Arts & Photography
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:Walsh, Stephen [Walsh, Stephen]

By the time Musorgsky put pen to paper on his own new opera, late in October 1868, he had both Lohengrin and parts of the first act of The Maid ...
( Category: Classical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Sherill Tippins [Tippins, Sherill]

8 Naked Lunch Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine. —PATTI SMITH, “Oath” TO THE BELEAGUERED COUPLE who unlocked its door, the tiny chamber assigned to them wasn’t just ...
( Category: Houses & Hotels March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-26 | Author:Shalhoup, Mara [Shalhoup, Mara]

For the past eight months, a federal manhunt had been under way for a St. Louis fugitive named Deron “Wonnie” Gatling. Wonnie (or “Magic,” as he also was known) was ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:James A. Owen

When Artus and John rejoined them, Bert raised the question of how they would get from Byblos to the Cartographer’s island. “I thought perhaps we might summon those cranes that ...
( Category: Reference March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-24 | Author:Jess Walter [Walter, Jess]

FIFTEEN KAREN DEGAN GRIPPED TIGHTLY the hands of her two sons and walked into the slate-roofed Sacred Heart Church, where nineteen years earlier she’d married a strong, quiet football player. ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Morton [Morton, Andrew]

During their marriage Diana found it embarrassing that when she and the Prince of Wales went away he took more luggage than she did: ‘I am always appalled that Prince ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:John Berger [Berger, John]

Those who admire Antonioni’s films often say that he narrates like a novelist. Those who criticise his films often accuse them of being abstract, over-aesthetic, formalist. It seems to me ...
( Category: Criticism March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-08 | Author:Tiffanie DeBartolo [DeBartolo, Tiffanie]

As we drove back over the bridge, Jacob’s gloom permeated the car like thick smoke. Thomas Doorley had broken his heart yet again. I felt like I’d instigated the whole ...
( Category: Romantic Comedy March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-03-24 | Author:Crystal Zevon [Crystal Zevon]

December 4, 1987 …Meeting at Virgin—Jeff, Jordan & Andy. Disappointing sales, how we spent twice our budget, how they’d spent over a million—predictable stuff. I talked a little about making ...
( Category: Rock March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:P G Wodehouse [P G Wodehouse]

It was with uplifted heart that I entered the cottage. Nor was my satisfaction lessened by the discovery that Brinkley had not yet returned. As an employer, I might look ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Anne Michaels [Michaels, Anne]

Most of the individuals portrayed in these pages are accompanied by their own words. Sometimes an individual’s words are brought together from more than one source. On occasion, the words ...
( Category: Portraits March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sheila Hale

Titian took the cue for his large, stormy Ecce Homo (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum) from Aretino’s Humanity of Christ, first published in 1535, in which the writer had added his own ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-01-30 | Author:Katharine McMahon

[ 9 ] AFTER SARAH HAD gone, I was triumphant at first. Good, she obeyed me. But what with the long trek home, her shrieking, and the blow of finding ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-20 | Author:Vanessa North [North, Vanessa]

Chapter Eleven TED MET THE WOLVES from Amazon at the entrance to the Murphy estate. He reached out and enfolded his youngest brother in a hug. “Fionn, thank Goddess you ...
( Category: Drawing March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:David Henry & Joe Henry [Henry, David & Henry, Joe]

“LET IT STAY HEAVY IF NOT HARD” Mel Brooks initially turned down the chance to do Blazing Saddles when his agent David Begelman showed him the screen treatment—then titled “Tex ...
( Category: Actor & Entertainer Biographies March 25,2014 )