Memoirs
epub |eng | 2019-05-15 | Author:Emma Sky

CHAPTER 7 … to the hill of frankincense Oman December 2012 Although the sultanate of Oman borders Saudi Arabia, it seemed a world away. I did not have to wear ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Laura Cumming

9 Icarus The first image my mother ever owned, as a new student heady with freedom and hard-won post office shillings, was Brueghel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. It ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers August 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-29 | Author:Lori Qian

When we returned to the hotel, we called the embassy on my mobile phone. They confirmed that they couldn’t do anything by fax and that we did indeed need to ...
( Category: Love & Romance August 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:Mat Best

Chapter 10 Iraqi Rave Party Not every day in Ranger Battalion is a shooting gallery at the carnival type of day. You forget that sometimes. You also forget that you ...
( Category: Iraq War August 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:Steve Rushin

I make friends named Mike, Mike, Steve, and Steve. These were, respectively, the first and thirteenth most popular baby boy names of 1966. To distinguish the two Mikes on our ...
( Category: United States August 28,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-07-28 | Author:Jill Heinerth

The Pit 2000 ONE YEAR AFTER Wakulla I heard a phrase that I had never expected to hear: “Never dive again.” The physician’s words made my heart drop. “I have ...
( Category: Oceanography August 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-19 | Author:Elle Wright

After the weeks of summer came to a close and autumn rolled around, I found myself in October. October already? I don’t think a day had gone past where I ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement August 27,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-08-05 | Author:Anna Mehler Paperny

PART III A KICK IN THE TEETH 18 Stigma and Related Bullshit I am so beyond tired of the word “stigma.” Perhaps it once had resonance. Maybe its utterance once ...
( Category: Depression August 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:Sasha Chapin

THE SECRET OF CHESS I first stumbled upon the lectures of my future teacher and spiritual guardian, Ben Finegold, during a despairing google for chess tips in Bangkok. He was ...
( Category: Chess August 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:Sarah M. Broom [Broom, Sarah M.]

MOVEMENT III Water Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe the river of oblivion rolls Her wat’ry labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being ...
( Category: African-American & Black August 24,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-08-13 | Author:Ibram X. Kendi

* * * — DARK GHETTO WAS a groundbreaking study of the Black poor during President Johnson’s war on poverty in the 1960s, when scholarship on poverty was ascendant, like ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism August 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-31 | Author:Eileen Myles [Myles, Eileen]

Look at these little wands I have. Like letters. Bubbles on a stick. Joan reminded me of soap pipes. This is in the forties and fifties. You would have a ...
( Category: Dogs August 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:Mat Best & Ross Patterson & Nils Parker

Chapter 10 Iraqi Rave Party Not every day in Ranger Battalion is a shooting gallery at the carnival type of day. You forget that sometimes. You also forget that you ...
( Category: Iraq War August 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-28 | Author:Bassey Ikpi

What It Feels Like REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME you were ever on a Ferris wheel? Remember when you got to the very top and just sat there, the entire world ...
( Category: Bipolar August 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-22 | Author:Richard Pryor

Eighteen Back in LA, I started working out again at Redd Foxx’s club. One night Redd gave me a fedora to wear. It was more than a friendly gesture. I ...
( Category: Comedy August 21,2019 )