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The Life and Times of Mickey Rooney by Lertzman Richard A. & Birnes William J
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-19 | Author:Lertzman, Richard A. & Birnes, William J. [Lertzman, Richard A.]

17 * * * * * * The Mick, the Duke, and the Deuce in the Coconut Mickey and his mother Nell dancing at the housewarming party for El Ranchita, ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers March 14,2016 )
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue With His Century by Robert A. Heinlein & William H. Patterson Jr
epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Robert A. Heinlein & William H. Patterson, Jr. [Heinlein, Robert A. & Patterson,, William H. Jr.]

Your urge to work on stories may be prophetic, or a symptom of one of two things. Either that the plant there is beginning to run reasonably smoothly, or that ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy March 14,2016 )
Bookless in Baghdad by Shashi Tharoor
epub |nld | 2005-03-13 | Author:Shashi Tharoor

18 Books and Botox AMERICANS, THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM HAS IT, don't read. At least not as much as they used to. Television, movies, computer games, the Internet — all have ...
( Category: Authors March 14,2016 )
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned by Alda Alan
azw3, epub |eng | 2005-09-12 | Author:Alda, Alan [Alda, Alan]

chapter 12 YES TO EVERYTHING To be young, out of work, and an actor is to say yes to everything. Can you ride a horse? Certainly. Can you play the ...
( Category: Acting & Auditioning March 14,2016 )
A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux
epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Annie Ernaux [Ernaux, Annie]

As I write, I see her sometimes as a “good,” sometimes as a “bad” mother. To get away from these contrasting views, which come from my earliest childhood, I try ...
( Category: French March 14,2016 )
P.G. Wodehouse in his Own Words by Barry Day & Tony Ring
epub |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:Barry Day & Tony Ring [DAY, BARRY]

Nonetheless, the constant process of revision invariably paid off for him and when he comes to review the finished article … It really reads as if I had written it ...
( Category: British & Irish March 14,2016 )
Robert A. Heinlein, In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2 by William H. Patterson Jr
epub |eng | | Author:William H. Patterson, Jr.

25 ON TO OTHER THINGS Editors and publishers had always sent Heinlein manuscripts hoping to get a comment to use on the book jacket. Most of the time he was ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy March 14,2016 )
Deceived With Kindness by Angelica Garnett
epub |eng | | Author:Angelica Garnett

7 At Home in Sussex Meanwhile life at Charleston continued, bathed it seemed in the glow of a perpetual summer. The household fell into two halves: on the one hand ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 14,2016 )
Velázquez and the Surrender of Breda by Anthony Bailey
epub |eng | | Author:Anthony Bailey

( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 14,2016 )
The Gilded Razor by Sam Lansky
epub |eng | | Author:Sam Lansky

I was given clean sheets for a lumpy twin bed; on the top bunk was a dark-haired boy with a sparse mustache that belied his age. Fourteen, fifteen, maybe. In ...
( Category: Authors March 14,2016 )
Yossarian Slept Here by Erica Heller
epub |eng | 2011-03-13 | Author:Erica Heller

LIMOS AND LYNX My mother, alas, had not served in World War II, nor had she learned as expertly as her husband how to vanquish an enemy. Up until then, ...
( Category: Authors March 14,2016 )
Words Without Music by Philip Glass
epub |eng | 2015-03-13 | Author:Philip Glass

ALONG WITH THE ARTISTS AND THEATER COMPANIES, dancers and choreographers were moving into SoHo, making the area rich in talent and invention. The Grand Union, a contact improvisation company, came ...
( Category: Classical March 14,2016 )
The Last Days of Dorothy Parker by Marion Meade
epub |eng | 2014-05-26 | Author:Marion Meade

Chapter 6 FERNCLIFF (1967) For her half a century as a writer, Dottie was rewarded with the equivalent of a gold watch: a front-page obituary in the New York Times. ...
( Category: Authors March 14,2016 )
Habit of Labor: Lessons from a Life of Struggle and Success by Stef Wertheimer
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Stef Wertheimer [Wertheimer, Stef]

As a member of the Knesset I would get involved in debates with the power brokers in the upper echelons. I would explain that Israel’s economic independence was really just ...
( Category: Heavy Metal March 13,2016 )
Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Nancy Mitford [Mitford, Nancy]

Déjà j’entends l’orage du tambour, De cent heros je vois briller la rage, Déjà je vois envahir cent états Et tant d’humains moissonnés avant l’âge. This may not have been ...
( Category: France March 11,2016 )

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