Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | 2014-07-20 | Author:Doug Swanson

Benny, Teddy Jane, and the children, along with some friends, out for a night on the Strip. 16 “NO WAY TO DUCK” Believe in justice. But spell it “Just Us.” ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]

After creating the universe, all the stars, each grain of sand, the humpback whale and the soft-shell crab, even God tired and took a day off. There’s no argument that ...
( Category: Essays December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

The View from Castle Rock THE FIRST TIME Andrew was ever in Edinburgh he was ten years old. With his father and some other men he climbed a slippery black ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1993-12-26 | Author:Marco Vassi

7 Sweet Satori Blues The dream had the clarity often found in those who fall into a profound sleep after smoking marijuana. Conrad’s body rolled on the mat which lay ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-05 | Author:Victor Serge [Serge, Victor]

6 “A crazy plank, escorted by black sea-horses …” The line is from Rimbaud’s “Bateau ivre” (Drunken Boat) from which Serge also took his chapter heading. (Tr.) FOURTEEN Arrival WE ...
( Category: Political December 27,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw |eng | 2002-08-31 | Author:Peart, Neil [Peart, Neil]

In Palenque I seemed to be “Mr. Out-of-Season” again, for I sat alone at the resort bar (“enduring — or ignoring — Christmas music”), and at dinner the tables were ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1979-12-26 | Author:Kelly Cherry

37 SHE’S HAVING this mole removed,” Norman said. “It seemed like a good opportunity.” He was seated on the Empire sofa in Birdie’s apartment, leaning forward earnestly with his hands ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-07-19 | Author:Phillip Done [Done, Phillip]

ER The other day I walked out to the front of the school and checked the sign on the front of the building. It said, “School.” I guess I really ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Jude Angelini [Angelini, Jude]

crazy sexy cool THE FIRST HIGH SCHOOL GIRLFRIEND I ever had looked like TLC. When people ask which one, I say, “All of ’em.” I was fifteen when I met ...
( Category: Essays December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Grant Fuhr [Fuhr, Grant]

There was another factor in the series that was less heralded but just as key, believes Grant. That was a momentum-shifting hit by his Edmonton teammate Mark Messier. Grant: When ...
( Category: Hockey December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

TO: Maxwell Perkins TLS, 3 pp. Princeton University 1307 Park Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, April 15, 1935. Dear Max: You don’t say anything about “Taps” so I gather it hasn’t caught ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-12-26 | Author:Willie Nelson

The Chorus BIF COLLIE If there’s any man I’d like to have run off with my wife, it would be Willie Nelson. The reason I say that is, Willie already ...
( Category: Piano December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-26 | Author:Elizabeth Hillman Waterston

AROUND THE GLOBE | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1940 Nine missing from convoy Germans claim to have annihilated; merchant cruiser credited with saving most of convoy. Two days later, we hear ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Victor Gregg

At the time I was knocking around with a trio of lads who had left school at the same time as me. We liked hanging around Greek Street and Old ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:Mark Lamster [Lamster, Mark]

RUBENS’S DANGEROUS GAMBIT paid off. At the end of May, Gerbier and Carleton were dispatched to The Hague. Scaglia soon followed. On June 13, Carleton wrote to Edward Conway, the ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs December 27,2014 )