epub |eng | 2012-04-10 | Author:James Doolittle [Doolittle, General James H. “Jimmy”]

According to Potter and Braemer, however, they had not been in good friendly company when they landed. They had been discovered by a band of guerrillas, robbed, tied up, and ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-22 | Author:David King

BEFORE THE OPERATION RESUMED, THE POLICE NEGOTIATOR B-O Lövenlo called into the vault and adopted a more conciliatory approach. He complimented Clark for having a “cool head” and described how ...

epub |eng | 2020-08-11 | Author:Dan Mathews

* * * After Asia’s birthday bash, Jack and I arrived home to find Perry having a surprising family moment of her own. She had decided not to join us ...

epub |eng | 2020-08-11 | Author:Sara Schaefer

chapter eleven In Blacktail Canyon, the air is cool between the rocks. Ted had led us to a cavern there, a cathedral for our concert. Everyone spread out, sitting on ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2020-08-04 | Author:Molly Wizenberg

What is a mother? To a newborn baby, its primary caregiver—usually its mother—is everything. She is food, shelter, life. A mother is so fully adapted to her infant’s needs, explains ...

epub |eng | | Author:Brad Ricca

* * * BOYD’S DAYS ON THE MARCH were repetitious, but only because over the years he had found a schedule that suited him. Every day he rose at five ...

epub |eng | 2020-08-11 | Author:Annik LaFarge

* * * For Chopin there was yet another artist in the room besides his lover: Johann Sebastian Bach. He brought with him to Majorca just a single book, the ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:Jim Abbott [Abbott, Jim]

ON JUNE 1, 1988, the day of baseball’s amateur draft, Bobby Fontaine, the scouting director for the California Angels, stood in a doorway in the executive offices at Anaheim Stadium ...

epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Rodger Kamenetz [Kamenetz, Rodger]

In Dov Ber, feelings arrive as messengers; in Kafka the messenger never quite arrives. Instead there’s struggle and exhaustion and no end of anticipation. One scholar of the parable reads ...

azw3 |eng | 2007-04-09 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN TURNING FIFTY 1929–1931 Einstein’s house in Caputh near Berlin Caputh Einstein wanted some solitude for his fiftieth birthday, a refuge from publicity. So in March 1929 he fled ...

epub |eng | 1988-08-14 | Author:Edward Abbey

Although ours is a brief voyage both in time and space—six days, ninety miles—the journey settles easily, quickly into a flow as unhurried and untroubled as that of the river. ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Scott Donaldson

The fifth paragraph is concerned with their parting in Italy and the understanding they reached at that time. They “agreed he should go home,” and she “would not come until ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-14 | Author:Alan Cross [Cross, Alan]

Fast Facts When Bowie was producing Transformer for Lou Reed, Bowie hired his first music teacher, Ronnie Ross, to play the saxophone part in “Walk on the Wild Side.” In ...

epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Peter Benjaminson [Benjaminson, Peter]

Lost Supreme_8 page insert 11/19/07 4:53 PM Page 1 The Supremes: Diane Ross, Florence Ballard, and Mary Wilson. Roger Williams Lost Supreme_8 page insert 11/19/07 4:53 PM Page 2 The ...

epub |eng | 1999-05-02 | Author:Ted Conover [Conover, Ted]

UTILITY 1 Occasionally from a wallpost you would see a decrepit Sing Sing van stop somewhere on the road encircling the prison, and out would pile one officer with a ...