Biographies & Memoirs
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-03-31 | Author:Zane Grey [Grey, Zane]

CHAPTER VIII. Winter dragged by uneventfully for Betty. Unlike the other pioneer girls, who were kept busy all the time with their mending, and linsey weaving, and household duties, Betty ...
( Category: Westerns October 15,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-04-30 | Author:Herman Melville [Melville, Herman]

XXXII. THE DOCKS For more than six weeks, the ship Highlander lay in Prince's Dock; and during that time, besides making observations upon things immediately around me, I made sundry ...
( Category: Sea Stories October 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-24 | Author:Jacob Abbott [Abbott, Jacob]

The course of the Forth could be traced for a long distance towards Edinburgh; and Arthur's Seat, a high hill near Edinburgh, could be distinctly seen in the south-eastern horizon. ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-26 | Author:Jacob Abbott [Abbott, Jacob]

The other paper was also in Rollo's handwriting, and was as follows:— "If the entry was full of water, and the parlor full of air, and the walls were water-tight, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-28 | Author:Carl Sandburg [Sandburg, Carl]

The monkey took the place of the traffic policeman * * * 5. Three Stories About Three Ways the Wind Went Winding People: Two Skyscrapers The Northwest Wind The Golden ...
( Category: Short Stories October 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-17 | Author:Alison Bruce [Bruce, Alison]

10 A GOOD NIGHT OUT AND A BAD NIGHT INN Hotels bestowed with the name Temperance in their title were traditionally advertising themselves as teetotal establishments; the revelation that alcohol ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem October 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-13 | Author:Suze Rotolo [Rotolo, Suze]

The room had a big cement sink with only a cold-water faucet. There was a trap door in the middle of the floor, which I was disappointed to discover was ...
( Category: Memoirs October 15,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Adrienne Mayor

Mithradates and his entourage ascended Buyuk Evliya Dag, to the sanctuary of Zeus the Warrior. Archaeologists have discovered many inscriptions in this important site of native Anatolian and Iranian- influenced ...
( Category: Rome October 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-04 | Author:Alexei Sayle

While we were in Budapest we also paid a visit to the railway run by my fellow comrades in the Hungarian Young Pioneers. Not only did they run it, in ...
( Category: Memoirs October 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-08-25 | Author:George Jacobs

6 Flirting with Disaster MR. S’s philosophy was that bad things only happened to good people. If someone was bad enough, he somehow had a natural immunity to disaster, at ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians October 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn

When news of the trial’s outcome reached the court, many people expressed sorrow, especially for Norris and Weston, who were widely liked and respected. “Everyone was moved at their misfortune, ...
( Category: Great Britain October 15,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-11-25 | Author:Kramer, Jerry [Kramer, Jerry]

OCTOBER 3 Coach Lombardi seemed more disturbed than angry during our meeting this morning. He said there's a general lack of enthu- siasm on the club, a lack of desire, ...
( Category: Memoirs October 15,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-09 | Author:Thomas, Jeffrey [Thomas, Jeffrey]

- EIGHT - Because he was hungry and had nothing in his fridge, but mainly because he had felt that his small flat was getting smaller and smaller, folding up ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 15,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-03 | Author:John Burridge

CHAPTER 14 FOXY COXY ‘Arthur Cox was in the central reservation, hopping mad and with a teapot in his hand, about to launch it at my car.’ For the first ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-26 | Author:William Shawcross

In fact her gowns in wartime were a constant worry. The King looked elegant in uniform throughout the war; the Queen had more difficulty deciding what she should wear. She ...
( Category: Great Britain October 15,2014 )