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Virginia Woolf: A Portrait by Viviane Forrester
epub |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Viviane Forrester [Forrester, Viviane]

A final note: shortly after Adrian’s death, Karin committed suicide. Virginia moved to Fitzroy Square, still in Bloomsbury, with her younger brother; Adrian would escort her to dances, concerts, costume ...
( Category: Women Authors November 12,2015 )
Dave Grohl, Times Like His by Martin James
epub |eng | 2015-11-11 | Author:Martin James [Martin James]

In support of the winter 1998 tour, Foo Fighters had released their third single from The Colour And The Shape. ‘My Hero’ was perhaps an obvious choice of single thanks ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians November 12,2015 )
The Millionaire and the Bard by Andrea Mays
epub |eng | | Author:Andrea Mays

The monumental events of 1911 did not dampen Henry Folger’s Foliomania. The only disruption to his collecting seems to have involved his annual summertime pilgrimage to England. On July 17, ...
( Category: Authors November 12,2015 )
TRUMBO by Bruce Cook
epub |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Bruce Cook

The face of the Party had hardened and never again would the innocent and the uncommitted feel comfortable before it. The recollections of that period for repentant Hollywood Communists are ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers November 12,2015 )
The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Wladyslaw Szpilman

11 ∼ ‘Marksmen arise!’ I had moved house once more, the latest of I don’t know how many moves since we were living in Śliska Street and the war broke ...
( Category: Europe November 12,2015 )
Contested Will by James Shapiro
epub |eng | 2010-11-11 | Author:James Shapiro [James Shapiro]

O, when degree is shaked, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick. How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from ...
( Category: Shakespeare November 12,2015 )
Josephine Baker by Jean-Claude Baker & Chris Chase
epub |eng | 1993-11-11 | Author:Jean-Claude Baker & Chris Chase

Chapter 29 JOSEPHINE, HEROINE OF THE RESISTANCE “That German cow in my blue satin sheets!” If Hitler hadn’t cast out blacks along with Jews, might Josephine have stayed on in ...
( Category: African-American Studies November 12,2015 )
Going Up by Frederic Raphael
epub |eng | 2015-11-11 | Author:Frederic Raphael [Frederic Raphael]

Whatever the Reverend Harper Wood might have thought of my insolent sentiments, thanks to him I was seeing things in a way I never had before. Alone in my hotel ...
( Category: Authors November 12,2015 )
Me Cheeta by Cheeta
epub |eng | 2006-11-11 | Author:Cheeta [Cheeta, Me]

When I’m swinging upside down in my tire behind the Sanctuary, the contrails of the airplanes segmenting the little rectangle of blue visible above the climbproof wall appear to me ...
( Category: Apes & Monkeys November 12,2015 )
Dracula, Prince of Many Faces by Radu R Florescu & Raymond T. McNally
epub |eng | 2009-11-28 | Author:Radu R Florescu & Raymond T. McNally [FLORESCU, RADU R.]

CHAPTER 6 The Struggle Against Mehmed the Conqueror THE war between Dracula “the Impaler” and Mehmed II “the Conqueror” was bound to happen; the only question was the timing. Having ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers November 12,2015 )
The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero by William Kalush & Larry Sloman
epub |eng | 2015-11-10 | Author:William Kalush & Larry Sloman [Kalush, William]

The Weiss siblings (l to r): Nat, William, Harry, Dash, Leopold, Gladys. From the collection of Dr. Bruce Averbook While he held her in his arms, she looked at him ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers November 12,2015 )
Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story by Jewel
epub |eng | 2015-09-15 | Author:Jewel [Jewel]

eighteen will she fix her teeth? If you’re a young, unknown artist in a highly competitive field, you have to find an edge, not only in the larger scope of ...
( Category: Popular November 11,2015 )
Sunlight On The Lawn by Beverley Nichols
mobi |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Beverley Nichols

Then the miracle happened. From the other side of the door there had come a tiny mew. I could not believe it. But there it was again, faint but unmistakable, ...
( Category: By Region November 10,2015 )
Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt (American Music) by Hersh Kristin
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-30 | Author:Hersh, Kristin [Hersh, Kristin]

III. GO OUTSIDE AND LOOK AT THE MOON The first time you died, I was sitting in your recording studio in Nashville, breathing in a southern breeze and talking dumb ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians November 9,2015 )
Hemingway in Love by A. E. Hotchner
epub |eng | | Author:A. E. Hotchner

* * * LA LIBERTÉ ÉCLAIRANT LE MONDE Auguste BARTHOLDI (1834–1904) A l’occasion de l’exposition universelle de 1900, le sculpteur Auguste Bartholdi a offert au musée du Luxembourg le modèle ...
( Category: Authors November 9,2015 )

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