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Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman
epub |eng | 2019-04-29 | Author:Fredrik Backman

The art of choosing your work assignments When your mother and I clean the apartment, I could take the easy, cowardly way out. You know that. I know that. But ...
( Category: Fatherhood May 2,2019 )
55 by James Delargy
epub |eng | 2019-04-03 | Author:James Delargy [Delargy, James]

27 Chandler quickly discovered that the press was desperate for information. They wanted to know who the people of interest were, what they were suspected of, background and beliefs, anything ...
( Category: Suspense May 2,2019 )
Finding My Voice by Valerie Jarrett
epub |eng | 2019-04-02 | Author:Valerie Jarrett

* * * — From his 2004 keynote in Boston to his rousing “Yes, we can” rally in New Hampshire to his honest and uplifting speech on race in Philadelphia, ...
( Category: African-American & Black April 29,2019 )
Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jade Snow Wong [Wong, Jade Snow]

15 A MEASURE OF FREEDOM SO, WITHOUT MUCH ENTHUSIASM, JADE SNOW DECIDED UPON JUNIOR college. Now it was necessary to inform Mama and Daddy. She chose an evening when the ...
( Category: Chinese April 29,2019 )
Solitary by Albert Woodfox
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2019-01-30 | Author:Albert Woodfox

Chapter 36 Amite City At the Amite City jail I was processed and put in a new cell for 23 hours a day. First, one with a concrete bunk and ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism April 29,2019 )
The Torture Machine by Flint Taylor
epub |eng | 2019-03-06 | Author:Flint Taylor

Armstrong’s profile also captured how the news swept down Pontiac Penitentiary’s death row, from Aaron Patterson to Ronald Kitchen to numerous other clients and friends: Louva Bell, Kitchen’s mother, would ...
( Category: Local April 20,2019 )
Notes From a Young Black Chef: A Memoir by Kwame Onwuachi & Joshua David Stein
epub |eng | 2019-04-08 | Author:Kwame Onwuachi & Joshua David Stein

* * * — Without that revenue stream and with Coterie still just a side hustle, I needed a job fast and figured I may as well look for work ...
( Category: U.S. Regional April 9,2019 )
The Enjoy Agenda by Rick Bailey
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bailey

Before the auction I grabbed a few tools I wanted. In particular I looked for screwdrivers, the old ones with wood handles, with dirt and sweat massaged into the grain ...
( Category: Chinese April 9,2019 )
Native Country of the Heart by Cherríe Moraga
epub |eng | | Author:Cherríe Moraga

LIKE THE HERON We knew we had been functioning in the spirit of “last times” for a few years. Although the pretext was a family birthday, my mother’s last trip ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies April 3,2019 )
Women's Work: A Reckoning With Work and Home by Megan K. Stack
epub |eng | 2019-04-02 | Author:Megan K. Stack

* * * ———— We were visiting the ruins of a Mughal fort near our house when I had a crotch rubbed against my ass. I was standing in line ...
( Category: Motherhood April 3,2019 )
Tippu Tip: Ivory, Slavery and Discovery in the Scramble for Africa by Stuart Laing
epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Stuart Laing [Laing, Stuart]

“Tippu Tip’s grand canoes going down the Congo”: a typical scene of traditional traffic on the great river, as depicted in The Illustrated London News of 21 December 1889. It ...
( Category: African-American & Black March 26,2019 )
Not for Everyday Use by Elizabeth Nunez
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Elizabeth Nunez

15 Still I continue to blame the church. I hold the church responsible too for constraining our emotional lives. The constant fear of pregnancy robbed my mother of much of ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement March 25,2019 )
Solitude & Company by Silvana Paternostro
epub |eng | 2019-01-22 | Author:Silvana Paternostro

* María Félix, one of Mexico’s iconic movie stars from the forties and fifties, the golden age of Mexican cinema, is like a Mexican Elizabeth Taylor. 18 Geography Lesson In ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2019 )
Birthday by César Aira
epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:César Aira

VI Like all of my contemporaries, I could die at any moment. Today, tomorrow, yesterday. An accident, or a fatal illness (it wouldn’t be all that unusual, at my age) ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese March 25,2019 )
Under Red Skies by Karoline Kan
epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:Karoline Kan

PART II Third Generation Chapter Eight Chunting Gets a Boyfriend Chunting and I were lying in bed, tossing and turning on a hot summer’s night. We were older now—teenagers—and often ...
( Category: Asian American Studies March 25,2019 )

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