Biographies & Memoirs
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Andre Dubus; Iii

BY LATE fall, Jeb and I were building things together again. Our boss was Trevor D., a lanky British man who wanted to be a millionaire before he turned thirty. ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-10 | Author:Elizabeth McCracken

Years before I’d given away an antique postcard that said, beneath a drawing of a pine branch: For thee I pine. For thee I balsam. (I regretted giving away that ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1987-01-02 | Author:Annie Dillard

BUT HE SAID UNTO JESUS, And who is my neighbor? And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves. And he said ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Elie Wiesel

“How much is a life worth?” “I have no idea.” “Think about it, please.” “I can’t.” “Try. You have to admit it’s an important question. The Germans are ready to ...
( Category: France March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2005-11-22 | Author:Robert Thacker

Yet for Munro’s art and the growth of her career, these new arrangements were much more than publication by the continent’s leading venue for short fiction. Her return to Huron ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Janet Groth

FRITZ I ACQUIRED MY NEXT SERIOUS boyfriend indirectly by way of a Talk reporter named Bill Murray. In those days, men who came up to meet New Yorker writers for ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Unknown

MAN BITES DOG Anyone observing the tigerish pacings, the gnawings of lip, the contortions of brow, and the fierce melancholy which characterized the conduct of Mr. Ellery Queen, the noted ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-09-15 | Author:John Steinbeck; Edward Flanders Ricketts

17 MARCH 27 We had collected extensively on the outer parts of Puerto Escondido, but not in the inner bay itself. At five-thirty A.M. Mexican time, we set out to ...
( Category: Travel March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-06 | Author:James Boswell

He said, ‘Dr. Mead lived more in the broad sunshine of life than almost any man.’ The disaster of General Burgoyne’s army was then the common topic of conversation. It ...
( Category: Research March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf | | | Author:Maya Angelou

The next morning my interior decorating met with stony disapproval. The old sofa was wrong for a man in my husband's position and the secondhand-store bedroom set definitely had to ...
( Category: African American Poetry March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa

I was never much of a fisherman. Like any boy of my age and modest means, I used an ordinary rod with a hook, sinker and cork float tied to ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Lorenzo Carcaterra

6 VISITORS WERE ALLOWED into Wilkinson on rotating weekend mornings, for a maximum of one hour. Only one visitor per inmate was permitted. Early into my stay, I had written ...
( Category: Hoaxes & Deceptions March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Homer Hickam

DURING THE man-trip ride inside one morning, it occurred to me that Bobby was four years older than me and might, as a result, have a tad more experience with ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 1994-11-10 | Author:Mikal Gilmore

GAYLEN’S STORY IS ANOTHER matter, and trying to tell it raises some peculiar problems for me. Aside from my father, Gaylen—who was born as Gaylen Noel Gilmore—was the only member ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Thomas Keneally

Ten * * * Even in 1981, the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was considered mildly dangerous, transporting people through former battlefields where the wreckage of tanks and trucks ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )