Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | | Author:Colman Andrews

PORTS HAD ITS ORIGINS in another restaurant, the Studio Grill, three blocks west along Santa Monica Boulevard. The Grill was opened in 1970 by Jock and his friend Ardison Phillips, ...
( Category: History November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 1996-11-10 | Author:Brian Patrick O'Donoghue [O’Donoghue, Brian Patrick]

“Good to see you so upbeat,” said race Judge Bill Bartlett. “Why not,” I said. “This is fun, and it sure beats working. “I’m not staying long,” I added, grinning ...
( Category: Iditarod & Dog-Sledding November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:Erik Larson [Larson, Erik]

Soon after the poem was published, police at last caught up with Bonnie and Clyde and killed them both. One result of all this mayhem was a host of gangster ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Dalai Lama [Lama, Dalai]

The Problem of Greed Versus the Joys of Philanthropy In today's materialistic world there is a trend of people becoming slaves to money, as though they are parts of a ...
( Category: Dalai Lama November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Ian Morgan Cron [Ian Morgan Cron]

When I got home from the beach, there was a tan Mercedes 450SL convertible with the top down parked in our driveway. My heart sank. “My parents are going to ...
( Category: Spiritual Growth November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Jonathan Raban [Raban, Jonathan]

If that had to go into Latin, one wonders how much of the story must have been unprintable in any language. Later folklorists, trying to gain a larger, younger audience ...
( Category: Sailing November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-11-10 | Author:Bill Bryson [Bryson, Bill]

When we moved to America, the change in electrical systems meant I needed all new stuff for my office—computer, fax machine, answering machine, and so on. I am not good ...
( Category: Travel November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Anatole Broyard [Broyard, Anatole]

12 I found an apartment at last, on Prince Street between Sullivan and Thompson, which was then the south-eastern edge of the Village. It was a tenement like Sheri’s, built ...
( Category: United States November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-13 | Author:Jonathan Franklin

DAY 27: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 From a distance the rescue site at the San José copper mine looked like a construction site gone mad. Huge cranes rattled twenty-four hours a ...
( Category: Chile November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Conor Grennan

Part IV INTO THE MOUNTAINS November 2006-December 2006 Five Farid and I both lived in Kathmandu now. I had my apartment, and Farid had taken a small room—a former pantry, ...
( Category: Child Abuse November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-30 | Author:Christopher Andrew

For several years the New York residency deluded itself into believing that it was able to detect every instance of street surveillance of KGB personnel by the FBI.61 In 1973, ...
( Category: Espionage November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Bekka Black

From: Mina Murray To: Abraham Van Helsing Subject: Can we meet? Sent: June 24 8:25 AM * * * Abe, Thank you for the things you said about Lucy. I ...
( Category: Drawing November 11,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Joseph Ratzinger [Ratzinger, Joseph]

CHAPTER SEVEN The Message of the Parables THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE PARABLES There is no doubt that the parables constitute the heart of Jesus’ preaching. While civilizations have ...
( Category: Catholicism November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Frederick Douglass

Kbb CHAPTER XVIII. NEW RELATIONS AND DUTIES CHANGE OF MASTERS—BENEFITS DERIVED BY THE CHANGE—FAME OF THE FIGHT WITH COVEY—RECKLESS UNCONCERN—AUTHOR’S ABHORRENCE OF SLAVERY—ABILITY TO READ A CAUSE OF PREJUDICE—THE HOLIDAYS—How ...
( Category: African-American Studies November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-11-10 | Author:Geraldine Brooks [Brooks, Geraldine]

Later that year the king’s democratic initiative bore fruit in an election that left Islamic hard-liners dominating the Parliament. Just before the election, a delegation of liberal-minded Jordanians had come ...
( Category: Cultural November 11,2014 )