Biographies & Memoirs
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:Jhumpa Lahiri [Lahiri, Jhumpa]

Mrs. Sen's ELIOT HAD BEEN GOING to Mrs. Sen's for nearly a month, ever since school started in September. The year before he was looked after by a university student ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2005-03-01 | Author:Jeannette Walls

Lori gave me a hug when she heard I’d told off Erma. Mom was upset, though. “We may not agree with all of Erma’s views,” she said, “but we have ...
( Category: Journalists March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Barbara Ehrenreich [Ehrenreich, Barbara]

Selling in Minnesota From the air Minnesota is the very perfection of early summer - the blue of the lakes merging with the blue of the sky, neatly sculpted clouds ...
( Category: Poverty March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-03-04 | Author:Anne Fadiman

Glassrock Health Services will be by at 8:00 p.m. tonight. Give them prescription. Make sure to come to Clinic this Thursday Dec. 11 at 8:00 a.m. Keep egg crate mattress ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:T. C. Boyle

“Sess!” Skid Denton was shouting over the uproar, waving a full shot glass as if he were proposing a toast. “Where’d you find these freaks, anyway—the Ringling Brothers’ circus?” “And ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1987-01-02 | Author:Tom Wolfe

The Bavardages’ dining room walls had been painted with so many coats of burnt-apricot lacquer, fourteen in all, they had the glassy brilliance of a pond reflecting a campfire at ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-03-24 | Author:Ruth Reichl [Reichl, Ruth]

* * * Michael agreed to come, but I could tell that he was uncomfortable about succumbing to the lure of lunch with a famous writer. He sat in hostile ...
( Category: Culinary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1990-01-02 | Author:Tim O'Brien

The Man I Killed His jaw was in his throat, his upper lip and teeth were gone, his one eye was shut, his other eye was a star-shaped hole, his ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-15 | Author:Dave Eggers

sneer. We quote a professor summing up: “A study of Teach for America tells us more about the ideological, even psychological needs of today’s middle-class white and minority youth than ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John le Carré

17 There was Crystalside and there was Townside, and though the two were separated by a mere half-mile as the frigate bird flew, they could have been different islands, because ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-02-15 | Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

54 This morning, I overslept. Which is to say—sloth that I am, I dozed until the ungodly hour of 4:15 AM. I woke up only minutes before the Gurugita was ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-24 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

ON THE DAY OF Miss Tamblyn’s death it happened that Louisa was staying in the Commercial Hotel. She was a traveller then for a company that sold hats, ribbons, handkerchiefs ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng, eng | 2005-03-24 | Author:Jeannette Walls

Lori gave me a hug when she heard I’d told off Erma. Mom was upset, though. “We may not agree with all of Erma’s views,” she said, “but we have ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Denis Johnson [Johnson, Denis]

We walked carefully down there and climbed through the busted fence and stood in the very back. The speakers, which I'd mistaken for grave markers, muttered in unison. Then there ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-12-15 | Author:Michael Chabon [Chabon, Michael]

PART V RADIOMAN 1 The loser at Lupe Velez was obliged to make his bed in the tunnels, out in the pandemonium of Dog-town. There were eighteen dogs, Alaskan malamutes ...
( Category: Jewish March 25,2014 )