Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | 2012-08-31 | Author:Laura Del-Rivo

He pulled her out of her chair to sit on his knee. Kissing her was an oblivion. It was any mouth, any arms. After a while, she said: ‘Excuse me ...
( Category: Arts & Photography November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-22 | Author:Lucinda Ruh

9 Unknown to Known (ZURICH) A short day of sorrow lasts longer than a long month of happiness. With sadness tucked away firmly in our hearts, by the end of ...
( Category: Biographies November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-22 | Author:Mary Beard

Comments The style guide of the Guardian newspaper has this entry: ′innocent civilians: the adjective is superfluous′ MICHAEL BULLEY Weren′t Marcus Aurelius′ campaigns against the Germans defensive rather than offensive? ...
( Category: European November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Harlow Giles Unger [Unger, Harlow Giles]

The Philosophic Cock, by political cartoonist James Akin (1773–1846), shows President Thomas Jefferson as an admiring rooster and his slave Sally Hemings as the hen. The text in fine print ...
( Category: United States November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:David Crowe [DAVID M . CROWE]

Oskar responds by slowly emptying a small pouch of six or seven large diamonds on Baer’s desk. As he does this, he reassures Baer: “Allow me to express the reason. ...
( Category: Arts & Photography November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Bill Minutaglio [MINUTAGLIO, BILL/DAVIS, STEVEN L.]

Right now parents who had wanted their children to see the famous Dr. King are pulling their kids closer. James has to be afraid that this crowning moment, this civil ...
( Category: Executive Branch November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-09 | Author:James Young

Civitavecchia The harmonium was swaddled in its old blanket, like a refugee’s sad bundle. It was Nico’s only real possession. Without it she had nothing to trade – even though ...
( Category: Voice November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Bobbie Ann Mason [Mason, Bobbie Ann]

Meanwhile, at home, my mother wrote me about the garden and the weather and broken machinery. She wrote, “You told about reading about that guy that built a cabin at ...
( Category: United States November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Emelyn Heaps

Chapter 8 – a Taste of ‘Compo’ I was told that almost everyone in Inchicore turned out for Catherine’s funeral. Her small, white coffin was taken from St Vincent’s hospital ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs November 23,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-08-06 | Author:Stella Tillyard [Tillyard, Stella]

PART THREE ‘Are you not delighted with our dear little Sally’s thinking herself with child?’ Caroline to Emily, 14 June 1768. ‘I am very glad you have bought that place ...
( Category: Great Britain November 23,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-07-07 | Author:Jacqueline Rose

They were responding at least partly to a documentary on honour crimes, screened internationally as well as at the UN, which opened with the image of a mosque and the ...
( Category: Women November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Mick Fleetwood & Anthony Bozza [Fleetwood, Mick]

CHAPTER 10 THE ‘WHITE’ ALBUM Out at their beach-side apartment in Malibu, Christine started writing songs for what would become our album. She had an old, worn-in Hohner electric piano ...
( Category: Rock November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Gary Krist [Krist, Gary]

UP on Esplanade Avenue—far from the ongoing turmoil in Black and White Storyville—retired madam Josie Arlington had fallen gravely ill. Sometime in early 1913, right around the time of the ...
( Category: State & Local November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Ron Perlman [Perlman, Ron]

Mom, Dad, and I visiting my bro playin’ a gig at the Concord Hotel, Catskills, New York, circa 1964. From the author’s personal collection. My dad, immersed in what he ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-19 | Author:Tamekia Nicole [Nicole, Tamekia]

CHAPTER 26 TRANSIETS Without a car, Santa Rita felt like a million miles away. I took the light rail, and three buses and I was there just as he was ...
( Category: Memoirs November 23,2014 )