Dutch America

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A true story of murder, folk magic, and a tradition that refused to die. In the wooded hollow of a Pennsylvania farm, a man believed for fifteen years that he had been cursed. He was not alone in that belief. His search for the person responsible ended on a November night in 1928, when he and two other men walked to Nelson Rehmeyer's farmhouse and killed him. What followed made national headlines for months: a confessed motive rooted in centuries-old Pennsylvania Dutch folk healing, a trial that argued over whether belief in witchcraft could excuse murder, and a case that turned an entire ...

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick “I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett’s multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. […] As the best personal essays often do, Patchett’s is a two-way mirror, reflecting both the author and her readers.” —...

In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today. In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New York State Library made an astounding discovery...

Harlem is perhaps the most famous, iconic neighborhood in the United States. A bastion of freedom and the capital of black America, Harlem's 20th-century renaissance changed our arts, culture, and politics forever. But this is only one of the many chapters in a wonderfully rich and varied history. In Harlem, historian Jonathan Gill presents the first complete chronicle of this remarkable place.

Don’t miss the next Will Trent thriller, This Is Why We Lied, coming this August! WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! There’s no police training stronger than a cop’s instinct. Faith Mitchell’s mother isn’t answering her phone. Her front door is open. There’s a bloodstain above the knob. Her...

A sweeping story of love and survival during World War II AMSTERDAM, MAY 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration...

From Simone Van Der Vlugt comes her European bestselling novel of a young woman's rise as a painter in Holland's Golden Age—perfect for readers of The Miniaturist, Tulip Fever, and Girl with a Pearl Earring. Amsterdam 1654: against the backdrop of Holland's Golden Age, a dangerous secret...

From the tulip fields of Holland to the rugged coast of Northern California, The Pursuit of Purpose is an inspiring true story of resilience, faith, and the relentless pursuit of the American dream. Lane DeVries, a fourth-generation flower farmer, shares his remarkable forty-year journey building one of America's largest flower farms—Sun Valley Floral Farms—through triumphs, setbacks, and seasons of profound change.

Discover a world of delicious recipes with this incredible Dutch Oven cookbook! Are you looking for great-tasting recipes for your Dutch Oven? Or have you heard about the wonders of the Dutch Oven, and you want to know which size and type of oven is best for you? Then keep reading! Containing over 80 delicious recipes covering every occasion, including both home and camp favorites ones, this incredible book uncovers the secrets of the Dutch Oven! Whether you’re looking for a new indoor cooking tool or you want something to take out on your next camping trip, the Dutch Oven is your answer....

Despite the staggering moral freefall and societal chaos heralded from the highest offices and courts in our land, there is a higher Court yet—and it is decreeing a divine design for America. Which court do your prayers align with? In this dynamic and deeply prophetic hands-on prayer manual, bestselling authors and frontline prophetic voices Dutch Sheets, Chuck Pierce, and Tim Sheets shift your concern for our country into prevailing prayers and Heaven-sent declarations that break our nation's strongholds, shift the spiritual balances of power, and reshape the course of America’s destiny.

Most of our ancestors lived and died without leaving a trace of their existence. Perhaps a line in church records telling of their birth, another line of their death. Or perhaps a broken tombstone in a deserted graveyard with their name carved in. An entire lifetime of cherished memories and experiences reduced to two lines in an old book or on a mossy stone. This book, this story, is my mission to bring to life one of those bits of recorded history. The PATROON 0f Staten Island is based on the Life Story of Cornelis Melyn, born in Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands in AD 1600. By 1606 Cornelis ...

A Hudson Valley Reckoning tells the long-ignored story of slavery's history in upstate New York through Debra Bruno's absorbing chronicle that uncovers her Dutch ancestors' slave-holding past and leads to a deep connection with the descendants of the enslaved people her family owned.

Bloomsbury presents America's Few by Bill Yenne, read by Geoff Sugiyama. America's Few delves into the history of US Marine Corps aviation in World War II, following the feats of the Corps’ top-scoring aces in the skies over Guadalcanal. Marine Corps aviation began in 1915, functioning as a...

The latest novel from million-copy bestseller author Graham Norton - a dazzling, decades-sweeping story about love, bravery and what it means to live a significant life. 'Warm and wise, Frankie is a woman worth getting to know' BONNIE GARMUS 'I loved Frankie so much. I couldn't stop reading it...

“Rich and colorful… [Refuge] has the kind of immediacy commonly associated with memoir, which lends it heft, intimacy, atmosphere.” –New York Times The moving lifetime relationship between a father and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration and the contemporary refugee...

It was a chilly Spring day, 1942. The sun playfully darted in and out of the large cumulus clouds, high above the small bustling plaza, in downtown Santa Fe. Walter J. Parker stood motionless in front of the large storefront window, oblivious to the shoppers moving all around him on the narrow sidewalk. He was totally immersed in the large, brightly colored poster, hanging in the window of the makeshift recruiting office that now resided on San Francisco Street, next to the emporium. Little did he know then, that just one year later, he and his best friend Donny, would be standing on the ...

The Dutch, through the directors of the West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island in 1625. They had come to the New World as traders, not expecting to assume responsibility as the sovereign possessor of a conquered New Netherland. They did not intend to make war on the native peoples around Manhattan Island, but they did; they did not intend to help destroy native cultures, but they did; they intended to be overseas the tolerant, pluralistic, and antimilitaristic people they thought themselves to be - and in so many respects were - at home, but they were not.

Immerse yourself in a journey through early 18th century America with this richly detailed historical fiction saga set amidst the backdrop of the New York and the American frontier. This riveting narrative chronicles the adventures of Otetiani (Master Ormerod), a dispossessed English nobleman forced to brave the untamed wilderness of a youthful America in search of solace, redemption, and maybe even, a touch of mystic. The Journey Begins: Otetiani's tale begins with his exile from England and the blissful, yet fleeting, solace he found in the New World. After the tragic loss of his beloved ...

Manhattan has long been part of a bustling community, even before it formed the backbone of New York City. Centuries before New York City became a shining city of steel that enthralled millions of immigrants, Lenni-Lenape Indians, an Algonquin-speaking tribe whose name means "the People", lived in what would become New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.