Biographies
epub |eng | 2020-07-24 | Author:Sara Bird

Orderly arrangements such as this one are pleasing on many levels. Olga and Jonathan’s wooden wall shelves feature neat rows of frequently used kitchenwares and foodstuffs. Arranged in this manner, ...
( Category: Memoirs September 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-05 | Author:Elijah Cummings

Chapter 5 Chasing Truth Following the Cohen hearings and the groundwork they laid, the Oversight Committee set out on a series of nonstop investigations of the Trump administration’s relentless and ...
( Category: Memoirs September 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-09-22 | Author:Lynne Cheney [Cheney, Lynne]

* * * At the beginning of 1804, Jefferson was even more optimistic than usual. The Republicans, who overwhelmingly controlled both the House and Senate, had nominated him for a ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Jim Beviglia

47. “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” (from Blonde on Blonde, 1966) “Dylan Goes Electric!” is often hailed as one of the singular moments in rock history, ...
( Category: Music September 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-25 | Author:Charles Spencer [Spencer, Charles]

TWELVE Reaction to Tragedy Sinners in their guilty blindness cannot see or understand the things which the heavenly king rightly ordains for his creation, until sinful man is captured like ...
( Category: Literary Fiction September 27,2020 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Gabriel García Márquez

ON WEDNESDAY, June 16, he received the news that the government had confirmed the pension for life granted him by the Congress. He wrote his acknowledgment to President Mosquera in ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:Daniel Mendelsohn [Mendelsohn, Daniel]

I was mistaken for Nicholas’s father three times on the day he was born, and secretly enjoyed it. This was on a humid morning in August 1995. Rose had told ...
( Category: Memoirs September 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:H.L. Mencken [Fecher, Charles]

BALTIMORE, DECEMBER 27, 1942. The Christmas just past was the gloomiest of all the gloomy ones that I can recall. On the Saturday before it, December 19, August and I ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-15 | Author:John C. O'Donnell

Fig. 6.12 – Prince Michael of Kent (left) and Lt.-Gov. Myra Freeman greet choir member Gordon Sheriff. Fig. 6.13 – Chronicle Herald, n.d. Herald photo by Eric Wynn. It was ...
( Category: Arts & Photography September 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-14 | Author:Dan Richards [Dan Richards]

I saw crevasses lurking, ghostly stretch marks in the ice; thin shadow fissures like the marbling of clouds: hidden mantraps, unseen pitfalls, gravitational rendition. ‘It will eat you.’ I thought ...
( Category: Memoirs September 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-04 | Author:Michelle McNamara

Part Two Sacramento, 2012 [EDITOR’S NOTE: The following section is an excerpt from an early draft of Michelle’s article “In the Footsteps of a Killer.”] THE WOMAN WHO SAT ACROSS ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Judith L. McNeil

PART THREE THE KAMPONG–KUALA LUMPUR 1963–65 CHAPTER NINE As the car speeds to our destination, Givvy becomes more and more agitated. ‘We in jungle place, Missy,’ she mutters almost incessantly, ...
( Category: Biographies September 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-14 | Author:Keven McQueen

Arlene Draves. Courtesy of Thomas Clark. Despite the confusion, it did not take the jurors long to reach a verdict. On March 10, after deliberating a little less than four ...
( Category: True Crime September 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Farquhar McHarg

THE CNT AND ANARCHO-SYNDICALISM The Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT—National Confederation of Labour) was a national anticapitalist and aggressively revolutionary-syndicalist labour union founded in Barcelona in 1910. Its foundations had ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-06 | Author:Evan McHugh

If you wanted to hear stories about the days when drovers criss-crossed the country with stock, this was the place to be. Every year at the end of August, drovers ...
( Category: American History September 26,2020 )