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The Encore by Charity Tillemann-Dick
epub |eng | | Author:Charity Tillemann-Dick

Overnight, Mom, Liberty, Mercina, and Glorianna have turned the hospital room into a Christmas dream. Stockings hang, lights twinkle, and exquisite paper snowflakes drift through the air. It’s lovely. My ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 19,2017 )
After Andy by Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni
epub |eng | 2017-08-01 | Author:Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni

13 Frederick W. Hughes Fred Hughes was the first person to be told by New York Hospital that Andy Warhol had died. It made sense, since Warhol had named him ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 19,2017 )
Letters to His Neighbor by Marcel Proust
epub |eng | 2017-08-22 | Author:Marcel Proust

Translator’s afterword As we read these letters, it is helpful to picture the room in which Proust wrote them, and him in the room. Although one would imagine that the ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 19,2017 )
The Ticking Is the Bomb by Nick Flynn
epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Nick Flynn

mexico (the war) I have a packet of photographs from when my grandparents were first married, before they had children, or maybe they’d simply left the kids at home. The ...
( Category: Memoirs October 19,2017 )
Jane Austen by Fiona Stafford
epub |eng | | Author:Fiona Stafford

MANSFIELD PARK AND EMMA 1813–15 The intensity of Jane Austen’s preoccupation with her writing cannot be overstated. Although her nephew’s recollections conjure up a picture of the modest aunt quickly ...
( Category: Classics October 19,2017 )
Apprenticed to Venus by Tristine Rainer
epub |eng | 2017-06-12 | Author:Tristine Rainer

CHAPTER 20 Greenwich Village, New York, 1964 ANAÏS WHEN ANAÏS RETURNED TO CONVINCE Hugo that the rest ranch hadn’t been a lie, she found the situation to be worse than ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 19,2017 )
Morningstar by Ann Hood
epub |eng | | Author:Ann Hood

BEFORE SKIP GAVE me that boxed set of Steinbeck, no one had ever given me a book as a gift. But the gift was even bigger than he’d imagined. When ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 19,2017 )
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston 3 - Sherston's Progress by Siegfried Sassoon
mobi |eng | 2013-05-28 | Author:Siegfried Sassoon

On my last day in Ireland I went out in soft sunshiny weather for a final half-day with the hounds. The meet was twelve miles off and I’d got to ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 18,2017 )
It Takes Two by Jonathan Scott & Drew Scott
epub |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:Jonathan Scott & Drew Scott

Business was thriving, but I didn’t have to be a self-proclaimed math genius like Drew to know that we were overspending, and it was starting to make me nervous. Cutting ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 18,2017 )
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon
epub |eng | 2013-05-28 | Author:Siegfried Sassoon [Sassoon, Siegfried]

The huntsman now enlivened the deflated proceedings by taking his hounds to a distant holloa on the other side of the brook. A man on a bicycle had viewed our ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 18,2017 )
Black Earth City by Charlotte Hobson
epub |eng | 2017-10-18 | Author:Charlotte Hobson [Charlotte Hobson]

Back in the hostel, I pushed open the door and found the room had turned silver. Ira had pinned hundreds of single strands of tinsel to the ceiling. You couldn’t ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 18,2017 )
Lou Reed by Lou Reed
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-01-27 | Author:Lou Reed

IV. I was in my local Woolworths, in the nearest dull little English town to me (which doesn’t have a real record store, just a Woolworths, which is still a ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 18,2017 )
Silvina Ocampo by Silvina Ocampo
epub |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Silvina Ocampo

Dialogues of the Silence In the many secret catalogues of time, where will those long and lucid dialogues be found that I imagined having with those I loved, with those ...
( Category: Anthologies October 18,2017 )
Humphrey Bogart by Darwin Porter
epub |eng | | Author:Darwin Porter

“Well, he’s in one of those spasms this weekend,” Johnny said, “so be duly warned. I don’t know what Fox is going to do with him. When the crew revived ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 18,2017 )
My First Hundred Years in Show Business: A Memoir by Mary Louise Wilson
epub |eng | 2015-08-07 | Author:Mary Louise Wilson [Wilson, Mary Louise]

I WAS PERFORMING ON A SET FOR ANOTHER PLAY, BUT WE MANAGED to get a proper sofa arranged on it. At this point we hadn’t staged it, I was still ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 18,2017 )

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