Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | 2016-03-17 | Author:Rosemary Esmonde Peterswald [Peterswald, Rosemary Esmonde]

Chapter 21 A Settler’s Wife… Lae ‘How would you like to go to Lae?’ Rob asked me one evening when sitting in our wicker hanging-basket chairs under the house in ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Di Morrissey

10 IT WAS COOL IN the coconut grove. There were few early morning risers about. Catherine wandered by the ponds where the wild ducks paddled among the water lilies. The ...
( Category: Arts & Photography August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-24 | Author:Erica Fischer

On the second day of each month Aimée and Jaguar celebrated the second of April, the day that Felice first crawled into bed with Lilly. On September 2, 1943, Jaguar ...
( Category: LGBT August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-08-28 | Author:John Matteson

CHAPTER TEN ORCHARD HOUSE “My associations with the place are of the happiest and holiest kind” —A. BRONSON ALCOTT, Journals, April 28, 1880 BRONSON FELT HE HAD A STROKE OF ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-18 | Author:Kathy Page

Bees We were waiting for the 159 bus. I wore my blue tee-shirt and my smart buff trousers with the crease: clean, but they didn’t go together. Belinda had put ...
( Category: Arts & Photography August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-28 | Author:P. R. Reid

A quarrel ensued in which Tunstall told him to check up with the duty officer, and much else besides, and to emphasize some of his points touched the German with ...
( Category: Military August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ransome, Arthur; Hammett, Brian ;

HELSINGFORS: SWINGING THE SHIP NEXT morning I came on deck to find Racundra in the delightful anchorage of the Nylands Yacht Club. The Club House is itself on an island, ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Laura Claridge

18 THE WAR’S END AT AN AFTERNOON BUFFET LUNCH at Manhattan’s Dorset Hotel in early November 1943, Blanche shared stories with Mencken of her brief trip overseas. The newspaperman, rarely ...
( Category: World August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-28 | Author:Helen Forrester

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN We crept through the spring and summer, cursing wet days, rejoicing in warm, dry ones, ignoring petty ailments and hunger, since we could do nothing about either. Several ...
( Category: Memoirs August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Lucy Moore

CHAPTER 8 Mephisto Valse 1914–1918 IN LATE JULY 1914 they went to Budapest to introduce Kyra to her grandmother. From there they planned to travel to St Petersburg to see ...
( Category: Classical August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-14 | Author:Kate Sweeney [Sweeney, Kate]

Chapter 12 Friday was here at last. My stomach was in knots. And Hannah was not making it any easier. She must have called my cell ten times. She called ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-09 | Author:Robin Black

Varieties of Fiction When my then-fourteen-year-old daughter asked if she could read my newly published collection of stories, I hesitated, because of her language-based disabilities. Several of the pieces involve ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-23 | Author:Gavin Maxwell

When first I read that I drew from it a great deal of comfort, until I reached the last lines of the same poem, so completely giving it the lie ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-28 | Author:Saïd Sayrafiezadeh [Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd]

( Category: Politics & Government August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-16 | Author:Simon Callow

CHAPTER TWELVE Orson Welles, Television Needs You AS IF deliberately tipping his hat at George Jean Nathan, Welles’s next engagement after King Lear closed was to perform a scene from ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 28,2017 )