Sallie: 88 books

“A memoir of three generations of women rich in historical detail” —from the Civil War to the Jazz Age (Kirkus Reviews)   Shortly after her mother’s death in 2011, Sallie Bingham discovered a blue box in her mother’s closet containing the forgotten remnants of her foremothers’ lives....

Teenager Sallie Hester and her family packed their supplies into a wagon and set off on a dangerous 2,000 mile journey to California. They faced disease, raging rivers, and blazing hot deserts. Through it all, Sallie wrote down her experiences in a diary. Read her story, and learn about the Oregon Trail from someone who traveled it.

Sallie McFague offers a lucid and powerful guide to theological thinking about God and the world, individual and community, humanity and nature, reality and metaphor, the sacramental and the prophetic, and the critical issue of climate change for today’s world. She calls Christians to new feeling, new acting, and new thinking.

In A Year of Thanksgivings*, *Sallie Hicks shares with her readers seven generations of the Hicks and Read families as she has known them for almost ninety years. In stories that span from her early childhood memories to encounters with life's heartbreaking challenges, Sallie tells how, despite...

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CRITICS’ TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR “In its loving, fierce specificity, this book on how to die is also a blessedly saccharine-free guide for how to live” (The New York Times). Former NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning writer Sallie Tisdale offers a lyrical,...

A novel of love, ladders, and the unexpected ... Let this beautiful, sensual story carry you away ... Paula Sánchez is famous in Seville. Now she is sitting for the Penitent Magdalen, along with Father Rastro and the monk Victor Maria, and watched over by the young painter Diego Velázquez. But Seville...

We live in a world in which almost every public image—every interaction—carries an element of sexual desire. And yet it is nearly impossible for us to talk openly and honestly about sex. Talk Dirty to Me is author Sallie Tisdale's frank, funny, and provocative invitation to the conversation we've...

For decades, Sallie McFague has lent her voice and her theological imagination to addressing and advocating for the most important issues of our time. In this Fortress Digital Preview, readers receive the opening two chapters of Sallie McFague’s forthcoming Blessed are the Consumers (March...

“Bingham writes with an austere and unerring knowledge of what it is to be human” in these eleven stories of love, sex, and indiscretion (Paula Fox).   In her bracing new collection, Sallie Bingham examines modern-day transgressions in affairs of the heart, “focus[ing] mostly on the lives of...

Sallie Stamps Swor is a Nashville native who has been passionate about cooking and entertaining for as long as she can remember. In her first college apartment Sallie enjoyed hosting friends for dinner parties, brunches, picnics – well just any excuse to cook. Her son Richard grew up loving his...

Looking at the different ways power has been theorised from Hobbes to Giddens, this book analyzes the ways in which the theories have been applied. By bringing together theory and substantive analysis, this invaluable introductory text provides a clear and imaginative account of power and power relations....

A new kind of career playbook for a new era of feminism, offering women a new set of rules for professional success: one that plays to their strengths and builds on the power they already have. Weren’t women supposed to have “arrived”? Perhaps with the nation’s first female President,...

…..Strange gothic like apparitions roaming the ruins of a derelict abbey....a sleep over party that reveals more than just the true champion of Xbox ones "Nukem Road"....and the accidental capture of an eerie night time sound not heard for over 300 hundred years, all lead to a strange...

What's your most valuable corporate asset? BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS “Five Keys to Powerful Business Relationships goes beyond the usual bonhomie, grip-and-grin, back slapping . . . dimension of business relationships. This book outlines a fresh, more systematic perspective to an area usually...