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Lucky Child by Loung Ung
epub |eng | 2005-05-01 | Author:Loung Ung [Ung, Loung]

My mother, Ung, Ay Chourng. My father, Ung, Seng Im. NOTE: All photos courtesy of the author unless otherwise identified. My family with our car—the only picture we have of ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 24,2018 )
Bitter Harvest by Ian Smith
epub |eng | 2011-04-30 | Author:Ian Smith

17 The Internal Settlement of 4 March 1978 Over the next few weeks, in early 1977, there were many discussions with my cabinet and the security chiefs. Regrettably, there were ...
( Category: Africa March 24,2018 )
C. S. Lewis & Mere Christianity by Paul McCusker
epub |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:Paul McCusker

DEFENDING THE FAITH In spring of 1945, Jack Lewis was asked to speak to a conference of youth leaders and junior clergy at Carmarthen in Wales. The subject was Christian ...
( Category: Historical March 24,2018 )
Matisse the Master by Hilary Spurling
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Hilary Spurling

It would take sixty years or more for this hidden emotional residue—the disturbed and disturbing feelings described in Matisse’s correspondence at the time—to become palpable in paintings that portray on ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 24,2018 )
Tosa Diary (Tuttle Classics) by Tsurayuki Ki No
mobi |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Tsurayuki,Ki No

4 MAR. 27th day.—The wind blew, the waves were rough, and the boat could not start. They were all complaining dreadfully; so the men, to cheer up their hearts, composed ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 24,2018 )
Mr. Wonderful by Mr-Wonderful
epub | | 2010-01-07 | Author:Mr-Wonderful [Mr-Wonderful]

* * * * Julian gradually lowered his body over Darius’s, both of them groaning when their bodies met, skin to skin, for the very first time. “Oh yeah, that’s ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy March 24,2018 )
The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office by Jeremi Suri
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-09-12 | Author:Jeremi Suri

THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR WAS NOT A TOTAL surprise to the president and his closest advisors, even if Roosevelt was horrified by the event itself. Like Lincoln in ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 24,2018 )
Songs Of Blood And Sword: A Daughter'S Memoir by Bhutto Fatima
epub |eng | 2010-04-12 | Author:Bhutto, Fatima [Bhutto, Fatima]

I was born in Kabul under curfew around 3.45 on the morning of 29 May 1982. Labour started around seven or eight in the evening and Fowzia was taken into ...
( Category: Historical March 23,2018 )
Churchill's Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government by Dr. Larry Arnn
azw |eng | 2015-10-13 | Author:Dr. Larry Arnn [Arnn, Dr. Larry]

10 THE CONSTITUTIONALIST Churchill wrote that a Municipal Trust would be more dangerous than the Beef Trust. Something must be done, he thought, for the victims of the Beef Trust ...
( Category: Historical March 23,2018 )
Tormented Hope by Brian Dillon
epub |eng | 2009-08-05 | Author:Brian Dillon

Alice emerged from the Orthopedic Dispensary in May of 1867, returned home to Cambridge with her aunt Kate and began to renew her modest social life, attending dinner parties and ...
( Category: Historical March 23,2018 )
Campaign Trail (By Design Book 9) by Armstrong J.A
azw3 |eng | 2017-08-25 | Author:Armstrong, J.A. [Armstrong, J.A.]

*** Candace watched the news and shook her head. Great. She looked up when Dana walked into the room. “You saw it?” Dana guessed. Candace nodded. Her primary rival for ...
( Category: Historical March 23,2018 )
In the Shadow of Statues by Mitch Landrieu
epub |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:Mitch Landrieu

* * * — When my father was mayor in the 1970s, he had 6,000 city employees. Nagin had as many as 6,300 in 2005 before Katrina; he was forced ...
( Category: Americas March 22,2018 )
Communist Insurgent by Doug Enaa Greene
epub |eng | 2017-10-03 | Author:Doug Enaa Greene

STUDENTS AND INTELLECTUALS By contrast, the Blanquists recruited some of their most dedicated and talented leaders from the students and the intellectuals. Those attracted to the Blanquist movement were generally ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 22,2018 )
Finding John Rae by Hamilton Alice Jane;
epub |eng | 2017-05-16 | Author:Hamilton, Alice Jane;

Stromness and Orphir, Orkney [NOVEMBER 1854] I awoke long before daylight and lay in bed for a while, listening to Bessie humming to herself as she lit the fires and ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 22,2018 )
Manhattan to West Cork by Alice Carey
epub |eng | | Author:Alice Carey

First Class and Third Class are singing together. Mammie too, singing along heartily. As the tender approaches the dock we see people madly waving at us. Everyone looks so dour ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 22,2018 )

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