Biographies & Memoirs
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:J.M. Coetzee

Fifteen He must find ways to save money. Lodging is his single biggest expense. He advertises in the classified section of the Hampstead local paper: ‘House-sitter available, responsible professional man, ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Burroughs, Augusten [Burroughs, Augusten]

QUEEN HELENE CHOLESTEROL K ATE WASN’T LIKE THE OTHER FINCHES. SHE WAS SLIM, SOphisticated and listened to Laura Nyro and fusion jazz. She dated handsome black men and her spotless ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-02-03 | Author:Ralph "Sonny" Barger

The Ghost of Yermo When I’m riding long distances, I have my pipes and engine to keep me company. For me, it's not about being in a meditative state. I've ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Lorenza Foschini; Eric Karpeles

THE LETTER TO HIS GRANDFATHER. At his house on rue Berton, Guérin was still in a reverie, surrounded by the salvaged items that had come out of the hatbox. He ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-05-10 | Author:William C. Carter

CHAPTER EIGHT Grieving and Forgetting In the late fall of 1913 the relationship between Proust and Agostinelli finally reached the breaking point, but, not surprisingly, it was Agostinelli who made ...
( Category: European March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:Edwidge Danticat

The next day, I called Tante Zi and explained all that I’d learned about Marius’s return to Haiti. Tante Zi was aware of the funeral home cost, she said; she ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Dave Itzkoff

IV. The Card There are only two practical driving routes from Monticello to Manhattan, with the only major difference between them being the choice of the Tappan Zee Bridge or ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-15 | Author:Blake Bailey

In her dotage the dog had become all the more loving toward her master. She lay at his side and made comforting wheezing noises while he brooded in his wing ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-18 | Author:Howard Sounes

until he was 23* and not very often until he was 50 I think I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man ...
( Category: Beat Generation March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Alister McGrath

CHAPTER 10 * * * 1945–1954 A Prophet without Honour?: Postwar Tensions and Problems By 1945, Lewis was famous. In the British academic world, a scholar’s status is calibrated by ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2000-06-06 | Author:Bill Bryson

When we moved to America, the change in electrical systems meant I needed all new stuff for my office—computer, fax machine, answering machine, and so on. I am not good ...
( Category: Parodies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-04-14 | Author:Edwidge Danticat

Jonas, pt. 20 ans, main droite absente, 11:35 a.m. Gladys, pt. 35 ans, nue, 3:09 p.m. Samuel, 75 ans, chany, 5:42 p.m. Male inconnu, pt. 25 ans, visage mutilée, 9:17 ...
( Category: African-American & Black March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Joseph O'Neill

Joseph Dakak, with Tayara In his testimony, Joseph gave a very specific – and, I thought, entirely credible – account of his reasons for going to Jerusalem. But he was ...
( Category: Irish March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-28 | Author:Elif Shafak

Oddly enough, women, too, are used to thinking of themselves in these terms. The relationships we build with one another, the talks we have among ourselves and the way we ...
( Category: Women Writers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1945-01-02 | Author:Richard Wright

11 I arrived in Memphis on a cold November Sunday morning, in 1925, and lugged my suitcase down quiet, empty sidewalks through winter sunshine. I found Beale Street, the street ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )