Memoirs
epub |eng | 2001-03-24 | Author:Ruth Reichl [Reichl, Ruth]

* * * Michael agreed to come, but I could tell that he was uncomfortable about succumbing to the lure of lunch with a famous writer. He sat in hostile ...
( Category: Culinary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-15 | Author:Dave Eggers

sneer. We quote a professor summing up: “A study of Teach for America tells us more about the ideological, even psychological needs of today’s middle-class white and minority youth than ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-02-15 | Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

54 This morning, I overslept. Which is to say—sloth that I am, I dozed until the ungodly hour of 4:15 AM. I woke up only minutes before the Gurugita was ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng, eng | 2005-03-24 | Author:Jeannette Walls

Lori gave me a hug when she heard I’d told off Erma. Mom was upset, though. “We may not agree with all of Erma’s views,” she said, “but we have ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2007-02-12 | Author:Joan Didion

11. Sometime in June, after she had left UCLA and was in the sixth of what would be fifteen weeks as an inpatient at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-06-25 | Author:Stephen King

You can read anywhere, almost, but when it comes to writing, library carrels, park benches, and rented flats should be courts of last resort—Truman Capote said he did his best ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-03-24 | Author:Jon Krakauer [Krakauer, Jon]

* Bromet had left Base Camp in mid-April and returned to Seattle, whence she continued to file Internet dispatches about Fischer’s expedition for Outside Online; she relied on regular phone ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1988-01-02 | Author:Paul Monette [Monette, Paul]

We ended up in the dearest cabin in the woods—#8 Mile High Lodge, run by these two utterly improbable Bengalis—& though I locked the car in gear & nearly stranded ...
( Category: Pathology March 25,2014 )
mobi |en-us | | Author:Ehrenreich, Barbara [Ehrenreich, Barbara]

Selling in Minnesota From the air Minnesota is the very perfection of early summer - the blue of the lakes merging with the blue of the sky, neatly sculpted clouds ...
( Category: Poverty March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 1998-12-17 | Author:Frank McCourt

The bed has cool white sheets. The nurses have clean white uniforms and the nun, Sister Rita, is all in white. Dr. Humphrey and Dr. Campbell have white coats and ...
( Category: Irish March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Mark Twain

Dublin, New Hampshire, Summer-end, 1905. As concerns interpreting the Deity. This line of hieroglyphs was for fourteen years the despair of all the scholars who labored over the mysteries of ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-13 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

Susy’s Biography mentions little Langdon—The change of residence from Buffalo to Hartford—Mr. Clemens tells of the sale of his Buffalo paper to Mr. Kinney—Speaks of Jay Gould, McCall, and Rockefeller. ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Rosalie, Christina [Rosalie, Christina]

The Moment at Hand: Hunger I am at the pottery studio. The light is yellow, the room whirring with wheels, clay slick on my hands. I am learning how to ...
( Category: Creativity March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wilkie Collins

CHAPTER XXXV. THE FUTURE LOOKS GLOOMY. My ever-helpful guide led me to my room--well out of Mr. Gracedieu's hearing, if he happened to be awake--at the other end of the ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf | | 2010-12-01 | Author:George W. Bush

On Sunday morning, March 16, I boarded Air Force One and winged my way to the Azores Islands, a Portuguese territory about two thirds of the way from Washington to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )