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The Woman Who Fought an Empire by Gregory J. Wallance
epub |eng | 2018-01-10 | Author:Gregory J. Wallance [Wallance, Gregory J.]

On April 19 Aaron, Sarah, Yosef, and Liova arrived in Cairo. Sarah and Aaron went to the Grand Continental Hotel while Yosef and Liova checked in to the Metropole Hotel. ...
( Category: World March 13,2018 )
The Pillow-Book of Sei Shōnagon by Sei Shōnagon
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Sei Shōnagon [Shōnagon, Sei]

( Category: Historical March 13,2018 )
Daughter of Good Fortune: A Twentieth-Century Chinese Peasant Memoir by Chen Huiqin
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-05-15 | Author:Chen Huiqin [Huiqin, Chen]

MOVING BEYOND THE ANCESTRAL COMPOUND In 1968, my cousin Zhongming, my uncle’s elder son, got married. Zhongming was working as a Chinese violinist in the Beijing Opera Troupe in Shanghai. ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 13,2018 )
The Heart of Everything That Is by Bob Drury
epub |eng | | Author:Bob Drury

29 Here Be Monsters Col. Carrington and his men pushed off from Fort Laramie on June 17, 1866, the day before the peace conference formally ended. The conference was “a ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 12,2018 )
Too Afraid to Cry by Ali Cobby Eckermann
epub |eng | 2018-03-12 | Author:Ali Cobby Eckermann

Heroin in the arms of another man he finds her in his arms the jealous man he binds her in his arms the woman sheds no tear in his arms ...
( Category: Poetry March 12,2018 )
Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War by Daniel J. Sharfstein
azw3 |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Daniel J. Sharfstein [Sharfstein, Daniel J.]

AFTER A WEEK IN THE MOUNTAINS, Howard’s column emerged from the Lolo Trail on August 6 to good roads, grassy meadows, and a pleasantly sulfurous soak in the local hot ...
( Category: Americas March 12,2018 )
Becoming Ms. Burton by Susan Burton
epub |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:Susan Burton

“I kept on, kept on, kept on,” Dana said when she phoned A New Way of Life from the street. “I’m tired, and I don’t want to wind up back ...
( Category: Sociology March 12,2018 )
Devotion by Dani Shapiro
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-12 | Author:Dani Shapiro

49. In Connecticut, on our hilltop, life was quiet. Gone were the city sounds: the sirens, hisses, street fights, car alarms, the teeming, throbbing, ceaseless pulse of life. Our pace ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 12,2018 )
Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist by Yossi Klein Halevi
epub | | 2016-11-07 | Author:Yossi Klein Halevi

FIVE Crossing the Border 1. THE EXODUS ended. In August 1972 the Kremlin imposed a “ransom tax”: Would-be émigrés had to reimburse the government for their state-sponsored education. Few Soviet ...
( Category: Historical March 12,2018 )
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks - Jeanne Theoharis by Jeanne Theoharis
epub |eng | | Author:Jeanne Theoharis

River Rouge NAACP branch president Lasker Smith (also of Local 600) explained to Gloster Current, director of branches, that Parks was “experiencing acute financial hardships stemming from her sparking the ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 11,2018 )
1845029542 (N) by Jane Yeadon
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Jane Yeadon

The fence posts have pointed tops but they’re broader than the high wire the circus performer used, so they should make the first try easy enough. Remembering the importance of ...
( Category: Memoirs March 11,2018 )
’Membering by Austin Clarke
epub |eng | 2015-08-15 | Author:Austin Clarke [Clarke, Austin]

( Category: Arts & Literature March 11,2018 )
'Membering by Austin Clarke
epub |eng | 2015-07-30 | Author:Austin Clarke

My host is a professor. A Frenchman. He is the man who told me to meet him in the Bordeaux train station; that he will be under the sign, Pont ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 11,2018 )
Primo Levi by Berel Lang
epub |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Berel Lang

4 The Jewish Question “I was turned into a Jew by others.” —Primo Levi, interview with Edith Bruck, Il Messaggero, 1976 “Until these months [of 1938] it had not meant ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 11,2018 )
Our Auntie Rosa by Sheila McCauley Keys
epub |eng | 2015-01-14 | Author:Sheila McCauley Keys

To Be Continued She was just getting home from Japan. Japan. Auntie Rosa was truly loved worldwide. She had flown all the way there to receive an honorary degree sometime ...
( Category: Americas March 11,2018 )

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