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Garlic, Mint, and Sweet Basil by Jean-Claude Izzo
epub |eng | 2013-03-20 | Author:Jean-Claude Izzo

GARLIC The first girl I ever kissed smelled of garlic. It was in a hut in Les Goudes, at that hour on a summer’s day when adults take an afternoon ...
( Category: Essays October 11,2015 )
The Prison Book Club by Ann Walmsley
epub |eng | | Author:Ann Walmsley

12 CHRISTMAS IN PRISON CHRISTMAS IN PRISON was like a poorly attended Visitors Day in a seniors’ home. Many men at Collins Bay remained unvisited and lonely. And those who ...
( Category: Memoirs October 11,2015 )
The Speechwriter by Barton Swaim
epub |eng | | Author:Barton Swaim

9 * * * VERBIAGE The governor now trusted me to write his letters. I wrote a good many personal letters for him, most of them responses to letters from ...
( Category: State October 11,2015 )
Dangerous When Wet by Jamie Brickhouse
epub |eng | | Author:Jamie Brickhouse

SEVENTEEN Forgive Me, for I Have Sinned I scanned John’s plywood-and-cinder-block shelves, heavy with titles like Sexuality and the U.S. Catholic Church, The Case for Clerical Celibacy, and The Vatican ...
( Category: Memoirs October 11,2015 )
The Time by the Sea
epub |eng | 2013-10-10 | Author:Dr Ronald Blythe [Ronald Blythe]

Those who live in the North are used to keeping out the cold by singing with half-closed vowel sounds to prevent the gale-force wind from giving them toothache, and by ...
( Category: Classical October 11,2015 )
Hope and Other Luxuries by Clare B. Dunkle
epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Clare B. Dunkle [Dunkle B. Clare]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Joe took the morning off, and we met Elena at a pancake place to talk it over. I felt so stressed and jittery that I almost wanted to ...
( Category: Memoirs October 11,2015 )
Still with the Music by Karl Jenkins
epub |eng | | Author:Karl Jenkins

I once had an enquiry about the possibility of a performance in Russia to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the brutal Battle of Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest of the ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 10,2015 )
Hungry for the World by Kim Barnes
epub |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Kim Barnes [Barnes, Kim]

WHEN NOT IN THE MOUNTAINS, David and I went to movies, dined on steak and lobster, had drinks at the bars, where my friends saw me and waved. At first ...
( Category: Women October 10,2015 )
The Favored Daughter by Fawzia Koofi
epub |eng | 2011-10-09 | Author:Fawzia Koofi

Dear Shuhra and Shaharzad, Loss is one of the hardest things for any human being to bear. But loss of those we love is a part of life and a ...
( Category: Asian October 10,2015 )
No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses by Piot Peter
epub |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Piot, Peter [Piot, Peter]

AFTER A WHILE I found that I was thriving at GPA, somewhat to my surprise, and that I was feeling useful. People took my advice seriously, and the officials I ...
( Category: Epidemiology October 10,2015 )
The Coconut Latitudes: Secrets, Storms, and Survival in the Caribbean by Rita M. Gardner
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Rita M. Gardner

THE BREEDEN’S PREDICTION that “something big” is going to happen finally comes true when His Excellency Generalísimo Rafael Molinas Trujillo, the Supreme Benefactor, El Líder, El Jefe, is assassinated. On ...
( Category: Child Abuse October 10,2015 )
Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel by Durrell Lawrence
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-06-11 | Author:Durrell, Lawrence [Durrell, Lawrence]

Zero & Asylum in the Snow Two Excursions into Reality (written in Corfu) “Asylum in the Snow.” Published in Seven. No. 3. Winter 1938. “Zero.” Published in Seven. No. 6. ...
( Category: General October 10,2015 )
Had I Known by Joan Lunden
epub |eng | 2015-07-30 | Author:Joan Lunden

CHAPTER 16 Calling All Campers With over three million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by ...
( Category: Breast Cancer October 10,2015 )
Reckless: My Life As a Pretender (2015) by Chrissie Hynde
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-09-02 | Author:Chrissie Hynde [Hynde, Chrissie]

20 PARIS Flipos’ band had no name. In fact, Flipos’ band had no band. It was the fantasy of a mad urchin and homeless gypsy, a failed magician who could ...
( Category: Rock October 10,2015 )
M Train (2015) by Patti Smith
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Patti Smith [Smith, Patti]

Frida Kahlo’s crutches, Casa Azul Credit 8.3 Dress, Casa Azul Credit 9.1 How I Lost the Wind-Up Bird I GOT A MESSAGE from Zak. His beach café was open. All ...
( Category: General October 10,2015 )

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