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A Disposition to Be Rich: Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age by Geoffrey C. Ward
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

( Category: Historical September 2,2017 )
A Deeper Blue by Robert Earl Hardy
epub |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:Robert Earl Hardy [Hardy, Robert Earl]

Townes Van Zandt. PHOTO BY JIM MCGUIRE, COURTESY OF NASHVILLEPORTRAITS.COM Townes performing, early 1972. COURTESY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER, ANDREW STERLING. Townes and Fran’s wedding, Houston, Texas, 1965. From left: Fran’s ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2017 )
The Rural Life by Verlyn Klinkenborg
epub |eng | 2007-09-03 | Author:Verlyn Klinkenborg [KLINKENBORG, VERLYN]

Throughout history, the moon has been a byword for mutability, its inconstancy an emblem of the inconstancy of human affairs. One night it rises dark, a new moon. One night ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 2,2017 )
G 8 by Mike Brogan
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Brogan

* * * In the Knokke board house, Edwin D’Hondt shouted “Bastards!” at the television announcer who said, “Today’s G8 Summit meetings have been frank and - ” “I’ll be ...
( Category: True Crime September 2,2017 )
The Rivalry: Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and the Golden Age of Basketball by Taylor John
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-11 | Author:Taylor, John [Taylor, John]

THE WARRIORS had started the season unevenly, but they improved as the months passed, taking second place in the Western Division in January and first place in February. Alex Hannum ...
( Category: Basketball September 2,2017 )
Cherry by Mary Karr
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2001-09-01 | Author:Mary Karr

Chapter Twelve WHILE BOYS ARE CRUISING ROADS in search of liquor or pussy or fistfights that can prove their adolescent prowess and vent their spleens, you and Meredith forge a ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2017 )
40 Chances by Howard G. Buffett
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Howard G. Buffett

( Category: Professionals & Academics September 2,2017 )
A Spoonful of Sugar by Brenda Ashford
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:Brenda Ashford [Ashford, Brenda]

Fun! That was what was missing from her life. So the next day, during our morning walk, I instigated a new game. “Let’s all pretend to make animal noises,” I ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 2,2017 )
A Fort of Nine Towers by Qais Akbar Omar
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Qais Akbar Omar [Omar, Qais Akbar]

When my father went with the men, and my mother was with the women, and my older sister had gone off to get water with the Kuchi girls, it was ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2017 )
15 Months in SOG by Thom Nicholson
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Thom Nicholson [Nicholson, Thom]

12 Bomb Damage Assessments or Run for Your Life, Charlie Brown “Nick, I’m sending you back up to FOB One.” Major Skelton held up his hand to stop my protest. ...
( Category: Military September 2,2017 )
The People by Bernard Malamud
epub |eng | 2011-11-09 | Author:Bernard Malamud

1943 Benefit Performance MAURICE ROSENFELD was conscious of himself as he took the key from his pocket and inserted it into the door of his small apartment. The Jewish actor ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs September 2,2017 )
A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley by Neal Thompson
mobi |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Neal Thompson

( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2017 )
The Ugly Daughter: A Thrilling Real Life Journey to Self Discovery, Riches and Spirituality by Julia Legian & Dawn Burke
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-02 | Author:Julia Legian & Dawn Burke

Chapter 13 Mum took us to another part of the village and told us we would be staying with her Aunty, Grandma’s older sister, for a while. She promised she ...
( Category: Memoirs September 2,2017 )
Laid in Chelsea by Ollie Locke
epub |eng | 2013-03-06 | Author:Ollie Locke

London Girl was studying in Oxford and before long we’d started a long-distance relationship. It was hard to find myself in that situation again, saying goodbye week after week as ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2017 )
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Patricia Cornwell [Cornwell, Patricia]

One Ripper communication received by the police on October 18, 1889, is on an eleven-by-fourteen-inch sheet of azure laid foolscap writing paper, the lettering first drawn in pencil, then beautifully ...
( Category: True Crime September 2,2017 )

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