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Losing Amma, Finding Home by Uma Girish
epub |eng | 2014-12-13 | Author:Uma Girish

16 SLIDING INTO A DEEP SLEEP, I STEAL MOMENTS OF PEACE. But somewhere in the murky light of night, fitful dreams sneak in: Amma is writhing in pain, she’s screaming, ...
( Category: Memoirs January 5,2023 )
Inside Marine One by Col. Ray L'Heureux
epub |eng | | Author:Col. Ray L'Heureux

CHAPTER 6 GETTING TO KNOW THE PRESIDENT Crawford, Texas When I tell people some of the stories from my time as a Presidential Pilot, the conversation often turns to politics. ...
( Category: Aviation & Nautical January 5,2023 )
A Schoolboy's Wartime Letters by Geoffrey Iley
epub |eng | 2014-09-26 | Author:Geoffrey Iley [Iley, Geoffrey]

Uncle Walter was a bit worried when David and I got back late from that cycle ride. 11 Carleton Place Monday night 24/8/42 Dear Norman and Winnie, Twice in this ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 5,2023 )
Mitka’s Secret by Steven W. Brallier
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Steven W. Brallier

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Heading West Reno and Sparks, 1959–1963 On that cold Sunday morning—February 22, 1959—the Kalinski family, along with their dog, Candy, drove away from Pendleton, New York, loaded into ...
( Category: Jewish January 5,2023 )
Task Force Patriot and the End of Combat Operations in Iraq by Pat Proctor
epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Pat Proctor

“We can’t, General Abdullah,” Sabhan interrupted. “This control station in ad Dawr is faulty.” He indicated the corner closest to ad Dawr. “We must begin from the end of the ...
( Category: Iraq War January 5,2023 )
The Moon in Your Sky by Kate Saller
epub |eng | | Author:Kate Saller [Saller, Kate]

Chapter 14 ANNAH STOOD SILENTLY as her husband led his mother to the head of the fresh hole that lay open next to his father's grave on the edge of ...
( Category: Emigrants & Immigrants January 5,2023 )
The Hitler Diaries by Charles Hamilton
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Charles Hamilton [Hamilton, Charles]

15 The “Reincarnated” Forger Forgery is the most audacious of all the arts. At its best it is an adroit meld of impertinence and skill, of daring and brilliance. For ...
( Category: Hoaxes & Deceptions January 5,2023 )
Yes, Chef by Alex Cohen
epub |eng | 2016-01-27 | Author:Alex Cohen [Cohen, Alex]

About the Author Alex lives just outside Minneapolis, MN with an entire gaggle of dependents. Alex is an artist of many stripes and is happiest when creating something whether it ...
( Category: Culinary January 5,2023 )
The Dwarf Who Moved and Other True Stories from a Life in the Law by Peter QC. Williams
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Peter QC. Williams

Polling the Jury In 1979, I travelled to Gisborne to look over the farm of Simon Dods, who had been charged with criminal offences relating to 38 large fertiliser sacks ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges January 5,2023 )
DIY Mom by Rachel Lehmann-Haupt
epub |eng | 2014-08-27 | Author:Rachel Lehmann-Haupt [Lehmann-Haupt, Rachel]

Fertility Goddess I didn't get pregnant during that first insemination despite the auspicious gust of wind, and I didn’t get pregnant on the second try a few months later either. ...
( Category: Community & Culture January 5,2023 )
I, Migrant by Sami Shah
epub |eng | 2014-06-23 | Author:Sami Shah

I, AMERICA 15 Moving to Australia was the second time I left Pakistan. The first was when I went to America for college in 1998. Even though I ended up ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers January 5,2023 )
When Harry Met Meghan by Katy Sprinkel
epub |eng | 2018-03-14 | Author:Katy Sprinkel

Five Lessons from The Tig While The Tig may be no longer, here are a few lingering tastes to savor. 1. Change Starts with You “Keep being ‘the change you ...
( Category: Royalty January 5,2023 )
The beginnings of Stephen King by Claudio Hernández
epub |eng | 2018-02-11 | Author:Claudio Hernández

All about Firestarter Firestarter, the pyrokinetic girl. Stephen King, with certain apprehension about writing about Carrie again, finishes the novel of a pyrokinetic girl in 1977 called Firestarter, after intercalating ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs January 5,2023 )
Red Road from Stalingrad by Mansur Abdulin
epub |eng | | Author:Mansur Abdulin

CHAPTER NINE The Drunkards’ Cemetery Our regiment crossed the border between the Belgorod Region and Ukraine. Vladimir Yegorov, our commissar, explained that from now on we were liberating Ukraine from ...
( Category: Russia January 5,2023 )
Trapline Chatter by Nancy Becker
epub |eng | | Author:Nancy Becker

A sample page from Bob’s logbook – this one lists dogs and the years Bob had them. Bush Pilots by Bob Harte You need to depend on pilots in Alaska, ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers January 5,2023 )

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