Memoirs
mobi |eng | 1980-08-14 | Author:Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War Goodbye [Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War]

Sergeant Major Jacob Vouza, 1978 I have been told that there is now a strong Japanese presence in the islands, and that one Japanese, a Captain Honda, is particularly enterprising. ...
( Category: Military March 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-29 | Author:Sarah Wildman [Wildman, Sarah]

Perhaps Valy and my grandfather sang it to each other once, perhaps they saw the play together. But now the words “and I shall wait, as I promised before” have ...
( Category: World March 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Scarboro, Elizabeth [Scarboro, Elizabeth]

SAM DROVE US over to Amani’s apartment, where I was urged to take the first shower. I stood under the water, trying to pretend I’d just woken from a night’s ...
( Category: Memoirs March 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-06-11 | Author:Martin Amis [Amis, Martin]

Existence Still Is the Job 1995 did not stand on ceremony. It announced itself, on the first of January, with the prison suicide of Frederick West. (And in death, as ...
( Category: Memoirs March 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-22 | Author:Brian Cuban [Cuban, Brian]

* * * I hadn’t blown off thinking about my future career completely while I was in law school. I’d made some minimal effort during my three years to go ...
( Category: Addiction & Recovery March 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-29 | Author:Newton, Huey P. [Newton, Huey P.]

24 Black brother, think you life so sweet That you would live at any price? Does mere existence balance with The weight of your great sacrifice? Or can it be ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:Molly Birnbaum [Birnbaum, Molly]

I FELT SURE that my sense of smell was tied deeply to the state of my emotions. When sad, I noticed my perception of scent dim, like stereo volume on ...
( Category: Memoirs March 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-16 | Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber

THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER MY lovely PA Biddy Hayward was having a whale of a time juggling requests for Evita house seats with David Land, who kept crowing “There’s nothing that ...
( Category: Music March 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-04 | Author:Noo Saro-Wiwa

That evening, I checked my e-mail at a Lebanese-run Internet café opposite the desiccated lawns of the Kano golf club. I was still dressed in my hijab and headscarf, but ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 7,2018 )
mobi |zh | 2010-11-09 | Author:Michael Codella; Bruce Bennett

Avenue D Thanks to the van hit, Davey goes on DEA’s and NYPD’s radar around the same time we learn about him through Big Arthur Washington’s rampage. One afternoon the ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics March 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:Euna Lee [Lee, Euna; with Dickey, Lisa]

In the beginning, I didn’t write to Michael every day. But later, after my interrogations were over, I wrote for hours on end, filling pages with my thoughts, feelings, and ...
( Category: Memoirs March 7,2018 )
epub |rus | | Author:Chuck Palahniuk [Palahniuk, Chuck]

POSTSCRIPT: The photographer for this piece, Amy Eckert, jumped through a lot of government hoops to make it happen for Nest magazine. She warned me that, since Nest was a ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Richard Henry Dana [Dana, Richard Henry]

CHAPTER XXVII The Sunday Wash-up—On Shore—A Set-to—A Grandee—“Sail Ho!”—A Fandango The only other vessel in port was the Russian government bark, from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Frederick Douglass [Douglass, Frederick]

CHAPTER IX I HAVE NOW REACHED a period of my life when I can give dates. I left Baltimore, and went to live with Master Thomas Auld, at St. Michael‘s, ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 6,2018 )
epub, mobi |fra | 2010-06-20 | Author:Susan Wiggs [Wiggs, Susan]

Dave: by the way – i want your hair to be up or down for the wedding – none of this in between business me: hahaha okay Dave: i want ...
( Category: Weddings March 6,2018 )