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Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralnick
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Peter Guralnick [GURALNICK, PETER]

Juvenile delinquency, a widespread breakdown of morality and cultural values, race mixing, riots, and irreligion all were being blamed on Elvis Presley and rock ’n’ roll by a national press ...
( Category: Country & Folk March 26,2014 )
Sex, Drugs, Ratt & Roll: My Life in Rock by Stephen Pearcy & Sam Benjamin
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Stephen Pearcy & Sam Benjamin [Pearcy, Stephen & Benjamin, Sam]

MARSHALL CALLED. “WHAT ARE YOU BOYS doing next week? Got appointments at the tailors, or are you ready to work for me?” “What do you have?” “You ever been to ...
( Category: Heavy Metal March 26,2014 )
Baby, Let's Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him
epub |eng | 2010-12-22 | Author:Alanna Nash [Nash, Alanna]

At the end of August 1962, Elvis began work on It Happened at the World’s Fair, his twelfth film, and his first in a four-picture deal with MGM. Norman Taurog ...
( Category: Rock March 26,2014 )
Anyone Who Had a Heart by Burt Bacharach
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Burt Bacharach [Bacharach, Burt]

Chapter 15 Lost Horizon Angie and I had bought a beach house down in Del Mar, not far from San Diego, so I could be near the racetrack there during ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians March 26,2014 )
The Fourth K by Mario Puzo
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1989-12-31 | Author:Mario Puzo [Puzo, Mario]

CHAPTER 13 DAVID JATNEY SPENT a month reading scripts that seemed to him utterly worthless. He wrote the less than half page of summary, then wrote his opinion on the ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense March 26,2014 )
Fortunate Pilgrim by Puzo Mario
epub |eng | 1964-01-02 | Author:Puzo, Mario [Puzo, Mario]

LIFE IS SO full of surprises for small boys that Gino was not surprised the next morning to see the long black hair of a girl in his brother Larry’s ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 26,2014 )
Literary Giants Literary Catholics by Joseph Pearce
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-16 | Author:Joseph Pearce [Pearce, Joseph]

25 _____ EVELYN WAUGH Ultramodern to Ultramontane Conversion is like stepping across the chimney piece out of a Looking-Glass world, where everything is an absurd caricature, into the real world ...
( Category: Christianity March 26,2014 )
Surprised By Joy by C.S. Lewis
epub |eng | 2011-09-11 | Author:C.S. Lewis [Lewis, C.S.]

IX. The Great Knock You will often meet with characters in nature so extravagant that a discreet poet would not venture to set them upon the stage. LORD CHESTERFIELD ON ...
( Category: Religious March 26,2014 )
Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl by Donald Sturrock
epub |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Donald Sturrock [Sturrock, Donald]

Charles’s reply, although couched in his customary bizarre ethical generalities, was also perceptive and to the point. He blamed the problem on what he called “presumptive incompatibility.” Your last line, ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 26,2014 )
Stilwell & the American Experience in China 1911-45 by Barbara Tuchman
epub |eng | 2010-06-30 | Author:Barbara Tuchman [Tuchman, Barbara]

Another remarkable man, Dr. Gordon Seagrave, appeared at Maymyo at this time to offer his services. An American Baptist missionary surgeon of long experience in Burma, he was unorthodox, uncompromising, ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
C. S. Lewis – A Life by Alister McGrath
epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Alister McGrath

Mere Christianity (1952) Although Lewis had published a lightly edited version of his broadcast talks during the war, he was not entirely happy with them. These appeared as three separate ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
Called Out of Darkness by Anne Rice
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Anne Rice [Anne Rice]

This was Stan Rice, the boy from high school, who came up to Denton to go to North Texas State College in 1960, and who followed me to San Francisco ...
( Category: Theology March 26,2014 )
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
epub, mobi |ukr | 2008-11-04 | Author:Claire Tomalin [Tomalin, Claire]

17. The Secret Scientist Pepys became a member of the Royal Society in 1665 and went on to become its president in 1684. As president his name appears on the ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
Babylon Confidential
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Christian, Claudia [Christian, Claudia]

Angus and I both had films at Cannes that year and decided to go together. It was 1998, I was thirty-three years old, and my biological clock was ticking like ...
( Category: Women March 26,2014 )
Kathryn Kuhlman by Roberts Liardon
epub |eng | 2012-03-23 | Author:Roberts Liardon [Liardon, Roberts]

Appendix I: Biographical Outline February 11, 1891: Joseph Adolph Kuhlman married Emma Walkenhorst, Concordia, Missouri. May 9, 1907: Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman was born. October 6, 1913: Myrtle Kuhlman married Everett ...
( Category: Religious March 26,2014 )

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