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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 )
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 )
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sebastian Barry

chapter fifteen Dr Grene's Commonplace Book Curious and upsetting news today about John Kane. At a staff meeting we were trying to field a report from one of the wards. ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002 by Salman Rushdie
mobi |eng | 2002-04-14 | Author:Salman Rushdie

THURSDAY, APRIL 13 I am woken at 5:00 A.M. by amplified music and chanting from a mandir, a Hindu temple, across the valley. I get dressed and walk around the ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory 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 )
For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey through a Chinese Prison by Yiwu Liao
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Yiwu, Liao [Yiwu, Liao]

The Living Dead Ponder Death AFTER THE DRAMATIC TURN of events with Dead Chang, members of the “death squad” slowly became immune to the threat of death. “Life and death ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 25,2014 )
Mo' Meta Blues by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-17 | Author:Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Edmund de Waal

20. heil wien! heil berlin! The century is fourteen years old, and so is Elisabeth, a serious young girl who is allowed to sit at dinner with the grown-ups. These ...
( Category: Ceramics March 25,2014 )
Klee Wyck by Emily Carr; Kathryn Bridge
mobi |eng | 2004-04-15 | Author:Emily Carr; Kathryn Bridge

SLEEP When I was a child I was staying at one of Victoria’s beaches. I was down on the point watching a school of porpoises at play off Trial Island ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 25,2014 )
Colorado Kid by Stephen King
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2005-10-04 | Author:Stephen King [King, Stephen]

10 Dave said, “Let me tell you what young Mr. Devane saw when he took his forbidden peek into the evidence bag, Steffi���and I have no doubt he took that ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2005-10-04 | Author:Stephen King

11 “Devane waited until Monday,” Dave said, “and when the business about the cigarettes still wouldn’t quit nagging him—wouldn’t quit even though he was almost a year and a half ...
( Category: Suspense March 25,2014 )
A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York by Huston Anjelica
epub |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:Huston, Anjelica [Huston, Anjelica]

CHAPTER 10 Anjelica with Allegra in the garden at Maida Avenue, 1965 Away from Ireland, from the green fields and the open air, 31 Maida Avenue, a graceful cream-colored Georgian ...
( Category: Irish March 25,2014 )
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
mobi, epub | | 1998-12-17 | Author:Frank McCourt

The bed has cool white sheets. The nurses have clean white uniforms and the nun, Sister Rita, is all in white. Dr. Humphrey and Dr. Campbell have white coats and ...
( Category: Irish March 25,2014 )
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:David Remnick

The killing of Fred Hampton initiated the decline of the Black Panthers but became an emblematic moment in the history of race relations in Chicago. The murder thrust Bobby Rush, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )

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