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Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee
epub |eng | 2002-12-24 | Author:J. M. Coetzee [Coetzee, J. M.]

ELEVEN YEARS AGO, WHEN he was still a child in a family trying its best to be normal, his parents used to go to Saturday night dances. He would watch ...
( Category: Authors December 29,2014 )
Our Time of Day by Kika Markham
epub |eng | | Author:Kika Markham [Markham, Kika]

Corin was then moved to the Heart Hospital, to begin the next stage of his treatment. You have to take care of the heart first before they can address the ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers December 27,2014 )
Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement
epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Jennifer Clement [Clement, Jennifer]

Things were really bad. We went days without speaking. I secretly started doing heroin because I couldn’t deal with coming down off five days of coke. Jean started staying out ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers December 27,2014 )
The Genius and the Goddess by Jeffrey Meyers
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey Meyers [Jeffrey Meyers]

Twelve Heading for Disaster (1957–1960) I While married to Mary and before he met Marilyn, Miller had led a structured and productive life. For Marilyn's sake he gave up a ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
My Mother Wore a Yellow Dress by Christina McKenna
epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Christina McKenna

LEAVING THE SUNLIGHT FOR THE GLOOM Arthur, the oldest McKenna brother, I never got to know; he died before I was old enough to form an opinion of him, but ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
Elsa Schiaparelli by Meryle Secrest
epub |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Meryle Secrest [Secrest, Meryle]

Schiaparelli, who was a fine skier, chastising Bettina, who was not, in this photograph taken in Megève, France, 1930s (illustration credit 8.5) “And remember Amelia Earhart’s evening dress with wings ...
( Category: Fashion Design December 27,2014 )
We Need to Talk About . . . Kevin Bridges by Kevin Bridges
epub |eng | 2014-10-09 | Author:Kevin Bridges [Bridges, Kevin]

36 At family nights in our house or in Uncle George’s or Uncle Kevin’s, my younger cousins Mark and Gary would tell stories about things I’d done at school. Mark ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers December 27,2014 )
The Beat of My Own Drum by Sheila E
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sheila E. [E., Sheila]

19. Brushes A drumstick with long wire bristles to make a hissing sound on cymbals Ain’t no turnin’ back now, got my whole body sweatin’ I can do this all ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians December 27,2014 )
Paris Letters by Janice MacLeod
epub |eng | 2013-12-11 | Author:Janice MacLeod

Dear Áine, It’s raining in Paris today. Not all day, just when I gear up to go. The clouds seem to know when I put on my coat, and they ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers December 27,2014 )
77 Dream Songs by John Berryman
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:John Berryman

28 Snow Line It was wet & white & swift and where I am we don’t know. It was dark and then it isn’t. I wish the barker would come. ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
Beverly Hills Confidential : A Century of Stars, Scandals and Murders by Schroeder Barbara & Clark Fogg
epub |eng | 2013-12-17 | Author:Schroeder, Barbara & Clark, Fogg [Schroeder, Barbara & Clark, Fogg]

The murder took place at the Hayden Home at 817 North Whittier Drive Samuel Hayden and his new wife Ann were victims of a burglary in their new home; perpetrators ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
A Writer's Life by Gay Talese
epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Gay Talese [Talese, Gay]

19 AS I DROVE THROUGH DOWNTOWN SELMA ONTO HIGHWAY 80 toward the Holiday Inn, which was where I and most of the out-of-town media who were here for the silver ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
A Life in Letters by Fitzgerald F. Scott
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-07-05 | Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

TO: Maxwell Perkins TLS, 3 pp. Princeton University 1307 Park Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, April 15, 1935. Dear Max: You don’t say anything about “Taps” so I gather it hasn’t caught ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-02-15 | Author:Nicholas Shakespeare [Shakespeare, Nicholas]

XXIII I Don’t Know What You’ll Make of It I recall that on the 31st August last you telephoned to say that you were now writing books and that your ...
( Category: European December 27,2014 )
My Guru & His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood
epub |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:Christopher Isherwood [Isherwood, Christopher]

Twelve September 25, 1944. Swami, George, Sarada, and I drove to Montecito this morning. At present, there is nothing to report. It’s just another move. I have a dear little ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )

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