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The Heir of Douglas by Lillian de la Torre
epub |eng | 2017-02-28 | Author:Lillian de la Torre

It chanced a French mountebank lost son or heiress The same year the DOUGLAS was born in great Paris; And they will maintain it, (the de’il give them joy), That ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 25,2017 )
The Middlepause by Marina Benjamin
epub |eng | 2016-12-16 | Author:Marina Benjamin

I am not generally sentimental, being of the firm opinion that sentiment blunts the intellect. But I am sentimental about my daughter: she is, as they say in the Arabic ...
( Category: Aging August 25,2017 )
A Woman to Blame by Nell McCafferty
epub |eng | | Author:Nell McCafferty

11. Tom Flynn The judge sat up on his dais, the legal men ranged themselves below him, and the women friends of Joanne Hayes were brought forward one by one ...
( Category: Legal Theory & Systems August 25,2017 )
The Secret Life of a Black Aspie by Anand Prahlad
epub |eng | | Author:Anand Prahlad

The Big Yellow House You can’t have your cake and eat it too. When I got to college, I was like a black boat floating in a white ocean, like ...
( Category: African-American Studies August 25,2017 )
Nomad by Hirsi Ali Ayaan
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-06 | Author:Hirsi Ali, Ayaan

In March 2008 the New York Times ran a piece headlined “Resolute or Fearful, Many Muslims Turn to Home Schooling.” I read, appalled, that 40 percent of Pakistani and Southeast ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 25,2017 )
A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle by Liza Campbell
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Liza Campbell [Campbell, Liza]

Chapter 10 All those moments, like tears in the rain. Philip K. Dick My parents sent their five children to four different boarding schools in four different counties; only my ...
( Category: Memoirs August 25,2017 )
Last Don Standing by Larry McShane
epub |eng | | Author:Larry McShane

18 RISE OF THE CHICKEN MAN With Caponigro’s claim to the throne dispatched in a brutal fashion, underboss Testa took over as head of the Philadelphia mob. His reign was ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 25,2017 )
Poor Your Soul by Mira Ptacin
epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Mira Ptacin

eleven I am in California and I have just ridden a gondola into the Ice Age. I bought the expensive cable car ticket because I wanted to catch a glimpse ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 25,2017 )
Will & I by Clay Byars
epub |eng | | Author:Clay Byars

15 Will uses primarily his left hand, by habit, but he’s almost completely ambidextrous. He plays tennis left-handed, but he writes and plays Ping-Pong with his right. He can switch ...
( Category: Memoirs August 25,2017 )
Tokyo Underworld by Robert Whiting
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Whiting

DEA CULTURAL WALL Like novice American businessmen in Japan trying to figure out the distinction between a gift and a bribe, US crime investigators on the trail of lawbreakers in ...
( Category: True Crime August 25,2017 )
Undercover by Joe Carter
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Joe Carter

Twenty-seven The journey back with Ray was arduous and testing to say the least, as we talked for the entire journey. I cannot recall a single awkward silence or a ...
( Category: Memoirs August 25,2017 )
Violation by Sallie Tisdale
epub |eng | 2016-05-20 | Author:Sallie Tisdale

Violation MY SISTER WRITES TO ME OFTEN THESE DAYS, THOUGH most of our communication is business. Our father died several months ago and she is his executor. Back and forth ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 25,2017 )
The Queen by A. N. Wilson
epub |eng | | Author:A. N. Wilson [Wilson, A. N.]

In times when nothing stood But worsened, or grew strange, There was one constant good: She did not change.75 Philip Larkin’s quatrain for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977 neatly ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2017 )
Estranged by Jessica Berger Gross
epub |eng | | Author:Jessica Berger Gross

* * * In our room, with the beds pushed along opposite walls and our heads still only a few feet apart, we told each other our life stories. Her ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 25,2017 )
Jumpin' Jack Flash by Keiron Pim
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Keiron Pim

* * * fn1 The reference to South Africa connects more closely still with the Richardsons, who had mining interests there. fn2 Referred to in the script as the Hayloft ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 25,2017 )

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