Biographies & Memoirs
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Amy Chua

19 How You Get to Carnegie Hall Sophia and her taskmaster (with my father watching) My heart sank. The score looked disappointingly sparse, a few staccato notes here and there, ...
( Category: Specific Demographics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Wes Moore

As I sat on the other end of the line, listening to my mother talk about “sacrifice,” I had no idea what my grandparents had given up. The five minutes ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2005-01-30 | Author:Frederick Douglass; Brent Hayes Edwards

Kbb CHAPTER XVIII. NEW RELATIONS AND DUTIES CHANGE OF MASTERS—BENEFITS DERIVED BY THE CHANGE—FAME OF THE FIGHT WITH COVEY—RECKLESS UNCONCERN—AUTHOR’S ABHORRENCE OF SLAVERY—ABILITY TO READ A CAUSE OF PREJUDICE—THE HOLIDAYS—How ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

As the Chicago winter began to settle in, Ms. Bailey asked me to help her with a clothing drive. Tenants and squatters in her building needed winter coats, she said, ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-09 | Author:Barack Obama

Ten days later, Auma and I sat in the hard plastic seats of an airport terminal, looking out at the planes through the high wall of glass. I asked her ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:McGill, Jerry [McGill, Jerry]

INT. HOSPITAL ROOM—DAY JEROME sits up in his wheelchair in front of a canvas. He is painting. He wears a splint on his right wrist and a paintbrush has been ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Helena Andrews

Nine HELENA ANDREWS HAS THE BEST PUSSY IN THE WORLD ABORTION MONKEY? Who wouldn’t open that e-mail? It was the winter of 2004, and my virtual load of junk mail ...
( Category: African-American & Black March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Governor Deval Patrick

Over the years, we’ve opened our doors to these and many other people who were hungry for company, attention, and affection. Growing up, I know that I too longed for ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nora Roberts

Part Two Big Jack All things change; nothing perishes. —Ovid Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways. —William Shakespeare Chapter Seventeen 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-22 | Author:Manning Marable

Home from Detroit the morning of April 13, Malcolm barely had time to bid his wife and followers good-bye before catching a flight to Cairo that evening. He flew under ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

7 An Unexpected Wedding Party The babies had been crying all night. Sleepless, overworked, and worried about the health of her twin girls, Malika was tempted to collapse onto her ...
( Category: Women in Islam March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Maya Angelou

Power of the Word Many things continue to amaze me, even well into the sixth decade of my life. I’m startled or taken aback when people walk up to me ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-11-16 | Author:Laura Hillenbrand

Twenty-five B-29 ON ONE OF THE LAST DAYS OF OCTOBER 1944, LOUIE pushed a wheelbarrow over the Omori bridge, through the vilage at the bridge’s end, and into Tokyo. With ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Juan Williams

CHAPTER 22 No Radical SHOUTING INTO A PAY PHONE in a hallway at the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall announced the big victory to NAACP officials in New York. He had ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-08-18 | Author:Sojourner Truth

“An everlasting temple, And saints arrayed in white, There serve their great Redeemer And dwell with him in light. “The meanest child of glory Outshines the radiant sun; But who ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )