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Virginia Woolf by Nigel Nicolson
epub |eng | | Author:Nigel Nicolson

Leonard and Virginia Woolf at Monk’s House in 1926, with Pinka (Flush) in the foreground. A photograph taken by Vita. The general strike of May 1926 was more of an ...
( Category: Authors July 8,2020 )
Solo by Anita Lo
epub |eng | 2018-10-30 | Author:Anita Lo [Lo, Anita]

Duck with White Beans and Kale On a cold day you can cuddle up with this warm, hearty stew, which takes its cues from the southwest of France. It has ...
( Category: Cooking for One or Two July 7,2020 )
Notes on a Silencing by Lacy Crawford
epub |eng | 2020-07-13 | Author:Lacy Crawford

Then for a while nothing happened. I have no recollection of Christmas that year, except that I was very sick again. My pediatrician’s office tested me for mono. It was ...
( Category: Women July 7,2020 )
Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly
epub |eng | 2017-10-09 | Author:Beth Ann Fennelly [Fennelly, Beth Ann]

MARRIED LOVE, III As we lower onto the December-cold pleather seats of the minivan, we knock hands: both of us reaching to turn on the other’s seat warmer first. TWO ...
( Category: Women July 7,2020 )
Welcome to My Country by Lauren Slater
epub |eng | 1997-04-14 | Author:Lauren Slater [Slater, Lauren]

3 I thought about him a lot during those early-fall days. Sometimes it happens that a patient brings up your own pain, and you enter his story, swimming down deep ...
( Category: Psychiatry July 7,2020 )
Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree by Dennis McDougal
epub |eng | 2009-06-26 | Author:Dennis McDougal [McDougal, Dennis]

16 Miriam Phillips found talking to Randy as easy and as comforting as sharing secrets with an older brother. It had always been that way, from the first time they ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals July 7,2020 )
Hate by Matthew Collins
epub |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Matthew Collins [Matthew Collins]

CHAPTER 14 In 1990, the IRA bombed Eltham, not at all far from where I was living and, by now, drinking heavily with all of the other white trash. Unlike ...
( Category: Specific Groups July 7,2020 )
Miss Aluminum by Susanna Moore
epub |eng | | Author:Susanna Moore

That summer, too, the French model and actress Capucine lived at Connie’s house while she secretly visited her lover, the producer Charlie Feldman, who was dying in a nearby hospital. ...
( Category: Authors July 7,2020 )
Story of Murder by Jack Parker
epub |eng | 2020-06-12 | Author:Jack Parker [Parker, Jack]

Chapter Seven I walked into the house feeling slightly unsettled and looking for Matt. I had to talk to someone. Someone rational who would still be sympathetic and listen with ...
( Category: Specific Groups July 7,2020 )
Floreana by Wittmer Margret
epub |eng | 2014-02-17 | Author:Wittmer, Margret

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The visit of the V.I.P. to Floreana certainly enhanced our prestige with the Zavalas, but we soon became involved against our will in a family crisis of theirs. ...
( Category: Women in History July 7,2020 )
Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
mobi |eng | 2019-09-17 | Author:Benjamin Moser

Chapter 26 The Slave of Seriousness In public, the postcancer Sontag was invulnerable. From the end of the 1970s, she held court alongside other grandees (Brodsky, Derek Walcott, Donald Barthelme) ...
( Category: Women July 7,2020 )
A Frozen Woman by Annie Ernaux
epub |eng | 2020-04-17 | Author:Annie Ernaux

I had believed in the lycée, as a land of liberty, equality, fraternity. Now, here in class, the twenty-six girls in pink smocks seem absolutely foreign to me, more strange ...
( Category: Women July 6,2020 )
Shame by Annie Ernaux
epub |eng | 2020-04-17 | Author:Annie Ernaux

The question of whether or not I liked Mademoiselle L is irrelevant. She was the most educated person I knew. She was a different class of woman, quite unlike my ...
( Category: Authors July 6,2020 )
The Jewel Thief by Jeannie Mobley
epub |eng | 2020-05-26 | Author:Jeannie Mobley [Mobley, Jeannie]

Twenty It was closer to dawn than to midnight by the time I limped home, and the workshop was locked up tight, so I waited on the stoop until dawn, ...
( Category: Growing Up & Facts of Life July 6,2020 )
0307731871 (N) by Elizabeth Esther
epub |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:Elizabeth Esther [Esther, Elizabeth]

“It’s more than okay.” We laugh, the sound of our voices echoing off the canyon walls. It’s the fall of my freshman year in college, and I’m attending the local ...
( Category: Faith July 6,2020 )

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