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Strange Fascination by David Buckley
epub |eng | | Author:David Buckley

Part III 1982–2005 10. DAVID BOWIE: SUPERSTAR, 1982–1987 ‘Who on earth do you think you are? A superstar? Well, all right you are!’ (JOHN LENNON, ‘INSTANT KARMA’, 1970) It was ...
( Category: Rock January 24,2016 )
Stories of My Life (9781101620656) by Paterson Katherine
epub |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Paterson, Katherine

“In an instant,” Maud wrote, “flashed into my mind my father’s last words, ‘Mary, my mother, my Redeemer.’” Despite the fact that she had parted ways with the Episcopal Mission ...
( Category: Children's Literature January 22,2016 )
No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead by Peter Richardson
epub |eng | 2015-01-19 | Author:Peter Richardson [Richardson, Peter]

PART 3 COMMUNITY When news of the Jonestown massacre hit, the Grateful Dead were in Washington, DC, where a Washington Post headline (“Still Grateful: Their Decade Died, the Dead Did ...
( Category: Rock January 22,2016 )
Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay by Christopher Benfey
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-15 | Author:Christopher Benfey [Benfey, Christopher]

10. This strange idyll was interrupted when the Asawa family was shipped by train to an internment camp in Arkansas. The children attended school at the camp, where they were ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers January 22,2016 )
In Morocco by Edith Wharton
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * VI THE SAADIAN TOMBS On one of the last days of our stay in Marrakech we were told, almost mysteriously, that permission was to be given us ...
( Category: Travel January 21,2016 )
Oliver Goldsmith / A Biography
epub |eng | 2005-03-31 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

CHAPTER TWENTY THE GREAT CHAM OF LITERATURE AND THE KING—SCENE AT SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS'—GOLDSMITH ACCUSED OF JEALOUSY—NEGOTIATIONS WITH GARRICK—THE AUTHOR AND THE ACTOR—THEIR CORRESPONDENCE The comedy of The Good-Natured Man ...
( Category: Authors January 21,2016 )
THE DIVINE INVASION by Philip K. Dick
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Philip K. Dick [Dick Philip]

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine: There sleeps Titania ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers January 18,2016 )
A Journey with Two Maps by Eavan Boland
epub |eng | 2011-02-09 | Author:Eavan Boland

Charlotte Mew: An Introduction I Charlotte Mew was born in London in 1869. Her family—middle-class, respectable, afflicted— lived at number 30 Doughty Street in the borough of Camden. I lived ...
( Category: Essays January 18,2016 )
The Last Sultan by Robert Greenfield
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Robert Greenfield

3 During the two-year period after Atlantic had been sold, Ahmet and Wexler continued to run the label as partners while setting off in distinctly different directions to pursue their ...
( Category: Rock January 17,2016 )
Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Rob Lowe [Lowe, Rob]

CHAPTER 13 Back in L.A. after months of shooting on location in Montreal, I’m emotionally hungover. I gave my all in my performance, fell in love (literally) with my New ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers January 17,2016 )
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward Baptist
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Edward Baptist [Baptist, Edward]

Image 7.4. An elderly but still pugnacious Andrew Jackson as President, slaying the many-headed Hydra of the nefarious Second Bank of the United States. The head with the top hat ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 16,2016 )
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-20 | Author:Peter Guralnick [Guralnick, Peter]

THIS WAS THE ATMOSPHERE that twenty-five-year-old Kathy Westmoreland came into when she joined the show as high soprano Millie Kirkham’s replacement on Sunday, August 16. Kathy had agreed to take ...
( Category: Popular January 16,2016 )
Olly Murs - The Biography by Lewis Justin
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Lewis, Justin [Justin Lewis]

CHAPTER TWELVE HEY MR SONGWRITER Recording an album was a dream come true for Olly Murs – a project he’d been awaiting for so long. But this would be no ...
( Category: Rock January 16,2016 )
Oliver Reed: What Fresh Lunacy is This? by Robert Sellers
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Sellers [Sellers, Robert]

Moon the Loon Early one morning the peace of Broome Hall was shattered by an ear-piercing roar that seemed to be coming from overhead. ‘What the bloody hell is that?’ ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers January 16,2016 )
Somebody to Love?: A Rock-And-Roll Memoir by Grace Slick
epub |eng | 2008-12-13 | Author:Grace Slick [Slick, Grace]

It is a fascinating sequence—the film, itself, actually only a work print of a series of interviews plus some footage of Rip Torn which hints at what the flick might ...
( Category: Popular January 14,2016 )

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