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An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff; Alex Tresniowski
mobi |eng | 2012-01-16 | Author:Laura Schroff; Alex Tresniowski

Not long after our Thanksgiving together, I asked Maurice what he usually did for Christmas. “Nothing,” he said with a shrug. “What do you mean? Don’t you celebrate Christmas?” “Nope.” ...
( Category: Regional U.S September 2,2017 )
Somebody's Someone by Regina Louise
epub |eng | 2009-02-28 | Author:Regina Louise [LOUISE, REGINA]

I just couldn’t believe it when the money came. I was even more surprised that Ruby used it to send me to the camp. With Mr. Nasty runnin’ things and ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 2,2017 )
Brown: The Last Discovery of America by Rodriguez Richard
epub |eng | 2003-03-25 | Author:Rodriguez, Richard [Rodriguez, Richard]

What did Nixon know? Did he really devise to rid himself of a bunch of spic agitators by officially designating them a minority, entitled to all rights, honors, privileges, and ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2017 )
Rickey and Robinson by Harvey Frommer
epub |eng | 2013-09-01 | Author:Harvey Frommer [Frommer, Harvey]

Chapter Eight Number 42 With a blue number 42 on the back of his white Brooklyn Dodger home uniform, Jackie Robinson took his place at first base on April 15, ...
( Category: Baseball September 1,2017 )
I'm Down: A Memoir by Wolff Mishna
epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Wolff, Mishna [Wolff, Mishna]

That night when everyone was upstairs watching TV, I said I needed to put wash in the dryer and crept down stairs to Dad’s basement office, convinced that’s where the ...
( Category: Memoirs September 1,2017 )
A Tiger in the Kitchen by Cheryl Tan
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Cheryl Tan

CHAPTER ELEVEN When I was a child in Singapore, my mind would inevitably turn to butterflies, dragons, phoenixes, and horses as each September approached. With the Mid-Autumn Festival coming, the ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference September 1,2017 )
I'm Down by Mishna Wolff
mobi |eng | 2009-05-15 | Author:Mishna Wolff

Christmas Eve, we spent with Dad, and we were to go to our mom’s for Christmas Day after presents. So Christmas morning Dad made a fire, and when we came ...
( Category: Memoirs September 1,2017 )
The Mind of a Thief by Patti Miller
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Patti Miller

During the gold rush the Chinese first arrived in Wellington. Many arrived after the 1861 anti-Chinese riots on the goldfields at Lambing Flat and set up camp along gold-bearing rivers ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 1,2017 )
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
epub, mobi |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Johanna Reiss [Reiss, Johanna]

7 I STRAINED my ears. Clip-clop, clip-clop. What was that noise outside? The little Groothuis boy? Where was he? In front of his house? Clip-clop, clip-clop. Jumping rope? Did he ...
( Category: History September 1,2017 )
Fev: In My Own Words by Brendan Fevola
epub |eng | 2012-05-05 | Author:Brendan Fevola

Coach Denis Pagan would be well within his rights to ask what the hell was going on in the head of his gun forward yesterday. He probably did at half-time ...
( Category: Biographies September 1,2017 )
The Trigger Men by Dillon Martin
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-13 | Author:Dillon, Martin [Dillon, Martin]

8 KILLERS IN THE FAMILY Hugh Leonard Thompson Murphy was only seven years old when he extorted money from other pupils at the Argyll Primary School in West Belfast. When ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 1,2017 )
Black in China by Vessup Aaron A.;
epub |eng | 2017-04-25 | Author:Vessup, Aaron A.;

20 Times Gone By Every child loves his mother, at least I did. It must be universal because when growing up most of us kids could easily be goaded into ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 31,2017 )
The Jew Store by Stella Suberman
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Stella Suberman

CHAPTER 16 A HOUSE AND NEIGHBORS What with Bronson’s Low-Priced Store fast becoming a fixture in Concordia—and what with the Rastows having a house—all at once my father was agitating ...
( Category: Historical August 29,2017 )
On the Brinks by Sam Millar
epub |eng | 2014-08-29 | Author:Sam Millar [Sam Millar]

I was now living in Queens, New York. With me was my girlfriend Bernadette, who had been introduced to me by Dad, in the hope that such a quiet and ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 29,2017 )
Crossing the Borders of Time by Leslie Maitland
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Leslie Maitland [Maitland, Leslie]

FIFTEEN INCOMMUNICADO ALMOST TWO MONTHS after leaving Marseille, the San Thomé passengers disembarked in Havana. But as soon as their uncertain feet regained solid ground, the weary travelers were forced ...
( Category: Historical August 29,2017 )

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