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Come Together: Lennon and McCartney in the Seventies by Richard White
epub |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:Richard White

PICTURE SECTION FRANK APTHORP/DAILY MAIL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK John and Paul share the microphone during a 1963 session at the BBC. Between 1962 and 1965 The Beatles performed for 52 BBC radio shows. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 4,2016 )
My Broken Pieces by Rosie Rivera
epub |eng | 2015-12-21 | Author:Rosie Rivera

I lift up my hands, Even when I don’t have strength I lift my hands Even with a sea of problems When I lift my hands . . . I ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians December 2,2016 )
The Mestizo Augustine by Justo L. González
epub |eng | 2016-10-03 | Author:Justo L. González [González, Justo L.]

5 The Shepherd and the Donatists The Background By the last decades of the third century, the northern shores of Africa were one of the regions in which Christianity grew ...
( Category: Historical December 1,2016 )
One of These Things First by Steven Gaines
epub |ara, eng | 2016-05-26 | Author:Steven Gaines

Five Mr. Halliday The third floor of Payne Whitney reminded me of the Beauregard, the small residential hotel in Bournemouth, England, in the movie Separate Tables. The hotel is a ...
( Category: United States December 1,2016 )
Bipolar Faith by Monica A. Coleman
epub |eng | | Author:Monica A. Coleman [Monica A. Coleman]

12 Silence Nashville, Tennessee: Five Months after the Rape In all my research and steps to healing, I was not prepared for what happened to my faith. I was a ...
( Category: Education December 1,2016 )
Six Memos from the Last Millennium by Joseph Skibell
epub |eng | 2016-11-30 | Author:Joseph Skibell [Skibell, Joseph]

Chapter 4 The Gate of a Broken Heart THESE THINGS ARE DIFFICULT TO MEASURE, BUT I imagine I’ve spoken enough about rock ’n’ roll in a book about the tales ...
( Category: Jewish December 1,2016 )
Prisoners of Hope by Randall B. Woods
epub |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Randall B. Woods

IN THE LATE FALL OF 1965, THE “FABULOUS EIGHTY-NINTH,” AS THE press labeled the sitting session of Congress, adjourned. Its record of achievement was unparalleled: Medicare; Medicaid; voting rights; federal ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 1,2016 )
All the Gallant Men by Donald Stratton
epub |eng | 2016-11-04 | Author:Donald Stratton

WE TRIED TO follow the war, especially the battles in the Pacific. We got bits and pieces from the nurses and from Frosty. There was a radio in the ward, ...
( Category: World War II November 24,2016 )
Inventing Al Gore by Bill Turque
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Turque

15 Gore in the Balance AFTER pledging to make his life less career-centered and more family-friendly, Gore embarked on one of the more career-centered, family-unfriendly pursuits imaginable—writing a book. He ...
( Category: Political November 22,2016 )
Songs of a War Boy by Deng Thiak Adut & Ben Mckelvey
epub |eng | 2016-10-24 | Author:Deng Thiak Adut & Ben Mckelvey [Thiak Adut, Deng]

Chapter Eight SOME TO JUSTICE, SOME TO FATE After the peace was signed into law, many of the Sudanese who had run to Australia planned their return. The peace agreement ...
( Category: Essays November 21,2016 )
Our Revolution by Bernie Sanders
epub |eng | | Author:Bernie Sanders

MAKING IT EASIER FOR WORKERS TO JOIN UNIONS To rebuild the middle class, we must make it easier, not harder, for workers to join unions. The benefits of joining a ...
( Category: History & Theory November 17,2016 )
Better Than New by Nicole Curtis
epub |eng | 2016-09-20 | Author:Nicole Curtis

Adam and me, working late into the night. There was also a deceptively large amount of work that needed to be done. Reporters who interviewed me and profiled Case would ...
( Category: Interior Decorating November 13,2016 )
A Radical Faith by Eileen Markey
epub |eng | 2016-09-19 | Author:Eileen Markey

CHAPTER 8 Mission to the United States Maura woke in her dusty room on October 22, 1976, the cries of the neighborhood roosters and the rattletrap buses already noisy on ...
( Category: Nicaragua November 13,2016 )
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
epub |eng | 2016-10-14 | Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

Chapter Sixteen “Isolationism Is Impossible”: The Politics of Rescue Varian Fry arrived in Marseilles on 15 August 1940, carrying a short list of two hundred notable artists, writers, musicians, “immediately ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 11,2016 )
The Terror Years by Lawrence Wright
epub |eng | 2016-08-22 | Author:Lawrence Wright

POSTSCRIPT Many of the people I interviewed in this piece are now in exile, along with millions of other Syrians. Ossama Mohammed is in Paris. Orwa Nyrabia was arrested and ...
( Category: Middle Eastern November 9,2016 )

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