Biographies & Memoirs
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 1999-10-15 | Author:Frank McCourt

THE PLOT When the war started and food was rationed in Ireland the government offered poor families plots of land in fields outside Limerick. Each family could have a sixteenth ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-04-13 | Author:Nicholas Sparks; Micah Sparks

Late in the day, we headed back to Ayers Rock for the third time. This would be our chance to see how it changed colors at sunset. “I’m beginning to ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1980-01-02 | Author:Nicholas Sparks & Micah Sparks

Late in the day, we headed back to Ayers Rock for the third time. This would be our chance to see how it changed colors at sunset. “I’m beginning to ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-02 | Author:Oscar Hijuelos

Tucked back into that period, some months after I had turned eighteen, I had ended up in yet another smoke-filled room, this one situated in the draft board offices downtown ...
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mobi, epub | | 1998-10-14 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson

I drove straight to the hotel after renting the car. There was still no sign of my attorney, so I decided to check in on my own - if only ...
( Category: Journalists March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1978-01-01 | Author:Ivan Doig

One shard of time repeats itself like the snow-helmets of mountains across each season of my memory. An edged piece of the day, that is, in the strictest sense—the high ...
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mobi, azw3 |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:Annie Dillard

Here is a fairly sober version of what happens in the small room between the writer and the work itself. It is similar to what happens between a painter and ...
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mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-06 | Author:Sarah Vowell

In 1635, Williams’s surging obsession with his wall of separation between church and state turns him into a bricklayer straight out of Poe—barricading himself into his lonely little garden until ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-02 | Author:Lillian S Carl

The Vorkosigan Saga Concordance Kerrie Hughes, John Helfers, and Ed Burkhead The following abbreviations are used to denote where the defined term appeared in the Vorkosigan Saga novels: B:Barrayar BA:Brothers ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2006-08-01 | Author:J. R. Moehringer

twenty-four | FATHER AMTRAK ^ SIDNEY’S AGITA PASSED AND I LEARNED MY LESSON. I ADOPTED A policy of speaking less, listening more. I went on loving her uncontrollably, desperately, but ...
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mobi |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Karen Armstrong

5. Desiring This Man’s Gift and That Man’s Scope The English department at Bedford College, located in a Regency house beside the Regent’s Park lake, was a haven of quiet ...
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mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Gregor von Rezzori

It was never revealed to me in what exactly his duties at the office consisted. No doubt some desk-job activities, though it remained unfathomable how and when he accomplished these. ...
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mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | 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 ...
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mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sebastian Barry

chapter fifteen Dr Grene's Commonplace Book Curious and upsetting news today about John Kane. At a staff meeting we were trying to field a report from one of the wards. ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-03-01 | Author:Jeannette Walls

IN LATE WINTER, Mom and Dad decided to drive the Oldsmobile back to Phoenix. They said they were going to fetch our bikes and all the other stuff we'd had ...
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