled, and was banished.

Caught in the middle is their mother, Shireen, torn between her fierce love for her surviving daughter and her loyalty to her husband. Yet his callousness even amid shattering loss has compelled her to rethink her own decades of submission. And when Mitra is suddenly forced to confront hard truths about her sister's life, and the secrets each of them hid to protect others, mother and daughter reach a new understanding-and forge an unexpected path forward.

Alive with the tensions, sacrifices and joys that thrum within the heart of every family, In the Time of Our History is also laced with the richness of ancient and modern Persian culture and politics, in a tale that is both timeless and profoundly relevant.

Browse by categories

Save this search

Larry J. Zimmerman

The Sacred Wisdom of the American Indians

Lisa Patton

Rush

Carol V. Aebersold; Chanda Bell; Coe Steinwart

The Elf on the Shelf - Girl LT

Elliott Delman

⭐ Merry Christmas book & CD

Faubion Bowers (Editor)

The Classic Tradition of Haiku

Alan Abraham Kay; Jo Kay

Make Your Own Passover Seder

Lucy Ferriss

A Sister to Honor

Melissa Seron Richardson

The Last Slice

Naomi Ragen

Jephte's Daughter

Laura Murray

The gingerbread man loose at Christmas

Margaret Musgrove; Diane Dillon (Illustrator)

Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions

Kimberly B. Allen

Wedding Wonders

Lindsey Palmer

Reservations for Six

Amy Rost-Holtz

A Farm Country Christmas

Alexander Langlands

Craeft

Lisa Patton

Rush

Morrow Morrow Gift

College Football Traditions and Rivalries

Susan J. White

The Spirit of Worship

Lisa Li Hertzi

Art Doll Adventures

Cheri Fuller

Creating Christmas Memories

Eric Gansworth

Give Me Some Truth

Frazier

Sweeteas

Anne Perry

A Christmas Revelation

Susanne Pari

In the Time of Our History