Specific Groups
azw3 |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Marina Warner [Warner, Marina]

FOURTEEN Mater Dolorosa Holy Mary, pierce me through In my heart each wound renew Of my saviour crucified.1 —POPULAR PRAYER Five thousand years ago, in the dust-blown plain of Sumer ...
( Category: Specific Groups April 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Esmé Raji Codell

( Category: Specific Groups April 2,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-04 | Author:Lee Israel [Israel, Lee]

The ten or so Lillian Hellmans I created were based on an actual letter to me, which I discovered in my files late in my criminal career. I’d written to ...
( Category: Memoirs April 2,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-08 | Author:Linda Greenlaw

CHAPTER 9 The Grand Banks Bubble Light westerly wind teased up the ocean’s surface to just beyond ripples. The rising sun shone across and through, rather than down upon, the ...
( Category: Specific Groups April 2,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Rita Mae Brown

My grandparents, Reuben and Carrie Brown, on their wedding day in 1901. Jack Young, my natural mother’s father, in 1940. A local power in the Republican Party, he was “the ...
( Category: Authors April 2,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Judd, Ashley;Kristof, Nicholas D.;Vollers, Maryanne

Chapter 14 SHADES OF HOPE My grandmother of choice, Tennie “Mennie” McCarty, and me at my Harvard graduation. One cannot begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 2,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2008-09-10 | Author:Elizabeth Mccracken [Mccracken, Elizabeth]

Years before I’d given away an antique postcard that said, beneath a drawing of a pine branch: For thee I pine. For thee I balsam. (I regretted giving away that ...
( Category: Specific Groups April 2,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-11-22 | Author:Herbert Lockyer & Herbert Lockyer [Lockyer, Herbert]

K KADMIEL [Kădʹ mĭ el]—GOD IS OF OLD. 1. A Levite and head of a tribal family which returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:40; Neh. 7:43). 2. A Judahite ...
( Category: Bible Study & Reference April 2,2018 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Melissa Muller

. . . for [Alice Herz-Sommer] reproduction is actually creation; she identifies with the work and its creator. She contributes her eminent technique and great knowledge to the service of ...
( Category: Historical April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:Niromi de Soyza [de Soyza, Niromi]

Saturday, 26 September was another hot and humid day. As I neared the Nallur Temple, I detected tension in the air. A sickening feeling rose in my stomach. I hurriedly ...
( Category: Historical April 1,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Emily Carr

SLEEP When I was a child I was staying at one of Victoria’s beaches. I was down on the point watching a school of porpoises at play off Trial Island ...
( Category: Specific Groups April 1,2018 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lorinda Stewart

• Does not speak for either families • He has no money • He is an opportunist trying to take advantage of the situation • Nairobi speaks for both families ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-02-16 | Author:Nick Trujillo & Nick Trujillo [Trujillo, Nick]

GIVING US EVERYTHING The firmly ensconced cultural view of women as givers creates the injunction that women must be givers to be good women. —JULIA WOOD, Who Cares? I’ve finished ...
( Category: Ethnic & National April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Mary Sojourner

I’m sitting at my old rolltop desk on a gorgeous Mojave day. I read what I’ve written and feel nothing but nostalgia. That’s the nature of this dysfunction. The memories ...
( Category: Addiction & Recovery April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-03-01 | Author:Carol Loeb Shloss [Shloss, Carol Loeb]

Vaslav Nijinsky, age fifty-one, jumping in his asylum. (Courtesy of the Roger Pryor Dodge Nijinsky Photograph Collection, the New York Library of the Performing Arts) 11 LOCKING UP DANCERS LONDON ...
( Category: Specific Groups April 1,2018 )