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Walk to Beautiful: The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way by Wayne Jimmy & Abraham Ken
epub |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Wayne, Jimmy & Abraham, Ken [Wayne, Jimmy & Abraham, Ken]

Twenty-four BUMPING INTO ANGELS AROUND MIDMORNING, OCTOBER 27, 1987, A UNIFORMED detention center staff member came to my cell. “Come with me,” he ordered, and I quickly complied. By that ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians December 15,2014 )
A Parrot in the Pepper Tree by Chris Stewart
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Chris Stewart

10 A Parrot in the Pepper Tree Outside our holiday cottage, El Duque, is a false pepper tree. We planted it as a seed, a little thing encased in what ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
On Whale Island by Daniel Hays
epub |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Daniel Hays

Day 166 Today is electrical-crisis day. The wind’s been north to northwest for eight days now, and the windmill is in its comfy wind hollow behind a hill. (Any jerk ...
( Category: Memoirs December 8,2014 )
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle by Robyn Scott
epub |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Robyn Scott

Seventeen Prizes For the Gifted The purple rosette pinned to Feste’s bridle was not quite the unambiguous triumph it should have been. On the one hand, a rosette was a ...
( Category: Women December 8,2014 )
Shit My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Justin Halpern

On Getting Rejected by the First Girl I Asked to Prom “Sorry to hear that. Hey, have you seen my fanny pack?…No, I care about what you said, I told ...
( Category: Parenting & Families December 8,2014 )
Is It Just Me? Or Is It Nuts Out There? by Whoopi Goldberg
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Whoopi Goldberg

34 Play Nice or Stay Home Rude fans at sports stadiums don’t stop at heckling. Hell, no. Why should they be satisfied merely yelling trash about a player’s mother’s STDs ...
( Category: Satire December 8,2014 )
The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society by Chris Stewart
epub |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Chris Stewart

9 Casa & Campo Some years later I found myself reflecting on Mourad’s reaction to our home, after a phonecall from one Eduardo Mencos. El Valero had looked depressingly like ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
The Other Side of the Dale by Gervase Phinn
epub |eng | 1997-12-31 | Author:Gervase Phinn

Thirteen “There has been a veritable harem wishing to speak to you today, dear boy,” said Sidney when I arrived at the office late one afternoon. “Is that not so, ...
( Category: Administration December 8,2014 )
Seal Morning by Rowena Farre
epub, mobi |eng | 1956-12-31 | Author:Rowena Farre

EIGHT FOLKLORE AND LEGEND Sometimes I used to walk to an ancient forgotten well whose whereabouts had been revealed to me by Mr. Fraser. It was almost hidden among ferns ...
( Category: Memoirs December 8,2014 )
Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
epub |eng | 2000-12-31 | Author:Oliver Sacks

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Mendeleev’s Garden In 1945 the Science Museum in South Kensington reopened (it had been closed for much of the war), and I first saw the giant periodic table ...
( Category: Medical December 8,2014 )
Papillon (English) by Henri Charrière
epub |eng | 1968-12-31 | Author:Henri Charrière

24 Solitary The boat was ready. Of the nineteen of us, ten were to go in the first lot. I was called. Dega said crisply, “No, he goes on the ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals December 8,2014 )
Seven Seasons in Aurukun by Paula Shaw
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Paula Shaw

18 Halfway MacKenzie Night is over and Jess has left Aurukun. She leaves me a letter. One that makes me cry. One that lets me know that we are friends ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand December 8,2014 )
Three Cups of Deceit by Jon Krakauer
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Jon Krakauer

Debbie Raynor, CAI’s chief financial officer at the time, remembers this missive well, because it matched her own experiences with Mortenson so precisely. When my letter rattled out of the ...
( Category: Non-Governmental Organizations December 8,2014 )
Key Dali by Robert Tacoma
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Robert Tacoma

18 Marina There’s something about the morning air in the tropics. In the cool months, the breeze coming off the water can energize a person and sharpen the senses. On ...
( Category: Germany December 8,2014 )
The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson
epub |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Geoff Nicholson

I don’t know that the guy yelling at me was a freak, but I did keep my head down and continued walking at a brisk New York pace all the ...
( Category: Adventure December 8,2014 )

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