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Everything Lost Is Found Again by Will McGrath
epub |eng | 2018-11-12 | Author:Will McGrath

Perhaps this sounds like a difficult life: five young siblings being raised by two decrepit elders. Assuredly it is. And in Lesotho, especially up here in the mountains, it is ...
( Category: Memoirs November 13,2018 )
Narrative of Sojourner Truth (B&N) by Truth Sojourner
epub |eng | 1850-01-01 | Author:Truth, Sojourner [Truth, Sojourner]

“An everlasting temple, And saints arrayed in white, There serve their great Redeemer And dwell with him in light. “The meanest child of glory Outshines the radiant sun; But who ...
( Category: Ethnic & National November 12,2018 )
Mother, The by Buck Pearl S
epub |eng | 1933-01-20 | Author:Buck, Pearl S. [Buck, Pearl S.]

XII THE NEXT DAY CAME gray and still with unfinished rain of summer and the sky pressed low over the valley heavy with its burden of the rain, and the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (B&N) by Douglass Frederick
epub |eng | 1845-01-01 | Author:Douglass, Frederick [Douglass, Frederick]

CHAPTER IX I HAVE NOW REACHED a period of my life when I can give dates. I left Baltimore, and went to live with Master Thomas Auld, at St. Michael‘s, ...
( Category: Historical November 11,2018 )
Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man by Marcus Baram
epub |eng | 2018-11-08 | Author:Marcus Baram

( Category: Arts & Literature November 9,2018 )
The King of New Orleans by Greg Klein
epub |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Greg Klein [Klein, Greg]

CHAPTER SEVEN THE LAST STAMPEDE “Rubber Man” Johnny Walker had never been a main-event star. Despite his many years in wrestling, his ability on the mic, his fire, and his ...
( Category: Biographies November 8,2018 )
Booker T: From Prison to Promise by Booker T Huffman; Andrew William Wright
epub |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:Booker T Huffman; Andrew William Wright [Wright, Booker T Huffman; Andrew William]

8 THE WENDY’S BANDITS The traumatic memory of the sidewalk stabbing remained at the forefront of my thoughts for days. Meanwhile, the drudgery of Wendy’s was getting me down. Working ...
( Category: Biographies November 8,2018 )
Beyoncé in Formation by Omise'eke Tinsley
epub |eng | 2018-11-06 | Author:Omise'eke Tinsley [Natasha, Omise’eke]

( Category: Social Sciences November 7,2018 )
Retablos by Octavio Solis
epub |eng | | Author:Octavio Solis

JEEP IN THE WATER THE RIO GRANDE WE CALL it on the US side. Río Bravo is what they call it in Mexico. The difference is the difference. Somewhere in ...
( Category: Ethnic & National November 6,2018 )
In My Mind's Eye by Jan Morris
epub |eng | 2018-11-05 | Author:Jan Morris [Jan Morris]

DAY 93 ‘Chaos’, the dictionary tells me, is a state of complete confusion and disorder, such as existed before the cosmos was created. I know it well, and I know ...
( Category: Memoirs November 6,2018 )
'Membering by Clarke Austin;
epub |eng | 2015-07-29 | Author:Clarke, Austin;

My host is a professor. A Frenchman. He is the man who told me to meet him in the Bordeaux train station; that he will be under the sign, Pont ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 6,2018 )
Seeking the Cave: A Pilgrimage To Cold Mountain by James Lenfestey
epub | | | Author:James Lenfestey [Lenfestey, James P.]

CHAPTER NINETEEN FIRST ADVENTURE IN HERMIT HUNTING The next morning, Bill led us on an expedition into the nearby Chungnan Mountains, where his own hermit-hunting journey had begun more than ...
( Category: Ethnic & National November 4,2018 )
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know by Colm Toibin
epub |eng | | Author:Colm Toibin

THE TWO TENORS: JAMES JOYCE AND HIS FATHER In his book Yeats: The Man and the Masks, Richard Ellmann quotes Ivan Karamazov: “Who doesn’t desire his father’s death?” Ellmann wrote: ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 1,2018 )
Black Boy (1945) by Richard Wright
epub |eng | 1945-01-02 | Author:Richard Wright [Wright, Richard]

11 I arrived in Memphis on a cold November Sunday morning, in 1925, and lugged my suitcase down quiet, empty sidewalks through winter sunshine. I found Beale Street, the street ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 31,2018 )
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
epub |eng | 2017-08-04 | Author:Barbara Tuchman

Part Two * * * Chapter 17 Coucy’s Rise Now “wholly French” once more, Coucy served as the King’s right arm through the closing efforts of the reign. Though only ...
( Category: Reference October 28,2018 )

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