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Beartown by Fredrik Backman
epub |eng | | Author:Fredrik Backman

27 The lump in Kira’s stomach refuses to give up its grasp. She keeps telling herself that there’s nothing wrong with Maya, that she’s just a normal teenager, that it’s ...
( Category: Humorous May 16,2017 )
My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King
azw3, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Coretta Scott King

SEVENTEEN My Fifth Child THROUGHOUT MY LIFE, whenever I didn’t pray, things went badly. I would become frustrated and feel out of sync with the will and purpose of God. ...
( Category: Women in History May 1,2017 )
It Takes a School by Jonathan Starr
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Starr

25 MONEY DISGUISED AS RELIGION Unfortunately, not all our local problems are due to ignorance. Abaarso School had its enemies before we even opened our doors. Private for-profit schooling is ...
( Category: African-American Studies April 27,2017 )
16 Dead Men by Anne-Marie Ryan
epub |eng | | Author:Anne-Marie Ryan

Seán Heuston John Joseph Heuston (known as Seán) was born in Dublin on 21 February 1891. His family lived at 24 Gloucester Street and later moved to Jervis Street. Both ...
( Category: Irish April 6,2017 )
Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

This Morning, This Evening, So Soon “YOU ARE FULL of nightmares,” Harriet tells me. She is in her dressing gown and has cream all over her face. She and my ...
( Category: Short Stories March 28,2017 )
No Name in the Street by James Baldwin
epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

Between the night and the morning of April 3–4, in 1967, a Marine, Michael E. Kroll, was murdered on West 3rd Street, in Greenwich Village. He was killed, according to ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 28,2017 )
Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
epub |eng | 1954-01-01 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

8. In Search of a Majority: An Address I AM SUPPOSED TO SPEAK THIS evening on the goals of American society as they involve minority rights, but what I am ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 28,2017 )
Jimmy's Blues by James Baldwin
epub |eng | 2017-02-06 | Author:James Baldwin

To say nothing of the wear and tear on the mother-fucking leather. The darkest hour The darkest hour is just before the dawn, and that, I see, which does not ...
( Category: Love Poems March 28,2017 )
James Baldwin by James Baldwin
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

GOLDSTEIN: Do you feel like a stranger in gay America? BALDWIN: Well, first of all I feel like a stranger in America from almost every conceivable angle except, oddly enough, ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 28,2017 )
The Portable Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-09-13 | Author:Frederick Douglass

“THE TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS OF SELF-MADE MEN” (1860) Douglass’s self-made men speeches were immensely popular from 1860 until his death in 1895. Over time he altered the speech as he ...
( Category: American Civil War March 23,2017 )
Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America by Francis Bok
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2007-03-31 | Author:Francis Bok [Bok, Francis]

1) At night, the streets of American cities could be dangerous. People were robbed and shot. We should be careful. 2) Everyone could go to school in America. It didn’t ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 22,2017 )
Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass by Douglass; Frederick
mobi |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Douglass; Frederick

CHAPTER IX I HAVE NOW REACHED a period of my life when I can give dates. I left Baltimore, and went to live with Master Thomas Auld, at St. Michael‘s, ...
( Category: American Civil War March 22,2017 )
Builders of the Chinese Church: Pioneer Protestant Missionaries and Chinese Church Leaders (Studies in Chinese Christianity) by G. Wright Doyle
epub |eng | 2015-03-08 | Author:G. Wright Doyle [Doyle, G. Wright]

417. Pfister, “Rethinking Mission,” 211. 418. At the time of his death, the CIM had 828 missionaries; there were 1152 Chinese workers, 18,625 baptized Chinese Christians, 418 churches, 1424 mission ...
( Category: Chinese March 22,2017 )
A Heart for Freedom: The Remarkable Journey of a Young Dissident, Her Daring Escape, and Her Quest to Free China's Daughters by Chai Ling
epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Chai Ling [Ling, Chai]

* * * The next morning, May 27, I came to our Headquarters tent, where the broadcasting center was. I remember sitting along the outer edge, where part of the ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State March 22,2017 )
Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives by Chase F. Robinson
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Chase F. Robinson

20 al-Idrisi, cosmopolitan cartographer (1165) What does our world look like? The question is deceptively simple. Familiar with images from satellites and the like, we now know that it is ...
( Category: History March 22,2017 )

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