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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
mobi |eng | 2002-03-05 | Author:Maya Angelou

22 The wind blew over the roof and ruffled the shingles. It whistled sharp under the closed door. The chimney made fearful sounds of protest as it was invaded by ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 17,2015 )
I Should Be Dead By Now by Dennis Rodman
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Dennis Rodman

Reality Check: Don’t drink and do reality shows. Following the intervention, ESPN cornered Darren in the back of an Aladdin Hotel limo for a parting comment. “This is it, there’s ...
( Category: Basketball January 17,2015 )
Prisoners by Jeffrey Goldberg
epub |eng | 2006-10-03 | Author:Jeffrey Goldberg [Goldberg, Jeffrey]

One day I asked Rafiq why Fatah allowed Hamas to teach its principles at Ketziot. “Freedom of speech,” he said. The curricula were astonishingly different. The Hamas understanding of the ...
( Category: Middle East January 13,2015 )
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations by Bell Hooks
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Bell Hooks [Hooks, Bell]

bh: I feel like if I was a kid lookin’ at that movie, I wouldn’t wanna be him, I’d wanna be you, because your character had the jazz. I mean, ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 12,2015 )
Muhammad Ali by Thomas Hauser
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-09 | Author:Thomas Hauser [Hauser, Thomas]

Then came an occasion that would have been unthinkable several years earlier. On December 10, 1974, at the invitation of Gerald Ford, Ali visited the White House. GERALD FORD: “I ...
( Category: Boxing January 10,2015 )
Exposure: Inside the Olympus Scandal: How I Went from CEO to Whistleblower (2012) by Woodford Michael
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-26 | Author:Woodford, Michael [Woodford, Michael]

Baillie Gifford is extremely concerned by the recent unexpected management changes and allegations of financial impropriety at Olympus. Baillie Gifford encourages the company to make public without delay the composition ...
( Category: Business January 10,2015 )
The Pioneer Woman Cooks Recipes From an Accidental Country Girl
mobi | | | Author:Ree Drummond

( Category: Midwestern January 6,2015 )
The Bridge The Life and Rise of Barack
mobi | | | Author:David Remnick

( Category: U.S. Presidents January 6,2015 )
From the Kingdom of Memory by Elie Wiesel
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Elie Wiesel [Wiesel, Elie]

Kaddish in Cambodia ON THE EIGHTEENTH DAY (in the Hebrew calendar) of Shevat I found myself in the dusty, noisy village of Aranyaprathet, on the border between Cambodia and Thailand, ...
( Category: Jewish January 6,2015 )
In the Place of Justice by Rideau Wilbert
mobi |eng | 2011-01-06 | Author:Rideau, Wilbert [Rideau, Wilbert]

9 Soldiering On 1986—1990 Which is worse: death by execution or spending the rest of your life in prison? That was a question I was asked to answer on July ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 6,2015 )
Yesterday, I Cried by Vanzant Iyanla
mobi |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Vanzant, Iyanla [Vanzant, Iyanla]

CHAPTER ELEVEN What’s the Lesson When You Learn the Lesson, Then Forget It? For the rest of my life there are two days that will never again trouble me. The ...
( Category: Women January 6,2015 )
The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim: Robert Beck's Real Story by Iceberg Slim
epub |eng | 2014-10-02 | Author:Iceberg Slim [Slim, Iceberg]

VIGNETTES: THE PROFESSOR I met him by accident, which is a common aspect of calamity. I was fresh from the steel casket and huckstering insecticides at the time when he ...
( Category: Urban January 6,2015 )
No One Wants You by Celine Roberts
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Celine Roberts [Roberts, Celine]

ELEVEN A Place to Call Home THE NEW YEAR of 1978 dawned. I decided to try and put 1977 behind me. I had lost two babies but I really wanted ...
( Category: Child Abuse December 29,2014 )
Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement
epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Jennifer Clement [Clement, Jennifer]

Things were really bad. We went days without speaking. I secretly started doing heroin because I couldn’t deal with coming down off five days of coke. Jean started staying out ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers December 27,2014 )
Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García Márquez
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Gabriel García Márquez [Márquez, Gabriel García]

I was a dead man I don’t remember the dawn of the next day. I have a vague idea that during the entire morning I lay prostrate, between life and ...
( Category: Hispanic & Latino December 27,2014 )

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