Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:Meredith Quartermain [Quartermain, Meredith]

She paused on the trail and took a breath. Don’t look back. Don’t look down. Don’t look up at the fire tower on top of the mountain where she’d scattered ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Cédric Villani [Villani, Cédric]

Princeton April 1, 2009 The first day of April—the day of fishes and fools! This afternoon watched an episode of Lady Oscar with Claire and the children. Marie-Antoinette, Axel de ...
( Category: History October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lesley Choyce

Spring Surf Spring in Nova Scotia could be dull if it wasn't for the waves. The sky is a low, soft curtain of grey wool and the sea is the ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-10 | Author:Dr Ronald Blythe [Ronald Blythe]

Those who live in the North are used to keeping out the cold by singing with half-closed vowel sounds to prevent the gale-force wind from giving them toothache, and by ...
( Category: Classical October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-04 | Author:Pam Weaver [Pam Weaver]

Rupert had never been shown finger plays either. It took a while for him to get the right finger involved as we said the rhyme but he mastered them eventually. ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 1971-10-10 | Author:John Moore

The Patriarch On that misty autumn evening ten years ago William was already beginning to hobble with the arthritis which was soon to cripple him; I doubt whether he ever ...
( Category: Biographies October 11,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Forgy, Mark [Forgy, Mark]

La Falaise My first exposure to modern architecture in any meaningful way was my introduction to Elmyr’s villa, La Falaise, French for the cliff. It sat atop a saddleback hillside ...
( Category: History October 11,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Andrea Wulf [Wulf, Andrea]

Concord, Massachusetts (Illustration Credit 19.2) Boston was still an important harbour and Thoreau’s hometown Concord just to the west was growing in tandem. Concord had a cotton mill, a shoe ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-18 | Author:Ralph K. Andrist [Andrist, Ralph K.]

Although they had nearly reached the Pacific, the captains and their men were far from the end of their troubles. They were still miles from the mouth of the Columbia, ...
( Category: History October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-09 | Author:Rosie Thomas [Rosie Thomas]

Nine The plane tilted in its last circuit through the dense cloud and swung towards the landing approach. Harry Cotton stretched wearily and gave up the pretence of sleep. He ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Holroyd [Holroyd, Michael]

4 CHRONIC POTENTIAL ‘People were getting too silly’. Augustus John to Gwen John (24 October 1914) ‘All are well at home,’ John reported philosophically, ‘ – the baby-girl a god-send. ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Eliza Filby [Eliza Filby]

The religious delegation, though, pressed ahead and over the next three months senior church representatives from all denominations in Wales, Scotland and England, met with the NUM and eventually Walker ...
( Category: Great Britain October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Clare B. Dunkle [Dunkle B. Clare]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Joe took the morning off, and we met Elena at a pancake place to talk it over. I felt so stressed and jittery that I almost wanted to ...
( Category: Memoirs October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Tracey Goessel

Conversation and laughter ceased suddenly. We were all terribly distressed, especially Douglas, who paced the room in torment. Meanwhile the press, still waiting, had to be seen and no newspaper ...
( Category: Movie Directors October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Patrick Bishop

NINE Soon the chamber was crowded with bodies as the first batch of escapers clambered in. The margarine lamps gave off an orange light, casting gigantic shadows over the walls. ...
( Category: World War II October 11,2015 )