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Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother by Roald Dahl Donald Sturrock (Editor)
epub |eng | 2016-08-19 | Author:Roald Dahl, Donald Sturrock (Editor)

Roald, shortly after he began his RAF flying training in Nairobi, 1939. Of the sixteen people with whom he did his initial training, only three survived the war. Ultimately I ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 7,2017 )
Aphra Behn: A Secret Life by Janet Todd
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Janet Todd

Chapter 21 Free-thinking in Politics and Religion ‘Beyond poor Feeble Faith’s dull Oracles’ Behn had reluctantly followed the times in using plays as overt propaganda and was glad of some ...
( Category: Modern November 7,2017 )
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
epub |eng | 1961-01-01 | Author:Gunter Grass [Grass, Gunter]

Bebra's Theater at the Front In mid-June of forty-two, my son Kurt turned one year old. Oskar, his father, took it in stride, thought to himself: Just two short years ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage November 5,2017 )
My Father and Myself by J. R. Ackerley
epub |eng | 2012-10-31 | Author:J. R. Ackerley

( Category: Authors November 5,2017 )
Fierce at Four Foot Two by Terra Jolé
epub |eng | 2017-08-07 | Author:Terra Jolé [Jole, Terra]

( Category: Arts & Literature November 5,2017 )
Read Between the Lines by Jenelle Evans
epub |eng | 2017-06-14 | Author:Jenelle Evans [Evans, Jenelle]

My last entry in the Doll Diary sees me a little over a year later, and with a new man. Emphasis on man. Andrew was twenty-two when we first discovered ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 5,2017 )
Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote by Truman Capote
mobi |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Truman Capote

TO JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN As from— 300-½ E. 65th St. October, 1955 Dear M— Despite the (to me) startlingly unjust contents of your Portofino card, I hopefully assume it was ...
( Category: United States November 4,2017 )
The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-10-31 | Author:John Steinbeck

“My mule was a complainer. For a while I thought he simply didn’t like me, but I believe now that he had a sour eye for the world. With every ...
( Category: Travel Writing November 4,2017 )
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-11-05 | Author:Lenny Bruce

Chapter Sixteen It was starting to get desperate for us financially, and Honey said, “OK, I’ve got a chance to strip.” “Oh, Christ, no. I don’t want you to go ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 4,2017 )
Lit (2009) by Karr Mary
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Karr, Mary [Mary, Karr,]

22 Mass Eye Each spectral port, each human eye is shot through with a hole, and everything we know goes in there, where it feeds a blaze. In a flash ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 4,2017 )
My Booky Wook (2009) by Brand Russell
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Brand, Russell [Brand, Russell]

They seemed to be quite good players these men--charging around on that chilly early morning pitch. At one point the ball came bouncing toward me, filling me with that immediate ...
( Category: Memoirs November 4,2017 )
The Crown by Robert Lacey
epub |eng | 2017-05-20 | Author:Robert Lacey [Lacey, Robert]

July 1953: Tabloid newspaper debate over the issues raised by the romance between Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend demolished the previous barriers of reticence in press coverage of the royal ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 4,2017 )
I'm the Man by Scott Ian
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Scott Ian

Chapter 18 BRING THE NOISE One day I was fucking around with a riff and I thought it sounded like the horn part in the PE song “Bring the Noise,” ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 3,2017 )
The Truth About Trump by Michael D'Antonio
epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Michael D'Antonio [D'Antonio, Michael]

10 TRUMP THE SPECTACLE I am the creator of my own comic book, and I love living in it. —DONALD TRUMP Donald Trump never went bankrupt. He would frequently and ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 3,2017 )
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography by Elaine Showalter
mobi |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Elaine Showalter

THE CIVIL WAR The 1860s were the ten most momentous years of Julia’s life. In 1860, she was forty-one years old. She had given birth to her sixth child, but ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 3,2017 )

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