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Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper
mobi |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Artemis Cooper

12 The Caribbean Back in London in early 1947, Paddy, Joan and Xan installed themselves in a topsy-turvy flat immediately above Heywood Hill’s bookshop, not far from Paddy’s old stamping ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 2,2017 )
Orwell by Jeffrey Meyers
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Jeffrey Meyers

THIRTEEN THE EVOLUTION OF NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR In this essay I argued forcefully against the prevailing critical opinion that Nineteen Eighty-Four is a “nightmare vision” of a totalitarian future. I believe, ...
( Category: British & Irish September 2,2017 )
Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir by Lively Penelope
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-06 | Author:Lively, Penelope [Lively, Penelope]

Memory A couple of years ago, Izzy yearned for an old-fashioned manual typewriter: “Vintage!” A Smith Corona was found off eBay, and she rejoiced in it until a new ribbon ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2017 )
Strapless by Davis Deborah
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-05-03 | Author:Davis, Deborah [Davis, Deborah]

Dancing on a Volcano At the end of March, Sargent traveled again to London, and again he saw Henry James. While there, he solidified some of the relationships he had ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 2,2017 )
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Churchwell Sarah
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-23 | Author:Churchwell, Sarah [Churchwell, Sarah]

Zelda tended to hear the ripple of music throughout life; her memories were often washed deep in musical images. “Paul Whiteman played the significance of amusement on his violin,” she ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2017 )
Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Bernardo Atxaga

Regarding stories AFTER LISTENING to the story about the servant, my friend grew thoughtful. He stared into his coffee cup like someone trying to extract some meaning from the dregs. ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese September 2,2017 )
Rubber Balls and Liquor by Gilbert Gottfried
epub |eng | | Author:Gilbert Gottfried

7 Adventures in Animation Okay, so that pretty much covers the front end of my career. It’s the rear end that gives me trouble. Let’s just say my career has ...
( Category: Humor September 2,2017 )
Cross Rhodes: Goldust, Out of the Darkness (WWE) by Rhodes Dustin
epub |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Rhodes, Dustin [Rhodes, Dustin]

Brian Pillman. The next morning we flew to St. Louis for the Pay-Per-View. The routine is pretty straightforward: We land, get something to eat, and head to the arena. It ...
( Category: Biographies September 2,2017 )
Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books by Pierpont Claudia Roth
mobi |eng | 2013-10-21 | Author:Pierpont, Claudia Roth [Pierpont, Claudia Roth]

A Holiday About Snow Operation Shylock is the product of Roth’s renewed vigor after the Halcion-induced breakdown and quintuple bypass surgery. With the concerns that had been running through his ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 2,2017 )
A Song for Mary by Dennis Smith
epub |eng | 1999-06-12 | Author:Dennis Smith [SMITH, DENNIS]

I throw Tom Sawyer on the kitchen table. I am going to also tell my mother about all the books I’ve been reading at Kips. The kitchen light is out, ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 2,2017 )
A Deeper Blue by Robert Earl Hardy
epub |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:Robert Earl Hardy [Hardy, Robert Earl]

Townes Van Zandt. PHOTO BY JIM MCGUIRE, COURTESY OF NASHVILLEPORTRAITS.COM Townes performing, early 1972. COURTESY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER, ANDREW STERLING. Townes and Fran’s wedding, Houston, Texas, 1965. From left: Fran’s ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2017 )
Cherry by Mary Karr
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2001-09-01 | Author:Mary Karr

Chapter Twelve WHILE BOYS ARE CRUISING ROADS in search of liquor or pussy or fistfights that can prove their adolescent prowess and vent their spleens, you and Meredith forge a ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2017 )
A Fort of Nine Towers by Qais Akbar Omar
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Qais Akbar Omar [Omar, Qais Akbar]

When my father went with the men, and my mother was with the women, and my older sister had gone off to get water with the Kuchi girls, it was ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2017 )
A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley by Neal Thompson
mobi |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Neal Thompson

( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2017 )
Laid in Chelsea by Ollie Locke
epub |eng | 2013-03-06 | Author:Ollie Locke

London Girl was studying in Oxford and before long we’d started a long-distance relationship. It was hard to find myself in that situation again, saying goodbye week after week as ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2017 )

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