Biographies
epub |eng | | Author:Niall Williams

‘Well, it’s my favourite thing to do. Clear a space. I did it in the woods growing up. Could do it for hours. I’d leave the house, escape what was ...
( Category: Biographies September 12,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-07-20 | Author:Peter Hardy

A castle on the sea front of Alexandria, Egypt. March 1960. I decided to explore the corniche, the area around the coastal road and the promenade close to the seashore ...
( Category: Arts & Photography September 12,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-06-02 | Author:Steve Patterson [Patterson, Steve]

* * * — Now fast-forward a good forty years. Four-year-old Scarlett was enrolled in Pedalheads summer camp to learn how to ride a bike. Of course, I protested to ...
( Category: Memoirs September 12,2021 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-12-19 | Author:Unknown

Sparta was sidelined or rather had sidelined itself; the city state had not fought against Philip and not bemoaned the sack of Thebes. It was Epaminondas who had destroyed Sparta’s ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 12,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-17 | Author:Nichole Perkins

What did he tell you about me? He didn’t talk much about you. Why not? You’d have to ask him. Why you? You’d have to ask him. Did you use ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies September 12,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-06-28 | Author:Roxane van Iperen [Iperen, Roxane van]

8 Autumn Song Each time she returns to Amsterdam, Janny finds the city emptier. When she takes the tram from Centraal Station and looks out of the window, it seems ...
( Category: Community & Culture Biographies September 12,2021 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Gail Storey

ACROSS THE MOJAVE DESERT FROM MEXICO: 512 MILES. TO CANADA: 2,151 MILES. We staggered into the Andersons’ home, called Casa de Luna, after dark. A dozen hikers sat outside around ...
( Category: Biographies September 12,2021 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:Matt Zeller

Thursday, September 4, 2008 Four months prior to our arrival in Afghanistan, the soldiers of Teams One and Three landed in Kabul. They endured one of the coldest winters on ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies September 12,2021 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-15 | Author:Julie Tullis [Julie Tullis]

– CHAPTER ELEVEN – Ciao to China – Explorations in Sinkiang Three days before Christmas 1982, I was wrapping up presents when the telephone rang. (It always seems to happen ...
( Category: Memoirs September 12,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-02-12 | Author:Juan, Li & Payne, Christopher [Juan, Li & Payne, Christopher]

25 Rabbits The rabbits we had were like the dogs, always clinging to people, circling about them, and never straying too far, especially one particular one in the warren… it ...
( Category: Poetry September 12,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Flyod Schmoe

Summit and crater of Mount Rainier from about 20,000 feet. The elevation at the summit is 14,410 feet. Steam jets about the edges of the crater keep the rim bare ...
( Category: Memoirs September 12,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-15 | Author:Julia Banks

Chapter 7 Never too old ‘How old are you?’ No, we’re not back at that political preselection interview. This time I was working in a corporate role, bantering with a ...
( Category: Industries September 12,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Unknown

Aug 14th, 2017—“Baptism” ZUGGIE TATE I found religion in a midnight DM Under a pseudonym He saidcall me Daddy And much akin to the Father He built an alter on ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 12,2021 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-15 | Author:Hermione Lee [Lee, Hermione]

Though she is incapable of writing letters, Undine is “never at a loss for the spoken word” (Ralph wonders if she has inherited a trace of a “preaching grandfather's oratory”). ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 12,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-30 | Author:Jay Rayner [Rayner, Jay]

Where Ingredients Go to Die For many years in the 1970s my family went on holiday to a Dorset hotel where, on Friday nights, there was a buffet laid out ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference September 12,2021 )