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Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
epub |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:Assata Shakur [Shakur, Assata]

I remember how i felt in those days. I wanted to be an amerikan just like any other amerikan. I wanted a piece of amerika's apple pie. I believed we ...
( Category: Studying & Workbooks September 10,2017 )
Righteous Gentile: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg, Missing Hero of the Holocaust by Bierman John
epub |eng | 2012-07-05 | Author:Bierman, John [Bierman, John]

In the second week of January 1945 Wallenberg’s private intelligence service brought him word that Eichmann’s plan for the total massacre of the General Ghetto was soon to be carried ...
( Category: Military September 10,2017 )
The Devil Soldier by Caleb Carr
epub |eng | 2012-10-03 | Author:Caleb Carr [Carr, Caleb]

Thus by year’s end the Taipings were being charged with treachery for having violated the yearlong truce Admiral Hope had negotiated with them in March 1861, and before long Taiping ...
( Category: Historical September 10,2017 )
Little Drifters by Kathleen O'Shea
epub |eng | 2014-01-21 | Author:Kathleen O'Shea [O'Shea, Kathleen]

One morning, two weeks later, we were getting dressed for school when Rosie put her head round the door to tell Tara not to bother getting dressed because she wasn’t ...
( Category: Memoirs September 10,2017 )
James Baldwin by David Leeming
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:David Leeming

must first divorce himself from all the prohibitions, crimes, and hypocrisies of the Christian church. If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 10,2017 )
Ester and Ruzya by Masha Gessen
epub |eng | 2012-01-04 | Author:Masha Gessen [Gessen, Masha]

NOVEMBER 1999, BIALYSTOK I have lunch at New York Bagels across the street from the Cristall Hotel. Leonard Cohen is dancing to the end of love on the stereo; framed ...
( Category: World September 10,2017 )
Bloods by Wallace Terry
epub |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Wallace Terry [Terry, Wallace]

Staff Sergeant Don F. Browne Washington, D.C. Security Policeman 31st Security Police Squadron Tuy Hoa November 1967–January 1968 Air Force Special Elements Activity U.S. Air Force Saigon January 1968–November 1968 ...
( Category: Military September 10,2017 )
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Alice Walker [Walker, Alice]

PERHAPS I SAW Angela Davis at the festival. Perhaps we met. She was not ANGELA DAVIS then. Impressed by the Cubans, I too joined the conga line and danced my ...
( Category: Women's Studies September 9,2017 )
Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
epub |eng | | Author:Larry McMurtry

11 BY THE SUMMER of 1875 the crisis over the Black Hills could no longer be postponed. Custer’s grand announcement caught the nation’s attention: after that the miners could not ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 9,2017 )
My Song by Harry Belafonte
epub |eng | 2011-09-02 | Author:Harry Belafonte [Belafonte, Harry]

I was plunging deeper into the movement, but I hadn’t let my day job slide. Miriam Makeba was with me on tour that whole summer and fall, from an outdoor ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 9,2017 )
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
epub |eng | | Author:Ellen Klages

The Forbidden City They had gotten back from the fair very late, were still sleeping when a loud pounding on the door woke them. “’Retta! Lemme in!” Beside her, Emily ...
( Category: Magical Realism September 9,2017 )
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (Writing in Latinidad) by González Rigoberto
mobi |eng | 2006-09-01 | Author:González, Rigoberto [González, Rigoberto]

( Category: LGBT September 9,2017 )
Mosaic by Diane Armstrong
epub |eng | | Author:Diane Armstrong [Diane Armstrong]

A long shadow fell across the little girl tracing patterns in the dirt with a stick. After watching her for a few minutes, the stranger asked, ‘What’s your name, little ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 9,2017 )
The Jewel of Knightsbridge by Harrod Robin;
epub |eng | | Author:Harrod, Robin;

Having started his revolution with selling volume cheaply, as success continued Charles Digby tried to encourage more wealthy people to visit his store and provided a personalised service for important ...
( Category: Industries September 8,2017 )
Underworld (Shadows of the Void Space Opera Serial Book 5) by J.J. Green
epub |eng | 2016-12-13 | Author:J.J. Green [Green, J.J.]

Chapter Eleven “What are you planning to tell the Transgalactic Council, if you ever manage to contact them?” Erielle asked. The day following their capture, Sayen and the others had ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 8,2017 )

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