Biographies & Memoirs
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-04 | Author:Monica Holloway [Holloway, Monica]

Julie and I had just picked up Kimberly Sanders from the airport in the hearse. She was only two years older than us, but had died of cancer anyway. She ...
( Category: Authors October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-19 | Author:Michael Oher

CHAPTER ELEVEN High School My first day at Briarcrest was overwhelming. It was already almost halfway through the school year, so there wasn’t anyone else with the first-day-of-school nerves that ...
( Category: Football October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Soledad O'Brien & Rose Marie Arce [O'Brien, Soledad & Arce, Rose Marie]

Brandon, Tina’s older son, scoots around the church that morning, handsome and well spoken. He has no relationship with his father, although he is friendly with Calvin, his stepfather. He ...
( Category: Cultural Policy October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Susannah [Susannah]

Have a friend long enough, and in time he or she is going to have to break bad news to you. Ellen has been the bearer of bad news more ...
( Category: Disaster Relief October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Aboulafia, Anita J [Aboulafia, Anita J]

M CHAPTER FOURTEEN BLACK MUSLIMS In the spring of nineteen fifty-nine-some months before Brother Johnson Hinton's case had awakened the Harlem black ghetto to us-a Negro journalist, Louis Lomax, then ...
( Category: United States October 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Truman, Harry S [Truman, Harry S]

The speech Truman sends Acheson is actually drawn from Truman’s Inaugural Address, not the State of the Union Message of 1949. The speech puts forward, like the Inaugural Address, a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:McClanahan, Brion [McClanahan, Brion]

His career took a decided turn for the better after his marriage. Franklin published the Gazette and ran a shop that traded in a variety of commodities, possibly including slaves. ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Allison, Andrew M [Allison, Andrew M]

If the communication be through the air without any conductor, a bright light is seen between the bodies, and a sound is heard. In our small experiments we call this ...
( Category: Political October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Cheney, Dick [Cheney, Dick]

Liz and Mary on election night 2000 reacting to the news that the networks had called the election for George W. Bush and me. It was a premature – but ...
( Category: Political October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Allison, Andrew M [Allison, Andrew M]

By common agreement, at first the text of the treaty was kept secret. But then a disgruntled Virginia Senator leaked it to the press, triggering an explosive public uproar. How ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Milbank, Dana [Milbank, Dana]

CHAPTER 10 SCALPS To those who doubt the power of Beck, two words provide ample refutation: Van Jones. When forty-year-old Anthony “Van” Jones was named an adviser in the White ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Barton, David [Barton, David]

Leland made a special trip from Massachusetts to the White House to bring his friend Jefferson a special gift: a giant cheese. Leland proposed that his flock should celebrate [Jefferson’s] ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Kahlili, Reza [Kahlili, Reza]

17 THE TORCH IS PASSED INSIDE MEHRABAD AIRPORT’S terminal, echoing voices competed with loudspeaker flight arrival and departure announcements. Somaya and Omid were waiting at the gate outside customs. I ...
( Category: Middle Eastern October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Reagan, Ronald [Reagan, Ronald]

56 EVEN THOUGH I WAS constantly meeting new people and attending public events in the presence of thousands of people, I discovered a surprising dimension to the presidency—a bird-in-a-gilded-cage sense ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Obama, Barack [Obama, Barack]

Ten days later, Auma and I sat in the hard plastic seats of an airport terminal, looking out at the planes through the high wall of glass. I asked her ...
( Category: African-American Studies October 27,2014 )