Memoirs
epub |eng | | Author:Patricia Hampl

SO HOW DID I “become a writer,” vocation approved of by Leo the Lion, wondered over by silent Stan? My brother was the first in the family to go to ...
( Category: Memoirs November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Patricia Hampl

FIVE Les Bains Turcs In 1683 the Turkish army of Mustafa the Black (also the Terrible—the Europeans piled on the scary adjectives) surged west, threatening the easternmost imperial capital of ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-23 | Author:Alice Taylor [Alice Taylor]

Then slowly the mist cleared and blue skies appeared between the overhanging trees. Cars purred up the narrow road and were directed into an adjoining field, and people coming through ...
( Category: Europe November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-23 | Author:Alice Taylor [Alice Taylor]

In the seomra ciúin, the fireplace is the starting point. The overmantel is a great structure on which to hang Christmas decorations. Before the draping begins, holly branches are laid ...
( Category: Memoirs November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mary Cantwell

I awoke on March 17, waiting. “They never come when they’re supposed to,” I told B., and sent him off to work. All day long I waited, dusting the furniture, ...
( Category: Specific Groups November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dodie Clark

AN AWKWARD DUET Do you want to go first? ’Cause I’m happy to wait – I practised really hard, but I’m finding it strange to start with you. So how ...
( Category: Literary November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Brett Archibald

THE NAGA LAUT 3.40PM ‘What’s that? What’s that?’ Ridgy’s shouts have set the men on edge again. They move in unison to the portside of the boat where they follow ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-07 | Author:Edgar Feuchtwanger

We’re in Funk’s apartment. He’s reading out snatches from the newspaper: “Ernst Röhm was mounting a coup against Hitler.” “He wanted to hand power to the SA, who would have ...
( Category: Historical November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Daniel P. Bolger

As I rode back in my helicopter after hearing how well we were doing, smoke was billowing up in Saigon, flames shooting up in the air. I have estimated that ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-24 | Author:Jenna Bush Hager

First Pitch BARBARA Baseball has always been our family sport. Though Jenna and I were pathetic, dare I say shitty, players, we spent hours practicing with a yellow plastic bat ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 23,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Chickenhawk

Chapter 7 The Rifle Range The verdict on the First Cavalry concept was in last week. Stepping out of an olive-drab tent at An Khe, after an hour-long briefing on ...
( Category: Military November 22,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-11-22 | Author:Michael Perry

When Barry Lynn was a boy, he racked tobacco in North Carolina. The fieldwork made him hardy, and gave him a man’s hands, but he was never like the other ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Gordon Ramsay [Ramsay, Gordon]

( Category: Entertaining & Holidays November 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 1990-11-22 | Author:Michael Gannon [Gannon, Michael]

In Hardegen’s shooting report the diagram depicting the relative courses of the two vessels, U-boat and target, shows that the torpedo hit on the target’s port side. The accompanying narrative ...
( Category: Europe November 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Joyner [JOYNER, JENNIFER]

When I first found out we were having a baby, I was ecstatic. Michael and I had waited for so long, watched so many friends and family members become parents, ...
( Category: Memoirs November 21,2017 )