Memoirs
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Jennifer Saginor

Playground It’s almost morning. The haze begins to clear when we go to Ed Debevic’s, a twenty-four-hour diner in Beverly Hills. Kendall, Austin, and I chill in a corner booth. ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-08 | Author:Mimi Alford

Chapter Ten “I met someone,” I told the President in the winter of 1963. I said it in a teasing way but also with a note of pride, as I ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-04 | Author:Julia Child

IN OUR FIRST MAIL delivery in Marseille came a letter from Avis De Voto. In responding to some photos we’d sent of ourselves, she wrote: “I am very pleased with ...
( Category: French March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Jen Lancaster

To: stacey_at_home From: jen_at_home Subject: Whitesnake Still haven’t gotten the hang of these stupid extensions yet. I just tried to let the hair go all curly, and when I was ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-24 | Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

Tenure Tenure is the closest thing to a blood sport that first-class universities can offer: it is intensely competitive, all-consuming, exciting, fast, rather brutal, and very male. Pursuing tenure in ...
( Category: Pathologies March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:Jean-Louis Fournier

When someone in the street asks me to make a donation for handicapped children I say no. I don’t dare say I have two handicapped children, they would think I ...
( Category: Fatherhood March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-16 | Author:Myles J. Connor

With summer fast approaching, time was of the essence. Once June arrived, we both knew, the cottage would be host to a steady stream of visitors. If we didn’t pull ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-11 | Author:Jason Kersten

WITH THE PEN AND OVI PROBLEMS SOLVED, Art took on the New Note’s most daunting challenge: the watermark. Ever since he’d first seen it that day at Barnes & Noble ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:Dennis Griffin

As July approached, Andrew was getting ready for what was to be his first official parole hearing. In the eyes of the system, he’d accomplished 10 months of steady employment ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Raffaele Sollecito & Andrew Gumbel

IV JUSTICE How do judges not feel tormented by the idea that, because of their mistakes, innocent people languish in prison their whole lives? A magistrate I know answered this ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2002-08-15 | Author:Frank W. Abagnale

CHAPTER SEVEN How to Tour Europe on a Felony a Day I developed a scam for every occasion and sometimes I waived the occasion. I modified the American banking system ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Jim Davidson; Kevin Vaughan

KNEELING OVER MIKE, I stare at his rumpled jacket, unsure of what to do. A question rings loudly in my mind: Where are we? I stand tentatively to look around. ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-26 | Author:Ranulph Fiennes

13 Sorry Straits Trying to plan and organise two expeditions at the same time is something I have usually avoided, but whilst I was training for the solo Antarctic crossing ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Jon Krakauer

“Who could resist? And Chris knew it. He’d have this look on his face like ‘I’m damn cute! Want to buy some beans?’ By the time he came home, the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-08-15 | Author:Jon Krakauer

VIRGINIA BEACH The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they led inward also. And ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2014 )