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Hemingway at War by Terry Mort
epub |eng | 2016-12-08 | Author:Terry Mort

To Hemingway, Paris was a city of memory and nostalgia, the place where he had served his apprenticeship as a writer, the place where he and his first wife, Hadley, ...
( Category: World War II December 9,2016 )
The Feud by Alex Beam
epub |eng | 2016-12-05 | Author:Alex Beam

and ending with the famous image at 1:33— I recollect the sea before a tempest: how I envied the waves running in turbulent succession with love to lie down at ...
( Category: Authors December 9,2016 )
American Dreamer by Tommy Hilfiger
epub |eng | 2016-10-31 | Author:Tommy Hilfiger

In the fashion business, four areas are of parallel importance: design, marketing, manufacturing, and execution. As designer, my job was to anticipate what the market needed. Silas, with his background ...
( Category: Fashion Design December 8,2016 )
Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham
epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Charles Higham [Higham, Charles]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Sealed Rooms Returning to the Beverly Hills Hotel, Hughes moved into Bungalow 4, with Jean Peters in Bungalow 15. He was renting at least four bungalows in any ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 7,2016 )
Running With the Bulls by Valerie Hemingway
epub |eng | 2004-10-01 | Author:Valerie Hemingway [Hemingway, Valerie]

Thomas Reginald Smith and Millicent Danby on their wedding day, December 5, 1936, in Blackheath, London. COLLECTION OF VALERIE HEMINGWAY Valerie Danby-Smith on her first birthday, May 5, 1941, Dublin. ...
( Category: United States December 7,2016 )
The Wars of the Roosevelts by William J. Mann
epub |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:William J. Mann

WARM SPRINGS, GEORGIA “Dearest E.,” Franklin wrote that October from his little cottage surrounded by pine trees. “Life is just the same day after day and there is no variety ...
( Category: Authors December 7,2016 )
Frank Lloyd Wright and Mason City: Architectural Heart of the Prairie by Behrens Roy R
epub |eng | 2016-12-04 | Author:Behrens, Roy R. [Behrens, Roy R.]

Lithographic plate from The Grammar of Ornament (1856) by Owen Jones, an indispensable sourcebook for architects. Left half of a panoramic photograph of downtown Mason City in 1907. Photograph by ...
( Category: State & Local December 6,2016 )
Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote (Vintage International) by Capote Truman
epub |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Capote, Truman [Capote, Truman]

[New York] [13 February 1955] Last Sunday, you printed a letter by Members of The Friday Drama Group in Montclair, N.J. These ladies wished to “protest vigorously” the theme of ...
( Category: United States December 6,2016 )
MDC: Memoir from a Damaged Civilization: Stories of Punk, Fear, and Redemption by Dave Dictor
epub |eng | 2016-05-21 | Author:Dave Dictor [Dictor, Dave]

We drove forty miles to Barcelona, quite the historic city, for our gig in old downtown. Street paths were thin as three or four feet wide in the barrio. We ...
( Category: Punk December 6,2016 )
Education of Henry Adams by Adams Henry; Nadel Ira;
epub |eng | 1999-12-05 | Author:Adams, Henry; Nadel, Ira;

CHAPTER XX FAILURE (1871) FAR back in childhood, among its earliest memories, Henry Adams could recall his first visit to Harvard College. He must have been nine years old when ...
( Category: United States December 6,2016 )
It Starts with Trouble: William Goyen and the Life of Writing by Clark Davis
epub |eng | 2015-05-15 | Author:Clark Davis [Davis, Clark]

CHAPTER TEN Blood Kindred 1957–1962 I did not describe William Goyen’s visit one evening. A man in pain—gray-haired but with a youthfulness of gestures and face, a young man upon ...
( Category: Authors December 5,2016 )
1916 Portraits and Lives by James Quinn
epub |eng | 2015-08-05 | Author:James Quinn

Eoin MacNeill 1867–1945 Eoin (John) MacNeill, Gaelic scholar and nationalist politician, was born 15 May 1867 in Glenarm, Co. Antrim, sixth of eight children of Archibald MacNeill, baker, sailor and ...
( Category: Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions December 5,2016 )
Come Together: Lennon and McCartney in the Seventies by Richard White
epub |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:Richard White

PICTURE SECTION FRANK APTHORP/DAILY MAIL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK John and Paul share the microphone during a 1963 session at the BBC. Between 1962 and 1965 The Beatles performed for 52 BBC radio shows. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 4,2016 )
The Life of Henry Brulard by John Sturrock
epub |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:John Sturrock

Sunday altar.—Mountains.—Périer garden.—Terrace 40 feet high decked with vines and flowers.—My uncle’s room. J. My private garden next to the water stone.—A. Natural history room.—F. Locked cupboards containing minerals, seashells.—T. ...
( Category: European December 4,2016 )
Creating Carmen Miranda by Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
epub |eng | 2016-12-02 | Author:Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez [Bishop-Sanchez, Kathryn]

Carmen Miranda wearing Yvonne Wood’s exquisite creation for her final number of Greenwich Village (1944). Courtesy of the Margaret Herrick Library In Carmen Miranda’s last film for Twentieth Century-Fox, If ...
( Category: Brazil December 3,2016 )

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