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The Pants of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 Kilometre Running Adventure Through the Wilds of New Zealand by Anna McNuff
epub |eng | 2017-01-14 | Author:Anna McNuff [McNuff, Anna]

I marched into the Rustic Cafe in Hanmer Springs and picked up the menu. Mouth dribbling, I ordered French toast, a date and orange scone, a square of rocky road, ...
( Category: Running & Jogging January 23,2020 )
Still Here by Alexandra Jacobs
epub |eng | | Author:Alexandra Jacobs

Self-insulated though she was from the political roiling of the moment, Stritch had to confront, at least, that her version of Manhattan was changing. Walking into another pub, a bunch ...
( Category: Broadway & Musicals January 22,2020 )
Gertrude Stein Has Arrived by Roy Morris Jr
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Roy Morris Jr. [Morris, Roy Jr.]

THEIR FIRST VISIT WENT SO WELL THAT GERTRUDE AND ALICE returned to Chicago for a two-week stay on November 24. Once again Bobsy Goodspeed was their hostess, putting them up ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
Metis Pioneers: Marie Rose Delorme Smith and Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed by Doris Jeanne MacKinnon
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Doris Jeanne MacKinnon [MacKinnon, Doris Jeanne]

Marie Rose Delorme Smith, seen here sometime after her marriage to Charlie Smith. Photo undated. Shirley-Mae McCargar and Donald McCargar. Writing from the perspective of a pioneer, Marie Rose concluded ...
( Category: Women in History January 19,2020 )
Hypatia by Watts Edward J.;
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Watts, Edward J.;

9 The Memory of Hypatia The discordance between the type of person that Hypatia was and the brutal way in which she died explains the initial shock that many people ...
( Category: Rome January 19,2020 )
My Life of Language: A Memoir by Paul W. Ogden
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Paul W. Ogden

3 SURVIVING SCHOOLWORK We have been told over and over about the importance of bonding to our children. Rarely do we hear about the skill of letting go. Joan Sheingold ...
( Category: Educators January 19,2020 )
American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream by Julia L. Mickenberg
epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Julia L. Mickenberg [Mickenberg, Julia L.]

She was invited to dinner at the home of Andrei Goncharov, a portraitist. Pudovkin was at the dinner, but so was his wife, Anna Nikolaevna Zemtsova, a prominent film critic ...
( Category: Women in History January 19,2020 )
Claretta: Mussolini's Last Lover by R. J. B. Bosworth
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:R. J. B. Bosworth [Bosworth, R. J. B.]

6 THE WINTER OF A PATRIARCH AND HIS DUCESSA On 29 August 1943 Il Messaggero carried a banner headline: ‘Filmed: a life as it was lived.’ A subheading added ‘The ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 19,2020 )
First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role by Jeanne E. Abrams
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Jeanne E. Abrams

Abigail Adams became the second First Lady of the United States on February 8, 1797, when, at the age of sixty-one, John Adams was formally elected president, although he did ...
( Category: American Revolution January 19,2020 )
Walking by Erling Kagge & Becky L. Crook
epub |eng | 2019-04-22 | Author:Erling Kagge & Becky L. Crook

* * * For Arne Næss, happiness had to do with glow—by which he meant fervour or passion—and pain. He distinguished between bodily and mental pain. Like a philosopher with ...
( Category: Meditation January 18,2020 )
Homesick by Jennifer Croft
epub |eng | 2019-01-17 | Author:Jennifer Croft

Immediately she knows she’s just gotten her period, and that there is blood running all down her legs. It is impossible to check and impossible to ask Zoe because they ...
( Category: Siblings January 18,2020 )
I See You Made an Effort by Annabelle Gurwitch
epub |eng | 2014-03-06 | Author:Annabelle Gurwitch [Gurwitch, Annabelle]

THIS IS FIFTY Int. a Bedroom in Los Angeles—Late at Night It’s not the suburban Los Angeles bedroom you’ve seen in romantic comedies like Knocked Up or This Is 40. ...
( Category: Satire January 18,2020 )
Alice Adams by Carol Sklenicka
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Carol Sklenicka

Wilson did not stop with diagnosing a problem. Her five-page, elite-typed, single-spaced offer to accept the novel, dated July 11, 1973, gave excruciatingly detailed suggestions for the rewrite she would ...
( Category: Authors January 18,2020 )
Two Old Fools Down Under by Victoria Twead
epub |eng | 2019-11-30 | Author:Victoria Twead [Twead, Victoria]

Having lived so many years in Spain, I was aware that I had neglected routine medical procedures that I might have been encouraged to pursue had I been living in ...
( Category: Women January 18,2020 )
Never Tell Our Business to Strangers by Jennifer Mascia
epub |eng | 2010-01-17 | Author:Jennifer Mascia [Mascia, Jennifer]

THAT WINTER MY MOTHER and I took a trip to Florida to see Rita and Grandma Vivian. Arline joined us and refereed when my mother and Rita got into a ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals January 18,2020 )

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