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Blindsided by the Taliban by Carmen Gentile
epub |eng | 2018-02-21 | Author:Carmen Gentile

It’s not as if I never get out of bed now. Why just moments ago I was upright and outside, willingly enduring the biting January cold. The tip of my ...
( Category: World March 12,2018 )
Found and Lost by Alison Leslie Gold
epub |eng | | Author:Alison Leslie Gold

DARLING TINNEKA, At eight I went down for a breakfast of bread, butter, cheese, salami, a boiled egg. I drank tea and cold milk: the usual. Around the large rectangular ...
( Category: World March 12,2018 )
Iris Apfel by Iris Apfel
epub |eng | 2018-01-17 | Author:Iris Apfel

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Iris Apfel Photo Credit: Halfpoint/Shutterstock The Fame Game THE CULT OF CELEBRITY (a word I hate), is a sad commentary on our society. It’s almost like ...
( Category: Graphic Design March 12,2018 )
Wolf Willow by Wallace Stegner
epub |eng | | Author:Wallace Stegner

Sometime during that roundup they may have had a day of decent weather, but it seemed to Rusty it was a procession of trials: icy nights, days when a bitter ...
( Category: Literary March 12,2018 )
Being Adam Golightly by Adam Golightly
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Golightly

26. WINDOWS ON HELEN’S WORLD Holly: If you could say one more thing to Helen, what would it be? Holly is a daftly insensitive but well-meaningly crass cousin. My answer ...
( Category: Humor March 12,2018 )
The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs by Daniel Coyle & Tyler Hamilton
mobi |eng | 2012-09-05 | Author:Daniel Coyle & Tyler Hamilton [Coyle, Daniel]

Normally, we skipped the Tour of Switzerland, because of its timing. It was usually scheduled two weeks from the start of the Tour de France, which was a problem, because ...
( Category: Individual Sports March 12,2018 )
Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Michael J. Fox [Fox, Michael J.]

My physical condition drew attention to the human cost of a failure to pursue breakthroughs in scientific research, just as Tammy Duckworth's injuries pointed to the price some were paying ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 12,2018 )
Paul's Prayers by Susan Anderson
epub |eng | 2018-03-02 | Author:Susan Anderson

23 BROKEN CHAIN “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.” ...
( Category: Christian Living March 12,2018 )
I'll Never Change My Name by Valentin Chmerkovskiy
epub |eng | 2018-02-10 | Author:Valentin Chmerkovskiy

Part 4 A Journey in Life Rising Stars Just like the Bronze Age or the Iron Age, in our family we had what we called the Pickles and Milk Era ...
( Category: Motivational March 12,2018 )
Laughing Without an Accent by Firoozeh Dumas
epub |eng | 2008-04-29 | Author:Firoozeh Dumas

Past the Remote Sometime after the birth of our second child, I decided to get rid of our TV. I kept this thought to myself, knowing it would not be ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 12,2018 )
Free Woman by Lara Feigel
epub |eng | | Author:Lara Feigel

I liked this description because it explained so powerfully why sex mattered; why it was more than an indulgent or recreational act, and why it might therefore be too important ...
( Category: Women's Studies March 12,2018 )
Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs (1994) by John Lydon
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-09 | Author:John Lydon

I fell in love with John because he surprised me. He was pictured really bad, but he had a really sweet attitude. We both had a Catholic upbringing; he had ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 12,2018 )
Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored (2014) by John Lydon
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-08 | Author:John Lydon [Lydon, John]

9 THERE’S NOWT AS GOOD AS CHANGE As a member of the Musicians’ Union, as a lead singer and a performer, you’re automatically an actor, apparently. You’re on a roster ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 12,2018 )
Devotion by Dani Shapiro
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-12 | Author:Dani Shapiro

49. In Connecticut, on our hilltop, life was quiet. Gone were the city sounds: the sirens, hisses, street fights, car alarms, the teeming, throbbing, ceaseless pulse of life. Our pace ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 12,2018 )
Girl for Sale by Lara McDonnell
epub |eng | | Author:Lara McDonnell

Chapter twelve LOST GIRL The days were a haze of drugs, drink, danger and aimlessness. I woke around 10, moped about the house in my pyjamas and tried to forget ...
( Category: Memoirs March 12,2018 )

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