Biographies & Memoirs
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-13 | Author:Paul Johnson

This passage may strike a modern reader as surprising. While it shows that Socrates was not inclined to homosexuality, it also shows him passively acquiescent in the face of Alcibiades’ ...
( Category: Philosophers May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:Penn Jillette

“YMCA” —The Village People Scuba Fucking I wanted to be published in Reader’s Digest and Penthouse since I first jerked off to each of them (Penthouse, with all those letters, ...
( Category: Humor May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-16 | Author:McGuinness, Patrick [McGuinness, Patrick]

We spent the afternoon on his files. Our routine: first I fished the day’s file from the computer’s virtual trash can. Then I scrolled down paragraph by paragraph, while Trofim, ...
( Category: Political May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-19 | Author:Pete Wentz

16 John Miller is my new roommate. Right now, he and I are sharing twin beds in my old bedroom, but we’re moving out soon. When I showed up at ...
( Category: Biographical May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Paul Allen

NOT EVERYONE SAW Microsoft in a bad light. I was dining alone one night at Il Mulino, the Italian place in New York’s West Village, when I noticed a middle-aged ...
( Category: Scientists May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-17 | Author:Paul Bacon

Mr. Mattingly clammed up after I got the cuffs on him. To show my appreciation, I continued to let my coworkers think he was a doctor. We drove him back ...
( Category: Law Enforcement May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Piper Laurie

In a Detroit photo booth with my parents and sister, Sherrye. I’m in the bottom right corner, about four years old. At Reslocks, expecting my parents on my eighth birthday ...
( Category: Rich & Famous May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-23 | Author:Po Bronson

• “Am I avoiding the thing I love so that I can’t fail at it?” • “Is my mother instinct keeping me from falling in love with a career? Am ...
( Category: Guides May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-12-31 | Author:Primo Levi

PASQUALE WAS certain that his future biographers would remember him for nothing else: only for that “Annunciation.” He reread it and was enthusiastic, almost in love. He was about to ...
( Category: Short Stories May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Pat Conroy

Chapter Twenty-five If I had to say what I loved most about the city of Charleston, I would say that I loved the stillness and leisure of its early Sunday ...
( Category: Coming of Age May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-11 | Author:Carr, Paul [Carr, Paul]

909 ‘Hey, Paul, don’t drink this.’ Eris was unpacking her suitcase in our bedroom. I’d taken every possible precaution to remove any trace of Hannah from the room, but still, ...
( Category: Memoirs May 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Stefan Kanfer [Kanfer, Stefan]

iii Writer and, later, director Richard Brooks maintained that Humphrey’s renunciation of the First Amendment committee signaled an end “to the illusions of life, that everything is going to be ...
( Category: Rich & Famous May 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-10-15 | Author:Hazleton, Lesley [Hazleton, Lesley]

6. Sinai in which Elijah rides a whirlwind Mount Sinai is an imposing mass of jagged red granite in the southern Sinai desert, set off from the surrounding mountains not ...
( Category: Religious May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-14 | Author:William Alexander

WEEK 33 Miller’s Crossing “You are dealing with forces, young man, when you speak of Wheat and the Railroads, not with men . . . Men have only little to ...
( Category: Bread May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-03-01 | Author:Wallace Earle Stegner

The justifications for reform were extensive, for every condition of land and climate, and every successive land law except the Timber Culture Act of 1873 worked against the city mechanic, ...
( Category: Historical May 7,2014 )