mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Eva Kor

CHAPTER SEVEN At Auschwitz-Birkenau we never knew what tomorrow would bring. Each day brought challenges for us to survive. Miriam was very sick with something besides just the incessant diarrhea ...

mobi |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Laurence Bergreen

The Spanish refused to shoulder the blame. The mass suicide resulted from the Indians’ “own stubbornness,” said Peter Martyr. “The Indians purposely destroyed all their bread [cassava] fields,” Columbus told ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-02-01 | Author:Greg Mortenson

CHAPTER 14 EQUILIBRIUM The seeming opposition between life and death is now cut through. Do not thrash or lunge or flee. There is no longer a container or anything to ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Ellen DeGeneres

Note: This chapter was dictated but not read. Aspirations: A Short Short Story I want to be an astronaut when I grow up,” said young Delilah. “You live in a ...

mobi |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Kathleen Krull

CHAPTER EIGHT The Fabulous Notebooks AT THE TIME Leonardo’s mules were schlepping the notebooks around Italy, the pages were valuable only to their author. Today they are among the most ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Arsenault, Raymond

7 Freedom’s Coming and It Won’t Be Long We took a trip on a Greyhound bus, Freedom’s coming and it won’t be long. To fight segregation where we must, Freedom’s ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-30 | Author:Roald Dahl

Nanny, who in my eyes was filled with more wisdom than Solomon, replied, ‘Whenever a bristle comes out of your toothbrush and you swallow it, it sticks in your appendix ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Jon Meacham

THIRTY-SEVEN A DEEP, DARK, AND WIDESPREAD CONSPIRACY The designs of our Cataline are as real as they are romantic. —THOMAS JEFFERSON, on Aaron Burr’s western maneuvers JEFFERSON’S WINTER WAS BRIGHTENED ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Ellen Degeneres [DeGeneres, Ellen]

I am not a lazy person. In fact, I’m a very busy, hardworking person. I host a daily talk show. I have my own production company. I have my own ...

mobi |eng | 2010-11-16 | Author:Barack Obama; Loren Long

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE (1887–1986) is one of America’s best-known artists. Born in Wisconsin, she also lived in New York City; near Lake George, New York; and in New Mexico, and is ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-19 | Author:Jackie Robinson

XI Campaigning for Nixon I do not consider my decision to back Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy for the Presidency in 1960 one of my finer ones. It was ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-06 | Author:Deborah Ellis

I was part of the Freedom Train that went across the country to protest the pipeline. I loved being on the train with all the other people from other First ...

epub |eng | | Author:Greg Mortenson

CHAPTER 10 Sarfraz’s Promise Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters. —ERNEST HEMINGWAY, The Sun Also Rises Two sisters in UNHCR earthquake refugee camp, Pakistan While ...

epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Tomie dePaola

Chapter Eight Mom told me that after Dancing School we would go shopping. Dad and Buddy would meet us with Maureen. One of the things we would buy is the ...

epub |eng | | Author:E.L. Konigsburg

11 AND SO IT WAS. The world well knows the story of the feud that developed between my son, King Henry, and his Archbishop, Thomas Becket. Shortly after he was ...