Biographies & Memoirs
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Harrison Cheung

This was Christian’s official headshot that I took of him outside an office building in El Segundo in 2002. Christian was insistent that we not use an outside photographer! However, ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-21 | Author:Beth Raymer [Raymer, Beth]

Just when it seemed that I would never care for another co-worker, Dink hired Grant Durrett. A twenty-six-year-old budding gambler, Grant snooped around ATMs for receipts with high balances, which ...
( Category: Gambling March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-18 | Author:Larry Tagg

In the North, the opposition press was silent no longer. Democratic editors, just starting to look ahead to the mid-term elections in the fall of 1862, began to emerge after ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-26 | Author:Shalhoup, Mara [Shalhoup, Mara]

For the past eight months, a federal manhunt had been under way for a St. Louis fugitive named Deron “Wonnie” Gatling. Wonnie (or “Magic,” as he also was known) was ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Darren McCarty & Kevin Allen

11. Falling Down in Hawaii “Well if I have one I’ll have 13, now there ain’t no in between, ’cause the more I drink the more I drink” —“The More ...
( Category: Biographies March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-24 | Author:Jess Walter [Walter, Jess]

FIFTEEN KAREN DEGAN GRIPPED TIGHTLY the hands of her two sons and walked into the slate-roofed Sacred Heart Church, where nineteen years earlier she’d married a strong, quiet football player. ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Morton [Morton, Andrew]

During their marriage Diana found it embarrassing that when she and the Prince of Wales went away he took more luggage than she did: ‘I am always appalled that Prince ...
( Category: Royalty March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Brenda Wineapple [Wineapple, Brenda]

CHAPTER TWENTY This Farther Flight And England, the land of my ancestors! Once I had fancied that my sleep would not be quiet in the grave until I should return, ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Terry Charman

‘Aren’t we a very old team?’ Chamberlain’s War Cabinet. From left to right (standing): Lord Hankey (Minister without Portfolio); Leslie Hore-Belisha (Secretary of State for War); Winston Churchill (First Lord ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Moffat, John [John Moffat]

10 Hunting the Scharnhorst I didn't want to take part in action through any bloodthirsty motive – far from it. I had a need, as a young man of twenty-one, ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Terry Helwig

THAT EVENING, Daddy dredged fresh-caught trout in cornmeal and tossed the filets into a cast-iron skillet crackling with bacon grease, which we stored in an old Folgers tin. Mama covered ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-05-19 | Author:Robert H. Patton

Twenty-four-year-old William Bingham excelled at what he called “the art of uniting war and commerce.” The vast network of privateers he managed in the West Indies unsettled Congress with its ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Jane Juska

TWELVE Sex at the Morgan I am notably solvent. —SIDNEY Robert’s third wonderful sentence read, “Happy Valentine’s Day, sweetie, from the man who misses you.” How could I go? How ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sterling Mace

9 A CONSTELLATION OF GHOSTS “… AND THERE’S A SOLID LEFT hand to the body by Louis, and Conn takes it, rolls off the ropes out into the center! But ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Summers, Anthony [Summers, Anthony]

There is something else, something seen as revelatory by the researchers who have done the most extensive analysis of relevant Agency files.25 It is a CIA response to Station Chief ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )