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Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr
mobi |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Lynn Sherr

7 * * * EXPLOSIONS SPRING/SUMMER 1985–SUMMER 1986 Tam, Atlanta, 1985. Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life. —Gabriel García Márquez TAM “I ...
( Category: Women February 24,2017 )
The Women Who Made Television Funny by David C. Tucker
epub |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:David C. Tucker

Cast of Topper: Anne Jeffreys and Robert Sterling (standing) with Leo G. Carroll and Lee Patrick (Cosmo and Henrietta). In search of new stories, Topper’s rejuvenated writing staff would eventually ...
( Category: Television February 24,2017 )
In the Country We Love by Diane Guerrero
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Diane Guerrero

My twenty-second birthday in Boston. CHAPTER 12 The Edge In the broken places, the light shines through. —LEONARD COHEN, singer Forecasters had predicted snow, and on the evening of December ...
( Category: Immigration February 24,2017 )
Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Shirin Ebadi

My two daughters were growing old enough that they came home from school each day with a barrage of questions. Thud. They would toss their backpacks in the hallway. Thud ...
( Category: Human Rights February 24,2017 )
A History of Britain in 21 Women by Jenni Murray
epub |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:Jenni Murray

Ada is remembered in the twenty-first century and held up frequently as a model for other young women who are interested in science. A computer program created for the United ...
( Category: Women February 24,2017 )
I'll Take You There: A Novel by Wally Lamb
epub |eng | 2016-11-22 | Author:Wally Lamb [Wally Lamb]

NINE The camera follows me into the house. There’s our old sofa and the cabinet-model TV we used to have—the one that exploded and scorched the wall behind it. Speaking ...
( Category: Family Life February 24,2017 )
King Peggy by Peggielene Bartels
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-20 | Author:Peggielene Bartels [Bartels, Peggielene]

14 The day had started off badly, with Tsiami making such a fool of himself and the late king’s daughters’ mean-spirited request, but it rapidly got worse. When the sun ...
( Category: Women February 24,2017 )
The Road From Morocco by Wafa Faith Hallam
epub |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:Wafa Faith Hallam [Hallam, Wafa Faith]

Naming our newborn was easy. Robbie and I had already settled on Sophia months before. It meant ‘wisdom’ and sounded beautiful in every language, and both of us deemed ‘philosophy,’ ...
( Category: Women February 24,2017 )
When Nobody Was Watching by Carli Lloyd
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Carli Lloyd [Lloyd, Carli]

It’s the holiday season, and a Christmas cookie party sounds great to me. Aunt Patti has invited me down to her home in Wildwood Crest, near the southern tip of ...
( Category: Women February 24,2017 )
Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror by Darwish Nonie
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-11-06 | Author:Darwish, Nonie [Darwish, Nonie]

Child rearing: American parents’ traditional upbringing standards are also very different. First of all, they instill in their children—boys and girls equally—the American values of respect, thrift, hard work, and ...
( Category: Middle Eastern February 23,2017 )
The Mistress of Paris by Catherine Hewitt
epub |eng | | Author:Catherine Hewitt

Édouard Manet, Mademoiselle Lucie* Delabigne, called Valtesse de la Bigne, 1879, pastel on canvas, 55.2 × 35.6cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H.O. Havemeyer Collection, bequest of Mrs ...
( Category: France February 12,2017 )
Mafia Son: The Scarpa Mob Family, the FBI, and a Story of Betrayal by Sandra Harmon
epub |eng | 2009-04-27 | Author:Sandra Harmon [Harmon, Sandra]

19 Where Have You Gone, Joe Brewster? * * * Greg Scarpa Sr. and Joe Brewster were the very best of friends—as close as two made men could be. Scarpa ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals February 12,2017 )
The Leper Spy by Ben Montgomery
epub |eng | 2017-02-07 | Author:Ben Montgomery

Gen. Douglas MacArthur during formal surrender ceremonies on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. Behind General MacArthur are Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright and Lt. Gen. A. ...
( Category: Women February 8,2017 )
Mary Astor's Purple Diary by Edward Sorel
epub |eng | | Author:Edward Sorel

Mary’s worried attorney read the tabloids and asked her whether there were going to be any more surprises at the trial. Mary swore the revelations were bogus. Woolley believed her, ...
( Category: Rich & Famous January 9,2017 )
Game Changers: The Unsung Heroines of Sports History by Schiot Molly
epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Schiot, Molly [Schiot, Molly]

LISA OLSON Though Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke won equal access for female reporters to team locker rooms in 1978, change was slow to come. Harassment and humiliation by male ...
( Category: Women in History December 8,2016 )

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