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The passionate years by Crosby Caresse 1892-1970
epub |eng | 1979-01-05 | Author:Crosby, Caresse, 1892-1970

slab of dove-grey marble. This we carried with our first load of possessions to the Mill and placed atop the Tower where the morning sun struck first. We placed it ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 6,2020 )
Americanos by John Charles Chasteen
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-05 | Author:John Charles Chasteen

The Pastuzo people had proved to be among the toughest, most loyal, and most determined of Fernando's subjects in America. Pastuzo society was heavily indigenous, with a high-Andean flavor. Along ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American January 6,2020 )
Exploring Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials by Lois H. Gresh
epub |eng | 2007-10-30 | Author:Lois H. Gresh [Gresh, Lois H.]

7 THE AFTERLIFE: HELL, HARPIES, AND HEAVEN Philip Pullman introduces us to his world of the dead in the third novel of His Dark Materials. It’s in The Amber Spyglass ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 6,2020 )
Native American Literature by Sean Teuton
epub |eng | 2017-10-09 | Author:Sean Teuton

Antiquarians and Indian salvage To succeed, Native American Studies had to tear free of the “salvage anthropology” that shaped the European study of indigenous people from the first moments of ...
( Category: United States January 5,2020 )
Tim by Colleen Mccullough
epub |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Colleen Mccullough [Mccullough, Colleen]

Nineteen Tim sat silently in the car all the way to Artarmon. He had not slept in her Sydney house very often, and the room he always occupied there did ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic January 4,2020 )
Perfect Blue: Awaken from a Dream by Yoshikazu Takeuchi
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-04-23 | Author:Yoshikazu Takeuchi [Takeuchi, Yoshikazu]

Yuma summoned every last shred of willpower she had and used it to keep fleeing from the voice. But even that willpower was beginning to weaken. What good will running ...
( Category: Asian January 4,2020 )
Sexual Dissidence by Jonathan Dollimore
epub |eng | 2018-07-23 | Author:Jonathan Dollimore

1 See especially Lewes’s detailed recent history, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality. 2 Writing in 1948, Kinsey and others pointed out that previous so-called ‘scientific’ classifications of perversions by ...
( Category: LGBT January 3,2020 )
Shostakovich by Elizabeth Wilson
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Elizabeth Wilson [Elizabeth Wilson]

With Stalin’s death in March 1953, I noticed Dmitri Dmitriyevich’s sense of relief. Although the enormous pressure that weighed on him throughout life was somewhat eased, he felt no sense ...
( Category: Classical January 2,2020 )
How to Be an Antiracist by Kendi Ibram X
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:Kendi, Ibram X. [Kendi, Ibram X.]

* * * — DARK GHETTO WAS a groundbreaking study of the Black poor during President Johnson’s war on poverty in the 1960s, when scholarship on poverty was ascendant, like ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 2,2020 )
Habibi by Craig Thompson
mobi |eng | 2011-09-03 | Author:Craig Thompson [Thompson, Craig]

( Category: Renaissance January 2,2020 )
Russia by Carleton Gregory
epub |eng | 2017-04-23 | Author:Carleton, Gregory [Carleton, Gregory]

Brest follows this Western tradition, but it does so while also operating as a model of Russia itself, which is why I highlight it here instead of more famous and ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 2,2020 )
American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way by Paul Freedman
azw3 |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Paul Freedman [Freedman, Paul]

HEINZ 57 VARIETIES15 Oven-Baked Beans with Pork and Tomato Sauce Oven-Baked Beans without Tomato Sauce, with Pork—Boston Style Oven-Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce without Meat—Vegetarian Oven-Baked Red Kidney Beans Cream ...
( Category: Soul Food January 2,2020 )
A Dictionary of Sources of Tolkien by David Day
azw3 |eng | 2019-10-16 | Author:David Day [Day, David]

Noldor Elves NORSE MYTHOLOGY The myths and legends of the Norse people found in a rich body of medieval texts, principally such Old Norse poems as the Poetic Edda and ...
( Category: Modern January 2,2020 )
Charles Dickens by Jenny Hartley
epub |eng | 2018-12-07 | Author:Jenny Hartley

Coming to the city The young man coming to the city to seek his fortune is an old story. Dickens told it himself many times, with its stages of initiation, ...
( Category: Modern January 2,2020 )
Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion …So Far by Terry Pratchett
epub |eng | 2012-11-08 | Author:Terry Pratchett [Pratchett, Terry]

( Category: European December 31,2019 )

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