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In Pursuit of the English by Doris Lessing
mobi, epub |eng | 1960-09-22 | Author:Doris Lessing

Chapter Four I had come to England with pounds of tinned food in my trunk as to a starving country, prepared to tighten my belt and to suffer, as the ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Tobias Wolff

DOC MACLEOD AND I went into My Tho for some fish soup that evening. As we drove in from the airfield it started to mist up and by the time ...
( Category: Vietnam War March 25,2014 )
Imagined London by Anna Quindlen
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-08-28 | Author:Anna Quindlen

CHAPTER NINE Luckily on that visit to London I had a more historically accurate opportunity to visit its rich past. The British Museum had just opened a show on London ...
( Category: European March 25,2014 )
If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien
mobi, epub |eng | 1975-10-21 | Author:Tim O'Brien

In the rather limited reading I’ve done lately, I’ve discovered the poet Robinson Jeffers. His writing is harsh yet beautiful, and it makes me think of April, and April turns ...
( Category: Southeast Asia March 25,2014 )
Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:Maya Angelou

17 Tosh and I did get married. My mother did move to Los Angeles. Tosh found a commodious house with three bedrooms, a formal dining room and living room, and ...
( Category: African-American & Black March 25,2014 )
Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Stephen Fry

Sitting on trunk with brother and new sister, awaiting despatch to prep school, 1965 Much travelled photograph of the house at Booton Booton Church: same architect, more extravagant style thoughts ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 25,2014 )
Marcel Proust: A Life by Edmund White
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Edmund White

VII WHEN PROUST BEGAN his translations of Ruskin and his essays on him, the closed, stable world of his family and domestic routine was still intact, but by the time ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Magical Thinking: True Stories by Burroughs Augusten
mobi |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Burroughs, Augusten [Burroughs, Augusten]

______ I’m in L.A. shooting a UPS commercial. The actual shoot isn’t for four days, so basically there’s nothing to do but sit around the pool and then hop in ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
Lives Like Loaded Guns by Lyndall Gordon
mobi |eng | 2010-05-26 | Author:Lyndall Gordon

For Susan, Poems came as a shock. Here was Emily wrenched away and twisted into shape for publication. She and Mattie stopped speaking to Lavinia, who held up her head ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-29 | Author:Mary Karr

22 Mass Eye Each spectral port, each human eye is shot through with a hole, and everything we know goes in there, where it feeds a blaze. In a flash ...
( Category: Substance Abuse March 25,2014 )
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:David Herbert Donald

Naming Rosecrans and Burnside was a shrewd move. Burnside, in particular, was a happy choice. In addition to having some military reputation from his expedition against Roanoke Island, he looked ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp; Camille Kingsolver
mobi |eng | 2008-05-15 | Author:Barbara Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp; Camille Kingsolver

Our turkeys were looking gorgeous after their awkward adolescent molt into adult plumage. Bourbon Reds are as handsome as it gets on the turkey runway, with chestnut-red bodies, white wings, ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus; Iii
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Andre Dubus; Iii

BY LATE fall, Jeb and I were building things together again. Our boss was Trevor D., a lanky British man who wanted to be a millionaire before he turned thirty. ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
An exact replica of a figment of my imagination: a memoir by Elizabeth McCracken
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-10 | Author:Elizabeth McCracken

Years before I’d given away an antique postcard that said, beneath a drawing of a pine branch: For thee I pine. For thee I balsam. (I regretted giving away that ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1987-01-02 | Author:Annie Dillard

BUT HE SAID UNTO JESUS, And who is my neighbor? And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves. And he said ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )

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