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The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel by Margaret A. Oppenheimer
epub |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Margaret A. Oppenheimer

In the meantime her tussle with Stephen’s relatives went on. Thanks to continued stalling on her part, including an unsuccessful appeal of the decision that barred her from discharging the ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 8,2016 )
Mud, Sweat & Gears by Ellie Bennett
epub |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Ellie Bennett

At Carsphairn we took a break and had a look around the village churchyard. There was a memorial there to the McAdam family and a tablet commemorating John Louden McAdam, ...
( Category: Cycling April 5,2016 )
Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox
epub |eng | 2012-12-29 | Author:Brenda Maddox

Rosalind’s Photograph 51 (shown original size) of the B form of DNA, which told Watson that the molecule was a helix. Events then moved fast. The following day, 31 January, ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American April 3,2016 )
0393245098 (N) by Anne Boyd Rioux
azw3, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anne Boyd Rioux

AURORA LEIGH’S VIEW As the new year arrived, James went down to join Boott and the Duvenecks in Florence, leaving Woolson to take possession of her new villa. The Villa ...
( Category: Women March 31,2016 )
Living Like a Runaway by Lita Ford
epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Lita Ford

SOON AFTER OUR engagement, I was at the Bellagio hotel in Los Angeles, where Tony and I were staying. He went off on the worst fit of rage I had ...
( Category: Rock March 22,2016 )
Dangerous Odds by Marisa Lankester
epub |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:Marisa Lankester

FOUR DAYS LATER, I stood outside the apartment rehearsing the scathing lecture I planned to give my errant husband. He might have grown up watching Sophia take his father back ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 19,2016 )
Zami by Geraldine Audre Lorde
epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Geraldine Audre Lorde [Lorde, Audre]

Before long, I was totally dependent upon Ginger for human contact in Stamford, and her invitations to Sunday dinner represented the only real food I ever ate. She built up ...
( Category: Women March 14,2016 )
The Soong Sisters by Emily Hahn
epub |eng | 1940-12-31 | Author:Emily Hahn

CHAPTER XVII Eling Gets a Taste of Public Life In may 1931 the group of dissatisfied leaders in Canton interrupted the people’s convention that was being held at Nanking with ...
( Category: China March 14,2016 )
Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker by Portnoy Suzanne
epub |eng | 2066-06-07 | Author:Portnoy, Suzanne [Suzanne Portnoy]

9. BACK TO RIO’S Daniel moved back in, carrying the suitcase I’d thrown at him just a few days before. As he unpacked and began hanging his clothes in my ...
( Category: Women March 14,2016 )
One Pair of Hands by Monica Dickens
epub |eng | | Author:Monica Dickens

Chapter Ten AFTER EASTER THE house party began to break up, and by the end of the holidays everybody except a few insignificant female relations and one or two of ...
( Category: England March 14,2016 )
Vita Sackville-West by Vita Sackville-West
epub |eng | | Author:Vita Sackville-West

Perhaps Vita’s most celebrated book, about history, house, and herself, concerns her dearly loved and hard-lost Knole. Her relation to her colorful ancestors infuses the book with nostalgia and beauty. ...
( Category: Women March 14,2016 )
Tales From the Tail End by Emma Milne
epub |eng | 2012-03-04 | Author:Emma Milne

One patient I saw was a beautiful liver-and-white pointer with a very docile face and a very relaxed owner. She was only in for a vaccination and I was chatting ...
( Category: Women March 14,2016 )
A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux
epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Annie Ernaux [Ernaux, Annie]

As I write, I see her sometimes as a “good,” sometimes as a “bad” mother. To get away from these contrasting views, which come from my earliest childhood, I try ...
( Category: French March 14,2016 )
Body Lengths by Leisel Jones
epub |eng | | Author:Leisel Jones

Melbourne may not have started out as a great meet, but it sure ended up that way. I walk away from the Games with three individual gold, the 100-metre world ...
( Category: Olympic Games March 14,2016 )
Queen Bess by Preston Jennifer;
epub |eng | | Author:Preston, Jennifer;

26 “Tough Love” From the moment she took office at the Department of Cultural Affairs, Bess encountered hostility from some members of the senior staff. For one thing, the acting ...
( Category: Women March 14,2016 )

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