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Before I Had the Words by Skylar Kergil
epub |eng | 2017-02-22 | Author:Skylar Kergil

7 Puberty blockers are used, often pre-puberty, to block hormones that come with puberty. If I had been pre-puberty, around 11–12 years old, my doctor might have put me on ...
( Category: LGBT February 23,2020 )
Slave Hunter by Aaron Cohen & Christine Buckley
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Aaron Cohen & Christine Buckley

Here’s how the math worked when I was in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. I’d go into a high-end club where drinks could be anywhere from ten to fifteen dollars ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism February 20,2020 )
A Dedicated Life by David Lawrence Jr
epub |eng | 2018-07-18 | Author:David Lawrence, Jr. [Lawrence, David Jr.]

David and Nancy Lawrence in New York City before the years on the farm. David Lawrence Jr. at 8 months. David and Nancy Lawrence—parents of nine—on the chicken farm in ...
( Category: Educators February 20,2020 )
Citizen Reporters by Stephanie Gorton
epub |eng | 2019-12-27 | Author:Stephanie Gorton

13 You Have the Moon Yet, Ain’t It? Lincoln Steffens, looking out his train window as Manhattan’s sprawl fizzled into pastureland, mulled over his latest order from McClure. He was ...
( Category: United States February 20,2020 )
Letters to the Earth by Emma Thompson
epub |eng | 2019-09-21 | Author:Emma Thompson

Dr Martin Shaw The Hospital We are building a hospital, a place of refuge, a sanctum We have been skilling ourselves for all that this time demands of us We ...
( Category: Conservation February 20,2020 )
The Book of Gutsy Women by Hillary Rodham Clinton
epub |eng | 2019-10-02 | Author:Hillary Rodham Clinton [Clinton, Hillary Rodham & Clinton, Chelsea]

Tatyana McFadden Chelsea Tatyana McFadden spent the first six years of her life in an orphanage in St. Petersburg, Russia. Born with spina bifida, she was paralyzed from the waist ...
( Category: Women February 20,2020 )
Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs by David Cruise & Alison Griffiths
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:David Cruise & Alison Griffiths

-TEN - Out of Cold Storage VELMA’S SPIRITS LIFTED dramatically in the months that Marguerite Henry rummaged around in the Bronn family history and Velma’s early memories. Henry’s probing functioned ...
( Category: Horses February 19,2020 )
Abigail Scott Duniway and Susan B. Anthony in Oregon by Jennifer Chambers
epub |eng | 2018-02-18 | Author:Jennifer Chambers

Cell at Occoquan Workhouse, Virginia, 1917. These are similar to the conditions women endured when arrested for attempting to vote. Records of the National Woman’s Party, Library of Congress. However, ...
( Category: Women in History February 19,2020 )
The Long Blink by Brian Kuebler
epub |eng | 2019-09-24 | Author:Brian Kuebler

~~~ The next day, Ed was told Doug Bouch was indicted by a grand jury. It would be the only detail prosecutors would share with the widower until later that ...
( Category: Special Needs February 18,2020 )
There But for Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs by Michael Schumacher
epub |eng | 2018-04-03 | Author:Michael Schumacher [Schumacher, Michael]

On August 28, Hubert Humphrey was officially nominated as the Democratic Party’s candidate for the fall presidential election. The delegate vote, however, was only a weak epilogue to one of ...
( Category: Country & Folk January 19,2020 )
Living Ethnomusicology: Paths and Practices by Margaret Sarkissian & Ted Solis
epub |eng | 2019-06-16 | Author:Margaret Sarkissian & Ted Solis [Sarkissian, Margaret & Solis, Ted]

Judith (Judy) McCulloh (March 24, 2009) PhD, Indiana University (Folklore) Editor Emerita, University of Illinois Press Graduate Studies JMcC: After I got my bachelor's in English I went down the ...
( Category: Ethnic & International January 19,2020 )
We the People by Sachs Albie
epub |eng | 2016-01-13 | Author:Sachs, Albie

Equality Jurisprudence: The origin of doctrine in the South African Constitutional Court 10TH MCDONALD LECTURE | CENTRE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA | CANADA | 1998 Mr Hugo [President ...
( Category: African January 14,2020 )
Writing the Big Book: The Creation of A.A. by William H. Schaberg
epub |eng | 2019-09-24 | Author:William H. Schaberg [Schaberg, William H.]

* This low opinion of women in A.A. was, unfortunately, not confined to the 1940s nor were the wives of members the only ones who professed it. Female A.A. members ...
( Category: United States January 8,2020 )
An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me About Love, Courage, and Survival by Françoise Malby-Anthony
epub |eng | | Author:Françoise Malby-Anthony

* * * I named the calf Tom in honour of my gentle chef, whose presence of mind in investigating a strange noise had saved the little one’s life. We ...
( Category: Wildlife December 17,2019 )
Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
epub |eng | 2004-02-02 | Author:Richard Rodriguez

III Now. I go to mass every Sunday. Old habits persist. But it is an English mass I attend, a ritual of words. A ritual that seeks to feed my ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies December 17,2019 )

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