Falling in love with Charlotte Lansing, the wife of a drug-lord pornographer, pilot Jason Walker flees for his life with Charlotte from a team of hit men who pursue them through the bars, beaches, and villas of the Caribbean.
At the Strangers’ Gate is a vivid portrait of this time, told through the story of one couple’s journey—from their excited arrival as aspiring artists to their eventual growth into a New York family.
In this remarkable book, Mel White details his twenty-five years of being counseled, exorcised, electric-shocked, prayed for, and nearly driven to suicide because his church said homosexuality was wrong.
"Strangers at the Gate is one of her best.
This book contains the products of work carried out over four decades of research in Italy, France, and the United States, and in the intellectual territory between social movements, comparative politics, and historical sociology.
First published in 1966, and now available once more, this pioneering work examines the relationship between the Chinese civil and military authorities and the British trading community in Guangdong province on the eve of the Taiping ...
Most of the wonderful illustrations created for the 1966 edition of Stranger at the Gates have been reproduced here, and as a special bonus, 26 illustrations that were not included in the original book are included in a gallery of Freedom ...
He looked round him and smiled; at the Comte de Bernard and his father, sitting with a rug over his knees and a glass of champagne in one frail hand, at Louise whom he thought looked especially beautiful in a simple blue dress and a ...
Rich with Gopnik’s signature charm, wit, and joie de vivre, here is the most under-examined corner of the romance of New York: our struggle to turn the glamorous metropolis that seduces us into the home we cannot imagine leaving.
Strangers Within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845-1915
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