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Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History by Ben Mezrich
mobi |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Ben Mezrich [Mezrich, Ben]

* * * The long hours are still flowering. I watch them with my eyes closed and remember how I once played a part in a fairy tale. How the ...
( Category: State & Local December 24,2015 )
When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Terry Tempest Williams [Williams, Terry Tempest]

During the last week of the field course we focused on stream studies, surveying the caddis fly and mayfly larvae living in Richardson Creek. Upstream, students started yelling frantically for ...
( Category: Women December 23,2015 )
Shouting Won't Help by Katherine Bouton
epub |eng | | Author:Katherine Bouton

* * * VOICES: LORIE SINGER Lorie Singer works at the Cochlear Implant Center at New York Eye and Ear and seems to be the go-to person for everything, though ...
( Category: Injury Prevention December 22,2015 )
The Last Act of Love by Cathy Rentzenbrink
epub |eng | | Author:Cathy Rentzenbrink [Rentzenbrink, Cathy]

PLAINTIFFS I went back to Leeds for my final year feeling less burdened than at any other time since the accident. I moved in with Sophie on Delph Lane, a ...
( Category: Special Needs December 21,2015 )
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Gloria Steinem [Steinem, Gloria]

I. As a freelancer, I finally did get one assignment in our nation’s capital—to write about the style of the Kennedy White House. It paid less than I would spend ...
( Category: Women December 21,2015 )
Ada BlackJack by Jennifer Niven
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Niven

* * * McMinnville, Oreg. Aug. 8, 1923 Mr. H. Galle Newbraunfels, Texas.; Dear Sir; You will note that the boys are supposed to be alive and I feel that ...
( Category: Native American & Aboriginal December 21,2015 )
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens
azw3, pdf, epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

Without an audit, it is impossible to say with certainty what becomes of Mother Teresa’s hoards of money, but it is possible to say what the true purpose and nature ...
( Category: General December 21,2015 )
The Lady and the Peacock by Peter Popham
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Peter Popham

PART FOUR HEIRS TO THE KINGDOM 1 ALONE ON the day they placed me under arrest,” Suu told an American journalist who visited her at home in 1995, “this garden ...
( Category: Political December 18,2015 )
Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses by Claire Dederer
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Claire Dederer [Dederer, Claire]

Christmas was its usual gigantic, voracious self, eating time like candy. We squeezed in a visit to Willie in the morning. We drove up and down I-5, grandparent to grandparent. ...
( Category: Yoga December 18,2015 )
Louisa May Alcott by Susan Cheever
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Susan Cheever

Further up the Atlantic Coast, Louisa May Alcott was taking her first trip beyond New England. She hadn’t left Baltimore yet, but her journal is already more Dickensian than Richardsonian. ...
( Category: United States December 17,2015 )
At Home in Japan by Rebecca Otowa
epub |eng | | Author:Rebecca Otowa

For Japanese people, the time of the cherry blossoms is evocative of new beginnings in all walks of life. Children in brand new school uniforms and gleaming bags walk on ...
( Category: General December 14,2015 )
Josephine Baker: The Hungry Heart by Jean-Claude Baker & Chris Chase
mobi |eng | 1992-12-31 | Author:Jean-Claude Baker & Chris Chase [Baker, Jean-Claude & Chase, Chris]

Chapter 29 JOSEPHINE, HEROINE OF THE RESISTANCE “That German cow in my blue satin sheets!” If Hitler hadn’t cast out blacks along with Jews, might Josephine have stayed on in ...
( Category: African-American Studies December 12,2015 )
Where the Bodies Were Buried by T. J. English
epub |eng | 2015-08-06 | Author:T. J. English

9 SURROGATE SON ON THE AFTERNOON of July 2, after Billy Shea completed his testimony, it was time for the trial to adjourn for the Fourth of July holiday. Before ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals December 11,2015 )
After the Stroke by May Sarton
epub |eng | | Author:May Sarton

Sunday, September 28 One of those days when nothing gets done and time runs away under my feet—I’m not running but time is! It is very cold with streaks of ...
( Category: Strokes December 5,2015 )
Lizzie Siddal by Lucinda Hawksley
epub |eng | 2005-06-04 | Author:Lucinda Hawksley [Hawksley, Lucinda]

Lonely without Lizzie, Rossetti spent New Year’s Eve 1855 with the Madox Browns; contrarily, his animosity for Emma had dissipated now that she was no longer able to spend time ...
( Category: Great Britain December 5,2015 )

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