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Ladyparts by Deborah Copaken
epub |eng | 2021-08-03 | Author:Deborah Copaken [Copaken, Deborah]

TWENTY The Church for Wayward Hearts FEBRUARY–MAY 2015 Valentine’s Day evening, 2015, I arrive home from a slice of pizza date with my kids to a giant bouquet of magnolias ...
( Category: Historical August 10,2021 )
I Belong Here by Anita Sethi;
epub |eng | | Author:Anita Sethi;

I arrive into Horton as sunlight is gleaming over the summit of Pen-y-Ghent, which looms out proud and magnificent and looking very much alive, like a pale green humpback whale. ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 6,2021 )
In the Skin of a Jihadist: A Young Journalist Enters the ISIS Recruitment Network by Anna Erelle
epub |eng | 2015-05-25 | Author:Anna Erelle [Erelle, Anna]

The next day André sat in on our conversations less and less. He didn’t have time, and he’d already photographed Bilel and Mélodie from every imaginable angle. He also thought ...
( Category: Historical August 6,2021 )
My Life in Houses by Margaret Forster
epub |eng | 2014-09-17 | Author:Margaret Forster [Margaret Forster]

THE HOUSE WE arrived at, in the Maltese island of Gozo, was not the house we’d thought we would be living in. That one, which we’d been shown slides of, ...
( Category: Historical August 6,2021 )
Enemies in Love by Alexis Clark
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Alexis Clark

7. End of War AFTER FREDERICK AND ELINOR BEGAN SLEEPING together the days of rational thinking disintegrated. Every minute of their existence rested on being together. Frederick split his time ...
( Category: Historical August 6,2021 )
Time of My Life by Mary Frame
epub |eng | | Author:Mary Frame [Frame, Mary]

“What are your faults? Do you have any?” He lets out a bark of surprised laughter. “Are you interviewing me for a job?” He twists to meet my eyes as ...
( Category: Historical August 5,2021 )
The Flower Boat Girl by Larry Feign
epub |eng | 2021-08-14 | Author:Larry Feign [Books, Top Floor]

It took no more convincing to send myself ashore until the baby came. I was given a small one-room house in a dusty back lane and a servant named Siu-ting. ...
( Category: Historical August 5,2021 )
Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Margaret Forster
epub |eng | 1998-09-30 | Author:Margaret Forster [Margaret Forster]

Chapter Thirteen IT WAS A little mortifying for both Robert and Elizabeth to face up to the fact that they were not nearly so well suited to a Bohemian or ...
( Category: Historical August 4,2021 )
Golden Boy by John Glatt
epub |eng | | Author:John Glatt

* * * By Monday morning, Thomas Gilbert Sr.’s murder was making headlines from coast to coast. The widely reported motive, from an unnamed police source, was that he’d cut ...
( Category: Historical August 4,2021 )
Papillon by Henry Charrière
epub |ita | 2011-12-15 | Author:Henry Charrière [Charrière, Henry]

( Category: True Crime August 4,2021 )
Perversion of Justice by Julie K. Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Julie K. Brown

MEANWHILE, THE WAR BETWEEN MAXWELL AND MURDOCH’S NEWS Corporation raged on as the two publishing magnates fought over coupons—one of the major revenue sources for their newspapers. The banks also ...
( Category: Historical August 1,2021 )
The Art of Flight by unknow
epub |eng | | Author:unknow

TRAVELING AND WRITING For Julio Ortega I amused myself recently rereading some fragments in an autobiographical notebook written some thirty years ago. I was hoping to find in its pages ...
( Category: Architecture October 14,2020 )
Beyond the Pasta by Mark Leslie
epub |eng | 2011-09-29 | Author:Mark Leslie

There was a lot of debate about what we should get and how we should divide it among us. At times I felt as if we were at a Chinese ...
( Category: Italian October 14,2020 )
Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
epub |eng | 2007-05-14 | Author:Olaudah Equiano [Equiano, Olaudah]

Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men. Job ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism October 14,2020 )
Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Marilyn Monroe & Bernard Comment & Stanley Buchthal
mobi |eng | 2010-09-30 | Author:Marilyn Monroe & Bernard Comment & Stanley Buchthal [Monroe, Marilyn]

Note: Norman Rosten, poet and novelist, had been a close friend of Marilyn’s in New York since 1955. Marilyn Monroe with Carson McCullers, during a lunch given by the American ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 10,2020 )

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