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Arbella: England's Lost Queen by Sarah Gristwood
epub |eng | 2017-05-28 | Author:Sarah Gristwood [Gristwood, Sarah]

‘My estate being so uncertain’ ARBELLA, AMID THE bustle of the court, took time to think of her family. She could now be useful; a conduit in the all-important game ...
( Category: Europe June 14,2017 )
Sum It Up by Pat Head Summitt
epub |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Pat Head Summitt [Summitt, Pat]

I walked back in the living room, and I said, “Michelle, I’m afraid we have to cut this visit short. The baby is on its way.” All of a sudden ...
( Category: Coaching June 14,2017 )
Burn Down the Ground by Kambri Crews
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-27 | Author:Kambri Crews [Crews, Kambri]

My ninth grade of school had barely begun when Mom delivered more bad news. “We need to sell Charlie Brown. He costs too much money, Kambri.” I hadn’t been riding ...
( Category: Specific Groups June 14,2017 )
The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin
epub, mobi |eng | 1990-06-13 | Author:Claire Tomalin

I should have written immediately to congratulate you on your then approaching marriage, and to assure you of my most cordial and affectionate interest in all that nearly concerns you, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 14,2017 )
Riding the Bus With My Sister: A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon
epub |eng | 2002-07-29 | Author:Rachel Simon [Simon, Rachel]

Disabilities "Where are we?" I ask. "We're at Tenff and Main," Beth says definitively. "We can't be. We're walking down a street, between two corners." "Tenff and Main." "But look: ...
( Category: Memoirs June 14,2017 )
American Chica by Marie Arana
epub |eng | 2001-06-13 | Author:Marie Arana [Arana, Marie]

THE EARTH WAS always moving in those days. Pachamama was temperamental, moody, shifting her weight heavily beneath us, tossing from side to side. My mother and father were pricked with ...
( Category: Specific Groups June 14,2017 )
Eleven Days of Hell by Yvonne Bornstein
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-22 | Author:Yvonne Bornstein

THE THURSDAY CALL Ian woke up that day with his stomach knotted and it would stay that way the whole day. It was something of a relief that the pediatric ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 14,2017 )
Wesley the Owl by Stacey O'Brien
epub |eng | 2011-05-25 | Author:Stacey O'Brien [O'Brien, Stacey]

I decided that from then on I would tell only trusted friends about him. But, unfortunately, Wesley was advertising his own presence with his interminable mating call. Every time he ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 14,2017 )
The Hite Report by Shere Hite
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Shere Hite

“How most men have tried to have sex with me can be summed up as Insert A into B. Dulldulldulldull.” “Who decides when it’s over?” “It’s over after his orgasm. ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 14,2017 )
The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank by Willy Lindwer
epub |eng | | Author:Willy Lindwer [Lindwer, Willy]

Rachel van Amerongen-Frankfoorder has added the following dedication: In memory of Charles Desiré Lu-A-Si, who fought from the very first hour and was killed in 1942 by the Nazis. BLOEME ...
( Category: World June 14,2017 )
The Locust and the Bird by Hanan Al-Shaykh
epub |eng | 2009-06-13 | Author:Hanan Al-Shaykh [al-Shaykh, Hanan]

Muhammad, despairing that things might never return to the way they’d been, wrote me a letter. I had insisted that all letters be delivered by hand. I could no longer ...
( Category: Specific Groups June 14,2017 )
Scandalous Women: The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious Women by Mahon Elizabeth
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Mahon, Elizabeth [Mahon, Elizabeth]

Carry Nation 1846-1911 Truly does the saloon make a woman bare of all things. —CARRY NATION Both repellent and fascinating, this hatchet-swinging, Bible-thumping, God-appointed vigilante swung through Midwestern saloons, smashing ...
( Category: Women in History June 14,2017 )
The Paper Garden by Peacock Molly
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-11 | Author:Peacock, Molly

Magnolia grandiflora, the Grand Magnolia, Bill Hill, August 26, 1776 Chapter Nine. MAGNOLIA Thin as a billowing white cotton nightgown, Mrs. Delany’s Grand Magnolia lies back in the balmy darkness ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 14,2017 )
Below Stairs by Margaret Powell
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Margaret Powell [Powell, Margaret]

19 CHRISTMAS IN domestic service was nothing like the Christmases we had at home. I remember the excitement there was at home even with little money, the excitement of waking ...
( Category: Memoirs June 14,2017 )
Barefoot in Baghdad by Manal Omar
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-14 | Author:Manal Omar

I celebrated the new year in Baghdad by looking for a doghouse. During one of my random altercations at a checkpoint outside the Green Zone, a U.S. soldier questioned me ...
( Category: Memoirs June 14,2017 )

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