Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | 2011-06-30 | Author:Molly Molloy & Charles Bowden [Molloy, Molly & Bowden, Charles]

For some time, six to eight months or more, I was working inside the police, kidnapping people and then handing them over to other people. The advantage of being a ...
( Category: True Crime November 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Truman Capote

TO JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN As from— 300-½ E. 65th St. October, 1955 Dear M— Despite the (to me) startlingly unjust contents of your Portofino card, I hopefully assume it was ...
( Category: United States November 4,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Waugh, Alexander [Waugh, Alexander]

RUSSIA AND RAVEL Marga went to New York in September 1927 to raise money for Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, and took with her some records of Paul playing music ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs November 4,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-27 | Author:John Steinbeck

MUSSOLINI LONDON, August 9, 1943—The ship was in mid-ocean when Mussolini resigned. Rumor ran among the soldiers and the crew and the Army nurses that something important had happened. Then, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 4,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-10-31 | Author:John Steinbeck

“My mule was a complainer. For a while I thought he simply didn’t like me, but I believe now that he had a sour eye for the world. With every ...
( Category: Travel Writing November 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Kamkwamba, William [William, Kamkwamba,]

TWO WEEKS AFTER BURYING my dog, Cholera swept the district. The epidemic had started in November in the southern region near Mwanza. A farmer from that area traveled to a ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 4,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-11-05 | Author:Lenny Bruce

Chapter Sixteen It was starting to get desperate for us financially, and Honey said, “OK, I’ve got a chance to strip.” “Oh, Christ, no. I don’t want you to go ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-11 | Author:Armin Scheiderbauer [Scheiderbauer, Armin]

Up at the Battalion staff we had a large open Madford Kübelwagen at our disposal. I had brought it up from the regimental baggage-train along with the driver. We drove ...
( Category: Military November 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Karr, Mary [Mary, Karr,]

22 Mass Eye Each spectral port, each human eye is shot through with a hole, and everything we know goes in there, where it feeds a blaze. In a flash ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 4,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Johnson, Paul [Johnson, Paul]

He called for "a premium on effort" and "a penalty on inertia," and he certainly practiced what he preached. Despite his performance as chancellor, however, the country gave thumbs-down to ...
( Category: Historical November 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Koontz, Dean [Dean, Koontz,]

XV water, wonder, work GOLDEN RETRIEVERS ARE water dogs, bred to swim into a lake and bring back the duck you shot. Because I loved Daffy and Donald since childhood, ...
( Category: Pets & Animal Care November 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Kennedy, Edward M [M, Kennedy, Edward]

In the early spring of 1968, America found itself in shock from a loss that in and of itself would have marked the year as catastrophic. On April 4, Martin ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Shawcross, William [William, Shawcross,]

At one communal feeding centre, there was a moment, noted Woolton, at which 'a very dirty child' in its mother's arms grabbed at the Queen's pearls. A photographer ran around ...
( Category: Europe November 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Kidder, Tracy [Tracy, Kidder,]

In his conscious mind, Deo was aware of being afraid, not of dying, but of dying the way his uncle the doctor had, or the family in the house in ...
( Category: Africa November 4,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Brand, Russell [Brand, Russell]

They seemed to be quite good players these men--charging around on that chilly early morning pitch. At one point the ball came bouncing toward me, filling me with that immediate ...
( Category: Memoirs November 4,2017 )