azw3, epub |eng | 2021-03-26 | Author:Linda Brent

XIX The Children Sold The Doc­tor came back from New York, of course with­out ac­com­plish­ing his pur­pose. He had ex­pend­ed con­sid­er­able mon­ey, and was rather dis­heart­ened. My broth­er and the ...

epub | | 2010-04-27 | Author:Wes Moore & Tavis Smiley [Moore, Wes]

As I sat on the other end of the line, listening to my mother talk about "sacrifice," I had no idea what my grandparents had given up. The five minutes ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:John Okada [Okada, John]

After Kenji had left him, the father walked down the hill to the neighborhood Safeway and bought a large roasting chicken. It was a fat bird with bulging drumsticks and, ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-04-19 | Author:John Lang

epub |eng | 2013-10-12 | Author:Yousafzai, Malala u Lamb, Christina [Yousafzai, Malala u Lamb, Christina]

Adam took us to Islamabad. It was the first time I had ever visited. Islamabad was a beautiful place with nice white bungalows and broad roads, though it has none ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-01 | Author:White, Angela [White, Angela]

2 Angela came to his side as the camp began to drop their votes in the box. “You know what this will cause?” Adrian’s answer was silent. “It will make ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-02 | Author:Zach Fortier [Fortier, Zach]

A couple of years passed, and I saw White on the street one day with her new female lover. She looked pregnant, so I stopped and talked to her and ...

epub |eng | 2020-05-02 | Author:Michelle Parise [Parise, Michelle]

When He’s Here When he’s here with me, I feel calm. There are no waves, the sea is as flat as a table, the sun warm on my skin. His ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-26 | Author:O'Neill, Bill

George Washington America’s First and Foremost Hero A book about great American heroes wouldn’t be complete without a chapter dedicated to the first hero, George Washington. Even Americans who are ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-21 | Author:Zitkala-Sa [Zitkala-Sa]

THE SOFT-HEARTED SIOUX I Beside the open fire I sat within our tepee. With my red blanket wrapped tightly about my crossed legs, I was thinking of the coming season, ...

epub |eng | 2021-03-02 | Author:Olivia Campbell [Campbell, Olivia]

* * * In the summer term, five became seven. The women welcomed two more students: Emily Bovell and Mary Anderson (sister of Ford, the resident medical officer at Middlesex ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-02 | Author:Booker T. Washington [Washington, Booker T.]

CHAPTER XII — Raising Money When we opened our boarding department, we provided rooms in the attic of Porter Hall, our first building, for a number of girls. But the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jill Norgren [Norgren, Jill]

Law Schools Bring in Women Faculty and Deans In 1986 Barbara Aronstein Black became the dean of the Columbia Law School, from which she had graduated in 1955. She took ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Mark Owen

CHAPTER 8 Shoot, Move, and Communicate Relationships The dogs were keeping up a steady bark as we patrolled toward the compound. I could hear them as soon as the sound ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-29 | Author:Tonie Holt