epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anthony Shadid [Shadid, Anthony]

A few days after my visit to the basement workshop, I joined Dr. Khairalla in his kitchen. He had offered to teach me how to make awarma, cooked mutton mixed ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Patrick Radden Keefe [Keefe, Radden Patrick]

During his time in Hong Kong, Ah Kay had developed something of a routine. He spent the days indoors, sleeping, and emerged only in the early evening, surrounded by a ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Sonia Nazario [Nazario, Sonia]

A SMUGGLER For permission to stay in the relative safety of the river encampment, the leader, El Tiríndaro, who is addicted to heroin, usually wants drugs or beer. But he ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-14 | Author:Frank McCourt [McCourt, Frank]

My father applied for a plot out the road in Rosbrien and the government lent him a spade and a fork for the work. He took my brother Malachy and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-02-13 | Author:Luis Alberto Urrea [Urrea, Luis Alberto]

The cutters know many things about a person by the nature of his tracks. They learned something about Mendez and his pollos in the days to come. Mendez always walked ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-01 | Author:Warren St. John

THE 17S WERE not just older and more mature than the 15s; they were much more talented. They were led by a talkative and selfconfident Iraqi refugee named Peshawa Hamad ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:Doug Saunders

THE ARRIVAL CITY TRANSFORMED When he stepped out of his cell in 1986 and hitched a ride back to his house, Sabri at first felt certain that he had taken ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Jimmy Breslin

THE SONG OF Williamsburg was played by thousands and thousands of feet on the wood planks of the walkway on the Williamsburg Bridge, one of three gray iron bridges crossing ...

mobi |eng | 1984-01-02 | Author:Joan Peters

rhaps one of the greatest paradoxes of the history of the “Palestinian Problem” is that the Hope Simpson Report, which by itself contributed substantially to the myth of “displaced” and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2001-05-15 | Author:Edwidge Danticat

WAITING FOR PRAYER It is clear that all art forms share the same technical concerns, such as form, composition, texture, rhythm, balance. All art forms share the same need to ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-18 | Author:Christopher Caldwell

Chapter 8 Rules for Sex Sexual freedom as a nonnegotiable European demand—Virginity and violence—Islam or custom?—The appeal of sharia—Arranged marriages—The Danish marriage law—Controversies over the headscarf—The French veil law—Compulsory liberation ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Bernard Bailyn

* * * * Amsterdam’s bay is shaped like a Y. On the Pythagorean Y emblematic of the choice between evil and virtuous ways, well known to European intellectuals of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-14 | Author:Isabel Wilkerson

LOS ANGELES, 1954 ROBERT JOSEPH PERSHING FOSTER ALICE BEGAN SETTING UP HOUSE in the walk-up apartment Robert had scrambled to secure for his family after the apartment he wanted mysteriously ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Vincent J. Cannato

Chapter 13 Moral Turpitude Poor little me, why did they consider me a dangerous woman? —Vera, Countess of Cathcart, 1926 DRESSED IN A LARGE GREEN FELT HAT WITH A MAT ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Mary Pipher

Day 26—October 21, 1999 Class began with a stern lecture on politeness. The day before, a policeman had visited to answer questions about how the law worked. He was a ...