Biographies & Memoirs
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-28 | Author:Kris Waldherr

The humanist glories of the Renaissance did not extend to the royal women of this era. During this dangerous period, there were two primary forces threatening to push queens off ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-02 | Author:Louis Auchincloss [Auchincloss, Louis]

In my early years I don't recall homosexuality, or any sexual irregularity for that matter, being discussed by the "grownups" in the family or their friends. No doubt it was ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-06 | Author:Deborah Ellis

I was part of the Freedom Train that went across the country to protest the pipeline. I loved being on the train with all the other people from other First ...
( Category: Canada March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Lee Sandlin [Sandlin, Lee]

11 Premonitory Symptoms In the early 1880s, curious flags began appearing in prominent places all over America. They were seen flying above post offices and railroad depots and weather stations—enormous ...
( Category: Weather March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-23 | Author:Cynthia Carr [Carr, Cynthia]

When Flash Art commissioned Carlo to write yet another East Village roundup, he got David to collaborate on it. They decided to feature, said Carlo, “anyone who was not making ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-25 | Author:Jerrold Ladd [LADD, JERROLD]

In December 1986, the winter weather was still around, and everybody stayed bundled up. Lisa invited me to a Christmas party her family intended to throw. Word was around the ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Ann Hulbert [Hulbert, Ann]

The young Cora, suffering from headaches and unhappiness, was distinctly on the outskirts, estranged from her poet husband, Theron Maybank, and skeptical of “Theron the poet’s poet friends. He was ...
( Category: Women Authors March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Steve Bisley

Big trouble The headmaster’s name is Mr Egger, so of course he’s called ‘the Goog’. The deputy headmaster is Mr Ferguson, known as ‘Mousey’ because he has the look of ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alexander Roy

“Gotta say it, Aliray, your mom sure looks hot in that Polizei jacket.” I sighed, slowly pulling the M5 up to the start line. Ingeborg, my sixty-one-but-looked-forty-and-acted-twenty-five mom, stood beaming, ...
( Category: Motor Sports March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Acheson, Pamela & Richard B. Myers

ten “I’M LOOKING AROUND FOR A WOOD CHIPPER.” Monday, March 1 “So you were a star in one of James Patterson’s novels,” Pam says as we take a seat at ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Katie Hafner [Hafner, Katie]

17. Drinking a Little ——— I’ll ne’er be drunk whilst I live again, but in honest, civil, godly company. —Slender in William Shakespeare, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR PART OF ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Petra Reski [Reski, Petra]

ANNA PALMA “BASTA,” SAYS LETIZIA. “BASTA,” SAYS SHOBHA, AND I SAY, “Basta,” too. We decided to have lunch. When we’re working, we stick slavishly to our mealtimes. Regardless of whether ...
( Category: Violence in Society March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:John Ferling

The Death of Montgomery by John Trumbull. General Richard Montgomery, commander of the American army that attacked Quebec on December 31, 1775, was killed in the engagement. One third of ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Jamie Moyer [Moyer, Jamie]

Unlike his relationship with, say, the curveball, Moyer’s courtship of the changeup was long and complicated, characterized by fits and starts and disappointments, before culminating in wedded bliss after Piniella’s ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-18 | Author:Monica Wesolowska

NEEDING SOMETHING TO occupy his mind besides Silvan, David becomes good at guessing at the problems of babies around us. For example, one day there is a new baby. We ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )