Biographies
epub |eng | | Author:Nathaniel Rich [Rich, Nathaniel]

* * * The lesson Schendler drew from the failed hydro plant had ramifications that extended beyond Aspen, even beyond the American West. “If we want to solve climate change,” ...
( Category: Engineering April 10,2021 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-30 | Author:S K Smith [Smith, S K]

9 – AYDA Shaking, Ayda dragged her sister’s limp, frail form from the side of the lake and clutched at her. ‘Elle, I’m so sorry, forgive me.’ Ayda whispered to ...
( Category: Literary Fiction April 10,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-03-02 | Author:Michael Moss [Moss, Michael]

CHAPTER SIX “She Is Dangerous” The processed food industry’s shrewdness in mining our biology and our emotions enabled it to finesse and take charge of our eating habits. But holding ...
( Category: Memoirs April 10,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Shufelt, Gordon H.;

CHAPTER 6 The Police on Trial The Baltimore City Criminal Court scheduled the trial of Patrick McDonald for November 1875. As it turned out, police violence and the problem of ...
( Category: American History April 10,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-15 | Author:Catelli, Giovanni; Auster, Paul; Tanzi, Andrew

A CONVERSATION AT CAFÉ SLAVIA It was late morning and Café Slavia was almost empty. The odd tourist gazed at the selection of chocolates and pastries, breathing in the warm ...
( Category: Professional & Academic Biographies April 10,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lolita Files

PART IX 1967–1968 TRANSITIONS There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse. —WASHINGTON IRVING CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO It was rainy and cold the night ...
( Category: Action & Adventure Fiction April 10,2021 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-04 | Author:The Enemy of the World [World, The Enemy of the]

Fariah reached into her white tunic and drew out a thick wad of papers. ‘Fedorin was a petty crook. But what none of you realise is that Salamander engineered most ...
( Category: Middle East History April 10,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gemma Rogers [Rogers, Gemma]

33 Barry called out to me as he went past, heading towards the yard, swinging his car keys around his finger as though he was a cowboy with a gun. ...
( Category: Literary Fiction April 10,2021 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:Marvin J. Wolf [Wolf, Marvin J.]

Sixty-two Chelmin parked his rental car under a large, bare tree near the edge of a small city park across the street and a hundred meters or so down the ...
( Category: Christian Theology April 9,2021 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Andrew Solomon [Solomon, Andrew]

VI OCTOBER Some days, I dream of a life without sequence, a life all mixed up like a crazy salad, in which, when you suddenly yearn for a week of ...
( Category: Historical Biographies April 9,2021 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-15 | Author:Ross Kemp [Kemp, Ross]

As we had learned on our first day in the country, you don’t have to go very far in El Salvador to come across a dead body. On the way ...
( Category: Specific Group Biographies April 9,2021 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-17 | Author:Louisa May Alcott [Alcott, Louisa May]

( Category: Historical Biographies April 9,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ilyasah Shabazz

Studying the dictionary helps pass the time. It feels familiar, like I’m back home at the kitchen table. My brothers and sisters surrounding me. Mom telling another story about her ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People Biographies April 9,2021 )
epub |eng | 2005-11-15 | Author:Andrew Brown [Brown, Andrew]

14 Rebuilding Bernal’s wartime contact with Birkbeck College was slight and somewhat peevish. Breams Buildings had closed after being hit by incendiary bombs in September 1940, but reopened the following ...
( Category: Historical Biographies April 9,2021 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Andreas Widmer [Widmer, Andreas]

Then my father put my mother on the phone. I didn’t stand a chance. She was crying because her “baby” wasn’t home for Christmas. I don’t know about you, but ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People Biographies April 9,2021 )