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Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi
mobi |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:Dean Faulkner Wells

*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 25,2014 )
Travels With Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by John Steinbeck
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | 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: Authors March 25,2014 )
Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories by Anton Treuer
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-03-15 | Author:Anton Treuer

The Sacred Art of Hunting [24] Hey, I want to tell you a little bit more about this here. There is still more that I remember in the morning about ...
( Category: Native American Studies March 25,2014 )
Time & Tide by Frank Conroy
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-08 | Author:Frank Conroy

No aluminum bats No beer No radios High standards of sportsmanship Eventually, it became a tradition, each year of play marked by its own T-shirt. Nothing was ever formalized beyond ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Detroit Rock City: The Uncensored History of Rock 'N' Roll in America's Loudest City by Steve Miller
mobi |eng | 2013-06-01 | Author:Steve Miller

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 25,2014 )
FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio by Richard Neer
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-09-25 | Author:Richard Neer

Good-bye Yellow Brick Road Jonathan Schwartz was tired. The grind of working seven days a week had become too much for him. He was entangled in a romantic situation that ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Fm by Richard Neer
mobi |eng | 2001-12-18 | Author:Richard Neer

Good-bye Yellow Brick Road Jonathan Schwartz was tired. The grind of working seven days a week had become too much for him. He was entangled in a romantic situation that ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
The Democracy Project by David Graeber
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:David Graeber [Graeber, David]

This paragraph is typical: it alternates legitimate insights with a series of calculated slurs and insinuations designed to encourage violence. It is true that anarchists did, as I said, refuse ...
( Category: Democracy March 25,2014 )
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

CHAPTER XXXII The Appointed Time It is night in Lincoln's Inn--perplexed and troublous valley of the shadow of the law, where suitors generally find but little day--and fat candles are ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda by Robert Wallace & H. Keith Melton & Henry R. Schlesinger
epub |eng | 2008-05-29 | Author:Robert Wallace & H. Keith Melton & Henry R. Schlesinger [Wallace, Robert & Melton, H. Keith & Schlesinger, Henry R.]

The only TSS-TSD-OTS officer killed in the line of duty between 1947 and 2008 was a casualty of anti-Castro operations. Four days before the Bay of Pigs invasion, TSD explosives ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 25,2014 )
Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball by Bill Madden
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:Bill Madden

Chapter 12 An Icon Scorned YOGI BERRA HAD EVERY reason to feel apprehensive about becoming George Steinbrenner’s latest manager. His ascension to the job, on December 16, 1983, marked the ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger
epub |eng | 2010-03-29 | Author:H. G. Bissinger

The man who wrote those words never forgot that moment in the stands. It gave him a valuable insight, one that he would find useful at another point in his ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History by Berger Glen
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Berger, Glen [Berger, Glen]

11 * * * Breakdowns Spectacular, innovative and interesting things are happening at Broadway’s newly renamed Foxwoods Theatre . . . Taymor is very close to a finished product that ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Great Plains by Ian Frazier
epub |eng | | Author:Ian Frazier

9 NICODEMUS, Kansas, is a town with a population of about fifty in the western part of the state. Like many other towns on the Great Plains, Nicodemus was founded ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
A Voice From Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth by Louis Auchincloss
epub |eng | 2010-12-02 | Author:Louis Auchincloss [Auchincloss, Louis]

In my early years I don't recall homosexuality, or any sexual irregularity for that matter, being discussed by the "grownups" in the family or their friends. No doubt it was ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )

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