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M - Autobiography of Malcolm X by X Malcolm
epub, mobi | | 2010-06-21 | Author:X, Malcolm [Malcolm, X,]

M CHAPTER FOURTEEN BLACK MUSLIMS In the spring of nineteen fifty-nine-some months before Brother Johnson Hinton's case had awakened the Harlem black ghetto to us-a Negro journalist, Louis Lomax, then ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
Jackie Robinson by Arnold Rampersad
epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Arnold Rampersad [Rampersad, Arnold]

CHAPTER 11 Dodging Blows, Fighting Back 1952–1955 What do you think of the booing? Why are they booing me? —Jackie Robinson (1953) DESPITE JACK’S GLOOMY talk about retiring, there was ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
The Black Count by Tom Reiss
epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Tom Reiss [Reiss, Tom]

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: American Revolution March 26,2014 )
Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Sojourner Truth
epub |eng | | Author:Sojourner Truth

“An everlasting temple, And saints arrayed in white, There serve their great Redeemer And dwell with him in light. “The meanest child of glory Outshines the radiant sun; But who ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by The Countess of Carnarvon
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:The Countess of Carnarvon [Carnarvon, The Countess of]

12 War Heroes After six months of listening to horror stories from the Western Front and tending desperate patients, the familiarity of the winter trip to Egypt must have felt ...
( Category: Great Britain March 26,2014 )
A Curious Man by Neal Thompson
epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Neal Thompson [Thompson, Neal]

At Pyle’s air-conditioned exhibition hall, visitors walked past display cases with shrunken heads, medieval torture devices, and hundreds of other treasures and trinkets that Ripley finally released from his boxed-up ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 26,2014 )
The Way You Wear Your Hat by Zehme Bill
epub |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Zehme, Bill [Zehme, Bill]

“In a tuxedo, I’m a star,” Dean always said. “In regular clothes, I’m nobody.” From the album liner notes to The Main Event, 1974: “There is no better Sinatra than ...
( Category: Pop March 26,2014 )
Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralnick
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Peter Guralnick [GURALNICK, PETER]

Juvenile delinquency, a widespread breakdown of morality and cultural values, race mixing, riots, and irreligion all were being blamed on Elvis Presley and rock ’n’ roll by a national press ...
( Category: Country & Folk March 26,2014 )
Sinatra: The Life by Robbyn Swan & Anthony Summers
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Robbyn Swan & Anthony Summers [Swan, Robbyn & Summers, Anthony]

AFTER SIX MONTHS during which Frank and Juliet Prowse had not even spoken, he had met her at Los Angeles Airport, produced a diamond ring, and popped the question yet ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians March 26,2014 )
Bob Dylan In America by Sean Wilentz
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Sean Wilentz [Wilentz, Sean]

Although McTell could playact the folklore historian, he was, as Dylan would later be, a musical modernist with strong roots in traditional forms. Here and there McTell tipped his hat ...
( Category: Classical March 26,2014 )
The Lodger Shakespeare by Charles Nicholl
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Charles Nicholl

In his deposition at the Court of Requests Wilkins gives his age as ‘36 years or thereabouts’, but in another deposition two years later he says he is about forty. ...
( Category: Renaissance March 26,2014 )
The Best Little Boy in the World by Andrew Tobias
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author:Andrew Tobias [Tobias, Andrew]

Anyway, there I sat at Sporters, not realizing the plusses I had going for me, and staring holes through the fellow I wanted to meet. That was, more or less, ...
( Category: LGBT March 26,2014 )
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-03-04 | Author:Alexandra Fuller

The Fullers—Devuli DEVULI On a recent map entitled “Comfort-Discomfort Belts,” Devuli Ranch is shown in the area of Zimbabwe that is shaded with tight red lines. This means that it ...
( Category: Africa March 26,2014 )
Marmee and Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother by Eve LaPlante
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Eve LaPlante [LaPlante, Eve]

Chapter Thirteen The Bitter Drop in This Cup I never began the year in a stranger place than this,” Louisa scribbled on the first page of her new journal on ...
( Category: Women March 26,2014 )
Marmee and Louisa by Eve LaPlante
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Eve LaPlante [LaPlante, Eve]

Chapter Thirteen The Bitter Drop in This Cup I never began the year in a stranger place than this,” Louisa scribbled on the first page of her new journal on ...
( Category: Women March 26,2014 )

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