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Sylvia Plath: A Biography by Linda Wagner-Martin
epub |eng | 2014-12-17 | Author:Linda Wagner-Martin [Wagner-Martin, Linda]

9 - Marriage 1956-57 “I Am Learning Peacefulness” Sylvia’s humor was not improved when she and Ted returned from Spain completely broke. Partly because their funds were depleted, in September, ...
( Category: Poetry July 12,2015 )
Nabokov in America by Robert Roper
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Robert Roper [Roper, Robert]

Corral Log Motel (interior) He had sent White something else instead, a story about Pnin, a Russian-born professor, which was suitable. Writing that and writing the installments of Speak, Memory ...
( Category: Russian June 16,2015 )
Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Sue Monk Kidd

We cross to the Left Bank at Pont Royal and walk along the Quai Voltaire, winding to Rue Bonaparte and coming finally to the church. Our group stands in a ...
( Category: Authors June 13,2015 )
Sometimes the Magic Works by Terry Brooks
epub, azw3, pdf, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Terry Brooks

* * * The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don’t change. * * * * * * ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy June 13,2015 )
Life on The Mississippi by Mark Twain
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Mark Twain

CHAPTER XXXI A Thumbprint and What Came of It We were approaching Napoleon, Arkansas. So I began to think about my errand there. Time, noonday; and bright and sunny. This ...
( Category: East South Central June 13,2015 )
A Fortune-Teller Told Me by Tiziano Terzani
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-06-03 | Author:Tiziano Terzani [Terzani, Tiziano]

I had not tried to imagine Pulau Bintan, and at first sight I found it magnificent, still natural, not yet ruined by modernity. The boat tied up at an old ...
( Category: General June 12,2015 )
MORE, NOW, AGAIN by ELIZABETH WURTZEL
epub, pdf |eng | 2002-06-11 | Author:ELIZABETH WURTZEL

On Sunday, a woman in Main House kills herself. She is a doctor, a pediatrician, and just the day before, her husband and two children had come to visit for ...
( Category: Substance Abuse June 12,2015 )
Alice James by Strouse Jean
epub |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Strouse, Jean.

It is doubtful that Alice found much comfort in the idea that these paroxysms of mental and physical anguish had nothing to do with her but were simply part of ...
( Category: Women June 12,2015 )
Miracle Boy Grows Up by Ben Mattlin
epub |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Ben Mattlin [Mattlin, Ben]

CHAPTER EIGHT IF NO ONE NOTICES A DISABILITY, DOES IT REALLY EXIST? 1984-1990 “For me, everything’s too much and nothing’s enough.” —Mary Karr, Lit: A Memoir Somewhere in Oklahoma, it’s ...
( Category: Disabled June 12,2015 )
Fanny Says by Nickole Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Nickole Brown

Used before the FDA and never formally cleared, Pheno is a renegade drug, a cowboy hee-hawing outside town, not giving a good God-damn, so it makes sense for forty years ...
( Category: United States June 12,2015 )
Family Romance by John Lanchester
epub |eng | 2011-06-11 | Author:John Lanchester [John Lanchester]

‘Just to clarify my views …’ I can see here the thing my father perceived as control-freakery and bullying. This was the aspect of Jack that later made Bill unable ...
( Category: Authors June 12,2015 )
Young Eliot by Robert Crawford
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Crawford

11 Observations WHEN Vivien first slept with Bertrand Russell is uncertain. It may have been as early as mid-1915 when she boasted that he was ‘all over me’.1 However, it ...
( Category: Authors June 12,2015 )
Incendiary Circumstances by Amitav Ghosh
epub |eng | | Author:Amitav Ghosh [Ghosh, Amitav]

Unfortunately, The Trench comes as a great disappointment. The narrative now moves away from Harran to a city in the interior called Mooran ("the Changeable"), which serves as the seat ...
( Category: Essays June 12,2015 )
I Don't Have a Happy Place by Kim Korson
epub |eng | | Author:Kim Korson

Lemons & Limes • • • • • • I was supposed to be resting. If I didn’t lift anything over ten pounds, avoided exercise, strenuous activity, sex, and air ...
( Category: Essays June 12,2015 )
Life in a Cold Climate by Laura Thompson
epub |eng | | Author:Laura Thompson [Thompson, Laura]

8 Within three weeks, The Pursuit of Love made Nancy more money than the rest of her books put together: £798. Within six months it made £7,000. Within a year ...
( Category: Authors June 11,2015 )

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