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These Are Strange Times, My Dear by Wendy Willis
azw3 |eng | 2019-02-05 | Author:Wendy Willis [Willis, Wendy]

Then she slew man and beast in the furrow With an instant epidemic, throughout the island. She broke up the ploughs with her bare hands, Forbade the fields to bear ...
( Category: Essays May 12,2019 )
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories From Red States by Samantha Allen
epub |eng | 2019-03-01 | Author:Samantha Allen

A mere four years later, I discover that many of my reference points in Bloomington are gone. Under the Saturday sun, Corey, Billy, and I walk through the lush green ...
( Category: LGBT May 11,2019 )
So Here's the Thing . . .: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut by Alyssa Mastromonaco
epub |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:Alyssa Mastromonaco

I think I’ve established how dysfunctional the Kerry campaign was, here and elsewhere. Well, it’s possible I was a gossip angel during that time period because I knew how it ...
( Category: Political May 11,2019 )
Let Love Have the Last Word by Common
epub |eng | | Author:Common

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. —Victor Hugo * * * Summer, overcast with ...
( Category: Rich & Famous May 11,2019 )
What You Have Heard Is True by Carolyn Forché
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Carolyn Forché

* * * — “You wanted to know where I live. This is one place.” We had pulled in front of a wall. He turned the engine off and checked ...
( Category: Social Activists May 6,2019 )
I Am Yours by Reema Zaman
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-11-24 | Author:Reema Zaman

AN IDEAL FALL DAY, the sky arrogantly spectacular, the leaves a bonfire of color daring us not to swoon. We are driving into the City for his godson’s birthday party. ...
( Category: Social Activists April 30,2019 )
The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library & Edmund White & New York Public Library & Edmund White
epub |eng | 2019-04-28 | Author:New York Public Library & Edmund White & New York Public Library & Edmund White

* * * • • • • • MARCUS: What were you trying to do? What were your hopes? RIVERA: Marsha and I fought for the liberation of our people. ...
( Category: LGBT April 30,2019 )
Life Will Be the Death of Me by Chelsea Handler
epub |eng | 2019-04-09 | Author:Chelsea Handler

* * * • • • I was thirty-one years old and in London for my very first book tour, when my cellphone rang in the middle of the night. ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union April 29,2019 )
Solitary by Albert Woodfox
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2019-01-30 | Author:Albert Woodfox

Chapter 36 Amite City At the Amite City jail I was processed and put in a new cell for 23 hours a day. First, one with a concrete bunk and ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism April 29,2019 )
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
epub |eng | 2019-04-24 | Author:Melinda Gates

I Wanted It All these marks of temperament and background suited Bill for an equal partnership. Even so, I think we wouldn’t have moved very far in that direction if ...
( Category: Women April 24,2019 )
The Torture Machine by Flint Taylor
epub |eng | 2019-03-06 | Author:Flint Taylor

Armstrong’s profile also captured how the news swept down Pontiac Penitentiary’s death row, from Aaron Patterson to Ronald Kitchen to numerous other clients and friends: Louva Bell, Kitchen’s mother, would ...
( Category: Local April 20,2019 )
Native Country of the Heart by Cherríe Moraga
epub |eng | | Author:Cherríe Moraga

LIKE THE HERON We knew we had been functioning in the spirit of “last times” for a few years. Although the pretext was a family birthday, my mother’s last trip ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies April 3,2019 )
Florencia - An Accidental Story by Douglas Bowman & John Mullen
epub |eng | 2017-08-16 | Author:Douglas Bowman & John Mullen [Bowman, Douglas]

Chapter 13 _________ Seize The Day Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you waitto begin, the less likely you are to find it at ...
( Category: Social Activists March 29,2019 )
Happily Imperfect by Stacey Solomon
epub |eng | 2019-02-04 | Author:Stacey Solomon

STAY POSITIVE Doing things your own way is a sure-fire means to becoming happily imperfect. Be bold. Take your dreams seriously. Uncover the amazing person you are, and find your ...
( Category: Women March 23,2019 )
Sissy by Jacob Tobia
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:Jacob Tobia

ACT I: Jacob attempts to be feminine ACT II: Jacob is chastised for being feminine ACT III: Jacob gives up on being feminine For the first time in my life, ...
( Category: Social Activists March 16,2019 )

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