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The Richest Soil Grows the Deepest Roots: Life in Platte County's Missouri River Bottoms by Helen Ruth Poss Marr
epub |eng | 2021-08-11 | Author:Helen Ruth Poss Marr

11 School and World War II During most of my of my grade school years, World War II permeated life. After our country entered the war, Americans had a collective ...
( Category: Historical January 7,2023 )
A Caring Life by Keith Cox
epub |eng | 2022-03-23 | Author:Keith Cox

FRED HOLLOWS (1929–1993) Famous eye surgeon Fred Hollows had been diagnosed with renal cancer in the late ’80s and already had a kidney removed, but his prognosis had looked pretty ...
( Category: Medical January 7,2023 )
Growing Out by Barbara Blake Hannah
epub |eng | 2021-10-28 | Author:Barbara Blake Hannah [Hannah, Barbara Blake]

CHAPTER NINE When ‘The Break’ came, it was so unexpected I didn’t even have time to realize that something important was happening to me. Becoming ‘the first Black woman journalist ...
( Category: Black & African American January 7,2023 )
The Midwife's Sister by Christine Lee
epub |eng | | Author:Christine Lee

Ronnie Early one evening in the late spring of 1962, as I was sitting with Joanna playing on the floor, there was a knock on the door. My father answered, ...
( Category: Medical January 7,2023 )
The Red of my Blood by Clover Stroud
epub |eng | 2022-01-19 | Author:Clover Stroud [Stroud, Clover]

Don’t say what you’re thinking, because I know exactly what the sentence is that’s about to come out of your mouth and I do not want to hear it. DON’T ...
( Category: Community & Culture January 7,2023 )
The New Ringer by Roland Breckwoldt
epub |eng | 2022-05-30 | Author:Roland Breckwoldt

We were without curiosity as to what transpired in the heads of the horses we rode. We could not tell what was going on in the minds of our colleagues ...
( Category: Community & Culture January 7,2023 )
Becoming Molly-Mae by Molly-Mae Hague
epub |eng | 2022-06-09 | Author:Molly-Mae Hague [Hague, Molly-Mae]

It’s probably worth saying here that, in the society that we’re in now, pretty much most influencers and girls do edit their pictures. And I’m not going to sit here ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers January 7,2023 )
A Child of the East End by Jean Fullerton
epub |eng | | Author:Jean Fullerton

Brand Spanking New I knew when I started at Redcoat that the following year I would be starting again in the new school we’d seen rise from its foundation over ...
( Category: Europe January 7,2023 )
The Digger of Kokoda by Daniel Lane
epub |eng | 2022-05-18 | Author:Daniel Lane

18 The Expendables: Milne Bay Coming into Milne Bay there is a little island before you get there – Samarai – we thought ‘oh this looks good.’ We came into ...
( Category: Survival January 7,2023 )
The Reporting of Ben Hall the Brave Bushranger by Trudy Toohill
epub |eng | | Author:Trudy Toohill

Forbes Sydney Mail, 28 November 1863 FORBES, Monday, 4 p.m. At three o’clock this morning, two men representing themselves as Ben Hall and Johnny Gilbert, visited the house of Mr ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs January 7,2023 )
Harry & Meghan--The Love Story by Emily Herbert
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Emily Herbert [Emily Herbert]

Harry’s education was to follow a precedent set down by his mother’s side of the family, not his father’s, not least as Charles complained very publicly about how much he ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 7,2023 )
Dreamers and Doers by Arlene Galisky
epub |eng | 2018-07-09 | Author:Arlene Galisky [Galisky, Arlene]

CHAPTER 14 Planning Angst Most cruising boats leave the tropics before the start of the South Pacific cyclone season, which runs from November through April. So, as October rolled on, ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs January 7,2023 )
Two Eyes Are Never Enough by Sonya Huber
epub |eng | 2014-05-07 | Author:Sonya Huber [Huber, Sonya]

How did our care for society’s most fragile people degrade into this dismal state? Who’s to blame? In the 1980s, President Reagan’s policy for the mentally ill was deinstitutionalization, which ...
( Category: Community & Culture January 7,2023 )
Our Man In Tokyo by Steve Kemper
epub |eng | 2022-09-07 | Author:Steve Kemper

31 The Matsuoka Hurricane IN JANUARY 1940 James R. Young, an American correspondent living in Japan, left Tokyo to report on the war in China. When he returned he gave ...
( Category: Historical January 6,2023 )
From Leeches to Slug Glue by Roopa Pai
epub |eng | 2019-09-10 | Author:Roopa Pai [Pai, Roopa]

It was during the second cholera pandemic, which lasted from 1826 to 1837, that John Snow encountered the disease for the first time, in the coal-mining village of Killingworth. It ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 6,2023 )

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