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Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy by Martha Long
epub |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Martha Long

CHAPTER 15 ‘Come in,’ Sister Eleanor said, smiling and waving me in the door. I crept around the door, putting me head in and bringing me suitcase after me. ‘This ...
( Category: Irish February 15,2016 )
Razzle Dazzle by Michael Riedel
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Riedel

* * * I. It quickly became perverted, however. Instead of a place for creative people to develop a show, the workshop became a backers’ audition. “There are all these ...
( Category: Broadway & Musicals February 15,2016 )
The Murchison Murders by Arthur W. Upfield
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-11-08 | Author:Arthur W. Upfield [Upfield, Arthur W.]

A Bush Detective’s Conclusions Manning’s probable reasoning might be put thus: “Assuming that a man intended to copy the details of Upfield’s murder plot, and that he burned the body ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem February 15,2016 )
Passionate Sage by Joseph J. Ellis
epub |eng | 2001-02-14 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis

The thrust of John Taylor’s long-winded and much-delayed critique of Adams’s Defence was to argue that, apart from specific disagreements about the power of the presidency and the role of ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 15,2016 )
Underground in Berlin by Marie Jalowicz Simon
epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Marie Jalowicz Simon [Simon, Marie Jalowicz]

Unlike me, Eva Deutschkron had ration cards of her own. She told me how she had come by them when we were washing the dishes, and had been passing the ...
( Category: Holocaust February 15,2016 )
9781910981729 by Alexander Hammond
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:Alexander Hammond [Hammond, Alexander]

THE TRUTH GAME They’d dated twice. Not even proper dates really, more like impromptu rendezvous. Even that had been a struggle. She was just so distant. Aloof, almost, but not ...
( Category: Greece February 15,2016 )
And There I Stood with My Piccolo by Meredith Willson
epub |eng | 2013-11-30 | Author:Meredith Willson [Willson, Meredith]

20. SAN FRANCISCO HAS MORE PERSONality than any other city I’ve ever been in : big, good, kind, friendly, the Golden Gate, the food, the people, their appreciation of music ...
( Category: Musicals February 14,2016 )
The Most Wanted Man in China by Fang Lizhi
epub |eng | | Author:Fang Lizhi

12. TURN TOWARD ASTROPHYSICS My work at the brick factory came to an end less than a month after I got back from Huangshan. The authorities reassigned me to the ...
( Category: Asian February 13,2016 )
Correspondence 1943-1955 by Theodor W. Adorno & Thomas Mann
epub |eng | 2014-08-28 | Author:Theodor W. Adorno & Thomas Mann

Appendix Adorno’s Notes and Sketches for Doctor Faustus Adorno’s Sketches for the Chamber Music of Adrian Leverkühn O: TS (carbon copy); Theodor W. Adorno Archive, Frankfurt am Main. For the ...
( Category: Germany February 13,2016 )
Correspondence 1925-1935 by Theodor W. Adorno & Wieland Hoban
epub |eng | 2014-09-13 | Author:Theodor W. Adorno & Wieland Hoban

81 BERG TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO SATTENDORF, 26.8.1928 Gut Berghof Post office: Sattendorf 9 26./8.28. Lake Ossiach Carinthia My dear friend, in sending me your ‘Four Songs’, you have fulfilled – nay, ...
( Category: European February 13,2016 )
1924: The Year that Made Hitler by Peter Ross Range
epub |eng | 2016-01-25 | Author:Peter Ross Range

Stenglein’s drastic move made headlines. “Hitler Trial Session Blown Up,” declared the Vossische Zeitung on its front page; “You’ve Gone Too Far,” headlined its columnist. Foreign newspapers were taking notice. ...
( Category: Holocaust February 12,2016 )
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin by Kirsty Corrigan
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-10 | Author:Kirsty Corrigan [Corrigan, Kirsty]

Chapter Ten Prelude to Civil War August–November 44 BC Brutus Departs for Athens Plutarch narrates an anecdotal event which reportedly took place before Brutus’ departure from Italy, concerning his wife, ...
( Category: Rome February 12,2016 )
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey
epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:John Carey [John Carey]

21 Disaster With The Pyramid due to appear on 1 June 1967, Golding followed his usual plan of refusing to talk about the book, and staying out of the country ...
( Category: Authors February 8,2016 )
The Elimination by Rithy Panh
epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Rithy Panh [Panh, Rithy]

I study Louis Althusser’s For Marx and some of Étienne Balibar’s texts on Marx and historical materialism. The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt. Adorno’s The ...
( Category: Asia February 8,2016 )
The Triumph of William McKinley by Karl Rove
epub |eng | | Author:Karl Rove

CHAPTER 23 Change Course or Fail The McKinley men gloated over Bryan’s nomination. They could not believe that anyone so young, inexperienced, and extreme had won the Democratic nomination. Bryan’s ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 6,2016 )

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