Biographical
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Carissa B. McGee [McGe, Carissa B.]

The Visitor *KNOCK*KNOCK* “Come in,” I said. “Hello, Ms. McGee,” Ms. Seong said as she walked in the room. “Hello, Ms. Seong, how are you?” I asked. “I’m doing good. ...
( Category: Biographical May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-09 | Author:Laurent Gaudé

Tonight in his tent he is weeping uncontrollably, mindful only that no one can see him. Not that he’s ashamed, but he knows that tears are a sign of weakness, ...
( Category: War May 6,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-04-27 | Author:Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

The hens haven’t laid any eggs. The hens turn out to be roosters. Ten roosters. You’ve been had. You break their necks one by one. You cook them down to ...
( Category: Biographical May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Véronique Olmi & Adriana Hunter

* * * — He takes her back to Maria Michieli. The parona tells her to go change her clothes and relieve the housekeeper who is watching Mimmina. She adds ...
( Category: Biographical May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Elton

WILL’S LONDON LODGINGS – DAY Will be at his papers. Kate doth berate him most vexedly. KATE: Henry the Eighth? You’re going to sanitize the reputation of the meanest, cruellest ...
( Category: Screenwriting May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-28 | Author:John Burnham Schwartz

1972 12 March Arizona Morning, ma’am. Is Mr. Evans here? From my front porch, I stare at this young shrub of a reporter. Quite possibly, under normal circumstances, with his ...
( Category: Historical April 30,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-10-23 | Author:Martin Turnbull & Martin Turnbull [Turnbull, Martin]

The set that CBS had constructed looked like Mary Pickford’s sunroom: a stained fruitwood sideboard, a pair of miniature cypress pines bookending a European tapestry hanging from the back wall, ...
( Category: Biographical April 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:David Downing

Thursday, July 28 Herr Skoumal has not exceeded my expectations. Soon after supper I heard feet on the stairs and the usual rap on my door, but it was Anna ...
( Category: Espionage April 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-22 | Author:Bayard, Louis

Joshua was in no particular hurry to have his suspicions corroborated, but before twenty-four more hours had passed, Eli Tibbetts was back at the store, curling his index finger balefully. ...
( Category: Historical April 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Philip Roth [Roth, Philip]

( Category: Biographical April 24,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rachel Howard

The flight home, the drive from the airport—we move as though ferrying a vial of plutonium. Swaddle you in your blankie. You suck your thumb, which I rarely see you ...
( Category: Biographical April 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks to Sterling Lord and Mauro Aprile Zanetti. A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1919. Founder of the famed City Lights ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-25 | Author:Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

WEDDING AT THE CROSS Everyone said of them: what a nice family; he, the successful timber merchant; and she, the obedient wife who did her duty to God, husband and ...
( Category: African March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-11 | Author:Shelley Wood

June 15, 1937 A TELEGRAM FROM Ivy today saying she’s canceling her trip home in order to accept an offer to speak at a nursing school in California! She says ...
( Category: Family Life March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-06 | Author:Gerald Murnane

It was hard for Adrian to convince his parents that he had to leave for the Charleroi Fathers’ junior seminary in the new year. His mother asked why he hadn’t ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2019 )

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