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Ordinary Light: A Memoir by Tracy K. Smith
epub |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Tracy K. Smith [Smith, Tracy K.]

HOT AND FAST I’d walked or ridden past the local high school every single day of my life since I was three, and it hadn’t changed much. Just two blocks ...
( Category: Specific Groups November 28,2017 )
The Watchmaker's Daughter by Sonia Taitz
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Sonia Taitz [Taitz, Sonia]

The Making of a Courtesan AT FOURTEEN, a great miracle happened there, as we say on Chanukah. Not, in this case, in the city of Modi’in, where Maccabee warriors battled ...
( Category: Memoirs November 28,2017 )
Daughters of Absence: Transforming a Legacy of Loss by Mindy Weisel
epub |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Mindy Weisel [Weisel, Mindy]

November 1990 I began work on a show. At first, performing embarrassingly bad Polish jokes in a Lower East Side shopfront/theatre, friends advised me to dig more deeply, to find ...
( Category: World November 28,2017 )
Yes, Chef: A Memoir by Marcus Samuelsson & Veronica Chambers
mobi |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Marcus Samuelsson & Veronica Chambers

IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, I could see that Georges Blanc owned the town of Vonnas. Almost literally. He had bought up much of the real estate on the town square and, ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference November 28,2017 )
Thriller: The Musical Life of Michael Jackson by Nelson George
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Nelson George [George, Nelson]

THE TALE OF EDDIE VAN HALEN’S involvement with “Beat It” starts with a funny tale of miscommunication from the era before cell phones. “The phone in my house wasn’t working ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 28,2017 )
This Man's Wee Boy by Doherty Tony;
epub |eng | | Author:Doherty, Tony;

6 The Folded Newspaper It was getting on in July 1971 and the bonfire season was approaching. Axes, hatchets and bow saws were sharpened in preparation for cutting the thick ...
( Category: Ethnic & National November 27,2017 )
Across the Wire by Luis Urrea
epub |eng | 2010-12-01 | Author:Luis Urrea [Urrea, Luis Alberto]

That night, back at the orphanage, a bright thing sat above the horizon, glowing like a fat copper star. It pulsed on and off, then vanished. When I looked again, ...
( Category: Ethnic & National November 27,2017 )
Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud by Sun Shuyun
epub |eng | 2012-09-27 | Author:Sun Shuyun [Shuyun Sun]

EIGHT Not a Man? XUANZANG HAD one of his rare lyrical moments when he saw the Nairanjana River, now the Phalgu, in central Bihar, ‘with its pure waters, its noble ...
( Category: Ethnic & National November 27,2017 )
The Promise of Iceland by Kári Gíslason
epub |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Kári Gíslason

( Category: Politics & Government November 27,2017 )
The Hard Light of Day by Rod Moss
epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Rod Moss

DURING MAY, RONJA ACCOMPANIED the old man and me to Little Well. On the curving road we saw that recent rain had promoted the growth of the native grasses. Two ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 27,2017 )
Ada BlackJack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven
epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Jennifer Niven [Niven, Jennifer]

( Category: Historical November 26,2017 )
Beautiful Scars by Tom Wilson
epub |eng | 2017-11-21 | Author:Tom Wilson

BUNNY WILSON AND DOCTOR GOD Bunny Wilson was always there in my consciousness. Standing in her apron, thin grey hairs trying to escape the bun she had put them in ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 26,2017 )
No Room for Small Dreams by Shimon Peres
epub |eng | 2017-08-02 | Author:Shimon Peres

CHAPTER 5 BUILDING THE START-UP NATION The early Jewish pioneers arrived in the land of Israel with nothing, only to find a place that offered almost nothing in return. They ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 23,2017 )
Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball
epub |eng | 2017-09-29 | Author:Edward Ball

For several months King found himself again taken captive, this time by whites in Brunswick, New Jersey. Then he escaped once more. Held by rebel forces, Brunswick lay against the ...
( Category: Sociology November 23,2017 )
Hitler, My Neighbor by Edgar Feuchtwanger
epub |eng | 2017-10-07 | Author:Edgar Feuchtwanger

We’re in Funk’s apartment. He’s reading out snatches from the newspaper: “Ernst Röhm was mounting a coup against Hitler.” “He wanted to hand power to the SA, who would have ...
( Category: Historical November 23,2017 )

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