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My Foreign Cities: A Memoir by Scarboro Elizabeth
epub |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Scarboro, Elizabeth [Scarboro, Elizabeth]

SAM DROVE US over to Amani’s apartment, where I was urged to take the first shower. I stood under the water, trying to pretend I’d just woken from a night’s ...
( Category: Memoirs March 9,2018 )
KINGPIN by poulsen kevin
epub |eng | 2011-02-21 | Author:poulsen,kevin [poulsen,kevin]

20 The Starlight Room ine chandeliers hung over the lush velvet booths at Harry Denton’s Starlight Room, the light scattering off a two-hundred-pound mirror bal suspended over the dance floor. ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 8,2018 )
The World Is Bigger Now by Euna Lee
epub |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:Euna Lee [Lee, Euna; with Dickey, Lisa]

In the beginning, I didn’t write to Michael every day. But later, after my interrogations were over, I wrote for hours on end, filling pages with my thoughts, feelings, and ...
( Category: Memoirs March 7,2018 )
Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Sojourner Truth [Truth, Sojourner]

“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: Ethnic & National March 6,2018 )
The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson
epub |eng | 1982-12-31 | Author:Carolly Erickson [Erickson, Carolly]

Irish red to amber or auburn, any hue was possible, along with the startling, but undeniably trend-setting, shades of purple and orange and speckled yellow. Women departed less spectacularly at ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 6,2018 )
Honeymoon in Purdah by Alison Wearing
mobi |eng | 2000-04-12 | Author:Alison Wearing

The group is smiling now, children giggling and approaching me with offerings of food: nuts and fruit and candy and cakes. Turtle Man introduces his family one by one: father, ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 6,2018 )
WHORES, QUEERS AND OTHERS by Philip Barrows
mobi | | | Author:Philip Barrows

31 IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS, I TALKED WITH at least five thousand homosexuals. I suppose I should explain just what or who, I mean by that word. First of ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 6,2018 )
The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft by (ed.) Claudia L. Johnson
epub |eng | 2002-03-05 | Author:(ed.) Claudia L. Johnson

15. Wollstonecraft includes the first two sentences of this quotation in FR 4:68. 16. Paradise Lost, Book 8, lines 602–5 17. Richard Price, A Sermon delivered to a Congregation of ...
( Category: British & Irish March 5,2018 )
My Face Is Black Is True by Mary Frances Berry
epub |eng | 2005-02-15 | Author:Mary Frances Berry [Berry, Mary Frances]

Neither the certificate nor the Freedmen’s Headlight asserted that the pension bill had passed. It also specifically affirmed the importance of the mutual-aid function of the association that so attracted ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 5,2018 )
Talking with Serial Killers by Christopher Berry-Dee
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-15 | Author:Christopher Berry-Dee [Berry-Dee, Christopher]

This chapter is based on an exclusive videotaped interview with Christopher Berry-Dee and Ronald Joseph ‘Butch’ DeFeo within the Greenhaven Correctional Facility, Stormville, New York, on Friday, 23 September 1974, ...
( Category: True Crime March 5,2018 )
The Three Graces of Val-Kill by Emily Herring Wilson
epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:Emily Herring Wilson

11: THE TODHUNTER SCHOOL Even in those days, you knew [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a great woman. —Anne Ward Gilbert In 1927, five years after Marion had begun teaching English at ...
( Category: World March 5,2018 )
Murder Beyond the Grave by James Patterson
epub |eng | | Author:James Patterson

CHAPTER 6 BONNIE ROSE EARLY, fixed a three-course breakfast for Jim and the kids. “It’s French themed,” she announced. “French toast, French roast, and—just to make sure you get enough ...
( Category: True Crime March 5,2018 )
The Slippery Year by Melanie Gideon
epub |eng | 2009-02-15 | Author:Melanie Gideon [Gideon, Melanie]

I wish I could tell you what we discussed: that it was a lively conversation, that I was triumphant in inspiring my audience, that an audience that filled more than ...
( Category: Humor March 5,2018 )
The Wife's Tale by Aida Edemariam
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Aida Edemariam

* * * — Within a week word came from the bishop’s house. The emperor is at his court tomorrow. He will see you. She hardly knew how they got ...
( Category: Africa March 5,2018 )
Game, Set, Match by Susan Ware
epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Susan Ware [Ware, Susan]

THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION for Women (NOW) offers one example of how the women's movement approached the issue of women and sports in the 1970s.24 Founded in 1966, NOW did not ...
( Category: Women's Studies March 5,2018 )

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