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David Mitchell: Back Story by David Mitchell
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:David Mitchell [Mitchell, David]

- 21 - Attention I need pants. I’ve needed pants for some time but now it’s getting critical. A lot of them are ‘rogue’ pairs now – basically just waistbands ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 26,2014 )
Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralnick
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Peter Guralnick [GURALNICK, PETER]

Juvenile delinquency, a widespread breakdown of morality and cultural values, race mixing, riots, and irreligion all were being blamed on Elvis Presley and rock ’n’ roll by a national press ...
( Category: Country & Folk March 26,2014 )
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-07-20 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]

22 The wind blew over the roof and ruffled the shingles. It whistled sharp under the closed door. The chimney made fearful sounds of protest as it was invaded by ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 26,2014 )
Darkness Visible by William Styron
epub |eng | 2008-05-30 | Author:William Styron

V ONE OF THE MEMORABLE MOMENTS IN MADAME BOVARY is the scene where the heroine seeks help from the village priest. Guilt-ridden, distraught, miserably depressed, the adulterous Emma—heading toward eventual ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 26,2014 )
Every Day by the Sun
epub |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Dean Faulkner Wells [Wells, Dean Faulkner]

*Before Jimmy and T, I had been a hymn-singing Baptist with Mama and Papa. My predestination phase lasted through high school until I discovered and fell in love with the ...
( Category: State & Local March 26,2014 )
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bryson Bill
epub |eng | 2006-01-11 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bryson, Bill]

I WAS NOT A POPULAR PUPIL with the teachers. Only Mrs. De Voto liked me, and she liked all the children, largely because she didn’t know who any of them ...
( Category: State & Local March 26,2014 )
A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
epub, azw |eng | | Author:Mark Twain

CHAPTER XXXII [The Jungfrau, the Bride, and the Piano] We located ourselves at the Jungfrau Hotel, one of those huge establishments which the needs of modern travel have created in ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
84 Charing Cross Road by Hanff Helene
epub | | 2009-12-12 | Author:Hanff, Helene [Hanff, Helene]

Te asombrará saber (de alguien como yo, que odia las novelas) que he acabado atreviéndome con Jane Austen y que me he apasionado tanto por Orgullo y prejuicio, que no ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling March 26,2014 )
Frank Sinatra, My Father by Nancy Sinatra
epub |eng | 1986-12-14 | Author:Nancy Sinatra [Sinatra, Nancy]

BOOTS Walkin' Meanwhile, my marriage to Tommy Sands was a happy one. We were two kids, traveling around, having a good time. In trying to build a serious, lasting career ...
( Category: Pop March 26,2014 )
Babylon Confidential
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Christian, Claudia [Christian, Claudia]

Angus and I both had films at Cannes that year and decided to go together. It was 1998, I was thirty-three years old, and my biological clock was ticking like ...
( Category: Women March 26,2014 )
Five Hundred Buildings of New York by Bill Harris
epub |eng | 2002-03-25 | Author:Bill Harris

* * * 184 FORD FOUNDATION BUILDING This L-shaped building is built around a 130-foot-high “greenhouse,” whose plant life rotates with the seasons. It is a terraced garden with seventeen ...
( Category: State & Local March 26,2014 )
The Real Thing by Henry James
epub |eng | | Author:Henry James

* * * CHAPTER III. * * * It was for the elucidation of a mystery in one of these works that I first tried Mrs. Monarch. Her husband came ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
ARDEN 2002 by Unknown
epub |eng | 2002-03-25 | Author:Unknown

«*^""|| April Cook Graveyard at Sunset Josh Camp Untitled Josh Camp Untitled Margaret Edson On Creative Composition Margaret Edson, author of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, visited and ...
( Category: Architecture March 26,2014 )
E Street Shuffle: The Glory Days of Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band by Clinton Heylin
epub |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Clinton Heylin [Heylin, Clinton]

Even if it meant saddle sores. The combination of levels of paranoia that made Watergate look like a high-school prank, and a relentless, obsessive quest for musical perfection that proved ...
( Category: Rock March 26,2014 )
Detroit Rock City by Steve Miller
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Steve Miller [Miller, Steve]

The Dirtbombs ending their set at the Detroit Institute of Arts, October 2006. The show was a party for the film It Came From Detroit, which documented the Detroit music ...
( Category: State & Local March 26,2014 )

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