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Born to Walk by Dan Rubinstein
epub |eng, eng | 2015-03-15 | Author:Dan Rubinstein

Puzzling over Murphy’s words in my home office months later, the lucidity of the mountaintop was hard to conjure. Not only because of the prescription-pad illegibility of my shorthand. Our ...
( Category: Walking December 11,2015 )
A Tour of Bones - Facing Fear and Looking for Life by Denise Inge
epub |eng | 2014-11-05 | Author:Denise Inge [Inge, Denise]

5 Naters As the night train rumbled towards Zürich, a sudden staccato rap on the cabin door interrupted my weary sleep; it was an abrupt wake-up call. The half-Hungarian in ...
( Category: Literary & Religious December 10,2015 )
The Fictional Woman by Tara Moss
epub |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:Tara Moss [Moss, Tara]

11 THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE DAMNED You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting Vanity, ...
( Category: Memoirs December 8,2015 )
Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology by Caroline Paul & Wendy MacNaughton
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Caroline Paul & Wendy MacNaughton [Paul, Caroline & MacNaughton, Wendy]

We drove to the all-night emergency room. I expected to wait for hours behind the Very Sick, but the assistant peered into the cat carrier, frowned, and whisked it to ...
( Category: Essays December 7,2015 )
The Tale of the Rose by Consuelo de Saint-Exupery
epub |eng | 2001-07-16 | Author:Consuelo de Saint-Exupery

TONIO WAS DOING LESS PILOTING, but his love of aviation only grew. Generous and unthinking by nature, he brought home all his friends from the boulevards and the cafés, and ...
( Category: Authors December 6,2015 )
Word Freak : Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players (9780547524313) by Fatsis Stefan
epub |eng | | Author:Fatsis, Stefan

Lester played in the first New York Scrabble tournament. It was staged in the late 1960s by the proprietor of a new games parlor on 72nd Street between Broadway and ...
( Category: Scrabble December 5,2015 )
Hit Hard by Joey Kramer
epub |eng | 2009-12-04 | Author:Joey Kramer

Courtesy of Ron Pownall. At the Cenacle there was the big open room that had been the chapel; only now it had all the pews taken out. There was still ...
( Category: Rock December 5,2015 )
Hunting with Hemingway by Hilary Hemingway
epub |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:Hilary Hemingway

“Excuse me, but did Ernest ever offer a reason why he didn’t shoot the attacking dragon?” the professor inquired. “I wanted to ask him—but the moment for questions had passed. ...
( Category: Hunting December 5,2015 )
The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett
epub |eng | 2015-09-20 | Author:Alan Bennett [Bennett, Alan]

‘Miss S. never mastered the technique of self-propulsion in the wheelchair… instead, she preferred to punt herself along with two walking sticks, looking in the process rather like a skier ...
( Category: British & Irish December 5,2015 )
Iceman by Chuck Liddell
epub |eng | 2008-12-04 | Author:Chuck Liddell

CHAPTER 24 TO LEAVE NO DOUBT, YOU’VE GOT TO KNOCK A GUY OUT NEW CONTRACT, NEW CREDIBILITY, NEW CAR. MIDWAY through 2002 I was thirty-two years old and a legitimate ...
( Category: Martial Arts December 5,2015 )
Inside the Helmet: Hard Knocks, Pulling Together, and Triumph as a Sunday Afternoon Warrior by Strahan Michael & Glazer Jay
azw3 |eng | 2007-10-08 | Author:Strahan, Michael & Glazer, Jay [Strahan, Michael]

CHAPTER TWELVE Chess on the Gridiron Sunday, October 8, Redskins at Giants When the game starts, I’m so excited to put my fingers in the dirt, I literally feel like ...
( Category: Football December 5,2015 )
The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left by Ed Husain
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-12-02 | Author:Ed Husain [Husain, Ed]

9. Farewell Fanaticism The facts of history are nothing; interpretation is everything. E. H. Carr, British historian Just as I had become a member of the Hizb over a period ...
( Category: Specific Topics December 3,2015 )
The Good, the Bad, and Me: In My Anecdotage by Eli Wallach
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-05-08 | Author:Eli Wallach [Wallach, Eli]

In preparation to play the role of Sakini in Teahouse, Bobby Lewis and I had several prerehearsal sessions. “I haven’t the slightest idea of how to play an Asian,” I ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 2,2015 )
STREET CHILD, A Memoir by Justin Reed Early
epub |eng | 2014-02-08 | Author:Justin Reed Early [Early, Justin Reed]

My mom came to get me when I was released from NeRF so we could ‘have a talk’. I got into her car and told her everything about the case ...
( Category: Memoirs December 2,2015 )
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino
epub |eng | 2015-11-02 | Author:Elaine Sciolino [Sciolino, Elaine]

I NEVER WOULD HAVE talked about religion in my proper, refined neighborhood off the rue du Bac. But along the rue des Martyrs, religion is a natural part of life. ...
( Category: General December 2,2015 )

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