Biographies & Memoirs
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Anne C. Heller

A few months before Atlas Shrugged was published, Bennett Cerf invited his “most interesting” new author to address a Random House sales conference. She stood at the head of the ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Eva Gabrielsson

( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-10-12 | Author:Charles Seife

XIII The hardest part was splitting up from the others and trusting them to do their bit. But he had to. And, though he didn't say as much, when he ...
( Category: Arithmetic March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Brenda Wineapple

Sleeps the bravest of the brave? Is it he who sank to rest With his colors round his breast? Friendship makes his tomb a shrine; Garlands veil it; ask not ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-03 | Author:Esmeralda Santiago

Mami talked to Doña Andrea. She smiled and nodded her head and smiled again. When Doña Andrea handed her a pot full of chickpeas with pig’s feet, Mami didn’t want ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2004-06-22 | Author:Wil Wheaton

Chapter 8. April'S Fool "CREATIVITY IS THE ABSENCE OF FEAR," a friend of mine liked to say. After Vegas, Weakest Link, The Galaxy Ball, and my return "home" on the ...
( Category: Electronic Documents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2009-08-11 | Author:Haruki Murakami

Right now, though, it’s just the beginning of October. It’s starting to feel a bit too cold to run in a tank top, but still too early to wear a ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Vowell, Sarah [Vowell, Sarah]

WHEN KAMEHAMEHA’S HEIR, Liholiho, decided to make his ill-fated state visit to Great Britain in 1823, he sailed on an English whaleship captained by Valentine Starbuck, a member of a ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Dorothy Allison

“How’d you know you were a lesbian?” My sister Wanda was eighteen when she finally asked me that question. We were sitting on the steps of the feminist collective where ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Brad Herzog

“I’m a fifth-generation Athenian,” Bill Hansell begins. He is sixty years old, with a head of white hair that is thinning but hanging on gamely and glasses set in rectangular ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-05-01 | Author:Martha Gellhorn

There the diary finishes; now I am on my own, with a few fairly useless East African notes and my memory. The prospect is daunting. As near as I can ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1973-01-02 | Author:John Steinbeck

PART FOUR When I started this narrative, I knew that sooner or later I would have to have a go at Texas, and I dreaded it. I could have bypassed ...
( Category: Road Travel March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:Ernest Hemingway

–13– A Strange Enough Ending The way it ended with gertrude stein was strange enough. we had become very good friends and i had done a number of practical things ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Paul Hendrickson

When he was two and a half, Hemingway picked up some sheets of his father’s medical stationery and began to draw. It was a Saturday morning in Oak Park. One ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-30 | Author:Mark Doty

A few nights after I wrote those pages, this is what I dreamed: I had to parachute from an airplane in a strange way, sitting in the kind of plastic ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )