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Look for Me in the Whirlwind by Dhoruba Bin Wahad
epub |eng | 2017-04-11 | Author:Dhoruba Bin Wahad

JAMAL: According to standards laid down by Noonie and by other people’s parents, we were supposed to go to school and get a good education so we could get a ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 11,2018 )
Hang Time by Elgin Baylor
epub |eng | | Author:Elgin Baylor

7 Hollywood (Act I) The headline nearly blinds me. LAKERS TRADE BAYLOR TO HAWKS FOR $200,000 CASH AND A PLAYER TO BE NAMED LATER. I’m shocked. The Hawks would pay ...
( Category: Biographies April 11,2018 )
The Yankee Way Playing, Coaching, and My Life in Baseball by Willie Randolph
epub |eng | 2014-05-02 | Author:Willie Randolph

THE FOLLOWING YEAR THE team looked very similar to the one we’d been winning with before the strike. In the lead-up to the 1995 season, we did make one major ...
( Category: Biographies April 10,2018 )
Five Chimneys by Olga Lengyel
epub |eng | 1995-04-10 | Author:Olga Lengyel

At Camp D, which was a men’s enclosure, a barrack was reserved for male children. One afternoon the S.S. assembled all the youngsters, called the roll, and proceeded to make ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 10,2018 )
My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die by Kevin Toolis
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Kevin Toolis

GESTATIONS Sonny’s death took nine months to come into being. It was in the autumn as Sonny approached his seventieth birthday that he first began to complain of indigestion and ...
( Category: Death & Grief April 10,2018 )
Life in Motion by Misty Copeland
epub |eng | | Author:Misty Copeland

When I returned to ABT a couple of days after the article had been printed, one of my friends stopped me on my way to rehearsal. “Did you see that ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 10,2018 )
Black & White by T. Thomas Fortune
epub |eng | 2007-04-09 | Author:T. Thomas Fortune

Why is it that ten men in Ireland produce no more than four men produce in England? Henry George says (Social Problems,p. 150): A year ago I traveled through that ...
( Category: Sociology April 9,2018 )
Living and Dying in Brick City by Sampson Davis
epub |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:Sampson Davis [Davis, Sampson]

The sunshine outside was bright. It was going to be another warm day. I headed for my Honda Accord. That car was tough. Despite a few fender benders and even ...
( Category: Sociology April 9,2018 )
1847 by Turtle Bunbury
epub |eng | | Author:Turtle Bunbury

And yet, while ‘a great many of my men are wholly without shoes … worn out’ and ‘eating their last four ounces of flour’, Cooke marvelled at their continued good ...
( Category: Europe April 9,2018 )
A Life on the Edge by Jim Whittaker
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Whittaker

Throughout these years, both before and after Blanche and I divorced, I buried myself in work at REI, in part to avoid my unhappiness at home. Here, at least, my ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 9,2018 )
Prison Writings by Leonard Peltier
epub |eng | | Author:Leonard Peltier

part vi a life in hell The farce of unbridled lies and flagrant coercion of witnesses played out there in a courtroom.… This was the American judicial system at its ...
( Category: Ethnic & National April 9,2018 )
Uncommon Valor on Iwo Jima by James H. Hallas
epub |eng | 2016-03-24 | Author:James H. Hallas [Hallas, James H.]

Unable to shake Bill Harrell’s hand, President Truman grasps the hero’s arm above the hook replacing his right hand. Harrell became amazingly proficient with his hooks. USMC It was Harrell’s ...
( Category: Ethnic & National April 9,2018 )
Night by Elie Wiesel; Marion Wiesel
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-05-25 | Author:Elie Wiesel; Marion Wiesel [Wiesel, Elie Wiesel; Marion]

Unknown there was still time. We decided that if we were allowed to live until the Liberation, we would not stay another day in Europe. We would board the first ...
( Category: World April 9,2018 )
The Original Black Elite by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
epub |eng | 2017-01-11 | Author:Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

OVER THIS PERIOD, THE MURRAY FAMILY HAD THEIR UPS AND downs. Two days after Daniel Murray and his son returned from their visit to Buffalo and Cleveland in the fall ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 9,2018 )
Munich 1919 by Victor Klemperer
epub |eng | 2017-06-26 | Author:Victor Klemperer

The Third Revolution in Bavaria (From our A.B. correspondent) Munich, April 9 [1919] Rumors. – The indifference of the bourgeoisie. – Dr. Quidde. – The men of the day. – ...
( Category: World April 8,2018 )

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