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Bono by Michka Assayas & Michka Assayas
epub |eng | | Author:Michka Assayas & Michka Assayas

11. ADD ETERNITY TO THAT Our next telephone call took place a week after the Madrid train bombings that left 191 commuters dead and more than 1,800 wounded on March ...
( Category: Rock December 27,2014 )
Beijing Bastard by Val Wang
epub |eng | 2014-10-29 | Author:Val Wang

Part Four Chapter Eighteen Fifty Years Later My parents looked wordlessly around their hotel room, taking in the sagging beds and peeling paint. They had arrived a week before their ...
( Category: China December 27,2014 )
The Golden Willow by Harry Bernstein
epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:Harry Bernstein [BERNSTEIN, HARRY]

Chapter Twelve I DON'T REALLY KNOW HOW LONG IT TOOK ME TO WRITE THE INVISIBLE Wall. It must have been about a year, but it was finally done, and the ...
( Category: Jewish December 27,2014 )
A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir by Lev Golinkin
epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Lev Golinkin [Golinkin, Lev]

Now, at Binder’s, I was forced to concede that those lessons may have been useful after all. Over and over, I muttered the alphabet, chewing on the acrid feeling of ...
( Category: Russia December 27,2014 )
Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
epub |eng | 2014-02-05 | Author:Natalie Baszile

15 Every day since the auction, Charley made a point to arrive at the shop before Denton, and every day she followed his instructions and recommendations to the letter. When ...
( Category: Women's Fiction December 27,2014 )
Floyd Patterson by W. K. Stratton
epub |eng | | Author:W. K. Stratton

If Floyd had practiced self-denial at his training camps and in his choice of accommodations at earlier fights—a freezing jockey’s room, a rat-infested abandoned dancehall—he now indulged himself. He lodged ...
( Category: Boxing December 27,2014 )
The Hoodlum Preacher: I Was Lost, Now I Am Found by Burton Barr Jr
epub |eng | 2006-09-15 | Author:Burton Barr Jr. [Barr, Burton Jr.]

CHAPTER SIX The Hoodlum Preacher Christine decided to drive me to Chicago. She and Deborah had always been close, and they hadn’t seen each other for a while. I tried ...
( Category: Religious December 25,2014 )
Maya Angelou: Maya Angelou 450+ Greatest Quotes by Joy Lincoln
mobi |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:Joy Lincoln [Lincoln, Joy]

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” ― Maya Angelou “A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has ...
( Category: Women December 25,2014 )
Change the Game by Michael Conliffe
mobi |eng | 2012-09-09 | Author:Michael Conliffe [Conliffe, Michael]

Shorty was listening to everything she said, and knew she was right, so that’s exactly what he did, but not before slapping T in the face with the side of ...
( Category: Urban December 25,2014 )
The Other Wes Moore-One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
mobi |eng | 2010-04-27 | Author:Wes Moore

As I sat on the other end of the line, listening to my mother talk about “sacrifice,” I had no idea what my grandparents had given up. The five minutes ...
( Category: African-American Studies December 21,2014 )
Kosher Chinese by Michael Levy
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Michael Levy [Levy, Michael]

The Taiwan Problem Our first game was scheduled for a Saturday night against the Guizhou Military Academy. We donned our yellow jerseys and boarded the team bus at 3:30 p.m. ...
( Category: General December 19,2014 )
An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff
mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Laura Schroff

Not long after our Thanksgiving together, I asked Maurice what he usually did for Christmas. “Nothing,” he said with a shrug. “What do you mean? Don’t you celebrate Christmas?” “Nope.” ...
( Category: African-American & Black December 19,2014 )
Seven Seasons in Aurukun by Paula Shaw
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Paula Shaw

18 Halfway MacKenzie Night is over and Jess has left Aurukun. She leaves me a letter. One that makes me cry. One that lets me know that we are friends ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand December 8,2014 )
The Winter of Our Disconnect by Susan Maushart
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-11-29 | Author:Susan Maushart

What’s up with the dots? I ask him. What do you mean? he replies, puzzled. Isn’t that the proper way? In other punctuation news ... Sussy’s friend Sean—completely OCT (obsessive ...
( Category: Social Aspects December 4,2014 )
The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale by Susan Maushart
mobi |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Susan Maushart

What’s up with the dots? I ask him. What do you mean? he replies, puzzled. Isn’t that the proper way? In other punctuation news ... Sussy’s friend Sean—completely OCT (obsessive ...
( Category: Social Aspects December 4,2014 )

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