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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All by Thompson Christina
mobi |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Thompson, Christina [Thompson, Christina]

10 Turton’s Land Deeds When Seven and I had been married two years, I finished my dissertation, and in order to celebrate we decided to move. What followed was a ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania August 16,2017 )
Apologies to My Censor: The High and Low Adventures of a Foreigner in China by Moxley Mitch
azw3 |eng | 2013-07-02 | Author:Moxley, Mitch [Moxley, Mitch]

11 Chocolate City We wandered the streets and alleys and garbage-strewn crevices of central Guangzhou, the southern Chinese metropolis once known as Canton, on the Pearl River delta, and marveled ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 16,2017 )
Forbidden Fruit by Betty DeRamus
epub |eng | 2005-08-16 | Author:Betty DeRamus

1827: After the emancipation of New York slaves, free blacks flood the city’s infamous Five Points neighborhood (Anthony, Orange and Cross streets), joining the unskilled Irish. In the Old Brewery ...
( Category: Historical August 16,2017 )
A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France by Miranda Richmond Mouillot
epub |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Miranda Richmond Mouillot [Mouillot, Miranda Richmond]

CHAPTER TWELVE MY EXALTATION LASTED UNTIL THE SUN BEGAN to dip behind the hamlet. Gradually, the shadows edged the light and warmth off the terrace, and I put on my ...
( Category: World August 16,2017 )
Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
epub |eng | 2015-01-18 | Author:Marie Mutsuki Mockett [Mockett, Marie Mutsuki]

ELEVEN WHERE THE DEAD GO ACCORDING TO THE JAPANESE, when children die, their souls gather on a riverbank called Sai no Kawara. In the Pure Land sect of Buddhism, it’s ...
( Category: Buddhism August 16,2017 )
A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernandez
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-16 | Author:Daisy Hernandez [Hernández, Daisy]

Some of my friends, oftentimes the ones that harbored forbidden crushes in eighth grade, are curious about me. “Did you think you were a lesbian then?” they ask. “Didn’t you ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies August 16,2017 )
The Girl from Human Street by Roger Cohen
epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:Roger Cohen [Cohen, Roger]

I was born in 1955, midway between the atomic bomb and the release of the Beatles’ Rubber Soul, at the start of a postwar boom that would endure decades, on ...
( Category: World August 16,2017 )
My Place by Sally Morgan
epub |eng | 1988-08-16 | Author:Sally Morgan

Where to next? ‘It’s a wonderful story.’ Mum had tears in her eyes when she finished reading Arthur’s story. Like me, Mum now felt that at last we had something ...
( Category: Memoirs August 16,2017 )
The Monkey and the Dragon by Linda Jaivin
epub |eng | 2004-09-02 | Author:Linda Jaivin

Hou covered two of Luo Dayou’s songs as well, and sang one composed in collaboration with his Hong Kong friend Teddy Robin. What was truly innovative was Hou’s decision to ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 16,2017 )
Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart by Walker Alice
epub |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Walker, Alice [Walker, Alice]

THERE WAS A RIVER There Was a River There was a river, and they were sitting beside it. It was the only river Marcella had seen in New Mexico. Actually ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 16,2017 )
Nights in Tents by Laura Love
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Laura Love

Chapter 8 Doxology My first week at OGP had taught me never, ever to be unplugged or out of touch, for even a moment, if I wanted to live through ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 15,2017 )
Stand Tall by Dewey Bozella
epub |eng | 2016-10-08 | Author:Dewey Bozella

8 HUMANITY CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT HOPE, and there is nothing sadder than watching a man lose both. In prison, a soul can get scraped away methodically, like a piece of ...
( Category: Biographies August 14,2017 )
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
epub |eng | 2006-07-06 | Author:Joseph Bruchac [Bruchac, Joseph]

FIRE EXIT WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST We were so close I could see how hard the surf was pounding the shore. The beach was not at all like the one ...
( Category: Military August 14,2017 )
A Paris Christmas by Baxter John
epub |eng | 2015-11-05 | Author:Baxter, John

Alcohol permeated my childhood. My parents were far from heavy drinkers, but, like most Australians, they routinely socialised with their friends at the pub, leaving my brother and me to ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 14,2017 )
Happy Times in Norway by Undset Sigrid
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Undset, Sigrid [Undset, Sigrid]

PART III SUMMER VACATION 1 “MOTHER, WHEN SHALL WE MOVE TO THE SAETER?” “Right after St. John’s, Hans.” “Mother,” then asked Anders, “Godfather wrote he and Uncle George are coming ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 14,2017 )

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