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Alice's Piano by Melissa Müller
epub |eng | | Author:Melissa Müller

( Category: Music August 16,2017 )
Catherine Howard by Lacey Baldwin Smith
epub |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:Lacey Baldwin Smith [Smith, Lacey Baldwin]

CHAPTER 6 ‘Harry With the Crown’ Henry and Catherine were married on 28 July 1540. Heads had fallen, the international scene had been confounded, and the world cynically speculated upon ...
( Category: Historical August 16,2017 )
Jellied Eels and Zeppelins by Sue Taylor
epub |eng | 2003-11-01 | Author:Sue Taylor

Ethel in the 1920s Another amusing incident occurred one night, when, as a young woman in the 1920’s, Ethel had been ‘out on the razzle’ with some friends: ‘I remember ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs August 16,2017 )
Lost in the Jungle by Yossi Ghinsberg
epub | | 2011-01-21 | Author:Yossi Ghinsberg

Improvising a shelter was no easy task. I uprooted small bushes, broke off branches, tore off leaves, and dragged it all back to a little alcove in the stony hillside. ...
( Category: South America August 16,2017 )
A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden by Stephen Reid
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Stephen Reid

The only real serenity I have ever experienced in life, paradoxically and tellingly, has been without the assistance of drugs. It arose from a long period of abstinence, late in ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 16,2017 )
Why I Don't Write Children's Literature by Gary Soto
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Soto

NAPS I asked my wife, “Are you leaving soon?” She was off to a midweek meeting at church, and I wanted her out of the house, for I had the ...
( Category: Essays August 16,2017 )
Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule
epub |eng | 2004-10-31 | Author:Ann Rule [Rule, Ann]

THE GREEN RIVER MURDERER was becoming almost legendary, a fictional character not unlike Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street or Jason in the Friday the 13th series, current ...
( Category: True Crime August 16,2017 )
American Isis by Carl Rollyson
epub |eng | | Author:Carl Rollyson

CHAPTER 6 THE UNIVERSAL MOTHER (1960–62) 1960: Plath and Hughes rent a London flat; 1 April: Frieda Rebecca, their first child, is born; October: The Colossus, Plath’s first book, is ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 16,2017 )
Last Man Out by James E. Parker Jr
epub |eng | 2012-09-13 | Author:James E. Parker, Jr. [Parker Jr., James E.]

TWELVE Minh Thanh Road We returned to the base camp later that week. Bob had a calendar above his cot. In seventy-six days we would be eligible for rotation, after ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 16,2017 )
Memoirs of a Woman Doctor (Middle Eastern Fiction) by El Saadawi Nawal
epub |eng | 2013-06-01 | Author:El Saadawi, Nawal

I sat beside him on one of the big stones forming the base of the pyramid, straining my eyes to the distant horizon and watching the sun’s red disc as ...
( Category: Contemporary August 16,2017 )
Russian Tattoo by Elena Gorokhova
epub |eng | | Author:Elena Gorokhova

Twenty-Six My mother’s hair is thin and snow white, covering her head like the fuzz of a baby bird. “Like during the war,” she says and pats her head with ...
( Category: Memoirs August 16,2017 )
Forbidden Fruit by Betty DeRamus
epub |eng | 2005-08-16 | Author:Betty DeRamus

1827: After the emancipation of New York slaves, free blacks flood the city’s infamous Five Points neighborhood (Anthony, Orange and Cross streets), joining the unskilled Irish. In the Old Brewery ...
( Category: Historical August 16,2017 )
A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France by Miranda Richmond Mouillot
epub |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Miranda Richmond Mouillot [Mouillot, Miranda Richmond]

CHAPTER TWELVE MY EXALTATION LASTED UNTIL THE SUN BEGAN to dip behind the hamlet. Gradually, the shadows edged the light and warmth off the terrace, and I put on my ...
( Category: World August 16,2017 )
Songbook by Nick Hornby
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Hornby

17 ‘A Minor Incident’ – Badly Drawn Boy ‘You must be excited about the film coming out,’ a friendly and well-meaning acquaintance remarked at the end of 2001, a few ...
( Category: Music August 16,2017 )
Rockers and Rollers: A Full-Throttle Memoir by Johnson Brian
mobi, pdf, epub |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Johnson, Brian [Johnson, Brian]

Chapter 47 Pimp My Ride Rant MAKING BEAUTIFUL CARS AWFUL Janis Joplin, the most fucked-up, drugged-up, and propped-up female singer of the sixties, famously wondered in song why the good ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 16,2017 )

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