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Ride the Wind, Choose the Fire by Veronica Schwarz
epub |eng | 2019-05-27 | Author:Veronica Schwarz [Schwarz, Veronica]

Section 6: TOURS, JARGEAU, PATAY 24 Hastening Very Slowly “Meet me in Tours,” Joan had said. I checked the map to find Tours. It’s in the opposite direction from Reims, ...
( Category: Biographical April 5,2020 )
The First Lady of Hollywood by Samantha Barbas
epub |eng | 2010-02-08 | Author:Samantha Barbas [Barbas, Samantha]

By the time of Harriet's wedding, Hopper had gone from being a minor annoyance to being a serious threat. Though her column still appeared only in the Esquire syndicate, in ...
( Category: Journalists April 5,2020 )
Patricia Neal- an Unquiet Life by Stephen Michael Shearer
epub |eng | 2006-05-19 | Author:Stephen Michael Shearer [Shearer, Stephen Michael]

20 Stardom Twelve years ago, Pat Neal left Hollywood with both her professional and personal life a shambles. Today, she’s married to a brilliant writer, her career is at its ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers April 5,2020 )
I Am Not Your Slave by Tupa Tjipombo & Chris Lockhart
epub |eng | 2019-10-11 | Author:Tupa Tjipombo & Chris Lockhart

* * * I was riding in a donkey cart through the Namibian veld. The rush of air on my face was warm but pleasant, and when I tilted my ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism April 5,2020 )
One Foot in Laos by Dervla Murphy
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Murphy, Dervla]

By noon next day I was back in Xam Nua, seeking a bicycle mechanic to overhaul Hare’s increasingly unreliable brakes. The young man who spent half an hour on the ...
( Category: Women in History April 5,2020 )
Stolen Girls by Wolfgang Bauer
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Wolfgang Bauer [Bauer, Wolfgang]

naira ( about 180 euros ) dowry. That is a good price for us in Gubla. He also wanted to add five boxes of clothes, cosmetics, underwear, and earrings. Iddi’s ...
( Category: African April 4,2020 )
Aphrodite's Daughters by Honey Maureen;
epub |eng | 2016-06-02 | Author:Honey, Maureen; [Honey, Maureen]

FIGURE 13. Gwendolyn Bennett at a Harlem Community Arts Center benefit at the Savoy Ballroom on May 24, 1939. Bennett is third from right. Photo © Morgan and Marvin Smith. ...
( Category: United States April 3,2020 )
Fool in Love by Steven Ivory
epub |eng | | Author:Steven Ivory

MAMA HAD A KUNG FU GRIP I N THE SUPERMARKET, a mother was having a dispute with her son, who looked to be about nine years old. “I said that’s ...
( Category: Journalists April 2,2020 )
Linotte: The Early Diary of Anais Nin (1914-1920) by Anais Nin
epub |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:Anais Nin

( Category: Women April 1,2020 )
The Lost Life of Eva Braun by Angela Lambert
epub |eng | 2018-12-19 | Author:Angela Lambert

( Category: Women in History March 31,2020 )
Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's by Tiffany Midge
epub |eng | | Author:Tiffany Midge [Midge, Tiffany]

Why I Don’t Like “Pussy” Hats I don’t like “pussy” hats for the same reason I don’t like the “s word,” as in “S Valley” or “S Bay,” “S Creek,” ...
( Category: United States March 31,2020 )
The Pawnbroker's Daughter by Maxine Kumin
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Maxine Kumin

. . . and capital cases are heard with no capital defense attorneys allowed (from “Red Tape and Kangaroo Courts I”) . . . We went in punching kicking yelling ...
( Category: Authors March 31,2020 )
Elijahs Cup by Valerie Paradiz
epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Valerie Paradiz

Over the course of several months, as Elijah's stays at Brook-side Cottage become more frequent and regular, we go into Houst's and add new layers of experience to his social ...
( Category: Pathologies March 31,2020 )
Tawaifnama by Saba Dewan
epub |eng | 2019-07-26 | Author:Saba Dewan [Dewan, Saba]

In the age of Gandhian non-cooperation, tawaifs were increasingly finding themselves at the receiving end of their urban patrons’ growing moral rectitude. As values of thrift, sobriety and abstinence became ...
( Category: Women in History March 30,2020 )
Dorothy Day by John Loughery & Blythe Randolph
epub |eng | 2020-03-03 | Author:John Loughery & Blythe Randolph

* * * As the war drew into its final year, Dorothy did her best to reawaken her old energy and balance. She could travel now freed of guilt about ...
( Category: Social Activists March 30,2020 )

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