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hunter s thompson - hell's angels by Hell's Angels
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hell's Angels

We were almost to Williams' store, and I suddenly remembered my burr-haired inquisitor with his high-powered language barrier. We made the turn at the bottom of the hill and I ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 25,2014 )
Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend by Mitchell Zuckoff
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2005-03-08 | Author:Mitchell Zuckoff

When Ponzi arrived at 27 School Street, the adoring crowd he’d found a day earlier had been replaced by a larger, edgier horde, their bodies drenched in sweat, their eyes ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie Leduff
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-07 | Author:Charlie Leduff

MAMA’S BOY WITH GENERAL MOTORS stock trading at levels not seen since the Great Depression, Kwame Kilpatrick walked out of jail shortly after midnight on February 2, 2009. Kilpatrick had ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
American Rose by Karen Abbott
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-27 | Author:Karen Abbott

Mayor Jimmy Walker might not have made it to his office in City Hall on the day of February 12, 1931, but that night he was among a thousand patrons ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House by Bob Colacello
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-10-06 | Author:Bob Colacello

I think you can help him.’ I said, ‘What’s the problem?’ And he said, ‘Well, he’s getting all kinds of criticism of his TV commercials.’ Well, the criticism they were ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
Robert Sellers by Hollywood Hellraisers
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Hollywood Hellraisers

Face it, they know we’re always trying to nail ’em and they don’t like it. Shampoo (1975) started life back in 1968, the height of the sexual revolution, as a ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 25,2014 )
Rita Moreno: A Memoir by Rita Moreno
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Rita Moreno

MEETING MARLON I am wearing a scent, Vent Vert by Balmain, as I write these words. It is a scent that Marlon Brando often wore. It’s a woman’s perfume, but ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
Dean and Me by Jerry Lewis
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Jerry Lewis

She wouldn’t leave me alone. With his natural grace and athletic ability, he overcame his late start and got better and better, finally whittling his handicap down to a six. ...
( Category: Comedy March 25,2014 )
VJ by Nina Blackwood & Mark Goodman & Alan Hunter & Martha Quinn & Gavin Edwards
mobi |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Nina Blackwood & Mark Goodman & Alan Hunter & Martha Quinn & Gavin Edwards

Martha: We were ecstatic when “Billie Jean” got added—art trumped format. What we didn’t see at the time was how it was the foot in the door to expanding the ...
( Category: Music March 25,2014 )
The Receptionist: An Education at the New Yorker by Janet Groth
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Janet Groth

FRITZ I ACQUIRED MY NEXT SERIOUS boyfriend indirectly by way of a Talk reporter named Bill Murray. In those days, men who came up to meet New Yorker writers for ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic March 25,2014 )
Sky of Stone by Homer Hickam
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Homer Hickam

DURING THE man-trip ride inside one morning, it occurred to me that Bobby was four years older than me and might, as a result, have a tad more experience with ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 1994-11-10 | Author:Mikal Gilmore

GAYLEN’S STORY IS ANOTHER matter, and trying to tell it raises some peculiar problems for me. Aside from my father, Gaylen—who was born as Gaylen Noel Gilmore—was the only member ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-05-01 | Author:Martha Gellhorn

There the diary finishes; now I am on my own, with a few fairly useless East African notes and my memory. The prospect is daunting. As near as I can ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Travels With Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
mobi |eng | 1973-01-02 | Author:John Steinbeck

PART FOUR When I started this narrative, I knew that sooner or later I would have to have a go at Texas, and I dreaded it. I could have bypassed ...
( Category: Road Travel March 25,2014 )
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:Ernest Hemingway

–13– A Strange Enough Ending The way it ended with gertrude stein was strange enough. we had become very good friends and i had done a number of practical things ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )

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