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Don't Make Me Pull Over! by Richard Ratay
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Ratay

* * * I. The Orange Krate was a bike of almost indescribable beauty. It was one of Schwinn’s Sting-Ray bicycles, a line of bikes designed to resemble the top ...
( Category: Social Sciences July 8,2018 )
Rocks by Joe Perry
epub |eng | | Author:Joe Perry

A few months later, he showed up at the Project’s show at the Bottom Line in New York. He came to my dressing room and asked, “Is that fat guy ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 8,2018 )
A Memoir of Love and Madness by Rahla Xenopoulos
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Rahla Xenopoulos

12 Backwards into the darkness November is a tricky month. It’s the month of my birthday, and I’m an old-fashioned birthday girl. I love the passing of the years that ...
( Category: Memoirs July 8,2018 )
Alexander the Great by Norman F. Cantor
mobi, epub |ru | 2005-05-27 | Author:Norman F. Cantor

While Alexander was consolidating his support with the towns in Asia Minor, the Persian fleet was anchored off the coast trying to provoke an engagement. The naval abilities of the ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 8,2018 )
(Not Quite) Mastering the Art of French Living by Mark Greenside
epub |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:Mark Greenside

10 Things I’ve Learned about Money in France 1. I like to think of myself as a humanist—“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs”—and in ...
( Category: Europe July 8,2018 )
Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home by Natalie Goldberg
epub |eng | 2018-06-04 | Author:Natalie Goldberg

* * * — It took me years to coax small details of Yu-kwan’s past out of her. She didn’t want people to feel sorry for her — or even ...
( Category: Diseases & Physical Ailments July 8,2018 )
Costly Grace by Rob Schenck
epub |eng | 2018-06-04 | Author:Rob Schenck

16 Rev. Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western N.Y. When I arrived in Washington in 1994, the tensions around questions of American morality that had begun in the 1970s had ...
( Category: Christian Living July 6,2018 )
The Patagonian Hare by Claude Lanzmann
epub |eng | | Author:Claude Lanzmann [Lanzmann, Claude]

Chapter 13 1958, I am thirty-three. For me, this is the year of ‘Le curé d’Uruffe’, of Général de Gaulle’s return to power, of my trip to China and North ...
( Category: Movies July 6,2018 )
Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig
epub |eng | | Author:Matt Haig

Glow I USED TO be obsessed with glowing windows and streetlamps when I was a kid. From the back of the car I would stare out and look at windows ...
( Category: Memoirs July 6,2018 )
Breathing the Fire by Kimberly Dozier
epub |eng | 2011-07-04 | Author:Kimberly Dozier

CHAPTER 10 body battles The emotional pain that continued to haunt me was not the only thing attacking my blast- and surgery-weakened body, but I wouldn’t find that out until ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics July 5,2018 )
The Good Life: Up the Yukon without a Paddle by Dorian Amos
epub |eng | 2004-08-14 | Author:Dorian Amos [Amos, Dorian]

March 2000 My dog running had become second nature, and I now understood the logic and beauty of this timeless form of travel. The dogs were always keen to run ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides July 5,2018 )
Southside Provisional: From Freedom Fighter to the Four Courts by Conway Kieran
epub |eng | 2014-11-19 | Author:Conway, Kieran [Conway, Kieran]

Chapter 10 The summer of 1972 was truly historic, bringing as it did the truce, its breakdown, the continuing rise of the UDA, the Bloody Friday bombings and Operation Motorman. ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 5,2018 )
Gang of One by Mulgrew Gary
epub |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:Mulgrew, Gary [Mulgrew, Gary]

12 DON’T PANIC I LASTED IN THE CLEANING JOB for six weeks, during which time I availed myself of every opportunity to find alternative work. I had initially hoped to ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics July 5,2018 )
Blue Rage, Black Redemption by Stanley Tookie Williams & Tavis Smiley
epub |eng | 2007-11-12 | Author:Stanley Tookie Williams & Tavis Smiley [Williams, Stanley Tookie]

23 Schemes and Things Somehow I continued to avoid the traps of the law. In a Los Angeles courtroom, Johnnie Cochran, my attorney, persuaded me to accept a $100 fine ...
( Category: Specific Groups July 5,2018 )
Hard Knocks & Soft Spots by Paddy Doherty
epub |eng | 2012-05-09 | Author:Paddy Doherty [Doherty, Paddy]

13 Fists of Fury THINGS HAD STARTED to change for travellers by the 1990s. It was harder for us to move around, there were big sites provided for us to ...
( Category: Biographies July 5,2018 )

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