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Even This I Get to Experience by Norman Lear
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Norman Lear

The program you are about to see is “All in the Family.” It seeks to throw a humorous spotlight on our frailties, prejudices and concerns. By making them a source ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers November 23,2014 )
John Marshall by Harlow Giles Unger
epub |eng | | Author:Harlow Giles Unger [Unger, Harlow Giles]

The Philosophic Cock, by political cartoonist James Akin (1773–1846), shows President Thomas Jefferson as an admiring rooster and his slave Sally Hemings as the hen. The text in fine print ...
( Category: United States November 23,2014 )
Dallas 1963 by Bill Minutaglio
epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Bill Minutaglio [MINUTAGLIO, BILL/DAVIS, STEVEN L.]

Right now parents who had wanted their children to see the famous Dr. King are pulling their kids closer. James has to be afraid that this crowning moment, this civil ...
( Category: Executive Branch November 23,2014 )
Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740 - 1832 by Stella Tillyard
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-08-06 | Author:Stella Tillyard [Tillyard, Stella]

PART THREE ‘Are you not delighted with our dear little Sally’s thinking herself with child?’ Caroline to Emily, 14 June 1768. ‘I am very glad you have bought that place ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )
Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII's Obsession by Norton Elizabeth
epub |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Norton, Elizabeth [Norton, Elizabeth]

The Act expressly stated that matrimonial causes should not be tried by appeal to Rome and that they must be heard within the Church of England. This was the final ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )
Africa39 by Wole Soyinka
epub |eng | 2014-08-28 | Author:Wole Soyinka

The man in whose boat she rides to Shela Beach later that morning has long curly locks, all dyed brown. He does not remember her from before. She asks him ...
( Category: African November 23,2014 )
Isabella: The Warrior Queen by Kirstin Downey
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Kirstin Downey

Despite these differences, Isabella was not looking for a showdown. She had some important business to conduct with the pope, and for now, points of contention were set aside. As ...
( Category: Spain & Portugal November 23,2014 )
Alexandria: The Last Night of Cleopatra by Peter Stothard
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-07-29 | Author:Peter Stothard [Stothard, Peter]

Maurice did not enjoy his Nubian night. When I returned from the King’s Arms, I found the would-be seducer sitting on our two-seat settee almost exactly where I had left ...
( Category: General November 23,2014 )
A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor by Caroline Stoessinger
epub |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Caroline Stoessinger [Stoessinger, Caroline]

TEN Snapshots Alice lives amid her few remaining photographs and mementos. Her one-room flat, humble in its timeworn simplicity, is a kind of cocoon carrying her memories forward day by ...
( Category: Holocaust November 23,2014 )
And Home Was Kariakoo by M.G. Vassanji
epub |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:M.G. Vassanji [Vassanji, M.G.]

I walk up the highway, and after a short while turn right—as directed—into a road that’s rather unusual in that it has been paved with cut stones; it’s intact and ...
( Category: Africa November 23,2014 )
This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-21 | Author:Alan Johnson

If returning to unlovely North Kensington and the dreaded autumn term at Sloane was dispiriting after the glories of Denmark, I had the new football season to cheer me up. ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years by Talbot David
epub |eng | 2007-05-07 | Author:Talbot, David [Talbot, David]

5 DALLAS President Kennedy looked tired and somber as he stood at the lectern in the spacious State Department Auditorium on Halloween 1963. There were dark bags beneath his eyes ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 23,2014 )
Dialogues and Letters by Seneca
epub |eng | 2010-10-24 | Author:Seneca

ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE [Our time is so precious we must be sure to make the best use of it] 1 Most human beings, Paulinus,1 complain about the meanness ...
( Category: Rome November 23,2014 )
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Suki Kim [Kim, Suki]

THE NEXT DAY, at the staff meeting, we were told we had to reimburse PUST for gas and for the meals for our minders and driver. It was a modest ...
( Category: North November 22,2014 )
Such Good Girls by R. D. Rosen
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:R. D. Rosen

PART TWO THE GATHERING STILL HIDING In 1989, Carla Lessing, the mother of two grown children and a social worker in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, heard about a lecture on child ...
( Category: Holocaust November 22,2014 )

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