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Letters to Memory by Karen Tei Yamashita
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-08-24 | Author:Karen Tei Yamashita

Vyasa, you would have preferred reference to the Ramayana, but like the Iliad, the Mahabharata is about war, and sadly it is war and its aftermath that here haunts my ...
( Category: Ethnic & National April 7,2018 )
What You Did Not Tell by Mark Mazower
epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Mark Mazower

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Highgate A strong Russian connection has attached itself to Highgate over the years. Guryev, a phosphates magnate, is reportedly the current owner of the mansion that stands at ...
( Category: World April 7,2018 )
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave by Jennifer Fleischner
mobi |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Jennifer Fleischner [Fleischner, Jennifer]

CHAPTER NINE On the morning after the inauguration, a dispatch from Major Robert Anderson at Fort Sumter, informing President Lincoln that the garrison’s supplies were nearly depleted, lay on the ...
( Category: World April 7,2018 )
A Comrade Lost and Found by Jan Wong
epub |eng | | Author:Jan Wong [Wong, Jan]

It's August 15, my 54th birthday. I'm just past the mid-point of my trip, with two weeks left before we board a plane back to America. Maybe Pan is wrong. ...
( Category: Ethnic & National April 6,2018 )
Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr by Carr James;
epub |eng | | Author:Carr, James;

NINE THEY SENT ME TO QUENTIN. WHEN I got there, we had a fullblown race war on our hands, and things were heading toward a showdown. I was immediately assigned ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 6,2018 )
Secret Daughter by June Cross
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:June Cross

As a first-semester freshman, I applied for an upper-class poetry workshop. I was admitted but soon discovered that I knew little about the modern poets whose work formed the foundation ...
( Category: Specific Groups April 6,2018 )
Never Would Have Made It by Childs Melvin
epub |eng | 2012-04-06 | Author:Childs, Melvin [Childs, Melvin]

Chapter 10 Hold the Curtain Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 6,2018 )
Cooper's Creek by Alan Moorehead
epub | | | Author:Alan Moorehead

10 TOWARDS MOUNT HOPELESS NOW IN POINT OF FACT ON MAY 8—THE DAY THAT BRAHE and Wright visited the depot on the Cooper—Burke, Wills and King were only about thirty ...
( Category: Ethnic & National April 6,2018 )
Thea Astley - Inventing Her Own Weather by Karen Lamb
epub |ara | 2015-04-22 | Author:Karen Lamb [Lamb, Karen]

PART 3 NORTH OF NOSTALGIA 11 The oldest senior tutor in the Commonwealth It is now abundantly clear to me, the oldest senior tutor in the Commonwealth if not in ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 5,2018 )
Fireproof Moth: A Missionary in Taiwan's White Terror by Milo Thornberry
epub | | 2011-02-10 | Author:Milo Thornberry

Peng’s escape created a nightmare of public relations for Chiang’s government. They denied that he was gone and had egg on their faces when they learned that the rest of ...
( Category: Asia April 5,2018 )
Huey P. Newton by Judson L. Jeffries
epub |eng | 2002-04-05 | Author:Judson L. Jeffries

THE “BAD NIGGER” PERSONIFIED Huey Newton is the baddest mutherfucker ever to step foot inside of history. —Eldridge Cleaver All the “bad niggers” are either dead or in jail. —Unknown ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 5,2018 )
Accident of Fate: A Personal Account, 1938–1945 (Life Writing) by Rochlitz Imre & Rochlitz Joseph
epub |eng | 2011-07-07 | Author:Rochlitz, Imre & Rochlitz, Joseph [Rochlitz, Imre]

( Category: World April 5,2018 )
Diversifying Diplomacy by Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas & Jim Robison
epub |eng | 2017-09-29 | Author:Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas & Jim Robison [Elam-Thomas, Harriet Lee]

6 The Desk Officer Who Was Never in Her Office It struck me that these black women were a unique group. The modern women’s movement hadn’t taken place yet, and ...
( Category: Ethnic & National April 5,2018 )
Precious Objects by Alicia Oltuski
epub |eng | | Author:Alicia Oltuski

Chapter 12 Blood in the Land of Diamonds The word “diamond” comes from the Greek word adamas, which, before it came to mean diamond itself, used to indicate, in broad ...
( Category: World April 5,2018 )
A Shadow on the Household by Bryan Prince
epub |eng | 2010-01-05 | Author:Bryan Prince [Prince, Bryan]

Cornelia Williams blossomed in freedom, eventually marrying a Civil War veteran. Together they raised a large family of their own, as seen in this photograph from the late 1880s. (courtesy ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2018 )

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