Biographical
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Anchee Min [Min, Anchee]

As a comrade with a good record, my case was dropped. I was to be sent to the Shanghai Film Studio to be trained as an actress. The headquarters held ...
( Category: China February 21,2016 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:Carleton, Patrick [Carleton, Patrick]

CHAPTER SIX HEROD (England–France: 1483–1484) So that the man is over al His owne cawse of wele and wo. That we Fortune clepe so, Out of the man himselfe it ...
( Category: Biographical February 15,2016 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-01 | Author:Chee, Alexander [Chee, Alexander]

§ Her Haustheater was really two houses side by side—her villa, where she lived with her husband, Louis, and Villa Turgenev next door, built for Turgenev. The two sat close ...
( Category: Biographical February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-25 | Author:Carol McGrath

20 Shortly after Noon service, Prince Vsevolod summoned Thea to his receiving chamber. Lady Olga ordered her to wear a full veil and to walk straight, which was very difficult ...
( Category: Biographical February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 1988-02-03 | Author:Bulosan, Carlos [Bulosan, Carlos]

to the trap door of an icebox, watching where the detectives were going. Jose was running when they spotted him. He jumped to the other car and hid behind a ...
( Category: Asian American Studies February 4,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Harrigan, Stephen [Harrigan, Stephen]

TWENTY LINCOLN’S VOICE WAS STRAINED from months of speaking and debating all around Illinois. His spirits were strained as well. “The last thing I want to do right now,” he ...
( Category: Biographical February 4,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-01-26 | Author:Benjamin, Melanie [Benjamin, Melanie]

Oh, how Babe could relate to that! She had a diploma, but it was merely decorative; Gogsie had decreed that all her girls attend Westover, a finishing school, rather than ...
( Category: Biographical January 31,2016 )
epub |eng | 2006-02-18 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

CHAPTER XXXI. A Consultation Whether to Proceed by Land or Water— Preparations for Boat-Building.—An Exploring Party.—A Party of Trappers Detached.—Two Snake Visitors.—Their Report Concerning the River.—Confirmed by the Exploring Party.—Mad ...
( Category: Biographical January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-02-29 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [Cooper, James Fenimore]

Chapter XVII. "Sit still, and hear the last of our sea sorrow."--Shakspeare The weight of the tempest had been felt at that hapless moment when Earing and his unfortunate companions ...
( Category: Biographical January 21,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-01-19 | Author:Brown, Carrie [Brown, Carrie]

William takes another bite of apple. “He is not afraid of much, Mr. Darwin,” he says. Lina stands and picks up their soup bowls. She knows, of course, that some ...
( Category: Biographical January 21,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Carol Wallace [Wallace, Carol]

Ten MADAME VAN GOGH may have been surprised to see me on her doorstep, but she expressed only pleasure. The apartment was very appealing, bright and clean and cheerful, but ...
( Category: Biographical January 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-02 | Author:Michelle Moran [Moran, Michelle]

W hen the news came a week later that the rani was in labor, Sundari took me aside and asked what had happened between us. “Why hasn’t the rani asked ...
( Category: Biographical December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-01 | Author:C. W. Gortner

A FEW WEEKS AFTER ANDRÉ LEFT and before I embarked on my trip to Grasse in the summer of 1922, I left my atelier early and made my way to ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:Mary Doria Russell [Russell, Mary Doria]

FROM THE START, the posse had traveled light. Bedrolls on the ground. Whatever they could carry in their saddlebags. Nine days out, they were thirsty, hungry, filthy, sore, and bone-tired ...
( Category: Biographical December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Alan Gold

THE ROAD SOUTH FROM DUNVEGAN TO DRYNOCH ISLAND OF SKYE JULY 7, 1746 The two ladies walked the length of the island avoiding the roads, preferring to travel through the ...
( Category: Biographical December 5,2015 )

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