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Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Anne C. Heller

A few months before Atlas Shrugged was published, Bennett Cerf invited his “most interesting” new author to address a Random House sales conference. She stood at the head of the ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
Unfamiliar Fishes by Vowell Sarah
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Vowell, Sarah [Vowell, Sarah]

WHEN KAMEHAMEHA’S HEIR, Liholiho, decided to make his ill-fated state visit to Great Britain in 1823, he sailed on an English whaleship captained by Valentine Starbuck, a member of a ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:Ernest Hemingway

–13– A Strange Enough Ending The way it ended with gertrude stein was strange enough. we had become very good friends and i had done a number of practical things ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Heart Earth by Ivan Doig
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Ivan Doig

My grandmother could hmpf like a member of royalty. She is hmpfing in a major way to my mother, although not at my mother; Grandma's range of fire simply tends ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-21 | Author:Maya Angelou

CHAPTER 21 I took a job as swing-shift waitress in a day-and-night restaurant called the Chicken Shack. The record player blared the latest hits incessantly and the late-night clientele spent ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2001-11-23 | Author:Henry Adams

CHAPTER XVII PRESIDENT GRANT (1869) THE first effect of this leap into the unknown was a fit of low spirits new to the young man's education; due in part to ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir by Anatole Broyard
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-01-02 | Author:Anatole Broyard

12 I found an apartment at last, on Prince Street between Sullivan and Thompson, which was then the south-eastern edge of the Village. It was a tenement like Sheri’s, built ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, and other American stories by Hunter S. Thompson
mobi, epub, azw3 | | 1996-12-13 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson

I drove straight to the hotel after renting the car. There was still no sign of my attorney, so I decided to check in on my own - if only ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Thompson Hunter S
mobi |eng | 2010-07-20 | Author:Thompson, Hunter S. [Thompson, Hunter S.]

3. Savage Lucy . . . ‘Teeth Like Baseballs, Eyes Like Jellied Fire’ I gave my bag to the boy who scurried up, and told him to bring a quart ...
( Category: Journalists March 25,2014 )
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-12-14 | Author:Alexandra Fuller

The Fullers—Devuli DEVULI On a recent map entitled “Comfort-Discomfort Belts,” Devuli Ranch is shown in the area of Zimbabwe that is shaded with tight red lines. This means that it ...
( Category: Africa March 25,2014 )
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas: a savage journey to the heart of the American dream by Hunter S. Thompson
mobi, epub | | 1998-10-14 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson

I drove straight to the hotel after renting the car. There was still no sign of my attorney, so I decided to check in on my own - if only ...
( Category: Journalists March 25,2014 )
This House of Sky by Ivan Doig
mobi, epub |eng | 1978-01-01 | Author:Ivan Doig

One shard of time repeats itself like the snow-helmets of mountains across each season of my memory. An edged piece of the day, that is, in the strictest sense—the high ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-06 | Author:Sarah Vowell

In 1635, Williams’s surging obsession with his wall of separation between church and state turns him into a bricklayer straight out of Poe—barricading himself into his lonely little garden until ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
I'm A Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
mobi, epub |pt | 2010-01-27 | Author:Bill Bryson

Now please don't misunderstand me. My mother is a wonderful person-kindly, saintly, ever cheerful-and when she dies she will go straight to heaven. But believe me, no one is ever ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
The Fatal Englishman by Sebastian Faulks
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:Sebastian Faulks

He was a changed man. The alteration was clearest in his face. Almost all the skin on it was new, and although McIndoe had done as well as any surgeon ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )

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