epub |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:Balague, Guillem [Balague, Guillem]

In 2009 Barcelona won a sextet of titles, a record that had been achieved by no other team in history. They won everything they competed for in a calendar year: ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Peter Millar [Peter Millar]

The next day she reported the details of our walk around Quedlinburg old town, that I paid for lunch for everyone (I put it on my expenses – it was ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Ben Bradlee Jr. [Bradlee, Ben Jr.]

Ted’s brilliance in 1957 reverberated well into 1958, producing a burst of glowing press and national recognition. The Associated Press named Ted its 1957 Male Athlete of the Year, and ...

mobi |eng | 2009-12-22 | Author:Maconie, Stuart [Maconie, Stuart]

While trying to earwig this exchange, I pretend to look in a book of old photographs and find myself drawn in. There's a fantastic picture of a Failsworth milliner with ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Strauss, Andrew [Strauss, Andrew]

Earlier in 2008, all those involved with the England cricket team had been through a difficult summer. It had started uneventfully with a relatively straightforward 2–0 series victory over New ...

mobi, azw3 |eng | 2003-05-06 | Author:Jackie Robinson & Alfred Duckett

XI Campaigning for Nixon I do not consider my decision to back Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy for the Presidency in 1960 one of my finer ones. It was ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Adrian Matejka

HOSTILITIES Belle & I returned after a fine supper of roasted quail in the Crystal Dining Room. Hattie was waiting in the mauve hallway right outside our rooms. She was ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sandro Monetti [Monetti, Sandro]

6 SIN CITIZEN Mickey felt on top of the world late in the evening of 9 November 2008 as he strolled along Sunset Boulevard on his way into hip Hollywood ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-04 | Author:Johnny Vegas [Vegas, Johnny]

18. SAVED BY THE WHEEL If apathy is ruining your day, step into a busy road for a second where you know cars have no intention of stopping, and dice ...

epub, mobi |deu | 2005-08-02 | Author:Iceberg Slim [Slim, Iceberg]

I’d suck a thousand clappy pricks and swim through liquid shit. They got green puke between their rotten toes and snot runs from their funky noses. I hope all square ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-18 | Author:Usain Bolt

† Here’s the anatomy of my race in the 100 metres: Pow! From the start I go into my drive phase, the first 30 metres of a race where I ...

epub, mobi | | 2010-05-01 | Author:James Patterson [Patterson, James]

Chapters 58 THE REPLY TO the Lipstick Killer’s “ransom letter” ran in the Chronicle, and within hours, the planet slammed on the brakes and all eyes became fixed on San ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-01 | Author:Sir Alex Ferguson [Ferguson, Sir Alex]

fourteen EACH time a member of our great homegrown generation left the club, I would count those left. Two managed to stay to the end of my time: Paul Scholes ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-23 | Author:Ferguson, Alex [Ferguson, Alex]

fourteen EACH time a member of our great homegrown generation left the club, I would count those left. Two managed to stay to the end of my time: Paul Scholes ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2009-03-20 | Author:Rene Stauffer [Stauffer, Rene]

chaPter 24 New York, New York Roger Federer’s victory at the 2004 US Open provided new content for the record books of tennis. Statisticians and historians of the game quickly ...