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Upon the Head of the Goat by Aranka Siegal
epub |eng | | Author:Aranka Siegal

16 LATE ONE NIGHT, we heard a knock at the door. Mother jumped out of bed, fumbling in the dark trying to get into her bathrobe. I could see her ...
( Category: Education & Reference September 27,2017 )
The Man Called Brown Condor by Thomas E. Simmons
epub |eng | 2013-09-27 | Author:Thomas E. Simmons

Chapter 16 Audience with the Emperor THE SUN BROKE THROUGH THE THINNING CLOUDS TO CHEERFULLY brighten the morning. John took it as a good omen on the day he was ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 27,2017 )
Ride Like Hell and You'll Get There by Paul Carter
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-17 | Author:Paul Carter [Carter, Paul]

STORMTROOPERS AFTER ENOUGH COFFEE to make me jittery, a hearty breakfast and a lengthy session trying to dry our shirts using the toilet hand-dryer, we tentatively stepped back out into ...
( Category: Memoirs September 27,2017 )
Boogie Man by Charles Shaar Murray
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Charles Shaar Murray

My love. ‘Me and Brownie and Sonny and all the folk-singers,’ Hooker tells the audience at one point, ‘we are here paying our dues to the natural facts. We have ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 27,2017 )
Living Out Loud by Anna Quindlen
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Anna Quindlen [Quindlen, Anna]

FOOLING AROUND GOSSIP So I’m reading about Joan Collins, who got married last year in Las Vegas to a man fourteen years her junior whose only resume description was “former ...
( Category: Women's Studies September 27,2017 )
An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff & Alex Tresniowski
epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Laura Schroff & Alex Tresniowski [Schroff, Laura & Tresniowski, Alex]

Not long after our Thanksgiving together, I asked Maurice what he usually did for Christmas. “Nothing,” he said with a shrug. “What do you mean? Don’t you celebrate Christmas?” “Nope.” ...
( Category: Regional U.S September 27,2017 )
Maybe You Never Cry Again by Bernie Mac
epub |eng | | Author:Bernie Mac

Some nights I’d be out till all hours, and come morning I couldn’t get my sorry ass out of bed. “Bernard, it’s seven-fifteen,” Rhonda would say, ridin’ me. I had ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 27,2017 )
3531 by Black John
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-17 | Author:Black, John [Black, John]

Chapter 10 “What are we going to do now?” she asked, while packing away the extra bottles of water. “I think we deserve a rest.” He dunked his head into ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 27,2017 )
Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone The First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League by Martha Ackmann
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Martha Ackmann [Ackmann, Martha]

Husband: How did the pitcher on the other team look today? Mrs. Stone: I’m telling you that guy’s just about as handsome as they come. When that big, strong beast ...
( Category: Baseball September 27,2017 )
How the World Moves by Peter Nabokov
epub |eng | 2015-08-25 | Author:Peter Nabokov

39 Joining the Circus (1927) Suffice to say here that German Indianthusiasm is basically a nineteenth-century construct, an expression of colonial desires and fantasies, that it has escapist and self-aggrandizing ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 27,2017 )
Thunder in the Mountains by Daniel J. Sharfstein
epub |eng | 2017-09-27 | Author:Daniel J. Sharfstein

AFTER A WEEK IN THE MOUNTAINS, Howard’s column emerged from the Lolo Trail on August 6 to good roads, grassy meadows, and a pleasantly sulfurous soak in the local hot ...
( Category: Americas September 27,2017 )
Only in Spain by Nellie Bennett
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Nellie Bennett

• • • “Everyone is beautiful at the ballet…” I hummed the song from A Chorus Line as I slipped into my ballet shoes. I was trying to keep my ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 25,2017 )
Blind Descent by Brian Dickinson
epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Brian Dickinson

April 28, 2011 If someone could please drop ship a carne asada burrito from Roberto’s in San Diego or a Double-Double Animal Style from In-n-Out Burger, I sure would appreciate ...
( Category: Mountaineering September 25,2017 )
White Walls by Judy Batalion
epub |eng | 2015-11-16 | Author:Judy Batalion

• ELEVEN • COMMENCEMENT London, 2007 We woke to the powdery London light that existed only in the mornings, before the days became gray and smoggy like a Dickens Christmas ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 25,2017 )
Stuffed by Patricia Volk
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Patricia Volk

Aunt Ruthie makes the front page after hostage negotiators exchange her for two cigarettes. (She never kept kosher.) BUTTER COOKIES Your Uncle Albert and I had a whirlpool romance,” Aunt ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 25,2017 )

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