Memoirs
epub |eng | 2012-11-25 | Author:General Stanley McChrystal

* * * At 6:40 P.M., the skis of the Little Birds skidded into the dirt of a clearing four hundred meters from the house’s driveway. Before the helicopters rocked ...
( Category: Afghan War September 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Benjamin Anastas [Anastas, Benjamin]

I used to fantasize about the lawsuit I would file against the ponytailed sign-hangers who treated us that summer for endangering our welfare and searing an experience so clearly wrong ...
( Category: Fatherhood September 6,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-10-12 | Author:Hauer, Rutger & Quinlan, Patrick [Hauer, Rutger]

CHAPTER 13 AFTER BLADE RUNNER On a warm night in June of 1982, I went to the premiere of Blade Runner in Los Angeles. I don’t remember doing any press ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers September 5,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:Hawa Abdi

God is great—the medicine, the vitamins, and the diet worked, and I became healthy, able again to stand to meet the demands of the camp and the hospital. As Deqo ...
( Category: Human Geography September 5,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Laurie Rubin

A Window Opens I was not the only blind student at the Oberlin Conservatory. I met Josh Pierce, a composer in his junior year, at orientation. Every student and every ...
( Category: Women September 4,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Billy Bob Thornton

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE “The Walking Extinct” We are the walking extinct Stumblin’ over the bones of memories We’re the invisible link Waiting and hoping that someone will see We are the ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers September 4,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-09-02 | Author:David Beckham [David Beckham]

9 The Germans ‘Go out and enjoy yourselves…We’re a better team.’ It doesn’t seem to matter that soccer is a team game. When things go wrong, someone always has to ...
( Category: Rich & Famous September 3,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-08-26 | Author:Miranda, Mistress [Mistress Miranda]

The man with whom I discovered the terrible truth of Murphy’s Law was more than a little tied up at the time. In fact, he was handcuffed naked to the ...
( Category: Sociology September 3,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-01 | Author:Horace Greasley [Horace Greasley]

CHAPTER ELEVEN It was December 1941. The Japanese were about to make a mistake they would regret for many years to come. They were about to bring America into the ...
( Category: World War II September 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-09 | Author:Jennifer Arnold

Here’s an example, using Nick and me, that illustrates the versatility scale: Nick was a 20 on the scale and I was a 24, meaning that together we were extremely ...
( Category: Training September 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Kai Bird

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT “He Couldn’t Understand Why He Did It” He told me that his nerve just gave way at that moment. . . . He has this tendency when things ...
( Category: United States September 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Just Kids

Gregory took me to the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, which was a poets’ collective at the historic church on East Tenth Street. When we went to listen to the poets ...
( Category: Women August 28,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Love in a Headscarf

The first thing I decided to do was something that nice girls didn’t do. I decided to climb a mountain, a very big mountain. Kilimanjaro to be exact, the highest ...
( Category: Women August 28,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-08-26 | Author:Edmund White

Chapter 10 James, like every salonnier, continued to have his “faithful.” Jean-Luc Champion, a Gallimard editor, was a handsome ex-model who spoke in a low voice. His lover, a museum ...
( Category: Memoirs August 27,2014 )