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How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair;
epub |eng | 2023-10-03 | Author:Safiya Sinclair;

* * * In high school the condition of a girl’s body was always on trial—who was hairy, who was pudgy, who smelled like ketchup, who had no boobs, who ...
( Category: Cultural & Regional December 11,2023 )
The Slip by Prudence Peiffer
epub |eng | 2023-06-10 | Author:Prudence Peiffer

17 The American Dream 1961–63 IN THE LATE FALL of 1960, Rosenquist began painting on the back of several thin Masonite panels that he’d recycled from his old job. They ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers December 11,2023 )
Up Home by Ruth J. Simmons
epub |eng | 2023-09-05 | Author:Ruth J. Simmons [Simmons, Ruth J.]

* * * — Having worked diligently to rid myself of the country accent that was typical of those I knew from Grapeland, I didn’t want to replace it with ...
( Category: Black & African American December 11,2023 )
Schoenberg by Harvey Sachs
epub |eng | 2023-06-02 | Author:Harvey Sachs [Sachs, Harvey]

Schoenberg with Alban Berg, Vienna, 1925–32. Photograph by Dora Horowitz. IV BREAKTHROUGH AND BREAKAWAY “Whenever I think about music,” Schoenberg said, “I never visualize—consciously or subconsciously—any other than German music.”1 ...
( Category: Classical December 11,2023 )
Wifedom by Anna Funder
epub |eng | | Author:Anna Funder [Funder, Anna]

Eileen and Orwell don’t own a radio so they go to the pub to listen to the nine o’clock news. The windows are covered, the place is soupy with smoke ...
( Category: Authors December 11,2023 )
Anansi's Gold by Yepoka Yeebo
epub |eng | | Author:Yepoka Yeebo

On January 1, 1982, investors in the Oman Ghana Trust Fund all over the world woke up to some deeply unwelcome news. Toward the end of the previous year, Robert ...
( Category: Hoaxes & Deceptions December 11,2023 )
The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton
epub |eng | 2023-08-29 | Author:William Egginton [Egginton, William]

* * * — On November 4, 1915, Einstein arrived at the grand hall of the Prussian State Library to give the first of four previously scheduled lectures to the ...
( Category: Philosophers December 11,2023 )
What Really Happens in Vegas by James Patterson
epub |eng | 2023-11-07 | Author:James Patterson [PATTERSON, JAMES]

Like Knievel’s jump, building the STRAT tower was an act that could be viewed as either courageous or just plain crazy. It was the brainchild of the swashbuckler known as ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 11,2023 )
The Outsider by Steve Kemme
epub |eng | 2023-05-12 | Author:Steve Kemme

‘I will wed some savage woman she shall rear my dusky race; Iron-jointed, supple-sinewed, they shall dive and they shall run,— Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl ...
( Category: Journalists December 11,2023 )
Loaded by Dylan Jones
epub |eng | 2023-12-05 | Author:Dylan Jones [JONES, DYLAN]

John Cale: He went to the airport with an empty suitcase? I didn’t know that. He must have been stewing for a long time. Michael Bonner: On October 5, 1971, ...
( Category: Punk December 11,2023 )
God Save Benedict Arnold by Jack Kelly
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Kelly

* * * WHILE HE WAS in Philadelphia, Arnold renewed his acquaintance with Philip Schuyler. Besides representing New York as a congressional delegate, Schuyler had traveled down in early April ...
( Category: American Revolution December 11,2023 )
Oath and Honor by Liz Cheney
epub |eng | 2023-12-05 | Author:Liz Cheney [CHENEY, LIZ]

We are proud of Rep. Cheney’s courage. In the face of calls to lawlessness from high places, she adhered to her solemn oath to protect and defend the Constitution… all ...
( Category: Memoirs December 11,2023 )
Moonshot by Mike Massimino
epub |eng | 2023-12-05 | Author:Mike Massimino [MASSIMINO, MIKE]

AFTER THIS AND OTHER LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCES, I started to develop my own corollary to the First Rule of Leadership. I call it the “Bank of Good Thoughts.” What helped me ...
( Category: Scientists December 11,2023 )
A Soldier Without a Country by Yasha Hain
epub |eng | 2022-09-17 | Author:Yasha Hain [Hain, Yasha]

Noson Yakovlevich – the Red Army officer Latvian archival data on registration of the family of Noson Yakovlevich in Daugavpils in 1941. Latvian archival data on the family of Noson ...
( Category: Holocaust December 10,2023 )
Bringing The Farm To Live In Another World c1-1828 by Ming Yu 明宇
epub |eng | | Author:Ming Yu, 明宇

( Category: Midwest December 10,2023 )

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