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Ethel Merman: A Life by Kellow Brian
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-31 | Author:Kellow, Brian [Kellow, Brian]

Chapter Fifteen Happy Hunting was a musical brought to life for all the wrong reasons. The wellspring of the show was Robert Six’s greed and ambition. He had already grown ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 14,2017 )
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp by Richard Hell
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-12 | Author:Richard Hell

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN I more or less lived at the club, and at Max’s Kansas City, for all of that first year, and the next two as well. CBGB was isolated. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 14,2017 )
Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen by Ira B. Nadel
mobi |eng | 1996-10-01 | Author:Ira B. Nadel

9 TRUMPETS AND A CURTAIN OF RAZOR BLADES THE TITLE of Cohen’s third album, Songs of Love and Hate, reflected the double-edged nature of Cohen’s life following his tour. As ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 14,2017 )
Tough Sh_t by Kevin Smith
epub |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Kevin Smith [Smith, Kevin]

I responded, all in tweets, 140 characters at a clip . . . Sir sometimes, it’s important to turn off the chatter. Film fandom’s become a nasty bloodsport where cartoonishly ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 14,2017 )
Facing the Other Way by Martin Aston
epub |eng | 2013-09-04 | Author:Martin Aston

chapter 15 – 1991 Fool the World (BAD1001–CAD1017) In Ivo’s mind, the turning point of his disillusionment was discovering that running a record label had evolved into running a record ...
( Category: Music June 14,2017 )
U and I by Nicholson Baker
epub, mobi |eng | 2077-08-23 | Author:Nicholson Baker [Baker, Nicholson]

[and in Updike’s real version: Then Sally flew; she became a bird, a heroine. She took the sky on her back, levelled out on the cloudless prairie above the clouds—boiling, ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2017 )
The Big Sky by Guthrie
epub |eng | | Author:Guthrie

Chapter XXIII Dick Summers pulled the hood over his head and brought his capote closer about him. There was no place in God's world where the wind blew as it ...
( Category: Genre Fiction June 14,2017 )
Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-11 | Author:José Saramago [Saramago, José]

WE ARE LIVING in an age where a nun, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, is likely to encounter the Child Jesus in the cloister, ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2017 )
Queen of the Air: A True Story of Love and Tragedy at the Circus by Dean N. Jensen
epub |eng | 2013-06-10 | Author:Dean N. Jensen [Jensen, Dean N.]

ALFREDO CODONA AND LEITZEL, FOLLOWING THEIR MARRIAGE CEREMONY ON JULY 20, 1928, ON CHICAGO’S LAKEFRONT WHERE THE RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS WAS PERFORMING. THE OPEN TOP LANDAULET ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2017 )
Seeds of Fiction: Graham Greene's Adventures in Haiti and Central America 1954-1983 by Bernard Diederich & Richard Greene & Pico Iyer
epub |eng | 2012-11-01 | Author:Bernard Diederich & Richard Greene & Pico Iyer [Diederich, Bernard & Greene, Richard & Iyer, Pico]

In response, John Scali, US Ambassador to the UN and a former television newsman, said Torrijos was ‘knocking on an open door’ and that the ‘world knows the United States ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers June 13,2017 )
Phish by Parke Puterbaugh
epub |eng | | Author:Parke Puterbaugh

Meat Phish: Jon Fishman, Trey Anastasio, Mike Gordon, and Page McConnell in 1987 © PHISH, INC. 1987. COURTESY OF MIKE GORDON. Nectar’s, the downtown Burlington club where Phish got their ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 13,2017 )
Ensayo sobre la ceguera by Saramago José
epub | | 2009-12-12 | Author:Saramago, José [Saramago, José]

Pasada una semana, los ciegos malvados mandaron aviso de que querían mujeres. Así, simplemente, Tráigannos mujeres. Esta inesperada, aunque no del todo insólita, exigencia, causó la indignación que es fácil ...
( Category: Literary June 13,2017 )
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe
epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Chinua Achebe [Achebe, Chinua]

The Abagana Ambush On March 25, 1968, the Second Division of the Nigerian army finally broke through the Biafran resistance and entered Onitsha. (The federal troops had failed the first ...
( Category: Africa June 13,2017 )
MOAB IS MY WASHPOT by Stephen Fry
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Fry

The cover shows Ian Carmichael as Bertie Wooster in the B.B.C. series ‘The World of Wooster’ (Producer: Michael Mills, by arrangement with Peter Cotes. Photographer Nicholas Acraman) Many years later ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 13,2017 )
The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah by Marc Maron
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Marc Maron [Maron, Marc]

10 YEARS went by and I had very little communication with God. I started working professionally as a comic. Doing all the clubs in the Boston area and driving hours ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 13,2017 )

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