Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | 2009-05-19 | Author:Walter Kirn [Kirn, Walter]

The fear of a terrible reckoning, of expulsion, of banishment from the ninety-ninth percentile and a quick trip to whatever hell is reserved for fallen overachievers who’ve mastered or out-maneuvered ...
( Category: Memoirs May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Kevin Malarkey & Alex Malarkey [Malarkey, Kevin & Malarkey, Alex]

* * * As with anything worthwhile, the real work started after the fun of the new enterprise had worn off. As Alex tried to form words, we were both ...
( Category: Religious May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2002-10-15 | Author:Howard Marks [Marks, Howard]

One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free You’ll find a god in every golden cloister And if you’re lucky ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-22 | Author:Daniel Asa Rose [Rose, Daniel Asa]

WHY I’M MORE AND MORE FREAKED BY CHINA Now that I’ve left Larry’s room, I can admit that his premonition rattled me. He’s right about so many things. Will he ...
( Category: Memoirs May 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Abby Johnson & Cindy Lambert [Johnson, Abby & Lambert, Cindy]

Well, the secrets have never been hidden from You, God, and now they aren’t hidden from me anymore either. I’ve seen them. I repent. I turn away. Never again, never ...
( Category: Social Issues May 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:James McGrath Morris [Morris, James McGrath]

Angry about his paper’s conduct, complaining about all his ailments, and dispirited, Pulitzer found no solace in Paris. He returned to Wiesbaden to see Dr. Hermann Pagenstecher, one of the ...
( Category: United States May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-05-18 | Author:Michael Ruhlman [Ruhlman, Michael]

“I took it really seriously,” Melissa says, recalling her first head chef position. Once all the cooks have arrived, Melissa typically works at a small sink station, between the line ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference May 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Ruth Brandon [Brandon, Ruth]

I On April 1, 1965, Helena Rubinstein relinquished her avid grip on life. In a memoir published the previous year she had for the first time admitted her real birthdate. ...
( Category: Health, Fitness & Dieting May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-29 | Author:Alan Partridge [Partridge, Alan]

152 Press play on Track 29. 153 As I say, he’s a good guy. He’d become chummy with me after a falling out with Des Lynam several years before at ...
( Category: Memoirs May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Sarah Bakewell [Bakewell, Sarah]

11. Q. How to live? A. Live temperately RAISING AND LOWERING THE TEMPERATURE IN MANY WAYS, readers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries found it easy to like ...
( Category: Philosophers May 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Wilbert Rideau [Rideau, Wilbert]

9 Soldiering On 1986—1990 Which is worse: death by execution or spending the rest of your life in prison? That was a question I was asked to answer on July ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-02-02 | Author:Myron Uhlberg [Uhlberg, Myron]

Irwin and I with our father at Coney Island We kids sat on beach towels in the middle of the ever-expanding circle, like small animals in a human cage made ...
( Category: Hearing Problems May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-05 | Author:Elizabeth Gilbert [Gilbert, Elizabeth]

By the way, have I mentioned the fact that Keo's wife was pregnant? In fact, the baby was due the very week that I met Keo and hired him to ...
( Category: Women May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Lisa Tracy [Tracy, Lisa]

A PAIR OF OLD PISTOLS were the perfect example of that phenomenon, and their almost-famousness was in the end part of what saved them from going under Bill Harlowe’s gavel. ...
( Category: Furniture May 27,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-06-26 | Author:Bill Buford [Buford, Bill]

MEANWHILE, the polenta was developing a new texture, its third metamorphosis. In the beginning, it had been soupy but thirsty. Then, after an hour, it was shiny and cakey and ...
( Category: Authors May 27,2014 )