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The Legend of George Jones: His Life and Death by Peanutt Montgomery
epub |eng | 2014-03-27 | Author:Peanutt Montgomery [Montgomery, Peanutt]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Linda (Welborn) (Jones) Dodson Wife Number Four * * * (Written by Linda Jones) “I personally want to tell you about myself, Linda Carolyn (Green) (Welborn) (Jones) Dodson. ...
( Category: Country December 27,2014 )
Joan Littlewood by Peter Rankin
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Rankin

CHAPTER NINETEEN AN OLD DREAM REVIVED, OR JUST BUGGERING ABOUT? It would be wrong to have the idea that Joan’s aims were as clear as Gerry’s. It’s safer to say ...
( Category: Direction & Production December 27,2014 )
Lives Other Than My Own: A Memoir by Emmanuel Carrère
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Emmanuel Carrère [Carrère, Emmanuel]

16 One thing makes Étienne laugh when he talks about meeting Juliette: what went through his mind the first time he saw her. Someone knocked on his door; he said, ...
( Category: French December 27,2014 )
A Northern Christmas by Rockwell Kent
epub |eng | 1998-12-26 | Author:Rockwell Kent

Christmas Eve! We’ve cleaned the house, stowed everything away upon shelves and hooks and in corners, moved even my easel aside; decorated the roof timbers with dense hemlock boughs, stowed ...
( Category: Travel December 27,2014 )
Gordon Ramsay by Neil Simpson
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-09 | Author:Neil Simpson

TWELVE NIGHTMARES AND ACCUSATIONS The rancid scallops, unconventional omelettes and bad attitudes of Bonaparte’s weren’t the only horrors Gordon stumbled upon when he went out to film that first series ...
( Category: Culinary December 27,2014 )
Maggie's Breakfast by Gabriel Walsh
epub |eng | | Author:Gabriel Walsh [Walsh, Gabriel]

The next morning I lingered in bed because I couldn’t stop smelling my old bed blanket. It was an experience I was glad to be having again. For years it ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers December 27,2014 )
All in One Basket by Deborah Mitford Duchess of Devonshire
epub |eng | 2011-11-13 | Author:Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire [Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire]

The Organ Recital When two or three old people are gathered together in the name of lunch, you can be sure of the subject of conversation to start the ball ...
( Category: Great Britain December 27,2014 )
The Sugarless Plum: A Memoir by Zippora Karz
epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:Zippora Karz

My dad made an appointment for me with an internist who shared his suite of offices, and I went to see him the day after I arrived. The doctor knew ...
( Category: General December 27,2014 )
Unto the Sons by Gay Talese
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Gay Talese [Talese, Gay]

25. The surprise attack that killed Muffo, Branca, and two other soldiers in Antonio’s unit and injured half a dozen more was one of many setbacks suffered by Italian reconnaissance ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
Herbie Hancock by Herbie Hancock
epub |eng | 2014-10-09 | Author:Herbie Hancock

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Back in 1965, when I turned that Yardley cologne jingle into the song “Maiden Voyage,” I discovered something cool about writing music. I had been completely stuck, unable ...
( Category: Jazz December 27,2014 )
My Father's Fortune by Michael Frayn
epub |eng | 2012-12-26 | Author:Michael Frayn [Michael Frayn]

And that’s the end of my mother. My sister and I aren’t allowed to go to the funeral, I suppose for fear that it would upset us. What do we ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
Dante Alighieri by Paget Toynbee
epub |eng | 2005-12-26 | Author:Paget Toynbee

DANTE AND HIS BOOK From the picture by Domenico di Michelino, in the Duomo at Florence 1“To every captive soul and gentle heart Unto whose ken these present words shall ...
( Category: Medieval December 27,2014 )
Even the Stars Look Lonesome by Maya Angelou
epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]

After creating the universe, all the stars, each grain of sand, the humpback whale and the soft-shell crab, even God tired and took a day off. There’s no argument that ...
( Category: Essays December 27,2014 )
Family Furnishings by Alice Munro
epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

The View from Castle Rock THE FIRST TIME Andrew was ever in Edinburgh he was ten years old. With his father and some other men he climbed a slippery black ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Peart Neil
mobi, epub, azw |eng | 2002-08-31 | Author:Peart, Neil [Peart, Neil]

In Palenque I seemed to be “Mr. Out-of-Season” again, for I sat alone at the resort bar (“enduring — or ignoring — Christmas music”), and at dinner the tables were ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians December 27,2014 )

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