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How Dante Can Save Your Life by Rod Dreher
epub |eng | | Author:Rod Dreher

HOW TO FIND A MENTOR WORTH FOLLOWING Everyone thinks they are destined for greatness. It’s true, but it isn’t greatness as most people think about it. Greatness is a measure ...
( Category: Authors August 1,2015 )
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez
epub |eng | 2008-07-14 | Author:Steve Lopez [Lopez, Steve]

16 The kids stood weeping at the airport window in Cleveland as the plane pulled away from the gate. Their father waved from his window seat, and Nathaniel remained silent ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians July 31,2015 )
A Fire in the Mind by Joseph Campbell
epub |eng | 2012-11-25 | Author:Joseph Campbell [Campbell, Joseph]

12:00 Lunch, private or with a friend 1:00–4:00 Correspondence, read, write 4:00–6:00 Workout (usually forty laps in New York Athletic Club pool) 6:00–7:30 Dinner with Jean or guests 7:30–10:30 Write, ...
( Category: Authors July 31,2015 )
Letters to Milena (Trans. & with an Introduction by Philip Boehm.)
epub |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Franz Kafka [Kafka, Franz]

[Prague, August 7, 1920] Saturday Am I really kind and patient? I don’t know about that, but I do know that such a telegram does the whole body good, so ...
( Category: Authors July 31,2015 )
Notes from the House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
epub |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

I The Hospital Soon after the holidays, I fell ill and was sent to our military hospital. It stood apart, about a quarter mile from the fortress. It was a ...
( Category: Russian July 30,2015 )
Stripped: Depeche Mode by Miller Jonathan
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-03 | Author:Miller, Jonathan [Miller, Jonathan]

“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you, and I think it is you, isn’t it?” asked an incredulous Gambaccini, ruffling the singer’s locks in a manner that didn’t ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians July 28,2015 )
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown & Nathan McCall
epub |eng | 1965-01-01 | Author:Claude Brown & Nathan McCall [Brown, Claude & McCall, Nathan]

of the Warwick Annex at Hampton Farm, he was big and burly, almost as big as a bam. I suppose just his size frightened a lot of people. He was ...
( Category: African-American Studies July 28,2015 )
Cash: Autobiography by Johnny Cash & Patrick Carr
epub |eng | 2003-10-16 | Author:Johnny Cash & Patrick Carr [Cash, Johnny & Carr, Patrick]

Part 4 Don Aqua 1 I'm pottering about the house, as the English would say. I've been on tour again—Prague, Dresden, Diisseldorf, Oslo, Bergen, Bourges, Paris, Munich, Graz, Vienna, London, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature July 27,2015 )
Unstuck in Time by Gregory D. Sumner
epub |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Gregory D. Sumner [Sumner, Gregory D.]

Breakfast of Champions signals Vonnegut’s turn to the aggressively autobiographical approach of his later works, a decision to foreground from now on the contours of his turbulent interior life. “I ...
( Category: United States July 22,2015 )
Cary Grant: Dark Angel by Geoffrey Wansell
epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Geoffrey Wansell [Wansell, Geoffrey]

NO FILM IN HIS CAREER MEANT MORE THAN NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART: THE STORY OF A COCKNEY WHO DISCOVERS THE MEANING OF LIFE WHEN HIS MOTHER, PLAYED BY ETHEL ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers July 22,2015 )
Woman On The Edge Of Time by Piercy Marge
epub |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Piercy, Marge [Piercy, Marge]

Tuesday morning she was confined to her bed, as if she were sick. The doctors were to come in the morning. Monday afternoon they had been sent through a whole ...
( Category: Family Saga July 21,2015 )
Sleeping with Cats by Marge Piercy
epub |eng | | Author:Marge Piercy

CHO-CHO At the Animal Disposal League you reached through the bars avid to live. Discarded offspring of Maine coon cat, your hunger saved you, fuzzy and fist-sized. Now you are ...
( Category: Cats July 21,2015 )
M: the Caravaggio enigma by Peter Robb
epub |eng | 1998-08-31 | Author:Peter Robb [Robb, Peter]

ADOLESCENT JOHN WAS the ascetic and solitary precursor of Christ. He was the boy who spoke with the voice of one crying in the wilderness. The figure of John as ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers July 19,2015 )
Falling Together by Marisa de los Santos
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Marisa de los Santos

CHAPTER THIRTEEN PEN HAD SPENT TWO YEARS WAITING TO BE HAUNTED, AND IT hadn’t happened. True, her father was always there, inside Pen’s mind, sometimes standing squarely in its center, ...
( Category: Literary July 18,2015 )
Take Me Home From the Oscars: Arthritis, Television, Fashion, and Me by Christine Schwab
epub |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Christine Schwab [SCHWAB, CHRISTINE]

11 Stable Until Ready FEBRUARY 1993 My life, three years after my diagnosis, was now totally defined by my chronic rheumatoid arthritis. My secret was still safe even though my ...
( Category: Television Performers July 18,2015 )

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