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All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs by Elie Wiesel
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Elie Wiesel

“How much is a life worth?” “I have no idea.” “Think about it, please.” “I can’t.” “Try. You have to admit it’s an important question. The Germans are ready to ...
( Category: France March 25,2014 )
Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives: A Biography by Robert Thacker
mobi |eng | 2005-11-22 | Author:Robert Thacker

Yet for Munro’s art and the growth of her career, these new arrangements were much more than publication by the continent’s leading venue for short fiction. Her return to Huron ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
The Receptionist: An Education at the New Yorker by Janet Groth
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Janet Groth

FRITZ I ACQUIRED MY NEXT SERIOUS boyfriend indirectly by way of a Talk reporter named Bill Murray. In those days, men who came up to meet New Yorker writers for ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic March 25,2014 )
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-06 | Author:James Boswell

He said, ‘Dr. Mead lived more in the broad sunshine of life than almost any man.’ The disaster of General Burgoyne’s army was then the common topic of conversation. It ...
( Category: Research March 25,2014 )
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
mobi, epub, pdf | | | Author:Maya Angelou

The next morning my interior decorating met with stony disapproval. The old sofa was wrong for a man in my husband's position and the secondhand-store bedroom set definitely had to ...
( Category: African American Poetry March 25,2014 )
Small Memories by José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa
mobi |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa

I was never much of a fisherman. Like any boy of my age and modest means, I used an ordinary rod with a hook, sinker and cork float tied to ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Lorenzo Carcaterra

6 VISITORS WERE ALLOWED into Wilkinson on rotating weekend mornings, for a maximum of one hour. Only one visitor per inmate was permitted. Early into my stay, I had written ...
( Category: Hoaxes & Deceptions March 25,2014 )
Sky of Stone by Homer Hickam
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Homer Hickam

DURING THE man-trip ride inside one morning, it occurred to me that Bobby was four years older than me and might, as a result, have a tad more experience with ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 1994-11-10 | Author:Mikal Gilmore

GAYLEN’S STORY IS ANOTHER matter, and trying to tell it raises some peculiar problems for me. Aside from my father, Gaylen—who was born as Gaylen Noel Gilmore—was the only member ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Burroughs Augusten
mobi |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Burroughs, Augusten [Burroughs, Augusten]

QUEEN HELENE CHOLESTEROL K ATE WASN’T LIKE THE OTHER FINCHES. SHE WAS SLIM, SOphisticated and listened to Laura Nyro and fusion jazz. She dated handsome black men and her spotless ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Ridin' High, Livin' Free: Hell-Raising Motorcycle Stories by Ralph "Sonny" Barger
mobi |eng | 2003-02-03 | Author:Ralph "Sonny" Barger

The Ghost of Yermo When I’m riding long distances, I have my pipes and engine to keep me company. For me, it's not about being in a meditative state. I've ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Proust's Overcoat by Lorenza Foschini; Eric Karpeles
mobi |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Lorenza Foschini; Eric Karpeles

THE LETTER TO HIS GRANDFATHER. At his house on rue Berton, Guérin was still in a reverie, surrounded by the salvaged items that had come out of the hatbox. He ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Proust in Love by William C. Carter
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-05-10 | Author:William C. Carter

CHAPTER EIGHT Grieving and Forgetting In the late fall of 1913 the relationship between Proust and Agostinelli finally reached the breaking point, but, not surprisingly, it was Agostinelli who made ...
( Category: European March 25,2014 )
Create Dangerously by Edwidge Danticat
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:Edwidge Danticat

The next day, I called Tante Zi and explained all that I’d learned about Marius’s return to Haiti. Tante Zi was aware of the funeral home cost, she said; she ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 25,2014 )
Cocaine's Son: A Memoir by Dave Itzkoff
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Dave Itzkoff

IV. The Card There are only two practical driving routes from Monticello to Manhattan, with the only major difference between them being the choice of the Tappan Zee Bridge or ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )

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