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In America is a 1999 novel by Susan Sontag. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction . [ 1 ] It is based on the true story of Polish actress Helena Modjeska (called Maryna Zalewska in the book), her arrival in California in 1876, and her ascendancy to American stardom.
(full point) syn. with full stop (q.v.) Many, many uses; see Point (disambiguation) piece of land jutting into any body of water, esp. a river ("points and bends"); a prominence or peak (of mountains, hills, rocks), also an extremity of woods or timber pontoon blackjack, twenty-one a buoyant device pop
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, the story of a young biracial man, was published anonymously in 1912 by James Weldon Johnson who revealed himself as the author in 1927. The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler, anonymously written 1939 book which claims that Adolf Hitler died in 1938 and was subsequently impersonated by look-alikes.
Grok (/ ˈ ɡ r ɒ k /) is a neologism coined by American writer Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land.While the Oxford English Dictionary summarizes the meaning of grok as "to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with" and "to empathize or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment", [1] Heinlein's concept ...
a con artist, transient swindler, or professional gambler (US and UK: con man); also grift can mean an act of thievery or trickery [458] [459] [460] gotten Past participle of "get" ( got in most of the UK); "gotten" is however of British origin, [ 461 ] still retained in some older dialects, and is sometimes now used again under US influence.
Here's everything you need to know about the Marvel covert group's members including Professor X, Captain Carter, Reed Richards and more.
A Man in Full is the second novel by Tom Wolfe, published on November 12, 1998, by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. It is set primarily in Atlanta , with a significant portion of the story also taking place in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area .