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Cutting Back by Leslie Buck
epub |eng | 2017-09-17 | Author:Leslie Buck

Songs from the Emerald Opera Ka-klunk, ka-klunk went my shoes down the gray stone steps as I sprinted with anticipation toward the city bus, carrying me back to Uetoh Zoen. ...
( Category: Gardening & Landscape Design September 17,2017 )
Uphill Walkers by Madeleine Blais
epub |eng | 2001-09-17 | Author:Madeleine Blais

To the Blais family, the Kennedy White House was proof that we had arrived. If, as it so often seemed in our world, the highest status accrued to families with ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 17,2017 )
Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories by Jim Haynes
epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Jim Haynes

Of all the fields of human endeavour, there is, perhaps, none that produces more truly strange and unbelievable stories than war. Although rivalry, competition and conflict are obviously part of ...
( Category: World Literature September 17,2017 )
All Growed Up by Tony Macaulay
epub |eng | 2014-08-21 | Author:Tony Macaulay

12 WAR AND PEACE ‘That wummin!’ Conor O’Neill was on his soapbox again in the Student Union café where I was having a cup of coffee and a Kit Kat. ...
( Category: Humor September 17,2017 )
Truths by Rebecca S Buck
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-20 | Author:Rebecca S Buck [Buck, Rebecca S]

Gilly was quiet that day and eventually went to lie on the straw of the night cell. Elizabeth allowed her her solitude. Maisie, Jane, and Catherine were in the yard, ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 17,2017 )
Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil by Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil (epub)
epub |eng | 2016-03-19 | Author:Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil (epub)

What was the aim of this occult power? Was it merely the plan of destruction that had originated in the brain of a Bavarian professor twenty years earlier, or was ...
( Category: Mystery September 17,2017 )
Geisha by Mineko Iwasaki
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Mineko Iwasaki

19 MAMA MASAKO REALLY CAME into her own when she started managing the okiya. Handling the everyday details of the business gave her great satisfaction: keeping the ledgers, arranging the ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 17,2017 )
Greene on Capri by Shirley Hazzard
epub |eng | 1998-09-16 | Author:Shirley Hazzard

I was so muddled in my head, I thought, there’s been a mistake. She must still be alive. For a moment until I realised what had happened, I was—disappointed. That ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 16,2017 )
The Lost Daughters of China: Adopted Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past by Evans Karin
epub |eng | 2008-09-18 | Author:Evans, Karin [Evans, Karin]

Kelly observed her second Halloween dressed as a pumpkin. When we marked the Autumn Moon Festival the same month, she wore her Chinese jacket from Guangzhou. In December we gathered ...
( Category: Asia September 16,2017 )
Jack and Rochelle by Lawrence Sutin
epub |eng | | Author:Lawrence Sutin

JACK There had been pressure on the Germans to do something about the Jewish partisan activity. I won’t say it was their first priority, but it mattered to them because ...
( Category: World September 16,2017 )
Left for Dead by Beck Weathers
epub |eng | 2000-09-16 | Author:Beck Weathers [Weathers, Beck]

Beck at Windy Corner, Mt. McKinley, 1989. PART THREE SIXTEEN If you’ve never felt very good about yourself, you never really expect to, and therefore you don’t begrudge your lack ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 16,2017 )
Searching for the Secret River by Kate Grenville
epub |eng | 2007-09-16 | Author:Kate Grenville [Kate Grenville]

I read this again and again, trying to make sense of it. It was so sad and puzzling. Why was the old man so welcoming, why did he dance with ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 16,2017 )
Wehrmacht Diary:The Story of Siegfried Knappe (1936-1999) by Wolfgang Cooper
mobi |eng | 2000-05-04 | Author:Wolfgang Cooper [Cooper, Wolfgang]

PART III DEFEAT— THE END OF THE THIRD REICH 1945 18 Siegfried woke with a start, realizing much too quickly where he was. He had fallen asleep in the front ...
( Category: Military September 15,2017 )
Baa Baa Black Sheep by Gregory Boyington
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-08-07 | Author:Gregory Boyington [Boyington, Gregory]

* * * *For an exciting authentic biography of this famous Marine general read Marine! The Life of Chesty Puller by Burke Davis. Another Bantam military book. * * * ...
( Category: Military September 15,2017 )
One Life by Kate Grenville
epub |eng | | Author:Kate Grenville

ELEVEN TIME HAD a different meaning after Christopher was born. It wasn’t measured by the clock, but by the baby. Time to feed him, to change his nappy, to play ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 15,2017 )

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