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Woo, the Monkey Who Inspired Emily Carr by Grant Hayter-Menzies
epub |eng | 2019-03-01 | Author:Grant Hayter-Menzies

Chapter 7 The Last Summer Woo’s last camping trip in the Elephant with Carr took place in September 1936. There was no particular reason to assume it would be the ...
( Category: Apes & Monkeys March 5,2020 )
An Angel At My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Virago Modern Classics Book 141) by Janet Frame
epub |eng | 2015-02-04 | Author:Janet Frame [Frame, Janet]

15 Threading Needles The answer was decided for me. I found work as a laundry assistant at the Oamaru Public Hospital, where I spent each day enclosed in the mangle ...
( Category: Authors March 5,2020 )
The Hill of Devi by E. M. Forster
epub |eng | 1953-03-04 | Author:E. M. Forster

GOKUL ASHTAMI The following letters on the Gokul Ashtami Festival are the most important of my letters home, for they describe (if too facetiously) rites in which a European can ...
( Category: Authors March 5,2020 )
The Woman Who Was Chesterton by Nancy Carpentier Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Nancy Carpentier Brown

Gilbert and Frances, trip to Palestine, 1919 Gilbert giving a talk at Fernley, the home of Ethel and Lucian Oldershaw. To Gilbert’s left: Lucian Oldershaw, Frances, an unknown minister, and ...
( Category: Modern March 5,2020 )
A Whole New Life by Reynolds Price
epub |eng | 1994-03-04 | Author:Reynolds Price

5 BACK HOME I watched Jeff Anderson and his fellow builders construct a permanent wheelchair ramp from my back door to the driveway. L-shaped and built to ideal specifications, the ...
( Category: Authors March 5,2020 )
The Great War in America by Garrett Peck
epub |eng | 2018-10-28 | Author:Garrett Peck

Wilson in Europe The George Washington docked in Brest on December 13, where the docks were crowded with thousands of cheering French, and the city bedecked with red, white, and ...
( Category: American Civil War March 5,2020 )
Song of My Life by Carolyn J. Brown
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Carolyn J. Brown

Margaret Walker with Alleane Currie, her assistant at the institute, in the Jacob L. Reddix Campus Union Building, Jackson State University, November 1973. Unfortunately Biondi—or her publisher—reinforces gender bias with ...
( Category: United States March 5,2020 )
The Last Utopians by Michael Robertson
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Robertson [Michael Robertson]

O Child of Uranus, wanderer down all times, Darkling, from farthest ages of the Earth the same Strange tender figure, full of grace and pity, Yet outcast and misunderstood of ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 5,2020 )
Stalin's Scribe by Brian Boeck
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Boeck

TWENTY Upon the conclusion of the war, Sholokhov came under intense pressure to deliver the novel he had promised to Stalin. He boasted to journalists in Moscow in September 1945 ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 4,2020 )
Notebooks 1951-1959 by Albert Camus;Ryan Bloom;Ryan Bloom
epub |eng | 2009-06-11 | Author:Albert Camus;Ryan Bloom;Ryan Bloom

February 17. Arrival in Algiers. From above, in a plane that runs parallel to the coast, the city looks like a handful of glittering stones thrown along the sea. The ...
( Category: Philosophers March 4,2020 )
Scott-Land by Stuart Kelly
epub |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Stuart Kelly [Stuart Kelly]

As a teenager, I remember a local stonemason, a Second World War Polish refugee named Eddie Laub, holding forth in one of the local bars in Lilliesleaf (where every young ...
( Category: Authors March 4,2020 )
My Heart is Boundless by Eve LaPlante
epub |eng | | Author:Eve LaPlante

* * * A woman may live a whole life of sacrifice and at her death meekly says I die a woman. A man passes a few years in experiments ...
( Category: Letters March 4,2020 )
Maori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood by Ihimaera Witi
epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Ihimaera, Witi [Witi Ihimaera]

Chapter Twenty-five Journey to Emerald City 1. AROUND THIS TIME, Dad said he wanted to go to Wellington for a visit. His brother Win was an education officer and he, ...
( Category: Authors March 4,2020 )
A Marriage in Dog Years by Nancy Balbirer
epub |eng | 2018-06-01 | Author:Nancy Balbirer [Balbirer, Nancy]

Seven SOMEONE LEFT THE CAKE OUT IN THE RAIN It was spring. There had been terrible rains, threats of hurricanes, and even a tornado. But finally, and seemingly overnight, spring ...
( Category: Authors March 3,2020 )
So They Call You Pisher! by Michael Rosen
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Rosen

The poem goes on to say how it flitted and rushed around me, then landed on my bed; I trapped it in my pyjama-jacket: In his own dim thick world ...
( Category: Authors March 3,2020 )

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