Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | 2012-12-05 | Author:E. Lynn Harris [Harris, E. Lynn]

THINGS WERE GETTING BETTER at IBM, and in the training program, I was making some treasured friendships with people I had nothing in common with. I was one of the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-28 | Author:E. Lynn Harris [Harris, E. Lynn]

As soon as I walked into the Nickel, I spotted Kyle. He still had his coat on and appeared to be waiting on me. “Don’t take your coat off,” Kyle ...
( Category: Coming of Age February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Baxter Black [Black, Baxter]

I spent two months livin’ in Kansas City when I was thirty-five. I’d grown up in a small town in a county that was 65 percent Spanish-speaking and was not ...
( Category: Humor February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ruth Marshall [Marshall, Ruth]

9 Step 4—Be the Mom “Do your drugs make you high?” my girlfriend Joanie asked me in a whisper one afternoon. It was a perfectly reasonable question that I met ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs February 4,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Donald Keene [Keene, Donald]

Abe Kōbō (1924–1993) I first met Abe Kōbō in the autumn of 1964. He had come to New York in connection with the publication by Knopf of the English translation ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-15 | Author:J. Randy Taraborrelli [Taraborrelli, J. Randy]

The Tony Ward Epiphany On August 16, 1990, Madonna’s thirty-second birthday, she received a package at her home, a gift from Warren Beatty. When she opened the box, she found ...
( Category: Specific Groups February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-16 | Author:Melba Pattillo Beals [Beals, Melba Pattillo]

Mistakes and struggles are part of our human journey. The key is to forgive and pick ourselves up with the faith that life will improve because of lessons learned from ...
( Category: Christian Living February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:Julia Kristeva [Kristeva, Julia]

Matins at nine, “examen” for fifteen minutes with meditation in Spanish upon a particular mystery, all “together in the choir.” Alone and together, meditation and work; the hours of the ...
( Category: Catholicism February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Abigail Thomas [Thomas, Abigail]

Bluefish and Her Father One day on the beach the lifeguard blew his whistle. This was maybe twenty years ago. A large dark stain was moving through the waves, easily ...
( Category: Specific Groups February 4,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-08-10 | Author:Barrie Roberts [Roberts, Barrie]

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO We had the row in the car on the way home. I don’t like rowing with Sheila, partly because I usually lose and partly because my ex-wife could ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs February 4,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-08-02 | Author:Barrie Roberts [Roberts, Barrie]

19. It was still snowing in the morning and I tried to persuade Sheila that she really didn’t need to go to London for her research. She insisted, announcing that ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Dolores Hart & Richard DeNeut [Hart, Dolores & DeNeut, Richard]

Twenty-Two “Formation is from forever to forever.” This expression is not literal in the monastery but one that indicates that a person entering an enclosure of monastic formation needs to ...
( Category: Catholicism February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-13 | Author:Tom Scott

ON THE LAST NIGHT OF the conference, Sonny Ramphal hosted a farewell cocktail party for everyone in an impossibly grand ballroom of an impossibly grand hotel. On hearing that I ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John T. Cullen [Cullen, John T.]

The first blast exploded under the stairs. The massive wood stairwell tilted toward David, forcing the blast upward, and saving him from the main thrust of the explosion. Deafened, he ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-16 | Author:Colleen Kelly Alexander

Chapter 12 You’ve Got to Be Kidding Me Y​OU HAVE TO LET me go home by Christmas,” I begged my caseworker. My depression was mounting; I couldn’t listen to patients ...
( Category: Personal Transformation February 4,2018 )