Home > Biographies & Memoirs > Ethnic & National
Ethnic & National
The Company Man(Red Dragon) by Becky Black
epub |eng | 2013-05-20 | Author:Becky Black [Black, Becky]

Chapter Fourteen They did sleep eventually, on a bed they’d so thoroughly trashed they had to get up and make it before they could sleep in it. Jarvez woke first ...
( Category: Ethnic & National January 7,2018 )
Persimmon Wind: A Martial Artist's Journey in Japan by Dave Lowry
mobi |eng | 2005-09-07 | Author:Dave Lowry [Lowry, Dave]

“Hachiman?” I asked. “Yes, he is a Buddhist deity. The god of war. Have you heard of him?” I nodded. Asking a bugeisha if he knows of Hachiman is like ...
( Category: Asia January 6,2018 )
Now Is Your Time! by Walter Dean Myers
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Dean Myers

15 We Look Like Men of War By mid-1862 it was obvious that the war would not be a quick victory for either side. Men were dying by the tens ...
( Category: Education & Reference January 6,2018 )
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove by Thompson Ahmir "Questlove" & Greenman Ben
epub |eng | 2013-06-18 | Author:Thompson, Ahmir "Questlove" & Greenman, Ben [Thompson, Ahmir "Questlove" & Greenman, Ben]

( Category: Arts & Literature January 6,2018 )
Thoughts Without Cigarettes by Oscar Hijuelos
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Oscar Hijuelos [Hijuelos, Oscar]

Tucked back into that period, some months after I had turned eighteen, I had ended up in yet another smoke-filled room, this one situated in the draft board offices downtown ...
( Category: Ethnic & National January 4,2018 )
Daughters of the Samurai by Janice P. Nimura
epub |eng | | Author:Janice P. Nimura

BY THE END of that first spring, Ume despaired of ever repaying the debt she owed Japan. On bad days, she expressed her unhappiness in the same bleak terms Sutematsu ...
( Category: Specific Groups January 4,2018 )
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
epub |eng | 2005-03-17 | Author:Olaudah Equiano [Equiano, Olaudah]

Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living. Job xxxiii. 29, 30. ...
( Category: Historical December 31,2017 )
Rebecca Skloot by The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks [Lacks, The Immortal Life of Henrietta]

With that paragraph, suddenly the Lacks brothers became very interested in the story of HeLa. They also became convinced that George Gey and Johns Hopkins had stolen their mother’s cells ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 30,2017 )
Basquiat by Phoebe Hoban
epub |eng | 2010-10-02 | Author:Phoebe Hoban [Hoban, Phoebe]

I figli di Andy Voglio proporvi un'analogia interessante. Avete mai letto Il cuore è un cacciatore solitario di Carson McCullers? Bene, ricorderete il sordomuto del libro, Mister Singer… questa persona ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 28,2017 )
The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Daniel Mendelsohn [Mendelsohn, Daniel]

1 THE PROMISED LAND (Summer) IT WAS MY grandfather’s fault that I had always avoided going to Israel. It wasn’t that he didn’t love Israel. He did, and he told ...
( Category: World December 27,2017 )
Mrs. M by Luke Slattery
epub |eng | 2017-09-23 | Author:Luke Slattery

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO How swiftly memories fade when distance conspires with time to dull them. Forms dissolve into chimeras, voices hush, colours fade. Already the Hyde Park Barrack seems half forgotten. ...
( Category: Ethnic & National December 27,2017 )
Teacher Man: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-11-15 | Author:Frank McCourt [McCourt, Frank]

Nancy Chu asks if she can talk to me after the last class of the day. She sits at her desk and waits for the room to empty. She reminds ...
( Category: Memoirs December 22,2017 )
Something Beautiful Happened by Yvette Manessis Corporon
epub |eng | | Author:Yvette Manessis Corporon

PART FOUR chapter seventeen THE ONES WHO STOOD UP It was love at first phone call. “Do you speak Greek?” Marcia asked. “Yes, of course,” I replied. “I married a ...
( Category: Historical December 21,2017 )
For All of Us, One Today by Richard Blanco
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Richard Blanco

. . . equations to solve, history to question, or atoms imagined . . . Many other artistic revelations and decisions happened while sitting with America at my kitchen table ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 21,2017 )
Shanghai Faithful by Jennifer Lin
epub |eng | 2017-12-21 | Author:Jennifer Lin [Lin, Jennifer]

In 1948, months before two of the Lin sons departed for the United States, the family posed for a final portrait. Ni Guizhen tucked a copy of the photo inside ...
( Category: Ethnic & National December 21,2017 )

First Prev [94] [95] [96] [97] 98 [99] [100] [101] [102] [103] [104] Next Last