Memoirs
epub |eng | | Author:Arno Michaelis

Pardeep When the first images of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center flashed on the TV screen, I feared we would have to reintroduce ourselves to the community. ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 19,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Pedrick, Clare

Chapter Six The next morning, I was Tito’s first customer. Dressed smartly as always in his white coat he pulled up the shutters and looked surprised to see me standing ...
( Category: Memoirs April 19,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Pat Cunnane

* * * I. Despite aggressive lobbying by his owner, Louie did not make the cover. II. I know, I know. I groaned writing that line. III. Okay, I may ...
( Category: Humor April 19,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alexander Chee

Not for the novelist. Not for the reader. But for something else the novelist brings in from the back of the tent like a lion on a chain. Do not ...
( Category: Essays April 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-17 | Author:Patricia Hampl

* * * — On the drive to Znojmo, Anna and I had spent an afternoon in Brno at the Mendel museum housed in the old Augustinian abbey where he’d ...
( Category: Memoirs April 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-03 | Author:Eugenia Bone

* * * *1 During his presidency, Barack Obama remarked that self-sabotage in minority classrooms, where students who receive good grades are perceived as “acting white,” was a matter of ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 18,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-08-03 | Author:Steven Squyres [Squyres, Steven]

PART THREE FLIGHT 13 FINAL APPROACH DECEMBER 28, 2003 I WRITE THIS WHILE seated on US Airways flight 21, traveling to LAX on a one-way ticket. I kissed Mary good-bye ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 18,2018 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jen A. Miller [Miller, Jen A.]

Chapter 5 BIRD-IN-HAND HALF MARATHON NOVEMBER 6, 2010 New Jersey Marathon — Miles 12–13 At mile 12, we left downtown Long Branch and turned onto Ocean Avenue to enter the ...
( Category: Bibles April 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-26 | Author:Mark Phillips

Inspired by the Hardy Boys mystery series that I read and reread throughout my childhood, I occasionally sneaked out my bedroom window to search my neighborhood for evil to defeat. ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-11 | Author:Norman Podhoretz

6. IN AND OUT OF NIHILISM (AND UNIFORM) I WOULD not have missed the excitement and joy of those five months in New York for anything, but when the bill ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-21 | Author:David Shields

HISTORY OF AMERICA, #34 The question before the court is why Charles Barkley—NBA superstar turned NBA/USA commentator—has, in the words of his TNT colleague Ernie Johnson, “diplomatic immunity.” Why does ...
( Category: United States April 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey L. Tucker [Tucker, Jeffrey L.]

8 * * * Riding the Tides with Windchill After a brief reprieve, the cold was back, sinking to minus fifty-five wind chills at night and spiking our concern that ...
( Category: Regional U.S April 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-17 | Author:Andrea J. Buchanan

26 This is what I do when I am startled, or confronted by an argument: I freeze. If I can become very still and wait it out, become invisible, then ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling April 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-03 | Author:Jan Redford

* * * — Back at the house, Grant was still comatose. He looked vulnerable lying there, like our little fetus. I wanted to protect him, make up for all ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-14 | Author:Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq [al-Shidyaq, Ahmad Faris]

the mirzāb, “any great, or tall, ship” the zabzab, “a sort of ship” the bārijah, “any large ship for fighting” the khalīj, “a small ship of less size than the ...
( Category: Historical April 17,2018 )