mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Vowell, Sarah [Vowell, Sarah]

WHEN KAMEHAMEHA’S HEIR, Liholiho, decided to make his ill-fated state visit to Great Britain in 1823, he sailed on an English whaleship captained by Valentine Starbuck, a member of a ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 1999-10-15 | Author:Frank McCourt

THE PLOT When the war started and food was rationed in Ireland the government offered poor families plots of land in fields outside Limerick. Each family could have a sixteenth ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1978-01-01 | Author:Ivan Doig

One shard of time repeats itself like the snow-helmets of mountains across each season of my memory. An edged piece of the day, that is, in the strictest sense—the high ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-06 | Author:Sarah Vowell

In 1635, Williams’s surging obsession with his wall of separation between church and state turns him into a bricklayer straight out of Poe—barricading himself into his lonely little garden until ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-12 | Author:John Marchese

It would be early spring by the time just about everything that didn’t look like Gene Drucker’s violin had been cut and gouged and scraped away. I had begun to ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2004-07-31 | Author:Gus Russo [Russo, Gus]

Other Outfit members had maintained a presence in the Cuban paradise. As captured in photos in extant family albums, Curly Humphreys had been traveling with his family to Cuba at ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-07 | Author:Paul R. Kavieff [Kavieff, Paul R.]

Sam Giannola, last of the three Giannolas killed during the Giannola/Vitale Gang War. (Photo courtesy of the Detroit News collections at the Walter Reuther Library, Wayne State University) Chester “the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2006-10-15 | Author:James Herbert [Herbert, James]

23 The Ford’s tyres squealed, burning rubber as I pulled to the right and jammed on the brakes, the car coming to a juddering halt by the kerbside. Strolling pedestrians ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Tiffany Harelik

Both of Karel’s grandfathers were great cooks, and so was his mother. “I was always surrounded by amazing meals. When I came to the United States, I tried to reproduce ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-24 | Author:Reese, Abbie

4 Little House, Big Heart It’s a whole different world that we’re living in. Mother Miryam of Jesus There is a scene that Sister Mary Gemma conjures easily. She has ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-12-15 | Author:Stephen King [King, Stephen]

Benoit’s thrown okay as well, but in the fifth Johnny hooks one around the Pesky Pole, and while Benoit gets the next three guys, they all hit the ball hard. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1997-03-24 | Author:Jon Krakauer [Krakauer, Jon]

* Bromet had left Base Camp in mid-April and returned to Seattle, whence she continued to file Internet dispatches about Fischer’s expedition for Outside Online; she relied on regular phone ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Harold Schechter [Schechter, Harold]

Signs of that change were everywhere—in the bouquets of flowers and gushing letters that arrived daily from female admirers; in the stares he drew from other prisoners whenever he stepped ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Theodore Rosengarten [Rosengarten, Theodore]

THE night my daddy died, I stayed there the balance of the night, studyin and plannin on how to take a hold, run around and see about all of his ...

epub |eng | | Author:Casey Sherman [Sherman, Casey]

The Animal avoided prosecution for his major crimes such as the murders of Ray Distasio and Teddy Deegan, but he found himself in and out of court on lesser offenses—offenses ...