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Opium Nation by Fariba Nawa
epub |eng | | Author:Fariba Nawa

My father gave my mother the name Nafasgul, meaning “the breath of a flower,” as was tradition in their generation—husbands often gave their wives endearing nicknames when they first married. ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction December 28,2015 )
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 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 )
Women who Spied for Britain by Walker Robyn
epub |eng | 2014-05-18 | Author:Walker, Robyn

5 Diana Rowden (1915–44) Code Name: Paulette Late in the afternoon of 6 July 1944, four women arrived at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, the only German extermination camp known to ...
( Category: European December 16,2015 )
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 )
Negroland by Margo Jefferson
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Margo Jefferson

“Be careful what you do, All the o sounds Or Mumbo-Jumbo, God of the Congo, very golden. And all of the other Heavy accents Gods of the Congo, very heavy. ...
( Category: Women in History 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 )
Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace by Peter Janney
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-11-18 | Author:Peter Janney [Janney, Peter]

By 1962, Philip and Katharine Graham’s marriage had come apart and was in freefall. Estranged from Katharine, drinking heavily amid manic-depressive episodes, Phil and his new mistress, Newsweek reporter Robin ...
( Category: Executive Branch November 19,2015 )
Lady Constance Lytton by Lyndsey Jenkins
epub |eng | 2015-11-11 | Author:Lyndsey Jenkins [Lyndsey Jenkins]

There was no keeping her name or her face out of the paper now. The photo of her in the Daily Mirror took up half a page. Beatrice Webb saw ...
( Category: Women in History November 12,2015 )
In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
epub |eng | 2015-09-10 | Author:Yeonmi Park

Thirteen A Deal with the Devil My mother had been gone for only three days when Zhifang tried to rape me. His apartment was laid out with two bedrooms separated ...
( Category: North November 12,2015 )
The Mitford Girls by Mary S. Lovell
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-27 | Author:Mary S. Lovell

If you could have a look, as I have, at some of the less agreeable results of fascism in a country [she wrote to Sydney], I think you would be ...
( Category: England November 11,2015 )
The Irish Revolution, 1916-1923 by Marie Coleman
epub |eng | 2013-11-20 | Author:Marie Coleman [Coleman, Marie]

THE GEOGRAPHY OF WAR The question of why certain young men joined the IRA is linked to the question of why the IRA was more active in certain areas of ...
( Category: European November 10,2015 )
Lady at the O.K. Corral by Ann Kirschner
epub |eng | | Author:Ann Kirschner

JOSEPHINE AND WYATT had followed the boomtown circuit since they left Tombstone, always alert to that mysterious signal that was inaudible to mere mortals, the one that whispered of high ...
( Category: State & Local October 31,2015 )
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
mobi |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Yeonmi Park [Park, Yeonmi]

Thirteen A Deal with the Devil My mother had been gone for only three days when Zhifang tried to rape me. His apartment was laid out with two bedrooms separated ...
( Category: North October 14,2015 )

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