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Red China Blues (reissue): My Long March from Mao to Now by Jan Wong
epub |eng | 2011-02-03 | Author:Jan Wong [Wong, Jan]

Part III PARADISE LOST 12 Dancing With Dissidents Interviewing a dissident, Gao Xin, in the Altar to the Sun park in Beijing. Imprisoned following the Tiananmen Massacre, he was never ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 26,2017 )
My Glory Was I Had Such Friends by Amy Silverstein
epub |eng | 2017-06-27 | Author:Amy Silverstein

The first hint of sun grazes the windowsill, and I wake to the clickity-squeak of metal wheels approaching my door. Lauren jumps from her cot and bolts to the entryway ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 26,2017 )
Perdita by Paula Byrne
epub |eng | 2004-08-26 | Author:Paula Byrne [Paula Byrne]

She paid a heavy price for her personal and political commitment to Fox. Throughout the campaign she was pilloried mercilessly in caricatures, pamphlets, squibs, and newspaper paragraphs. A caricature called ...
( Category: Historical August 26,2017 )
Hermione by Hilda Doolittle
mobi, epub |eng | 1980-12-31 | Author:Hilda Doolittle

ten It seemed now Lillian and George had gone home, standing before the little image, that she had always known what she had known now always. I have always known ...
( Category: Authors August 26,2017 )
Julie & Julia by Julia Powell
epub |eng | 2010-07-22 | Author:Julia Powell [Powell, Julia]

And so on the eve of the New Year, I made Veau Prince Orloff for eleven cousins and aunts and uncles, who I’m sure believed their crazy Yankee-fied niece had ...
( Category: Memoirs August 26,2017 )
Fifty Acres and a Poodle by Jeanne Marie Laskas
epub |eng | 2000-08-25 | Author:Jeanne Marie Laskas [Laskas, Jeanne Marie]

ALEX GETS HOME A LITTLE AFTER SEVEN. HE ALWAYS looks so rushed when he comes in the door, as if his drive here were some desperate escape. “Ugh,” he says. ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 25,2017 )
In the Shadow of the White House by Jo Haldeman
epub |eng | 2017-04-05 | Author:Jo Haldeman

We’ll be Eaten Alive I spend a restless night and awaken early Tuesday morning, April 24, to find Bob already on the phone in his office. Before leaving for the ...
( Category: Americas August 25,2017 )
The Exact Same Moon by Jeanne Marie Laskas
epub |eng | 2012-08-30 | Author:Jeanne Marie Laskas [Laskas, Jeanne Marie]

Okay now. And please forgive me. But here’s the thing about the meeting about adopting from China. The thing I probably should have mentioned. The meeting is scheduled for September ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 25,2017 )
The Man Who Was Jekyll and Hyde by Rick Wilson
epub |eng | 2015-02-14 | Author:Rick Wilson

It was, indeed, a sensational lapse, or slip of the tongue. Realising that he had blundered like a mouse into a clever legal eagle’s claws, Brodie tried desperately to struggle ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 25,2017 )
The Big Heist by Anthony M. DeStefano
epub |eng | 2017-05-02 | Author:Anthony M. DeStefano [DeStefano, Anthony M.]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE SHAKEDOWN GUY THE EASIEST WAY TO BECOME A CRIME VICTIM in the Borough of Queens in the 1990s was to own a car. Auto theft was simply ...
( Category: True Crime August 25,2017 )
Forgiveness by Chiquis Rivera
epub |eng | | Author:Chiquis Rivera

15. GRABBING RUMORS BY THE HORNS Sometimes I wonder whether it’s the rumors that burn and fuel the jealousy, or whether it’s the other way around—if it’s jealousy that stirs ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 25,2017 )
Forget You Had a Daughter - Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton by Sandra Gregory
epub |eng | 2013-08-04 | Author:Sandra Gregory [Gregory, Sandra]

Working in the laundry, scrubbing the clothes of the officers and their families had left my feet in a terrible condition.The officers brought their washing every morning and we had ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 25,2017 )
Leap In by Alexandra Heminsley
epub |eng | 2017-01-12 | Author:Alexandra Heminsley

As I read those lines, they crystallised what was both so liberating and so terrifying about open-water swimming: when you’re in the water, it’s all down to you. You are ...
( Category: Water Sports August 25,2017 )
The Insulin Express by Oren Liebermann
epub |eng | 2017-04-17 | Author:Oren Liebermann

Cassie and I stand before the famous Treasury in Petra, Jordan. I had just started feeling the symptoms of diabetes, but I wouldn’t know what they meant for nearly two ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 25,2017 )
Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley
epub |eng | 2017-05-18 | Author:Lucy Worsley [Lucy Worsley]

21 Green Park Buildings East ‘Surely you may suppose that I have suffered now.’ Sense and Sensibility IN PERSUASION, THE heroine Anne Elliot’s arthritic friend Mrs Smith has fallen on ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 25,2017 )

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