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Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston; Maya Angelou
mobi |eng | 1942-01-01 | Author:Zora Neale Hurston; Maya Angelou

In New Orleans, I delved into Hoodoo, or sympathetic magic. I studied with the Frizzly Rooster, and all of the other noted “doctors.” I learned the routines for making and ...
( Category: African American March 25,2014 )
Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-03-15 | Author:Augusten Burroughs

He’s surprised to learn that my Southern parents divorced when I was young and that my mother gave me away to her psychiatrist when I was twelve and that I ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Don't panic: Douglas Adams & The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Neil Gaiman
mobi, epub | | 1993-08-13 | Author:Neil Gaiman

Life, the Universe, and Everything ************************************************ ZAPHOD: There's nothing wrong with my sense of reality. I have it thoroughly serviced every fortnight. - Cut from radio script, Episode Three. ************************************************ ...
( Category: Modern March 25,2014 )
Diary by Witold Gombrowicz
mobi, epub |eng | 1962-01-01 | Author:Witold Gombrowicz

X Friday, Santiago (Witold Gombrowicz, having arrived in Santiago, succumbed to a wave of belated eroticism, the same as before, years ago.… But this time the wave was strengthened by ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch
mobi |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Nina Sankovitch

Chapter 12 The Expansion of Experience Now that I had taken the pains to learn something about it, I had better ask if I really wanted to know. I did. ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 1999-10-15 | Author:Frank McCourt

THE PLOT When the war started and food was rationed in Ireland the government offered poor families plots of land in fields outside Limerick. Each family could have a sixteenth ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Three weeks with my brother by Nicholas Sparks; Micah Sparks
mobi |eng | 2004-04-13 | Author:Nicholas Sparks; Micah Sparks

Late in the day, we headed back to Ayers Rock for the third time. This would be our chance to see how it changed colors at sunset. “I’m beginning to ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Three Weeks With My Brother by Nicholas Sparks & Micah Sparks
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1980-01-02 | Author:Nicholas Sparks & Micah Sparks

Late in the day, we headed back to Ayers Rock for the third time. This would be our chance to see how it changed colors at sunset. “I’m beginning to ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir by Oscar Hijuelos
mobi |eng | 2011-06-02 | Author:Oscar Hijuelos

Tucked back into that period, some months after I had turned eighteen, I had ended up in yet another smoke-filled room, this one situated in the draft board offices downtown ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas: a savage journey to the heart of the American dream by Hunter S. Thompson
mobi, epub | | 1998-10-14 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson

I drove straight to the hotel after renting the car. There was still no sign of my attorney, so I decided to check in on my own - if only ...
( Category: Journalists March 25,2014 )
This House of Sky by Ivan Doig
mobi, epub |eng | 1978-01-01 | Author:Ivan Doig

One shard of time repeats itself like the snow-helmets of mountains across each season of my memory. An edged piece of the day, that is, in the strictest sense—the high ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
mobi, azw3 |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:Annie Dillard

Here is a fairly sober version of what happens in the small room between the writer and the work itself. It is similar to what happens between a painter and ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-06 | Author:Sarah Vowell

In 1635, Williams’s surging obsession with his wall of separation between church and state turns him into a bricklayer straight out of Poe—barricading himself into his lonely little garden until ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J. R. Moehringer
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2006-08-01 | Author:J. R. Moehringer

twenty-four | FATHER AMTRAK ^ SIDNEY’S AGITA PASSED AND I LEARNED MY LESSON. I ADOPTED A policy of speaking less, listening more. I went on loving her uncontrollably, desperately, but ...
( Category: Journalists March 25,2014 )
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong
mobi |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Karen Armstrong

5. Desiring This Man’s Gift and That Man’s Scope The English department at Bedford College, located in a Regency house beside the Regent’s Park lake, was a haven of quiet ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )

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