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Not for Everyday Use by Elizabeth Nunez
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Elizabeth Nunez

15 Still I continue to blame the church. I hold the church responsible too for constraining our emotional lives. The constant fear of pregnancy robbed my mother of much of ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement March 25,2019 )
The Lost Prince by Michael Mewshaw
epub |eng | 2018-11-14 | Author:Michael Mewshaw

12 In June, before I decamped to Florida to cover the Benson murder trial, the Conroys landed in Rome in time for a farewell dinner and the next day helped ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2019 )
I.M. by Isaac Mizrahi
epub |eng | | Author:Isaac Mizrahi

* * * By the time I finished Parsons I was officially out as a gay man—except in the old neighborhood. There, the only people who knew my secret were ...
( Category: Fashion & Textile March 25,2019 )
Solitude & Company by Silvana Paternostro
epub |eng | 2019-01-22 | Author:Silvana Paternostro

* María Félix, one of Mexico’s iconic movie stars from the forties and fifties, the golden age of Mexican cinema, is like a Mexican Elizabeth Taylor. 18 Geography Lesson In ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2019 )
Birthday by César Aira
epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:César Aira

VI Like all of my contemporaries, I could die at any moment. Today, tomorrow, yesterday. An accident, or a fatal illness (it wouldn’t be all that unusual, at my age) ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese March 25,2019 )
Mother Winter by Sophia Shalmiyev
epub |eng | | Author:Sophia Shalmiyev

XXV My boyfriend went out to explore my city by himself when I was too despondent to leave our little flat. He was a photographer, constantly snapping pictures of every ...
( Category: Women March 25,2019 )
A Tramp Abroad (Penguin ed.) by Mark Twain
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER XXXI WE NOW PREPARED for a considerable walk,—from Lucerne to Interlaken, over the Brünig Pass. But at the last moment the weather was so good that I changed my ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2019 )
My Young Life by Frederic Tuten
epub |eng | | Author:Frederic Tuten

* * * 11THE BEINECKE LIBRARY AND ME E. J. Beineke was one of the founders of the Beinecke Library at Yale, where, many years later, I did research for ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2019 )
The Man in Song by John M. Alexander
epub |eng | | Author:John M. Alexander

Chapter 9 HEROES HANK WILLIAMS, BOB DYLAN, AND OTHER MUSICAL INFLUENCES A study of the singers and songwriters who influenced Johnny Cash’s life and music From early childhood, Cash forged ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians March 24,2019 )
The Letters of Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis
mobi |eng | 2000-02-14 | Author:Kingsley Amis

TO J.H. McCALLUM – 24 AUGUST 1960 53 Glanmor Road, Uplands, Swansea, Glam., G.B. Dear John, I am really delighted to hear that TAKE A GIRL LIKE YOU has drawn ...
( Category: European March 23,2019 )
Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity by Tyrone Tillery
epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Tyrone Tillery [Tillery, Tyrone]

McKay was especially outraged that his poems had been published in the same publication that had castigated his Home to Harlem. As Claude vehemently put it, "I particularly resent the ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 23,2019 )
Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano by Dana Thomas
epub |eng | 2015-02-09 | Author:Dana Thomas [Thomas, Dana]

• • • FIRST UP WAS MCQUEEN at Givenchy. The show was scheduled for Sunday, January 19, in the sumptuous early-nineteenth-century main hall of the École des Beaux-Arts on the ...
( Category: Fashion Design March 23,2019 )
Outsiders by Lyndall Gordon
epub |eng | 2019-03-19 | Author:Lyndall Gordon

As a child, Olive asked a Basuto woman if she believed in God. She’d heard of the white men’s God, the woman replied, but she did not believe in him. ...
( Category: European March 20,2019 )
CinderGirl by Christina Meredith
epub |eng | 2019-01-13 | Author:Christina Meredith

CHAPTER 9 Sacrificial Prayers The first few weeks with Mother were absolute misery. She had moved me, Christian, Abbeygail, and the youngest, Brinly, into a two-bedroom Vilano Beach condo. The ...
( Category: Child Abuse March 18,2019 )
Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant by Joel Golby
epub |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:Joel Golby

I Have the Monopoly None of us trust each other alone with the board. That is how this has happened. I will describe the scene: I am holding on to ...
( Category: Essays March 16,2019 )

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