Women
epub |eng | 2019-02-14 | Author:Lara Prior-Palmer

XXII It was 1968 when Aunt Lucinda went mute for a school term. She was fifteen years old. Apparently she wouldn’t even talk to friends. Her mother, my grandmother Gaga, ...
( Category: Racing June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-08 | Author:Christina Crosby

This complicated process is what we ask all toddlers to control, using the euphemism of “accident” to name any failure. The child nonetheless knows that an accident is not neutral, ...
( Category: Medical June 9,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-08-19 | Author:Fors & Andrew Peter

( Category: Women in History June 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Susannah Charleson

There were many good days in that crazy little ’60s tract house on an old air force base. My parents had shaken off the shadows of their recent disasters, and ...
( Category: Women June 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Jennifer Pastiloff & Lidia Yuknavitch

* * * ••••••••••••• IN MY WORKSHOPS, I talk about how unbelievably hard it is to break patterns. How we can’t beat ourselves up when we struggle. We all struggle. ...
( Category: Yoga June 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-07 | Author:Flora Miller Biddle

Me in a watercolor by Madame Shoumatoff, 1938 In Aiken, fifth grade was harder than the previous year, but I liked the challenge, especially reading. Across from my bed was ...
( Category: Museum Studies & Museology June 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Nada Bakos

Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi president, was found guilty of crimes against humanity for the 1982 killing of 148 Shias in the small city of Dujail, approximately forty miles north ...
( Category: Iraq War June 5,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-03-03 | Author:Lear, Linda [Lear, Linda]

I have a big farm and a very great deal to do since the war … There are 3 horses … 14 cows, a lot of calves & young cattle, ...
( Category: Authors June 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-31 | Author:Mary Jo Ignoffo

Few nineteenth-century American women have come down in history as parodied and as fractured as Sarah Winchester. A woman of many paradoxes, the wealthy Winchester worked. She did not enjoy ...
( Category: Women May 31,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-05-15 | Author:Jessica Pan

nine Everest or Stand-up Comedy “People told me I was funny my entire life,” successful comedians always say in magazine interviews. “Friends kept telling me, ‘You should be a comedian!’” ...
( Category: Women May 29,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-10-05 | Author:Taylor, Larissa Juliet [Taylor, Larissa Juliet]

Map 10 Joan's route to captivity and execution, March–May 1430. The bishop of Beauvais, Pierre Cauchon, an important diplomat and former rector of the University of Paris, wrote offering money. ...
( Category: Women in History May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-11-05 | Author:Guy, John & Fletcher && Company [Guy, John]

A more stinging or vehement rebuke of one reigning queen by another could scarcely have been imagined. Mary reeled from this latest blow, offended not least by the remark that ...
( Category: Women in History May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-14 | Author:Norton, Elizabeth [Norton, Elizabeth]

Thomas Seymour’s emotional state was not helped by the tense wait for news of his wife’s labor. It was the same for Elizabeth, whose health continued to be poor at ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-07-02 | Author:Lal, Ruby [Lal, Ruby]

Jahangir’s father had built a sturdy stone palace-fort in Srinagar on a hill called the Hari Parbat, overlooking the lovely Dal Lake, approximately four miles long and three miles wide, ...
( Category: Women in History May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-31 | Author:Duncombe, Laura Sook [Duncombe, Laura Sook]

As the Golden Age was winding down, two fierce pirate women—one famous, one less so—were making names for themselves. Their exploits ensured that the Golden Age went out with a ...
( Category: Women in History May 27,2019 )