Biographies
epub |eng | 2004-09-14 | Author:Anthony Slide

Of all the little things on this earth a little New Yorker is the smallest. I’ve met ignorance in the South, sullen pigheadedness in New England; I’ve measured the boundless ...
( Category: Memoirs September 16,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-08-17 | Author:

TWELVE I WAS glad to be back in Chicago. I was fed up with Greenwich Village and its intellectuals and drunkards. I needed a change. I had enough money to ...
( Category: Traveler & Explorer Biographies September 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-09 | Author:Dawn G. Marsh [Dawn G. Marsh]

4. Lenapehoking Lost When Hannah Freeman was a young woman, her father “went to Shamokin and never returned.” As she recounted her life story to Moses Marshall in 1797, she ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 15,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Walter R. Borneman [Borneman, Walter R.]

With the row over Guadalcanal settled, King hurried to San Francisco to meet with Nimitz to review the details of the planned operation. Nimitz almost didn’t get there. Leaving Pearl ...
( Category: Military Leader Biographies September 15,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2020-09-08 | Author:M. William Phelps

31. SEVERAL DAYS PASSED. IT had been a week since Cassie went missing. It was now officially puffer jacket, see-your-breath weather. A sudden snap of cold had pushed down from ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction September 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-28 | Author:John Gregory Dunne [JOHN GREGORY DUNNE]

He turned into the lot at the Figueroa Auditorium and parked in a space marked Matchmaker. In the shadows of the parking lot, a raucous crap game was going on. ...
( Category: Historical Biographies September 15,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-04-14 | Author:Paula

“In time, Chelsea, you’ll beg me to cane you,” his voice would speak to me in reassuring whispers—and often enough that I actually began to believe him. However, even to ...
( Category: Specific Group Biographies September 15,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Victoria Jackson & Ali Guthy [Jackson, Victoria]

Just after Labor Day, 2009 Year two with NMO is life in Limbo-land. It’s a month since my failed attempt to offer Ali medical marijuana. Not really something that I ...
( Category: Memoirs September 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-09-08 | Author:David Chang & Gabe Ulla

* * * • • • I was set to promote the book in San Francisco the following month. The publisher stacked my schedule with readings, Q&As, panel discussions, signings, ...
( Category: Professional & Academic Biographies September 15,2020 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Norman Lewis

4. at large We discovered magnus, large, big, great, in Chapter 9, in discussing Magnavox (etymologically, “big voice”), and find it again in magniloquent (etymologically, “talking big”). The root occurs ...
( Category: Motivational Self-Help September 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-01 | Author:Dominick Dunne & Pablo F. Fenjves [Dunne, Dominick & Fenjves, Pablo F.]

If I Did It friends, and I'd seen him again a few weeks earlier, when we'd gone clubbing with the same friends. I liked Charlie—he was one of those guys ...
( Category: Biographies September 15,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-02-14 | Author:James Perrin Warren [Warren, James Perrin]

once more the whirlwind sweeps the dark-tongued leaves to the lap of a woman so old she is a child who cannot remember when her book of the marvelous came ...
( Category: Literary Criticism September 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-18 | Author:Oliver Goldsmith

MRS. HARDCASTLE. Confusion! thieves! robbers! We are cheated, plundered, broke open, undone! TONY. What’s the matter, what’s the matter, mamma? I hope nothing has happened to any of the good ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies September 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-01 | Author:Jenna Bush Hager

Summer Rain When we lived in Texas, my family attended church almost every week. I enjoyed going, though not because I was particularly devout. I was a chubby foodie (before ...
( Category: Self-Help September 14,2020 )