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Mr Nice: an autobiography by Howard Marks
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-10-15 | Author:Howard Marks

‘Ah, fahlang. You look so handsome. You like Superstar? How many times you been Bangkok?’ Several girls writhed over us and between us as we sat down at a table. ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 25,2014 )
I'm A Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
mobi, epub |pt | 2010-01-27 | Author:Bill Bryson

Now please don't misunderstand me. My mother is a wonderful person-kindly, saintly, ever cheerful-and when she dies she will go straight to heaven. But believe me, no one is ever ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
I Love a Broad Margin to My Life by Maxine Hong Kingston
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Maxine Hong Kingston

SPIRIT VILLAGE He betakes himself to yet one more village. I need him to go to an all-male place, a monastery, to make sure that Shao Lin or Han Shan ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-03-05 | Author:Maya Angelou

22 The wind blew over the roof and ruffled the shingles. It whistled sharp under the closed door. The chimney made fearful sounds of protest as it was invaded by ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Hold the Enlightenment by Tim Cahill
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-07 | Author:Tim Cahill

I heard news of Nyoman periodically, because I recommended his services as driver and guide to any number of Bali-bound friends. The reports were always favorable. People liked Nyoman. A ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
mobi, epub | | 2010-09-15 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

Changing Places All the essentials of humanity’s artistic treasures can be found in New York. —Claude Lévi-Strauss T HE STAGES BY WHICH one mutates or pupates from one identity to ...
( Category: Journalists March 25,2014 )
Highcastle - A Remembrance by Stanislaw Lem
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-12 | Author:Stanislaw Lem

CHAPTER 5 The director of our school was Stanislaw Buzath, a small man with a big, commanding voice, but he was also a good historian and a decent person. Geography ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 25,2014 )
Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme by Tracy Daugherty
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-02 | Author:Tracy Daugherty

Don remained intrigued by the May Days and their aftermath. In 1972, he wrote a story entitled “Critique de la Vie Quotidienne,” which ends with a character studying “Marxist sociology ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
After Visiting Friends by Michael Hainey
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael Hainey

The front-page headlines: JUNIORS HONOR SENIORS A piece by Bob Hainey about the spring dances: “The gaily bedecked North Ward auditorium was the scene of the banquet which featured an ...
( Category: Journalists March 25,2014 )
A Widow's Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates

To Jan Perkins and Margery Cuyler Is there anything like a “grief support group” locally? I may have to try this . . . I’m not sure that I can ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement March 25,2014 )
A Warrior's Life: A Biography of Paulo Coelho by Fernando Morais
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-02 | Author:Fernando Morais

CHAPTER 15 Paulo and Raul EITHER ALONE OR WITH GISA, who was following him on his journey to satanism, Paulo began to try out some so-called magical exercises. One he ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
A ticket to the circus: a memoir by Norris Church Mailer
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-06 | Author:Norris Church Mailer

THE WINTER OF ’76–’77 was a particularly snowy one, and I didn’t have a warm coat. I’d left all my coats, which weren’t heavy, behind in Arkansas, and the winter ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck; Susan Shillinglaw; Robert Capa
mobi |eng | 1989-01-02 | Author:John Steinbeck; Susan Shillinglaw; Robert Capa

It does no good. He is obviously distraught, and he is very much in love with the slovenly, no-good girl. He does not know what to do. Shall he give ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Derrick Jensen

I took a breath, then continued, "I have to be honest here. During the reading last night I told you of my childhood, but I didn't tell you this: If ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
The Fatal Englishman by Sebastian Faulks
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:Sebastian Faulks

He was a changed man. The alteration was clearest in his face. Almost all the skin on it was new, and although McIndoe had done as well as any surgeon ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )

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