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The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
epub |eng | 2011-06-08 | Author:Janet Malcolm [ Malcolm, Janet]

ON AN overcast day a few weeks later, I drove out on Long Island to see Bob Keeler in his office at Newsday. He is a fast-talking man in his ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 25,2017 )
Howie Carr by The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized;Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century
mobi |eng | 2007-07-31 | Author:The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized;Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century

CHAPTER 13 FOR A SOUTHIE GUY, Steven “Stippo” Rakes had a head for numbers, and he didn’t mind working. From an early age he was buying and selling real estate. ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 25,2017 )
Dragonholder by Todd McCaffrey
epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Todd McCaffrey

The bad: Some people had no trouble belittling science fiction writers – and others were still ignorant. “Now that we’ve landed on the Moon, just what’ll y’all write about?” asked ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 25,2017 )
What We Have by Amy Boesky
epub |eng | 2010-07-23 | Author:Amy Boesky

PART II Lying is done with words, and also with silence. Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence Two Calendars CALENDARS HAVE THEIR OWN HISTORIES. Ours, for instance, got completely ...
( Category: Women's Health September 25,2017 )
Faith and Betrayal by Sally Denton
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Sally Denton

On entering the long-sought valley of Zion, Mormon “Saints” like Jean Rio were greeted with the majestic sight of the Great Salt Lake. Always impressed by the physical grandeur of ...
( Category: World September 25,2017 )
Dark Heart by Kevin Flynn Rebecca Lavoie
epub |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Kevin Flynn, Rebecca Lavoie

CHAPTER TWELVE Good Cop At the same time officials were holding their press conference in Chester, four plainclothes troopers from Major Crime—three men and one woman, all of them sergeants—were ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 25,2017 )
Heart of Glass by Wendy Lawless
epub |eng | | Author:Wendy Lawless

chapter eight WILD, WILD WEST The National Theatre Conservatory (NTC) was a three-year graduate acting program affiliated with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, a multimillion-dollar arts complex with ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 25,2017 )
Half-Jew by Susan Jacoby
epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Susan Jacoby

Great-grandparents, Maximilian and Eve Jackson Jacoby, 1871. Great-grandmother Sarah Sondheim, age eighteen, 1868. Great-grandfather Simon Sondheim at left, off to fight for the Union in the Civil War. (Man at ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 25,2017 )
The Mother Knot by Kathryn Harrison
epub |eng | 2004-09-25 | Author:Kathryn Harrison [Harrison, Kathryn]

I CALLED the parish church my mother used to attend, the one where her funeral was held. I hadn't been able to remember its name for years, and it wasn't ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 25,2017 )
Saint Therese of Lisieux by Kathryn Harrison
epub |eng | 2003-08-18 | Author:Kathryn Harrison [Harrison, Kathryn]

On May 10, 1892, Louis Martin left the Bon Sauveur mental asylum under the care of his brother-in-law Isidore Guérin. According to Madame Guérin, his morale was as good as ...
( Category: Churches & Church Leadership September 25,2017 )
Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2015-08-12 | Author:Eileen Myles

NEUROMANCER I wish I was tripping now, said Chris, her face lit by the glowing candles on the table at the Orchidia. I loved the color it made her, honey ...
( Category: Women September 25,2017 )
Big Girl by Kelsey Miller
epub |eng | 2016-01-05 | Author:Kelsey Miller

The next morning, it clicked. While catching up over hangover bagels, I told Jon about meeting his friend Gary, and how I had totally talked to him for five whole ...
( Category: Memoirs September 24,2017 )
Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary by Sonja Larsen
epub |eng | 2016-01-12 | Author:Sonja Larsen [Larsen, Sonja]

Polly called me to her desk. She had a message for me: my mother had gone AWOL. She’d left the Party in the middle of the day, possessions thrown into ...
( Category: Memoirs September 24,2017 )
The House At Salvation Creek by Susan Duncan
epub |eng | | Author:Susan Duncan [Susan Duncan]

'He probably is,' I reply. But my stomach flip-flops. Fear? She's never mentioned fear. Then I push aside my thoughtlessness, like I always do. *** A couple of neighbours from ...
( Category: Memoirs September 24,2017 )
A Story of Seven Summers by Hilary Burden
epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Hilary Burden

Overnight, a southerly had been gusting up to a hundred kilometres an hour, so relentless that it brought down a tall black wattle at the end of my driveway, blocking ...
( Category: Memoirs September 24,2017 )

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