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On Training and Performance: Traces of an Odin Teatret Actress by Carreri Roberta
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-23 | Author:Carreri, Roberta [Carreri, Roberta]

A sequence of actions based on images depicting Mary Magdalene. Subsequently, he suggested that I explore the figure of Judith from the Old Testament. He had read various writings on ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 2,2015 )
Crazy Horse: A Life by Larry McMurtry
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Larry McMurtry [McMurtry, Larry]

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: Native American Studies May 28,2015 )
Brother West by Cornel West
epub |eng | 2010-05-21 | Author:Cornel West

All additional photographs courtesy of Cornel West collection Top: Teaching “Intro to African American Studies” at Princeton, 2008 [Courtesy of Brian Wilson/ Princeton University] Middle left: The Power of Paideia: ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 27,2015 )
An American Story by Debra J. Dickerson
epub |eng | 2008-12-17 | Author:Debra J. Dickerson

DIGGING DITCHES It occurred to me that Bobby epitomized the false choice—sociopathology and active wrongdoing versus an upstanding but incredibly difficult life lived while society ignores you—that so many blacks ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 27,2015 )
The Essential Etheridge Knight by Etheridge Knight
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Etheridge Knight [Knight, Etheridge]

POEM FOR THE LIBERATION OF SOUTHERN AFRICA have danced in ecstasy (That's all—all I got But for Love) That leaps and sings across the sea To the cell of Nelson ...
( Category: United States May 27,2015 )
Good Chinese Wife by Susan Blumberg-Kason
epub |eng | 2014-06-10 | Author:Susan Blumberg-Kason

• • • The moment I spotted Cai at the Wuhan airport, I ran into his arms. He hugged me as if we hadn’t seen each other in years. Nothing ...
( Category: Women May 27,2015 )
Letter to Jimmy by Alain Mabanckou
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Alain Mabanckou [Mabanckou, Alain]

••• What place is there, then, for a black American in this “Tower of Babel”? Your quest proves to be greater than you anticipate, Jimmy, extending beyond your particular case ...
( Category: United States May 27,2015 )
Trapped in Hitler's Hell: A Young Jewish Girl Discovers the Messiah's Faithfulness in the Midst of the Holocaust by Anita Dittman & Jan Markell
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Anita Dittman & Jan Markell [Dittman, Anita & Markell, Jan]

When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be ...
( Category: Holocaust May 26,2015 )
Tough Jews by Richard Cohen
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Cohen

Is it any wonder some of the gangsters turned to drugs? Their lives were made of stress. Things used as metaphors in corporate America (bagman, hit man, hatchet job) were ...
( Category: Criminology May 25,2015 )
The Road to McCarthy: Around the World in Search of Ireland by Pete McCarthy
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Pete McCarthy

Patsy Cline is singing “Crazy” on the radio as I cross the harbor bridge and head northeast towards Louisville and the ferry to Maria Island, where Smith O’Brien was confined. ...
( Category: Irish May 15,2015 )
Bound by Law: Men of Honor, Book 2
mobi |eng | 2011-08-08 | Author:SE Jakes

In the aftermath, Law lay in Styx’s arms, unwilling and unable to move. His face was buried against Styx’s shoulder, inhaling the smell of the man he’d missed for so ...
( Category: Ethnic & National April 25,2015 )
Life and Death in Shanghai by Cheng Nien
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-01-05 | Author:Cheng, Nien [Cheng, Nien]

10 My Brother’s Confession WHEN THE SERIES OF ROTATING struggle meetings was over, summer was upon us. Before the humid heat of July started in earnest, Shanghai had a month ...
( Category: China April 22,2015 )
The Barefoot Lawyer by Chen Guangcheng
epub |eng | | Author:Chen Guangcheng

CHAPTER EIGHT Kidnapped As we sped away from Beijing, I heard my captors talking among themselves and gathered that we were heading to Tianjin, about eighty miles southeast of the ...
( Category: Asian April 20,2015 )
Enslaved by Five (The Mating Season, 5)
epub |eng | | Author:April Andrews

Chapter Nine Silence for a moment as the three Valdor looked at him, combinations of shock, puzzlement and surprise chasing across their features. And then the male called Llai spoke, ...
( Category: Ethnic & National April 15,2015 )
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Jill Ker Conway

7. THE NARDOO STONES IN THE 1950S, ONE’S first vision of the University of Sydney from its main gates was of a graceful sweep of lawn curving up a gentle ...
( Category: Women April 5,2015 )

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