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The Menzies Era by John Howard
epub |eng | | Author:John Howard [Howard, John]

CHAPTER 15 NO LAP OF HONOUR Self-satisfaction descended on the Liberal Party after its unexpectedly strong win in November 1963. The ‘old master’ had done it again. At its Federal ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 20,2017 )
Working Class Boy by Barnes Jimmy
epub |eng | 2016-08-19 | Author:Barnes, Jimmy

The time came for us to meet the rest of Reg’s family and Mum started to get nervous. Things seemed to change overnight. Mum always had an inferiority complex. She ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 20,2017 )
Lillian Hellman by Dorothy Gallagher
epub |eng | 2014-10-19 | Author:Dorothy Gallagher

10 Lillian Hellman’s Analyst IN THE 1930s psychoanalysis was in high vogue in New York’s artistic circles. Many of Hellman’s friends were being analyzed by the fashionable Dr. Gregory Zilboorg. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 19,2017 )
The Face by Jimmy Santiago Baca
epub |eng | 2013-10-19 | Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca [Baca, Jimmy Santiago]

❖ But back to back? A day later on arriving at my mountain home the rain gushed down. The creek flowed over, the Canones river brimmed over the sides, the ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 19,2017 )
If All the Seas Were Ink by Ilana Kurshan
epub |eng | | Author:Ilana Kurshan

KIDUSHIN Toward a Theory of Romantic Love Whereas Gittin is about how to get rid of a wife, Kidushin is about how to acquire one. A man acquires a woman, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 18,2017 )
Monkey House Blues by Dominic Stevenson
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Dominic Stevenson [Dominic Stevenson]

[8] The Monkey House Rules You had to hand it to the Chinese: they knew how to run a jail. Ti Lan Qiao, Shanghai Municipal Prison, is situated on the ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 18,2017 )
Lush Life by David Hajdu
epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:David Hajdu [Hajdu, David]

8 THERE WAS NOBODY LOOKIN’ Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington inhabited the same world, but each for his own reasons and on his own terms, and you could see the ...
( Category: Jazz October 18,2017 )
Slave Stories by unknow
epub |eng | 2015-04-24 | Author:unknow

The Map is not the Territory —Andrew Coulthard When Jill awoke he was in the alley amidst the filth and smoke. Steam and sulphurous vapours were rising in trails through ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 18,2017 )
Chester B. Himes by Lawrence P. Jackson
epub |eng | 2017-10-18 | Author:Lawrence P. Jackson

Chapter Eleven OTHELLO 1954–1955 Chester Himes and Willa Thompson purchased third-class tickets and left from Newhaven for Dieppe on January 26, 1954. Both of them were dazed and uncommunicative by ...
( Category: Americas October 18,2017 )
Little Soldiers by Lenora Chu
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Lenora Chu

9 Shortcuts and Favors If you have money, you can get ghosts to do your work. —Chinese proverb Teacher Song had a proposition for me one spring afternoon, though I ...
( Category: Reference October 18,2017 )
Maya Angelou by Lupton Mary;
epub |eng | | Author:Lupton, Mary; [MARY JANE LUPTON]

Chapter 5 Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas (1976) When Angelou’s second volume, Gather Together in My Name, reached its conclusion, Maya, luckily released from a life of ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 18,2017 )
Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
epub |eng | 2017-06-15 | Author:Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins [Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca]

CHAPTER VII THE BANNOCK WAR In the winter of 1878, I was living at the head of John Day’s river with a lady by the name of Courly. On the ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 18,2017 )
Notes from the Hyena's Belly by Nega Mezlekia
epub |eng | | Author:Nega Mezlekia

BOOK THREE: STORM WINDOW ON HISTORY IN THE YEAR A.D. 1000, if you had strolled along the northern frontier of the Horn of Africa, you would have witnessed a human ...
( Category: Historical October 18,2017 )
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston James D. Houston
epub |eng | 2002-04-28 | Author:Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston [Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston]

One of our leaders on those excursions was a pretty young woman named Lois, about twenty-five at the time, who wore long braids, full skirts, and peasant blouses. She was ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 18,2017 )
Maya Angelou by I know why the caged bird sings
epub |eng | 1970-11-15 | Author:I know why the caged bird sings [Sings, I Know Why The Caged Bird]

CHAPTER 22 The wind blew over the roof and ruffled the shingles. It whistled sharp under the closed door. The chimney made fearful sounds of protest as it was invaded ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 18,2017 )

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