Authors
epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:W. G. Sebald [Sebald, W. G.]

It was as if I had been walking for hours before the tiled roofs of houses and the crest of a wooded hill gradually became defined. The Dunwich of the ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-25 | Author:Burns, Jennifer [Burns, Jennifer]

CHAPT ER EIGHT Love Is Exception Making $by the middle of the 1960s Rand’s popularity among young conservatives, her open support of Goldwater, and the continued appeal of her books ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Sylvia Plath

Amazing how warm a gauze of nylon stocking is: just decided not to go bare-legged and suddenly stopped sneezing. If only Ted doesn't object too much to the noise, I ...
( Category: Feminist March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-01 | Author:Paula Uruburu [Uruburu, Paula]

CHAPTER ELEVEN The Worst Mistake of Her Life In Domrémy, France, the birthplace of Joan of Arc, Harry wrote in the guestbook, “she would not have been a virgin if ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-09-10 | Author:Elizabeth McCracken [McCracken, Elizabeth]

Years before I’d given away an antique postcard that said, beneath a drawing of a pine branch: For thee I pine. For thee I balsam. (I regretted giving away that ...
( Category: Women March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Ann Patchett [Patchett, Ann]

WHEN THE PHONE RANG at seven it came as a real surprise. It felt like we had been asleep for fifteen minutes. Lucy’s friends were famous for calling at three ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-04-28 | Author:William Deresiewicz [Deresiewicz, William]

But then, something happened to change my mind, not only about Mansfield Park but also about myself. A year or so after I’d begun to hang around the private-school crowd, ...
( Category: European March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Andre Dubus III

BY LATE fall, Jeb and I were building things together again. Our boss was Trevor D., a lanky British man who wanted to be a millionaire before he turned thirty. ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-04-17 | Author:Burroughs, Augusten [Burroughs, Augusten]

Peep Almost nothing thrilled me more as a child than to share dinner with the family down the street, the Hendersons. Mrs. Henderson was a bleached blonde who always had ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Ann Patchett [Patchett, Ann]

* * * * * * Chapter Ten "COME OVER," LUCY SAID, AS IF I LIVED DOWN THE street. "I'm going to be on the Today show and I don't ...
( Category: Women March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-08 | Author:Pete Townshend [Townshend, Pete]

When I woke up next morning only faithful Barney was still with me. I was still comfortably rum-drunk from the night before, and extremely jolly. Barney told me Keith had ...
( Category: Rock March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Pico Iyer [Iyer, Pico]

We waited, my mother and Hiroko and I, for day after long day in our temporary lodging, looking up at the hills in the distance or, in my case, not ...
( Category: Parenting Boys March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Charles Nicholl

In his deposition at the Court of Requests Wilkins gives his age as ‘36 years or thereabouts’, but in another deposition two years later he says he is about forty. ...
( Category: Renaissance March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-05-14 | Author:Barbara Kingsolver [Kingsolver, Barbara]

Our turkeys were looking gorgeous after their awkward adolescent molt into adult plumage. Bourbon Reds are as handsome as it gets on the turkey runway, with chestnut-red bodies, white wings, ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-07-20 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]

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: Discrimination & Racism March 26,2014 )