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The Good Shufu by Tracy Slater
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-28 | Author:Tracy Slater

• • • FOUR MONTHS LATER, we were on a sidewalk in Osaka, layered in heavy coats and hats. It was December 2006, and a wet winter wind stung our ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 25,2017 )
The Souls of Black Folk by W. Du Bois
mobi |eng | 1996-04-01 | Author:W. Du Bois [Du Bois, W.]

VIII OF THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE But the Brute said in his breast, “Till the mills I grind have ceased, The riches shall be dust of dust, dry ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 25,2017 )
The Black Calhouns by Gail Lumet Buckley
epub |eng | 2016-09-25 | Author:Gail Lumet Buckley [Buckley, Gail Lumet]

Lena Horne at MGM, leaving her personal “movie star” trailer, c. 1943 Lena actually became a star in New York instead of Hollywood, and it happened before any of her ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 25,2017 )
Eva Gabrielsson by There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson;Me
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson;Me

( Category: Arts & Literature September 25,2017 )
Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Douglas A. Blackmon [Blackmon, Douglas A.]

makeup is an imperious sexual impulse which, aroused at the slightest incentive, sweeps aside al restraints in the pursuit of physical gratification."7 The Montgomery Advertiser reported with obvious satisfaction on ...
( Category: Americas September 25,2017 )
Half-Jew by Susan Jacoby
epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Susan Jacoby

Great-grandparents, Maximilian and Eve Jackson Jacoby, 1871. Great-grandmother Sarah Sondheim, age eighteen, 1868. Great-grandfather Simon Sondheim at left, off to fight for the Union in the Civil War. (Man at ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 25,2017 )
Crossing the Ditch by Castrission James
epub |eng | | Author:Castrission, James [James Castrission]

DAY 12 Bumbling along at 6.30am our paddles seemed to be getting stuck in mud. I peered down, and realised we were paddling through seaweed. This change in texture was ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 24,2017 )
Writing to Save a Life by John Edgar Wideman
epub |eng | | Author:John Edgar Wideman

III * * * GRAVES Even in death, no rest for Emmett Till, the Associated Press headline announces. As part of yet another investigation of his murder, Emmett Till’s body ...
( Category: Americas September 24,2017 )
Island Home by Tim Winton
epub |eng | 2015-08-26 | Author:Tim Winton

The power of place It was comically presumptuous of me, but while I was still in high school I’d begun to think of myself as a writer. At seventeen I’d ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 24,2017 )
My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire by Maurice White
epub |eng | 2016-09-13 | Author:Maurice White

16 Departure All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. —Ralph Waldo Emerson When we started recording what would become Spirit, our ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 24,2017 )
Pieces of Blue by McGinnis Kerry
epub |eng | 1999-09-24 | Author:McGinnis, Kerry

FIFTEEN There was winter rain that year of 1959. It fell ahead of us so that we came onto it after weeks of scrub-cutting and hauling weakened sheep back onto ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 24,2017 )
The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ by Andrew Klavan
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-09-19 | Author:Andrew Klavan

Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the Valley of Death Rode the six hundred. The professor, a mild-mannered woman ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 23,2017 )
In Black and White by Wil Haygood
epub |eng | 2014-05-28 | Author:Wil Haygood [Haygood, Wil]

The movie merely featured Armstrong. Its star was actually Danny Kaye. It was a biopic about jazz trumpeter Red Nichols. The critics thought it too sentimental. Sammy must have made ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 22,2017 )
In Search of My Homeland by Er Tai Gao
epub |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Er Tai Gao

TWENTY-TWO Initiation When the National Research Institute for Dunhuang Art was established in 1944, the first director was the famous painter Chang Shuhong. In 1950, the second year of the ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 22,2017 )
A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-03-24 | Author:Patrick Gale

Chapter Seventeen Troels arrived exactly when he said he would. ‘The Devil come to claim a soul,’ Jørgensen muttered as, alerted by the dog’s barking, they gathered in the yard ...
( Category: Small Town & Rural September 20,2017 )

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