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The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Edward E. Baptist [Baptist, Edward E.]

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 September 22,2014 )
The Noble Approach by Tod Polson
epub |eng | 2013-09-18 | Author:Tod Polson

STACKING VALUE As a young man, Maurice’s use of value was greatly influenced by artists such as Rockwell Kent, Paul Landacre, and Lynd Ward. One of my great treasures is ...
( Category: Television Performers September 19,2014 )
Death in Slow Motion by Eleanor Cooney
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Eleanor Cooney

CHAPTER TWELVE Hungry Ghosts I call her at the hospital every day. Sometimes she’s almost coherent. Mostly she’s so far out there I can’t even guess what she’s trying to ...
( Category: Women September 18,2014 )
In Real Life by Nev Schulman
epub |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Nev Schulman

Okay, one final note. Ladies: Keep your tops on. That hand-bra shot is not gonna make him like you any more than he already does. Guys: No more dick pics. ...
( Category: Performing Arts September 16,2014 )
Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch by Hollis Gillespie
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Hollis Gillespie

Parents’ wedding So there you have it: perfect examples of the importance of knowing when to let go, and when not to. It’s like gambling, I guess. Back before my ...
( Category: Journalists September 16,2014 )
Timebends by Arthur Miller
epub |eng | 1986-12-31 | Author:Arthur Miller

Once again I was roaming Brooklyn Heights, crossing the liberating bridge on foot or bike, finding my way down to the Battery to watch people boarding the ferry to the ...
( Category: Authors September 15,2014 )
Still Talking by Joan Rivers & Richard Meryman
epub |eng | 1995-11-13 | Author:Joan Rivers & Richard Meryman [Rivers, Joan & Meryman, Richard]

150 JOAN RIVERS In New York Joanne had invited us occasionally to large parties. It was heady being there with Mayor Lindsay and Truman Capote. But when wife number three, ...
( Category: Shows September 15,2014 )
Marilyn: Norma Jeane by Gloria Steinem
epub |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Gloria Steinem [Steinem, Gloria]

Fathers and Lovers “I’m just mad about men. If only there was someone special.” —Marilyn Monroe EVEN WHEN SHE WAS unknown, and certainly after she became an international sex goddess, ...
( Category: Biographies September 10,2014 )
Guy Haley by Reality 36
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Reality 36 [36, Reality]

"It is the safest way," agreed Otto. Qifang's house was large. They passed over a wide hallway where the main entrance to the building was situated. More masked and suited ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 8,2014 )
The Long Valley by John Steinbeck
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John Steinbeck

At about ten o’clock the news came. Thinking about such things afterwards, you never can remember quite what transpired. Someone comes in; a whisper starts; suddenly everyone knows what has ...
( Category: Short Stories September 7,2014 )
Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-19 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

And we were an outrage to the Spanish-Mexicans and they in their turn on the Indians. Could that be why the sequoias make folks nervous? Those natives were grown trees ...
( Category: Road Travel September 7,2014 )
Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
epub |eng | 2014-09-05 | Author:John Steinbeck

17 March 27 WE HAD collected extensively on the outer parts of Puerto Escondido, but not in the inner bay itself. At five-thirty A.M. Mexican time, we set out to ...
( Category: Marine Biology September 7,2014 )
The Language of Men by Anthony D'Aries
azw3, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anthony D'Aries

17 IN THE SUMMER, my father was indestructible. He stretched himself out on a lawn chair and baked in the sun for hours. My mother turned red walking from the ...
( Category: General September 6,2014 )
Travesties by Tom Stoppard
epub |eng | 1975-09-05 | Author:Tom Stoppard

ACT TWO THE LIBRARY Apart from the bookcases, etc. the Library’s furniture includes CECILY’s desk, which is perhaps more like a counter forming three sides of a square. CECILY: To ...
( Category: Playwriting September 6,2014 )
Sammy Davis Jr. by Tracey Davis
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Tracey Davis [Davis, Tracey; Pierce, Nina Bunche]

My parents on their wedding day, 1960 The thoughts of my parents’ unyielding love was disrupted by a nurse who came outside to check on my father. He woke up ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers September 6,2014 )

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