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Triangular Road: A Memoir by Paule Marshall
epub |eng | 2010-01-26 | Author:Paule Marshall [Marshall, Paule]

“Every Bajan buying and we still leasing! Shame! I feel so shame I don’ even like going ’round my friends or family anymore, especially that brother of mine, what with ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 20,2017 )
Burke and Wills: The triumph and tragedy of Australia's most famous explorers by Peter Fitzsimons
epub |eng | 2017-10-30 | Author:Peter Fitzsimons [Fitzsimons, Peter]

As exhausted as he is, Wills’s thoughts turn guiltily to poor Gray. How many times had they looked askance at his shambling gait, his constant insistence on resting, his slowness ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania December 18,2017 )
Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond by Langston Hughes
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-01-31 | Author:Langston Hughes [Hughes, Langston]

( Category: Americas December 15,2017 )
I Wonder as I Wander by Langston Hughes
epub |eng | 2015-08-19 | Author:Langston Hughes

MOSCOW ROMANCE AT one of the Meyerhold’s rehearsals I met an actress, a sort of apprentice actress, playing bouncing country peasants, awkward maids, and other small bit parts verging toward ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 15,2017 )
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
epub |eng | 2015-02-10 | Author:Langston Hughes [Hughes, Langston]

TO BLANCHE KNOPF [TLS] [On Hollow Hills Farm (Carmel Valley), Jamesburg Route, Monterey, California stationery] September 4, 1939 Mrs. Alfred A. Knopf, 501 Madison Avenue, New York, New York. Dear ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 15,2017 )
Remember Me to Harlem by Emily Bernard
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Emily Bernard

February 10, 1941 *une fontaine! LANGSTON HUGHES TO CARL VAN VECHTEN, APRIL 5, 1941 Dear Carlo, Enclosed is my article about James Weldon.10 I do hope that even at this ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence December 15,2017 )
The Big Sea by Langston Hughes
epub |eng | 2017-12-14 | Author:Langston Hughes

PARIS IN THE SPRING In April I moved to 15, rue Nollet near the Place Clichy in a room with slanting roofs up under the eaves, overlooking the chimney pots ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 15,2017 )
A Day to Die For: 1996: Everest's Worst Disaster - One Survivor's Personal Journey to Uncover the Truth by Graham Ratcliffe
epub |eng | 2012-09-02 | Author:Graham Ratcliffe [Ratcliffe, Graham]

An Escape into History No sooner had I arrived home than I was out on location filming a BBC documentary called Mountain High: Twice To the Summit of Everest. Keith ...
( Category: Mountaineering December 15,2017 )
Affection by Krissy Kneen
epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Krissy Kneen

BECOMING CATHERINE DENEUVE Brisbane 2008 Every day I come back to my computer. I trawl through my sex life, one post at a time. I begin to find the patterns, ...
( Category: Sexual Health December 15,2017 )
Asylum by Moriz Scheyer & P. N. Singer
epub |eng | 2016-09-27 | Author:Moriz Scheyer & P. N. Singer

25 Blessed are the poor in spirit OUR SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT HERE consists of two elements. On the one hand, the inmates of the hospital–the enfants, about eighty in number. ‘Enfants’, ...
( Category: World December 14,2017 )
Well Done, Those Men by Barry Heard
epub |eng | 2010-06-02 | Author:Barry Heard

OPERATION BALLARAT KARDS, NOW OUT of hospital and well rested, was back with us, having recently returned to base camp carrying a slight limp but with his drinking prowess intact. ...
( Category: Military December 14,2017 )
Missing Christopher by Jayne Newling
epub |eng | 2014-05-23 | Author:Jayne Newling

My friend Deby, whose son Laurie was born on the same day and at the same hospital as Christopher, told me about her experience. Our sons had grown up together ...
( Category: Mental Health December 14,2017 )
Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil by Lezley McSpadden
epub |eng | | Author:Lezley McSpadden

CHAPTER SIXTEEN GROWING PAINS Late one night, I was flipping through channels and found myself watching the movie Boyz n the Hood again. It got to me. I thought about ...
( Category: Social Sciences December 14,2017 )
Not Just Black and White by Lesley Williams
epub |eng | 2015-07-20 | Author:Lesley Williams

Blackfullas have a habit of turning up on your doorstep unannounced, looking for a place to stay. There is some comfort knowing you can travel almost anywhere in Queensland and, ...
( Category: World December 14,2017 )
Everest the Cruel Way by Joe Tasker
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Joe Tasker

Brian had some criticisms about the route up to the West Shoulder. He felt that there had been a tendency by the twins and John to take the most obvious ...
( Category: Mountaineering December 13,2017 )

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