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Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:J. M. Coetzee [Coetzee, J.M.]

Fifteen He must find ways to save money. Lodging is his single biggest expense. He advertises in the classified section of the Hampstead local paper: ‘House-sitter available, responsible professional man, ...
( Category: Authors September 9,2017 )
The Tinder Box by A
epub |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:A [A, A]

But he refused to be silenced. 'That's the trouble with murder. Everything gets so damned messy. You're not allowed to sell what's rightfully yours because probate goes into limbo.' His ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense September 8,2017 )
The Village of Waiting by Packer George
epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Packer, George [Packer, George]

CHAPTER 8 Three Africas Ouagadougou The road to Ouagadougou is long from any Direction, and flat and empty. As far as you can see the earth stretches out, cracked and ...
( Category: Anthropology September 7,2017 )
Michael Scott by unknow
epub |eng | 2011-11-22 | Author:unknow

11. Elvis—fat, white-suited Elvis—was standing on the sidewalk across the road from the Las Vegas Wedding Chapel of the Bells. Marilyn Monroe, wearing a badly fitting white dress, was leaning ...
( Category: Individual Artists September 6,2017 )
They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers by Roméo Dallaire; Ishmael Beah
mobi |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Roméo Dallaire; Ishmael Beah

( Category: Social Sciences September 5,2017 )
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War a Memoir by Leymah Gbowee
mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Leymah Gbowee

CHAPTER 13 STANDING UP TO CHARLES TAYLOR AND SITTING DOWN FOR PEACE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS were scheduled to take place in Liberia in 2003, but with Taylor under attack from LURD ...
( Category: World September 5,2017 )
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
mobi |eng | 2007-04-16 | Author:Taylor Branch

During the six-week gestation of the Albany Movement, King unwittingly approached the Albany jail on an airborne path of exhaustion. He arrived home from London just as the November 1 ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 5,2017 )
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 by Taylor Branch
mobi |eng | 2007-04-16 | Author:Taylor Branch

31 Riot Politics KING SPENT MONDAY, July 27, in a crossfire of mediation between Harlem and New York’s City Hall. There, far removed from the rural culture of segregated Mississippi, ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 5,2017 )
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin
epub |eng | 2008-08-13 | Author:John Carlin [Carlin, John]

Real life carried on regardless. Half a mile away from the World Trade Centre, people were working at offices and factories as usual. A mile farther away, passengers checked in ...
( Category: Miscellaneous September 5,2017 )
When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ira Katznelson

III BLACKS ALSO FACED STRUCTURAL and demographic disadvantages—even if institutionalized racism had not been a key feature of the GI Bill, and even if it were the case, as the ...
( Category: Sociology September 5,2017 )
The Ghosts of Cannae by Robert L. O'Connell
epub |eng | 2010-07-13 | Author:Robert L. O'Connell [O’Connell, Robert L.]

[5] As the sun rose on Tuesday, the second day in August, the scarlet tunic signifying battle could be seen displayed above the tent of Terentius Varro, whose turn it ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 4,2017 )
The Zong by James Walvin
epub |eng | | Author:James Walvin

In all this, those seeking freedom found encouragement and support among black friends who were already free and who were conscious of the social and legal possibilities for freedom in ...
( Category: Europe September 4,2017 )
Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold by Frank T. Kryza
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Frank T. Kryza [Kryza, Frank T.]

WITH PACKING CRATES FULL of rich gifts for Sultan Bello, the Clapperton party embarked for Africa from Spithead at the end of August. Clapperton had rested for less than ninety ...
( Category: Africa September 3,2017 )
The Store by Michael Pearson
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Michael Pearson

7 A few hours later, May sat at the escritoire in her little writing-room, unable to keep her eyes from the thick, creased envelope, containing the affidavits of Thomas’ liaison, ...
( Category: Architecture September 3,2017 )
Pillar of Fire by Taylor Branch
epub |eng | 1998-09-02 | Author:Taylor Branch

OF THE MANY Army Reserve officers who completed two-week summer training about midnight Friday at Fort Benning, three friends—all Negroes unsure of finding safe overnight lodging—decided to drive straight through ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 2,2017 )

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