Arts & Literature
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Vowell, Sarah [Vowell, Sarah]

WHEN KAMEHAMEHA’S HEIR, Liholiho, decided to make his ill-fated state visit to Great Britain in 1823, he sailed on an English whaleship captained by Valentine Starbuck, a member of a ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Dorothy Allison

“How’d you know you were a lesbian?” My sister Wanda was eighteen when she finally asked me that question. We were sitting on the steps of the feminist collective where ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Brad Herzog

“I’m a fifth-generation Athenian,” Bill Hansell begins. He is sixty years old, with a head of white hair that is thinning but hanging on gamely and glasses set in rectangular ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-05-01 | Author:Martha Gellhorn

There the diary finishes; now I am on my own, with a few fairly useless East African notes and my memory. The prospect is daunting. As near as I can ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1973-01-02 | Author:John Steinbeck

PART FOUR When I started this narrative, I knew that sooner or later I would have to have a go at Texas, and I dreaded it. I could have bypassed ...
( Category: Road Travel March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:Ernest Hemingway

–13– A Strange Enough Ending The way it ended with gertrude stein was strange enough. we had become very good friends and i had done a number of practical things ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Paul Hendrickson

When he was two and a half, Hemingway picked up some sheets of his father’s medical stationery and began to draw. It was a Saturday morning in Oak Park. One ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-30 | Author:Mark Doty

A few nights after I wrote those pages, this is what I dreamed: I had to parachute from an airplane in a strange way, sitting in the kind of plastic ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Ivan Doig

My grandmother could hmpf like a member of royalty. She is hmpfing in a major way to my mother, although not at my mother; Grandma's range of fire simply tends ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Colin Escott; George Merritt; William MacEwen

At Hank’s insistence, Lilly was presented with a gold watch by the Jaycees. Her smile, as she posed for the cameras, was exactly like Hank’s. It was a chance for ...
( Category: Country & Folk March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-21 | Author:Maya Angelou

CHAPTER 21 I took a job as swing-shift waitress in a day-and-night restaurant called the Chicken Shack. The record player blared the latest hits incessantly and the late-night clientele spent ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-05 | Author:Gerald Martin

PART III Man of the World: Celebrity and Politics 1967–2005 17 Barcelona and the Latin American Boom: Between Literature and Politics 1967–1970 THE GARCÍA BARCHA FAMILY arrived in Spain on ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-15 | Author:Brad Gooch

WITHIN WEEKS of this return from Tennessee, Flannery was inspired by a newly settled family of tenant farmers at Andalusia to begin work on the story that she would read ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Jeanne Darst

WHEN HIS BREATHING WAS regulated, the “dementia,” which the hospital claimed was due to a bad reaction of a combination of drugs, went away. He left the hospital and went ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1964-01-02 | Author:Mario Puzo

LIFE IS SO full of surprises for small boys that Gino was not surprised the next morning to see the long black hair of a girl in his brother Larry’s ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 25,2014 )