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The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan by Arthur Waley & Dennis Washburn Ph.d
epub |eng | 1002-01-01 | Author:Arthur Waley & Dennis Washburn Ph.d. [Waley, Arthur & Washburn, Dennis Ph.d.]

MASAHIRO Everyone laughs at Masahiro.† It must really be very painful for his parents and friends. If he is seen anywhere with at all a decent-looking servant in attendance upon ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 28,2017 )
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Pilkington Doris
epub |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Pilkington, Doris [Pilkington, Doris]

8 The Escape The conditions were so degrading and inhumane in the early years of the settlement that a staff member from that period later pronounced that anyone living there, ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 28,2017 )
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation by Santos John Phillip
epub |eng | 2000-08-01 | Author:Santos, John Phillip [Santos, John Phillip]

At the founding of many American cities lurk unsavory tales of invasion and mayhem, usually whitewashed or forgotten. Whether it’s the hoary presence of old buildings or a nebula of ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 28,2017 )
Code Talker by Chester Nez & Judith Schiess Avila
mobi |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Chester Nez & Judith Schiess Avila

CHAPTER THIRTEEN We Must Take Mount Austen December 1942 to February 1943: Guadalcanal The entire 1st Marine Division fought two enemies: exhaustion and the Japanese. Battle-weary guys shuffled along like ...
( Category: Military August 28,2017 )
Tiger Babies Strike Back by Kim Wong Keltner
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Kim Wong Keltner

21 The Mice Go On Let’s just say I was in despair but didn’t know it. Maybe it was best not to admit it to myself, because I figured there ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 28,2017 )
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Misty Copeland [Copeland, Misty]

THIS WAS ALSO THE summer that I met Paloma Herrera. I have to say that, at first, I was a bit disappointed. It must have been lunchtime. We summer students ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 28,2017 )
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1961-01-02 | Author:John Howard Griffin

“Mr. Griffin … Mr. Griffin.” I heard the man’s soft voice above my shouts. I awakened to see the kerosene lamp and beyond it my host’s troubled face. “Are you ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 26,2017 )
Something Like Beautiful by asha bandele
epub |eng | | Author:asha bandele

IN THE EARLY SUMMER of 2001, I was able to maneuver a meeting between Amir and one of the most famous and respected men in finance. It was a coup. ...
( Category: Parenting August 26,2017 )
Rabbit by Patricia Williams
epub |eng | 2017-08-22 | Author:Patricia Williams

Dre was the one who found her. He went by her place and discovered she’d died in her sleep. Then he came over to my place and told me the ...
( Category: Memoirs August 26,2017 )
Be Free or Die--The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero by Cate Lineberry
epub |eng | | Author:Cate Lineberry

CHAPTER 8 Captain Smalls Smalls had a lot on his mind In late November 1863. He and Hannah were expecting their third child any day while mourning the recent death ...
( Category: Americas August 26,2017 )
13 Stradomska Street by Andrew Potok
epub |eng | 2017-03-29 | Author:Andrew Potok

4. My father was born in a town named Bedzin, less than forty miles west of Krakow. The Potoks had lived there for generations, owned factories and homes. Living a ...
( Category: World August 26,2017 )
Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang
epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Ji-Li Jiang [Jiang, Ji-Li]

No matter what I did and where 1 went, the Cultural Revolution followed me. One cold, windy afternoon I saw Aunt Xi-wen sweeping the street. She seemed ten years older ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 26,2017 )
Red China Blues (reissue): My Long March from Mao to Now by Jan Wong
epub |eng | 2011-02-03 | Author:Jan Wong [Wong, Jan]

Part III PARADISE LOST 12 Dancing With Dissidents Interviewing a dissident, Gao Xin, in the Altar to the Sun park in Beijing. Imprisoned following the Tiananmen Massacre, he was never ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 26,2017 )
Sex & Money by Mark Dapin
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-05-30 | Author:Mark Dapin

EIGHT In which Anthony Mundine chases Solomon Haumono who chases the Pleasure Machine, Mimi Macpherson suffers back problems and the Doner eats its own shit Editing a magazine is a ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 26,2017 )
African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou
epub |eng | | Author:Alain Mabanckou [Mabanckou, Alain]

2. I now know what went wrong with the girl in white. Sure, random murder exists, but I don’t believe in it. In order to succeed you need willpower as ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 26,2017 )

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