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The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow by Richard Wormser
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Wormser

In 1900, Robert Charles, harassed by police, became involved in a shootout with tragic consequences. This drawing from a newspaper article shows the arrest of a friend of Charles, who ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 10,2014 )
Paperboy (Vince Vawter) by Vince Vawter
mobi |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Vince Vawter

Mr. Spiro was smiling with his big arms folded across his chest. He looked at me for a while without saying anything and then stood. My bias against poetry has ...
( Category: Children's 1900s American Historical Fiction May 6,2014 )
Hard Rain - 03 by David Rollins
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-11-01 | Author:David Rollins

Twenty-four Masters had called ahead, and Emir and his mobile living room were waiting for us at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport. He gave Masters a hug and then went for me. ...
( Category: Military May 4,2014 )
His Day Is Done by Maya Angelou
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]

Yes, Mandela’s day is done, (photo credit 1.10) Yet we, his inheritors, Will open the gates wider For reconciliation. And we will respond Generously to the cries Of the Blacks ...
( Category: Political April 26,2014 )
An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir by Chesler Phyllis
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Chesler, Phyllis [Chesler, Phyllis]

From the last days of 1961 to the last days of 1964, Abdul-Kareem refuses to take no for an answer. I write, saying that I will never return and that ...
( Category: Jewish April 21,2014 )
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-29 | Author:Amy Tan [Tan, Amy]

14298_03_123-204_r6jm.qxd 9/11/03 8:42 AM Page 201 t h e o p p o s i t e o f f a t e in China. To me, these scenes are ...
( Category: Chinese April 20,2014 )
Conquering Darkness Memoir of the Serial Killer's Wife by Choyce-Lige Crystal Reshawn & Swafford Alice M
epub |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Choyce-Lige, Crystal Reshawn & Swafford, Alice M [Swafford, Alice M]

25 Darkness Everywhere WE HADN’T BEEN IN OUR NEW HOME ON LINDEN STREET a year when I realized that whatever darkness had pursued me before we moved, was still in ...
( Category: African-American & Black April 18,2014 )
Here and Now: Letters (2008-2011) by Paul Auster & J. M. Coetzee
epub |eng | 2013-03-07 | Author:Paul Auster & J. M. Coetzee [Auster, Paul & Coetzee, J. M.]

February 23, 2010 Dear John, For reasons I can’t quite grasp (possibly because you are so far away and our meetings are so infrequent), I often find myself wanting to ...
( Category: Letters April 18,2014 )
My Life in Porn: The Bobby Blake Story
epub |eng | 2008-10-16 | Author:Bobby Blake [Blake, Bobby]

"Look, Paul," I said, "write me my Goddamn check because I'm done here." The photographer had his camera pointed my way. "Nobody better shoot another damn roll," I said, eyeballing ...
( Category: LGBT April 18,2014 )
Under the Eagle by Simon Scarrow
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-13 | Author:Simon Scarrow

'What's so different about this woman? Spit it out.' 'I think you have to see her to understand.' 'Bit of a looker, eh?' 'Yes, sir.' Cato smiled. 'So let her ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers April 11,2014 )
The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart by Alice Walker
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Alice Walker [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: Authors April 10,2014 )
The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith H. Beer
epub, mobi |eng | 1999-04-08 | Author:Edith H. Beer

I BOUGHT THE Munich newspaper, Münchner Nachrichten. In the “Rooms for Rent” section, a women in the little suburban town of Deisenhofen offered a room in exchange for sewing and ...
( Category: Holocaust April 9,2014 )
Deutschland von Sinnen | Der irre Kult um Frauen, Homosexuelle und Zuwanderer by Pirinçci Akif
epub |deu | | Author:Pirinçci, Akif [Pirinçci, Akif]

V. MIT DEM ARSCHLOCH SIEHT MAN BESSER Mein Vater, der einem berühmten Alkoholiker- und Beklopptenadel entstammt, erzählte mir immer wieder diesen einen schmutzigen Witz. Trotzdem habe ich vergessen, wie er ...
( Category: Ethnic & National April 8,2014 )
One Native Life by Richard Wagamese
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Richard Wagamese [Wagamese, Richard]

The Country between Us . . . THERE ARE TIMES when something as simple as the rain that freckles slate grey water can take me back to it—that feeling I ...
( Category: Native American & Aboriginal April 8,2014 )
People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Lloyd Parry

15. GEORGE O’HARA Instead of Azabu Police Station, where they would have interrogated the suspect in a more routine case, Superintendent Udo’s detectives took Joji Obara to the fortresslike headquarters ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem April 2,2014 )

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