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The African Americans by Henry Louis Gates Jr
epub |eng | 2012-04-29 | Author:Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Slave quarters at Jefferson Davis’s plantation, circa 1860–1870. Photograph. Library of Congress. Inscribed on the front: “Sent Home by Elizabeth Findley Missionary to the freedmen” and on the back: “Graveyard ...
( Category: African-American Studies April 11,2016 )
A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
epub |eng | 2014-06-11 | Author:Saroo Brierley

8. Resuming the Search By now, I should have been used to life’s many unexpected twists and turns. But things still manage to take me completely by surprise, and though ...
( Category: Australian April 8,2016 )
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination by Otto Dov Kulka
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Otto Dov Kulka [Dov Kulka, Otto]

22. 23. 24. The immutable law of the Great Death, the immutable law which recurs in that dream in infinite permutations, which in one place I called ‘the eternal death ...
( Category: Holocaust April 8,2016 )
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Edna O'Brien

A real Irish lady, I’m longing to call you my own. I’ll not be contented ’Til she has consented To be Mrs Barney Malone. It is a small ward with ...
( Category: Literary April 2,2016 )
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Atul Gawande

6. THE CHECKLIST FACTORY Some time after that first miserable try, I did what I should have done to begin with. I went to the library and pulled out a ...
( Category: General Surgery March 26,2016 )
Street Poison by Justin Gifford
epub |eng | 2015-08-03 | Author:Justin Gifford

It was around 1951 or 1952 that Beck began his travels around America, pimping his way from the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest. He left Milwaukee for a number of ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 14,2016 )
Unforgivable Blackness by Geoffrey C. Ward
epub |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

The Christmas holidays in 1909 had been marked by chaos, as Hattie McClay, Belle Schreiber, and Etta Duryea all found themselves at Tiny Johnson’s home at the same time. Christmas ...
( Category: Boxing March 14,2016 )
A Doctor in the House by Candy Carson
epub |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Candy Carson

Family Vacations We didn’t just travel for outreach. We started going on vacation every year after purchasing a time-share. It happened when we attended one of those meetings where you ...
( Category: Political March 7,2016 )
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-09-22 | Author:Hannah Arendt [Arendt, Hannah]

IX : Deportations from the Reich—Germany, Austria, and the Protectorate Between the Wannsee Conference in January, 1942, when Eichmann felt like Pontius Pilate and washed his hands in innocence, and ...
( Category: Holocaust February 29,2016 )
Red Azalea by Anchee Min
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Anchee Min [Min, Anchee]

As a comrade with a good record, my case was dropped. I was to be sent to the Shanghai Film Studio to be trained as an actress. The headquarters held ...
( Category: China February 21,2016 )
Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy by Martha Long
epub |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Martha Long

CHAPTER 15 ‘Come in,’ Sister Eleanor said, smiling and waving me in the door. I crept around the door, putting me head in and bringing me suitcase after me. ‘This ...
( Category: Irish February 15,2016 )
But You Did Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-14 | Author:Marceline Loridan-Ivens [Marceline Loridan-Ivens]

Jacqueline always sends me flowers on May 10, as if it were my birthday. Every year and that moves me very much. We’re very close, different but considerate of each ...
( Category: Holocaust February 15,2016 )
The Most Wanted Man in China by Fang Lizhi
epub |eng | | Author:Fang Lizhi

12. TURN TOWARD ASTROPHYSICS My work at the brick factory came to an end less than a month after I got back from Huangshan. The authorities reassigned me to the ...
( Category: Asian February 13,2016 )
The Japan Journals by Donald Richie
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Donald Richie

With Jim Jarmusch, 1990. UNIFRANCE FILM 17 AUGUST 1990. In any event, all other concerns eclipsed in the press by Iraq. What timing. Just when the U.S.A. had lost its ...
( Category: Japan February 6,2016 )
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine by Tweedy Damon M.D
epub |eng | 2015-09-08 | Author:Tweedy Damon M.D. [Damon M.D., Tweedy]

7 The Color of HIV/AIDS “I’ll be damned,” Adam, a medical resident, said, shaking his head. “Our patient in room thirty has been lying.” We were sitting next to each ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 26,2016 )

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