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Going Gray by Anne Kreamer
epub |eng | 2007-09-09 | Author:Anne Kreamer [KREAMER, ANNE]

Is Gray Hair Illegal in Hollywood? There is no professional milieu in which the currency of physical attractiveness is more important than in show business, where an appearance of youthfulness ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 19,2018 )
Across Many Mountains by Yangzom Brauen
epub |eng | | Author:Yangzom Brauen

SEPARATION With their hearts heavy and their thoughts dark, Kunsang and Sonam disembarked from the train in Dehradun and took a bus to Mussoorie. Yet when they arrived at the ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 19,2018 )
It's Not Me, It's You by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
epub |eng | 2009-08-18 | Author:Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

What Would Tori Spelling Do? I have been broken up with a number of times. The first time I ever got my heart truly broken was on an international call ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 19,2018 )
Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer by Tim Cahill
epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Tim Cahill [Cahill, Tim]

Mrs. Godzik called the police and suggested they talk to John Gacy. At this time, Marco Butkovitch was still calling the police, begging them to interview John Gacy about the ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 18,2018 )
Fasten Your Seat Belts by Lawrence J. Quirk
epub |eng | 2018-05-06 | Author:Lawrence J. Quirk

18 The Quintessential Bette Davis Movie IN LATE 1944 Davis determined to produce her own films. As producer she would enjoy a tax break, but, more important, she would get ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 18,2018 )
Always Another Country by Sisonke Msimang
epub |eng | 2017-09-20 | Author:Sisonke Msimang

The fire before freedom In 1993, Mummy and Baba move back to South Africa. They are based in Natal, in the economic hub of Durban. Like many of the other ...
( Category: Memoirs August 18,2018 )
Defying the Verdict by Charita Cole Brown
epub |eng | 2018-05-07 | Author:Charita Cole Brown

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” —WINSTON CHURCHILL UNLIKE DEPRESSIONS I had suffered, mania terrified me. The improvisational behavior I had recently exhibited lacked the control of ...
( Category: Mental Health August 18,2018 )
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot by John Callahan
epub |eng | 2018-05-20 | Author:John Callahan

When I finished making amends, I had a sense of enormously increased emotional strength. It was as if the whole base of my life had broadened out on the earth. ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 18,2018 )
Little Panic by Amanda Stern
epub |eng | 2018-05-14 | Author:Amanda Stern

While island time slows things down, the month seems to speed past. One afternoon we make a picnic lunch and take it to one of the island’s preserves. Through dense ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 18,2018 )
The Amateur by Wendy Lesser
epub |eng | 1999-08-17 | Author:Wendy Lesser [Lesser, Wendy]

First published in 1854, Walden was written at a time when philanthropy still meant something very close to its Greek roots. The first examples given in the OED, from the ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 18,2018 )
The Pink Steering Wheel Chronicles by Laura Fahrenthold
epub |eng | 2018-05-24 | Author:Laura Fahrenthold

Part III: When a House Is Not a Home 32 Home Is Where the Heart Dies “I came across many a lost traveler on the road; we would connect for ...
( Category: Death & Grief August 18,2018 )
Two Small Footprints in Wet Sand by Anne-Dauphine Julliand
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Anne-Dauphine Julliand

23 AN INFERNAL DOWNWARD SPIRAL. ONLY A WEEK AFTER THAïS came home, when she finally has regained her bearings and some of her strength, there are new complications. She’s in ...
( Category: Memoirs August 18,2018 )
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner by Meir Shalev
epub |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:Meir Shalev [Shalev, Meir]

17 When my sister was two or three years old our mother began to travel with us from Jerusalem to Nahalal by train: Jerusalem to Lydda, Lydda to Haifa, from ...
( Category: World August 16,2018 )
A Girl's Guide to Missiles by Karen Piper
epub |eng | 2018-08-13 | Author:Karen Piper

PART THREE Dynamic Instability Missile Guidebook: Notice its faults, such as how often it fails to fire. Tell this to everyone. This will take away some of its power, since ...
( Category: Memoirs August 16,2018 )
Not a Poster Child by Francine Falk-Allen
epub |eng | 2018-08-14 | Author:Francine Falk-Allen

21 — wake up, little sufi In the middle of all this, I more or less got religion. That first summer after Bob and I split up, in 1975, I ...
( Category: Personal Transformation August 15,2018 )

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