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Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-15 | Author:Blake Bailey

In her dotage the dog had become all the more loving toward her master. She lay at his side and made comforting wheezing noises while he brooded in his wing ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Charles Bukowski by Howard Sounes
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-18 | Author:Howard Sounes

until he was 23* and not very often until he was 50 I think I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man ...
( Category: Beat Generation March 25,2014 )
C. S. Lewis – A Life by Alister McGrath
mobi |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Alister McGrath

CHAPTER 10 * * * 1945–1954 A Prophet without Honour?: Postwar Tensions and Problems By 1945, Lewis was famous. In the British academic world, a scholar’s status is calibrated by ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
I'm a stranger here myself: notes on returning to America after twenty years away by Bill Bryson
mobi, epub | | 2000-06-06 | Author:Bill Bryson

When we moved to America, the change in electrical systems meant I needed all new stuff for my office—computer, fax machine, answering machine, and so on. I am not good ...
( Category: Parodies March 25,2014 )
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-04-14 | Author:Edwidge Danticat

Jonas, pt. 20 ans, main droite absente, 11:35 a.m. Gladys, pt. 35 ans, nue, 3:09 p.m. Samuel, 75 ans, chany, 5:42 p.m. Male inconnu, pt. 25 ans, visage mutilée, 9:17 ...
( Category: African-American & Black March 25,2014 )
Blood-Dark Track by Joseph O'Neill
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Joseph O'Neill

Joseph Dakak, with Tayara In his testimony, Joseph gave a very specific – and, I thought, entirely credible – account of his reasons for going to Jerusalem. But he was ...
( Category: Irish March 25,2014 )
Black Milk by Elif Shafak
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-28 | Author:Elif Shafak

Oddly enough, women, too, are used to thinking of themselves in these terms. The relationships we build with one another, the talks we have among ourselves and the way we ...
( Category: Women Writers March 25,2014 )
Black Boy by Richard Wright
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1945-01-02 | Author:Richard Wright

11 I arrived in Memphis on a cold November Sunday morning, in 1925, and lugged my suitcase down quiet, empty sidewalks through winter sunshine. I found Beale Street, the street ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Anne C. Heller

A few months before Atlas Shrugged was published, Bennett Cerf invited his “most interesting” new author to address a Random House sales conference. She stood at the head of the ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me by Eva Gabrielsson
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Eva Gabrielsson

( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Zero by Charles Seife
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-10-12 | Author:Charles Seife

XIII The hardest part was splitting up from the others and trusting them to do their bit. But he had to. And, though he didn't say as much, when he ...
( Category: Arithmetic March 25,2014 )
White heat: the friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Brenda Wineapple

Sleeps the bravest of the brave? Is it he who sank to rest With his colors round his breast? Friendship makes his tomb a shrine; Garlands veil it; ask not ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-03 | Author:Esmeralda Santiago

Mami talked to Doña Andrea. She smiled and nodded her head and smiled again. When Doña Andrea handed her a pot full of chickpeas with pig’s feet, Mami didn’t want ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies March 25,2014 )
Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton
mobi, epub | | 2004-06-22 | Author:Wil Wheaton

Chapter 8. April'S Fool "CREATIVITY IS THE ABSENCE OF FEAR," a friend of mine liked to say. After Vegas, Weakest Link, The Galaxy Ball, and my return "home" on the ...
( Category: Electronic Documents March 25,2014 )
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
mobi, epub, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2009-08-11 | Author:Haruki Murakami

Right now, though, it’s just the beginning of October. It’s starting to feel a bit too cold to run in a tank top, but still too early to wear a ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )

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