mobi |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Qanta Ahmed

WAHABI WRATH EVERYONE STOPPED EATING. THE AIR was pregnant with fear. Across from me, I watched Alon, a visiting professor from Johns Hopkins, turn sallow as all color drained from ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Jennifer Steil

AT THE END OF NOVEMBER, two men from the South African embassy visit me. These men actually made an appointment, only I have completely forgotten. When they arrive, I am ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Jen Lancaster

Sometimes happiness is a warm puppy, sometimes it’s Fletch’s beard, and sometimes? Sometimes happiness takes the form of a flatulent waiter. P.S. I love my room makeover. THE AMBIEN DIARIES ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:William Kuhn

(photo credit 7.7) (photo credit 7.8) Sidney Stafford told the critic from the New York Times assigned to review the book that it was “not your typical coffee-table photography book.” ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-25 | Author:Lois Banner

Part IV New York, 1955–1960 I saw the amazing phenomenon of Hollywood being out-smarted by a girl whom it itself characterized as a dumb blonde. Philippe Halsman She was endlessly ...

mobi |eng | 2012-04-10 | Author:Dorothy Day

TO EMILY COLEMAN Dorothy had determined to write a book about her favorite saint, Therese of Lisieux, bringing out the social dimensions of her spirituality, her teaching of the “Little ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-04-21 | Author:Jeffrey Zaslow

Jane and Marilyn at Jane’s wedding Justin and Jane would eventually settle in New England as academics—Justin at Brown and Miriam Hospital, Jane at Stonehill—and the girls were unanimous in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Gabrielle Hamilton

11 MELISSA CALLED ONE DAY, WHEN SHE WAS STILL WORKING AS AN editor at Saveur. “Gabs,” she says, her voice very, very low, not whispering, but very quiet, “get this, ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-12-01 | Author:Julie Powell

9 Too Close for Comfort Food EVERY STEER THAT comes into the shop arrives broken into eight pieces, called "primals." The best way to picture these primals is to use ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-02-21 | Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

54 This morning, I overslept. Which is to say—sloth that I am, I dozed until the ungodly hour of 4:15 AM. I woke up only minutes before the Gurugita was ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Kampusch, Natascha [Kampusch, Natascha]

Ovid, Metamorphoses Today I believe that Wolfgang Priklopil, in committing a terrible crime, wanted to create nothing more than his own little perfect world with a person that could be ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Kitty Kelley

List your hat, sweater, shoe, dress, glove and shirt size. List five really expensive gift items I would cry with delight if I received. Here is where you can purchase ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Karen Abbott

Mayor Jimmy Walker might not have made it to his office in City Hall on the day of February 12, 1931, but that night he was among a thousand patrons ...

mobi |eng | 2002-10-01 | Author:Mineko Iwasaki & Rande Brown

19 MAMA MASAKO REALLY CAME into her own when she started managing the okiya. Handling the everyday details of the business gave her great satisfaction: keeping the ledgers, arranging the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Rita Moreno

MEETING MARLON I am wearing a scent, Vent Vert by Balmain, as I write these words. It is a scent that Marlon Brando often wore. It’s a woman’s perfume, but ...