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Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy

epub |eng | 2003-04-01 | Author:Susan Carol McCarthy [McCarthy, Susan Carol]

Chapter 21 December snuck up on me. I should’ve seen it coming but I was busy with other things. From the middle of November to the end of December, the ...

( Category: African American Historical Fiction June 7,2017 )

The Risen by David Anthony Durham

epub |eng | 2016-05-02 | Author:David Anthony Durham

Kaleb “Come attend this thing with me,” Crassus says. “I want it documented for my papers. Afterward we’ll see to the matters of correspondence.” The senator stands in his camp ...

( Category: Military May 21,2017 )

The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis

epub |eng | | Author:Édouard Louis

My Other Father Here is an anecdote my mother told me. It was during one of the village dances—outlandishly named dances that would take place in the village hall a ...

( Category: French May 21,2017 )

A Beautiful Song: A Musical Soul Story by Cantwell Michael

azw3 |eng | 2011-10-23 | Author:Cantwell, Michael [Cantwell, Michael]

Back to Contents Chapter 17 The oncoming car blasted its way into my passenger door. We were pushed completely through the intersection. The car didn’t stop until we were wrapped ...

( Category: Biographical May 21,2017 )

The Revolution of the Moon by Andrea Camilleri

epub |eng | 2017-03-13 | Author:Andrea Camilleri

It was just before ten o’clock, and they were in the sitting room of the private apartment, with donna Eleonora in an armchair and don Alterio standing in front of ...

( Category: Biographical May 21,2017 )

The Lost Diaries of Susanna Moodie by Cecily Ross

epub |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:Cecily Ross

JANUARY 20, 1833 My foolish and short-lived vocation as a teacher has been thoroughly crushed. Old Joe Harris arrived on my doorstep this morning in a half-drunken state. It took ...

( Category: Biographical May 21,2017 )

The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Jayne Ashford

mobi, epub |eng | 2016-09-20 | Author:Lindsay Jayne Ashford

Max left them with a railway timetable and a tin of foul-smelling yellow powder, which he said they would need to sprinkle all over the seats of the carriage on ...

( Category: Biographical May 21,2017 )

The James Boys by Richard Liebmann-Smith

epub |eng | 2008-06-16 | Author:Richard Liebmann-Smith

Chapter Seven On the afternoon of September 7, 1876, over a thousand miles from the chaos and carnage taking place out in Minnesota, Elena Hite arrived in Cambridge to meet ...

( Category: Biographical May 21,2017 )

Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy

epub |eng | 2009-11-30 | Author:Leo Tolstoy

26 • DISCUSSIONS Volodya, lying with his feet up on the sofa and leaning his head on his arm, was reading a French novel when I paid my usual visit ...

( Category: Biographical May 19,2017 )

Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin

epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

This Morning, This Evening, So Soon “YOU ARE FULL of nightmares,” Harriet tells me. She is in her dressing gown and has cream all over her face. She and my ...

( Category: Short Stories March 28,2017 )

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney

epub |eng | | Author:Kathleen Rooney

14 Mulligan The golden Ds on the scarlet awnings—surrounded by laurel wreaths in heraldic style—seem to stand not merely for “Delmonico’s” but also for “do over.” The restaurant lofts steak ...

( Category: Cultural Heritage March 22,2017 )

The Best Awful by Carrie Fisher

epub |eng | 2016-12-28 | Author:Carrie Fisher [Fisher, Carrie]

Tony lit yet another cigarette as they drove past downtown San Diego. “Hey, have you got a pen and paper? Sometimes when I feel like this, I write something. And ...

( Category: Humorous March 22,2017 )

Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov

epub |eng | 2016-10-31 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

Part Three 1 Neither Slaughter in the Sun (as the English translation of Camera Lucida got retitled while I lay helplessly hospitalized in New York) nor The Red Topper sold ...

( Category: Biographical March 9,2017 )

The Medic: Miracle on Hacksaw Ridge by Adam Palmer

epub |eng | 2014-11-23 | Author:Adam Palmer [Palmer, Adam]

August 3, 1944 Cleaning Out Guam After the village was secured, Doss and his pal Glenn were walking past the collecting area where all the dead native and American bodies ...

( Category: Biographical March 5,2017 )

A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline

mobi, epub |eng | 2016-12-29 | Author:Christina Baker Kline

I’M APPREHENSIVE ABOUT seeing Walton for the first time after the long winter apart, but he gives me a warm hug and a kiss on the cheek. “I have a ...

( Category: Biographical February 24,2017 )

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