Women
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Anne C. Heller

A few months before Atlas Shrugged was published, Bennett Cerf invited his “most interesting” new author to address a Random House sales conference. She stood at the head of the ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-03 | Author:Esmeralda Santiago

Mami talked to Doña Andrea. She smiled and nodded her head and smiled again. When Doña Andrea handed her a pot full of chickpeas with pig’s feet, Mami didn’t want ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Dorothy Allison

“How’d you know you were a lesbian?” My sister Wanda was eighteen when she finally asked me that question. We were sitting on the steps of the feminist collective where ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-05-01 | Author:Martha Gellhorn

There the diary finishes; now I am on my own, with a few fairly useless East African notes and my memory. The prospect is daunting. As near as I can ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-21 | Author:Maya Angelou

CHAPTER 21 I took a job as swing-shift waitress in a day-and-night restaurant called the Chicken Shack. The record player blared the latest hits incessantly and the late-night clientele spent ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-15 | Author:Brad Gooch

WITHIN WEEKS of this return from Tennessee, Flannery was inspired by a newly settled family of tenant farmers at Andalusia to begin work on the story that she would read ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Jeanne Darst

WHEN HIS BREATHING WAS regulated, the “dementia,” which the hospital claimed was due to a bad reaction of a combination of drugs, went away. He left the hospital and went ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Frank McCourt

Nancy Chu asks if she can talk to me after the last class of the day. She sits at her desk and waits for the room to empty. She reminds ...
( Category: Educators March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Joan Didion

18 I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the markers that indicate (their own) status in the world: ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-12-14 | Author:Alexandra Fuller

The Fullers—Devuli DEVULI On a recent map entitled “Comfort-Discomfort Belts,” Devuli Ranch is shown in the area of Zimbabwe that is shaded with tight red lines. This means that it ...
( Category: Africa March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:Annie Dillard

Here is a fairly sober version of what happens in the small room between the writer and the work itself. It is similar to what happens between a painter and ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Karen Armstrong

5. Desiring This Man’s Gift and That Man’s Scope The English department at Bedford College, located in a Regency house beside the Regent’s Park lake, was a haven of quiet ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sebastian Barry

chapter fifteen Dr Grene's Commonplace Book Curious and upsetting news today about John Kane. At a staff meeting we were trying to field a report from one of the wards. ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-03-01 | Author:Jeannette Walls

IN LATE WINTER, Mom and Dad decided to drive the Oldsmobile back to Phoenix. They said they were going to fetch our bikes and all the other stuff we'd had ...
( Category: Journalists March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2000-10-01 | Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

On Sunday, a woman in Main House kills herself. She is a doctor, a pediatrician, and just the day before, her husband and two children had come to visit for ...
( Category: Medicine March 25,2014 )