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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
epub |eng | 2016-10-14 | Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

Chapter Sixteen “Isolationism Is Impossible”: The Politics of Rescue Varian Fry arrived in Marseilles on 15 August 1940, carrying a short list of two hundred notable artists, writers, musicians, “immediately ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 11,2016 )
The Thieves of Threadneedle Street by Nicholas Booth
epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Booth

In his later writings, Austin Bidwell claims that he left London ‘serene and confident of the future’, two days before the first batch of forged bills had been sent in ...
( Category: Europe November 10,2016 )
The Art of Tough by Barbara Boxer
epub |eng | 2016-05-30 | Author:Barbara Boxer

Unfortunately, President Bush made only half-hearted efforts to find Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. The more bin Laden eluded him, the more he seemed to become frustrated and bored. So ...
( Category: Political September 27,2016 )
Forward: A Memoir by Abby Wambach
epub |eng | 2016-09-13 | Author:Abby Wambach [Wambach, Abby]

Our next training camp is in Princeton, New Jersey. The same routine, but with one key difference: Kara is back with the team, working as our sports therapist. Our relationship ...
( Category: Biographies September 24,2016 )
Love Warrior: A Memoir by Glennon Doyle Melton
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:Glennon Doyle Melton [Melton, Glennon Doyle]

9 I DO NOT REMEMBER picking my sister up at the airport the next day. I do not remember my parents’ arrival two days later. I do not remember telling ...
( Category: Marriage September 9,2016 )
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-08-11 | Author:Margot Lee Shetterly

As the clock ticked down on the NACA, only nine West Computers remained in the pool: Dorothy Vaughan, Marjorie Peddrew, Isabelle Mann, Lorraine Satchell, Arminta Cooke, Hester Lovely, Daisy Alston, ...
( Category: Women September 6,2016 )
Approval Junkie by Faith Salie
epub |eng | 2016-04-18 | Author:Faith Salie

* * * * Great-Grandmother Hattie did things like reportedly employ a wet nurse for my grandfather until he was five. He would come home from kindergarten and announce he ...
( Category: Women September 5,2016 )
Marina and Lee by Priscilla Johnson McMillan
epub |eng | 2013-08-05 | Author:Priscilla Johnson McMillan [McMillan, Priscilla Johnson]

— 22 — The Sanction For Marina, the month of February 1963 was far and away the worst in all her married life. Lee had been hitting her ever since ...
( Category: United States September 5,2016 )
Barbra Streisand by Neal Gabler
epub |eng | 2016-09-03 | Author:Neal Gabler

7 Shaygetz IT WAS about wish fulfillment—not only Barbra Streisand’s, but her fans’. That had always been the transaction between stars on the screen and the audience in their seats. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 4,2016 )
Fastpitch by Erica Westly
epub |eng | | Author:Erica Westly

CHAPTER 12 It is true that each individual has certain limits beyond which she cannot develop, but few indeed are those who ever reach or even approach these upper limits. ...
( Category: Softball August 19,2016 )
Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary by Jasmine Guy
epub |eng | 2016-05-16 | Author:Jasmine Guy

The trees outside my bay window burst with color. It's a warm autumn day. A clean fresh breeze hits my face, and I smell detergent. "I love when people do ...
( Category: Rap & Hip-Hop August 14,2016 )
The Encyclopedia of Amazons by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Jessica Amanda Salmonson

L Labé, Louise: (A.D. 1526–1566) In her youth, this daughter of a Lyons ropemaker was fond of music, hunting, and military exercise, and regularly participated in tourneys. Before she was ...
( Category: History August 14,2016 )
Setting the World on Fire by Shelley Emling
epub |eng | 2016-02-17 | Author:Shelley Emling

Eight The Move to Rome Convinced that Catherine was God’s true agent on earth, the pope behaved as putty in her hands on that visit in 1376. She spoke sternly ...
( Category: Saints August 6,2016 )
Writing the AP English Essay 2017 by Barbara L. Murphy
epub |eng | 2017-08-05 | Author:Barbara L. Murphy

Quite a list isn’t it? Actually, this is only about one-third of the descriptors we’ve seen used to discuss literary style. Don’t panic. We are not going to have you ...
( Category: Advanced Placement August 6,2016 )
In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
epub |eng | 2016-08-03 | Author:Jenny Diski

After waiting that long week for the results of my post-chemo scan, the answer to the hovering question about the effect it had on the tumour in my lung and ...
( Category: Essays August 4,2016 )

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