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A Short History of Indians in Canada by Thomas King
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Thomas King [King, Thomas]

When Milton got home, his mother was waiting for him. “So,” she said, “what did your grandfather think of your idea?” “He liked it.” “You know, stuff like that might ...
( Category: Native American Studies March 25,2014 )
BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family by Shalhoup Mara
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-26 | Author:Shalhoup, Mara [Shalhoup, Mara]

For the past eight months, a federal manhunt had been under way for a St. Louis fugitive named Deron “Wonnie” Gatling. Wonnie (or “Magic,” as he also was known) was ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Panther Baby
epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Jamal Joseph [Joseph, Jamal]

10 Revolution in Our Lifetime It was spring in Harlem, and people were in bloom on the streets. Children playing and beautiful women doing African ballets just by walking down ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 25,2014 )
Cromwell, the Lord Protector by Antonia Fraser
epub |eng | | Author:Antonia Fraser [Fraser, Antonia]

15 A settlement of the nation He proposed to them, That the old King being dead, and his son being defeated, it was necessary to come to a Settlement of ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
Tony Ryan by Richard Aldous
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Aldous [Aldous, Richard]

It was a bold claim, not least because it came as a major investor, General Electric Credit Corporation, was pulling out of GPA. In order to fill the gap left ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 25,2014 )
Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues by John Holway
epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:John Holway

Double Duty Radcliffe (left) with Chicago American Giants manager Candy Jim Taylor (right) in the Memphis Red Sox park, opening day 1939. (Photo courtesy of Phil Dixon). Bill Foster at ...
( Category: African-American & Black March 25,2014 )
The Lost Child of Philomena Lee (Original Edition) by Sixsmith Martin
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-10 | Author:Sixsmith, Martin [Sixsmith, Martin]

After the show Mike didn’t hang around. He ran back to his room in Thurston Hall and threw himself, exhausted, on the battered sofa. It was 2 a.m. when he ...
( Category: Irish March 25,2014 )
The Secret Rescue by Cate Lineberry
epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Cate Lineberry [LINEBERRY, CATE]

Exhausted after a day of grueling hiking, the weary party arrived at Sheper, a village of about one hundred stone houses and roughly fifteen miles north of the border with ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Opium by Martin Booth
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Booth

10 Junkies and the Living Dead For centuries, addiction was regarded as an unavoidable inconvenience of opiate consumption and rarely considered a problem: 100 years ago doctors frequently referred to ...
( Category: Medicine March 25,2014 )
The Source by James A. Michener
epub, mobi |eng | 1965-01-01 | Author:James A. Michener [Michener, James A.]

• • • THE TELL When John Cullinane lived in Chicago he attended Catholic mass occasionally and funerals rather often, but whenever he worked overseas he tried to attend local ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
Phineas Finn, the Irish Member by Anthony Trollope
epub |eng | 2009-03-13 | Author:Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER 38 The Duel ‘I KNEW it was a duel; – bedad I did,’ said Laurence Fitzgibbon, standing at the corner of Orchard Street and Oxford Street, when Phineas had ...
( Category: Irish March 25,2014 )
The Rejected Stone: Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership by Sharpton Al
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Sharpton, Al [Sharpton, Al]

13 * * * PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH My social activism is my religion in practice. It is the daily embodiment of my lifelong service to God. As a Christian, ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson by Jackie Robinson & Alfred Duckett
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2003-05-06 | Author:Jackie Robinson & Alfred Duckett

XI Campaigning for Nixon I do not consider my decision to back Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy for the Presidency in 1960 one of my finer ones. It was ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka
epub |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Adrian Matejka

HOSTILITIES Belle & I returned after a fine supper of roasted quail in the Crystal Dining Room. Hattie was waiting in the mauve hallway right outside our rooms. She was ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 25,2014 )
The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David Laskin

Ole and Charley had gotten the wagon loaded up with hay and were about half a mile from home when the storm overtook them. The wind came up so fast ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 25,2014 )

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