epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Walter A. de Milly III [Milly, Walter A. de III]

Nature seldom ignores the broken pieces of a child's life, and during my first year of college she began fooling around with mine. I had decided to become a doctor, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kevin Sessums

________________ I saw Matty May again only one other time. I had returned home from New York for a visit with my grandfather before we moved him into the convalescent ...

epub |eng | 2006-10-14 | Author:Tennessee Williams [Williams, Tennessee]

One late evening while Streetcar was in Boston I received one more surprise visit from dear Santo. I never locked my door at the Ritz-Carlton—who would?—and suddenly into my bedroom-living ...

epub |eng | 2010-10-11 | Author:Condoleezza Rice [Rice, Condoleezza]

EARLY IN the year, I learned that I needed surgery on my hand to remove a ganglion cyst, which meant that I couldn’t study piano for several months. I quit ...

epub |eng | | Author:Laurie Lisle

Nonetheless, a day or two after she had signed the contract, Stieglitz marched into Deskey’s office, explained that he was O’Keeffe’s business manager, and stated that the fee was unacceptable. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Brent Hendricks

16 WITH THE NEWS that her box contained no sign of her husband, my mother was in bad shape. Sometimes crying. Sometimes waxing philosophical. Sometimes yelling loudly into the receiver. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Domingo Martinez

Somehow, I think because I was older than everyone else, I automatically slipped into sergeant major status and began barking orders as soon as I emerged from the Jeep. And ...

mobi |eng | 2000-08-01 | Author:John Phillip Santos

At the founding of many American cities lurk unsavory tales of invasion and mayhem, usually whitewashed or forgotten. Whether it’s the hoary presence of old buildings or a nebula of ...

mobi |eng | 2002-03-05 | Author:Maya Angelou

22 The wind blew over the roof and ruffled the shingles. It whistled sharp under the closed door. The chimney made fearful sounds of protest as it was invaded by ...

mobi |eng | 2011-01-06 | Author:Rideau, Wilbert [Rideau, Wilbert]

9 Soldiering On 1986—1990 Which is worse: death by execution or spending the rest of your life in prison? That was a question I was asked to answer on July ...

epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Bobbie Ann Mason [Mason, Bobbie Ann]

Meanwhile, at home, my mother wrote me about the garden and the weather and broken machinery. She wrote, “You told about reading about that guy that built a cabin at ...

epub |deu | 2013-02-13 | Author:Eggers, Dave [Eggers, Dave]

III MITTWOCH, 7. SEPTEMBER Schon als Kathy aufwachte, war sie angespannt. Während sie den Kindern Frühstück machte und den Kleinen beim Anziehen half, versuchte sie, nicht darüber nachzudenken, dass ihr ...

epub |eng | | Author:Walt Larimore, MD

chapter nineteen MY FIRST HOME VICTORY Friday finally arrived. Tonight would be my first football game as a team physician in private practice. Gary Ayers’s morning news was basically all ...

epub |eng | | Author:Walt Larimore, MD

chapter nineteen MAKIN’ MOONSHINE The Mountain View Manor Nursing Home was located on the top of a rather large hill not far from the city limits of Bryson City. As ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-28 | Author:Ron Hall

DON The Art of Homelessness Most of the thirty or so men sitting in a circle at the Union Gospel Mission in Saint Paul, Minnesota, didn’t look like they’d been ...