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I, Bartleby
epub |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:Meredith Quartermain [Quartermain, Meredith]

She paused on the trail and took a breath. Don’t look back. Don’t look down. Don’t look up at the fire tower on top of the mountain where she’d scattered ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 11,2015 )
American Gangster by Mark Jacobson
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-10-09 | Author:Mark Jacobson

11 Ground Zero/Grassy Knoll: 11 Bulletpoints About 9/11 Truth The attack on the World Trade Center, with its attendant political and moral fallout, is without doubt the biggest story I ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction October 10,2015 )
The Inland Sea by Donald Richie
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2002-09-01 | Author:Donald Richie [Richie, Donald]

••••• MORNING IN TOMO—a light rain, almost a mist, gradually resolves itself into vertical lines of heavy rain. Then the rain is caught by the sea wind, scattered, and once ...
( Category: Japanese August 28,2015 )
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown & Nathan McCall
epub |eng | 1965-01-01 | Author:Claude Brown & Nathan McCall [Brown, Claude & McCall, Nathan]

of the Warwick Annex at Hampton Farm, he was big and burly, almost as big as a bam. I suppose just his size frightened a lot of people. He was ...
( Category: African-American Studies July 28,2015 )
The Cornel West Reader by Cornel West
epub |eng | 2009-08-20 | Author:Cornel West [West, Cornel]

A WORLD OF IDEAS This interview was my first television appearance in America. Of course, Bill Moyers is a master interviewer. He teased out features of my style and substance ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 22,2015 )
Iron and Silk by Salzman Mark
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Salzman, Mark [Salzman, Mark]

I had walked along the river many times since meeting the fisherman that day in winter, but I did not see him again until spring. It was late afternoon, and ...
( Category: General June 20,2015 )
A Semite by Denis Guenoun
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Denis Guenoun

Here the letters, the date book, all writing cease. I’ll never know the reunion, the kisses, the yoo-yoos of the grandmother, the cries and tears of the baby, the shy, ...
( Category: African June 15,2015 )
Twisted : My Dreadlock Chronicles by Ashe Bert
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ashe, Bert [Ashe, Bert]

Well, I do believe I can begin to imagine the dimensions of “negro hair in america,” but what I can’t imagine is the reaction to wearing hair in a style ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 13,2015 )
Twisted : My Dreadlock Chronicles (9781572847491) by Ashe Bert
epub |eng | | Author:Ashe, Bert [Ashe, Bert]

Fuzzy Phase (i) Standing at the bathroom mirror, a scowl on my face… My hair sucks. At least, I thought, it sucked as far as I could tell. I was ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 13,2015 )
Dream boogie: the triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter Guralnick
epub |eng | 2005-10-18 | Author:Peter Guralnick [Guralnick, Peter]

TWO WEEKS LATER, after a brief series of engagements in Nassau and the Bahamas, he started on another Henry Wynn Supersonic tour, accompanied once again by such familiar performers as ...
( Category: Soul June 13,2015 )
The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
epub |eng | 1993-05-31 | Author:Anne Frank [Frank, Anne]

I think Mother believes that Margot and I have a better relationship with our parents than anyone in the whole wide world, and that no mother is more involved in ...
( Category: Holocaust June 12,2015 )
Arendt, Hannah by Eichmann in Jerusalem - A Report on the Banality of Evil
epub |eng | | Author:Eichmann in Jerusalem - A Report on the Banality of Evil

X Deportations from Western Europe– France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Italy “Ruthless toughness,” a quality held in the highest esteem by the rulers of the Third Reich, is frequently characterized in ...
( Category: Holocaust June 12,2015 )
My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar
epub |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:Ariel Sabar [Sabar, Ariel]

Yona, right, recording “Mamo” (Uncle) Yona Gabbay’s stories, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, circa 1963. PROFESSOR POLOTSKY’S INTEREST was linguistics: what an informant’s words could reveal about Neo-Aramaic grammar, syntax, and its ...
( Category: Jewish June 12,2015 )
The River at the Centre of the World by Simon Winchester
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-27 | Author:Simon Winchester

Today the ferment and the jostle is much the same, though cars crowd among the rickshaws and there are sleek and brilliantined men with shiny suits, cellular phones clamped to ...
( Category: Travel June 12,2015 )
the Other Wes Moore (2010) by Moore Wes
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Moore, Wes [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 June 12,2015 )

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