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Killing My Own Snakes
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Author : Ann Leslie
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2008-10-23
Killing My Own Snakes written by Ann Leslie and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'Gloriously funny . . . unfailingly entertaining' – Mail on Sunday 'What worlds she's seen, what a life she's had – at long last, the memoirs of the fearless, witty, indomitable Ann Leslie' – Deborah Moggach She has been shot at by Bosnian snipers, been pursued by Robert Mugabe’s notorious secret police, filed from the North Korean border, propositioned by both Salvador Dali and David Niven and been driven maniacally through London by Steve McQueen. But Ann Leslie’s life is every bit as remarkable as her career. A daughter of the Raj, she was born in India and the strongest influence on her early life was an illiterate Pashtun bearer, who saved her life during Partition. Her mother, a great beauty, was indifferent to her eldest daughter and she was sent to the first of a series of boarding-schools aged just four, eventually winning a scholarship to Oxford. After graduating she began her career at the Manchester office of the Daily Express, where the news editor took an instant dislike to her - she was a southerner, educated and – worst of all – female. Despite his best efforts she was soon given her own column. Then, after a stint covering show business she was appointed Foreign Correspondent of the Daily Mail, an association that endures today, almost forty years later, and one which finally allowed her real talent to shine through. Killing My Own Snakes is a witty, incident-filled account of an extraordinary life, a fascinating self-portrait of one the most influential journalists of our time.
Killing My Own Snakes
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Author : Ann Leslie
language : en
Publisher: Charnwood
Release Date : 2010
Killing My Own Snakes written by Ann Leslie and has been published by Charnwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Journalists categories.
Multi-award-winning journalist Ann Leslie has reported from over 70 countries, sauntering confidently through wars and civil disorders - clad in full make-up and false eyelashes and wielding a vast handbag. Here she writes candidly about her life.
Killing Your Own Snakes
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Author : Robert T. Sorrells
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2013-07-25
Killing Your Own Snakes written by Robert T. Sorrells and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is not a biography of John Harvey Sorrells. I expect there'll never be one of those, and that's probably just as well. Sometimes I think a writer's work is his own best autobiography, certainly, and as much biography as he needs. But I'm doing this because of two things: one simple, the other far from it. My late oldest brother, John, sent me a couple of boxes back in 1993 chock-a-block with manuscript and newspaper printed "stuff" written by our father. I looked through it quickly and was intrigued right away, but didn't have the time to do anything with it. Over a period of about a year I managed to root around considerably more--along with my son, daughter, and wife--and eventually I knew I'd have to mess with it in a much more formal and intentional way. But that was the simple part: reading all the material; lifting this bit from here and combining it with that shard from there to create a whole that didn't injure the narra-tive; deciding to stick with the newspaperman's spellings of words like thru, and cigaret, along with standard newspaper punctuation; deciding how to include not just the "best" stuff, but the typical as well. All that simply comes with the turf of editing someone else's material. The much harder part, though, was the realization that I was in some ways on a fool's errand. My father died about five weeks before his fifty-second birthday. At the time, we were living in New York City. That is, my parents were. I was the youngest of four children; fifteen; and, with my older brother, Bill, a high school student in Virginia. In spite of its rampant self-absorption, crudities, cynicisms, vulgarities, and erupting juices of sexuality, fifteen is a tender age. Maybe vulnerable is more accurate. In any event, it's an age when a boy--even a boy/man--really needs his father. It's a fragile time, because the boy coming into manhood is coming into a period when he's just about ready to start knowing his father as another man, as a person, as a human being, as a wonderfully imperfect critter he can love in a way that transcends the boy/Dad relationship. It's always going to be father/son, but when the two are adults, that relationship changes, deepens, transforms. At least, that's what I've seen and heard from those who got to go through it, and as I've experienced it from the father side with my own son. But I was suddenly and unexpectedly cut off from that chance. One night my father was alive, sitting at a card table in the living room reading, as I recall my mother telling it--likely a mystery novel--in the apartment in New York, when he got bushwhacked by a massive heart attack. My mother, who was in their bedroom in the rear of the apartment, said she heard some-thing fall. Hurrying out to see what had happened, she found him on the floor. She knelt by him and said he kept looking up at her asking, "What's wrong? What's wrong?" as though something had happened to her. Within five minutes he was dead. What these days might be called a lack of "closure" absolutely overwhelmed me, and one way or another I have been looking for my father ever since. One way or another his wrenching disappearance has informed virtually everything I myself have ever written. So when I saw the mass of stuff in those boxes my brother sent me, I was againcon-sciously for the first time in years--on the gossamer trail of my father, hoping to find out some-thing, trying to learn something, circling like a dog before she flops, anxious to discover some-hing that would do . . . what? Easy: It would let me know my father just as though he hadn't died when I was a boy; just as though he hadn't been a-moldering in a Graceland Cemetery grave in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, for more than forty-five years. . . . While all that was going on, another part of me was looking at the stuff, fascinated by the man's insights, intrigued with how his mind worked, embarrassed by his p
Kill Your Own Snakes
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Author : Adele Seifert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
Kill Your Own Snakes written by Adele Seifert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with categories.
The Childhood Of Animals
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Author : Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
The Childhood Of Animals written by Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with Animal behavior categories.
Snake In The Grass
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Author : Rhonda M. Hunnel
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2013-02-19
Snake In The Grass written by Rhonda M. Hunnel and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When is a book more than a book? My answer is a book that can be used as a tool to engage people in conversation by sharing real life experiences. Life is complicated and complex yet we yearn for the simple answers and the truth. It is by story sharing that knowledge is given and change emerges to lead to a better way of life.What you are about to read are real life events involving myself and children I have had the honor to meet; some of which I barely knew, one that I can't seem to forget, others that lay hidden amongst a blind community, yet another that was once my own. These extraordinary true stories create a guide to coping with life's complexities and takes the reader on an unforgettable journey of hope.I understand the pain that consumes the innocents of a child due to abuse. I hear the cries of parents suffering from the loss of a child. I know the anger and disappointment for a justice system gone awry. Evil presented itself to me at age seventeen and what I thought was compassion and kindness was now deception and horror. This violation of rape revealed the ugly truth and like a serpent I would somehow strike back.Josh was only twelve when he received a murder conviction for killing his father. Did he really pull the trigger that ended his father's life? The truth will be revealed years later through a letter.What is justice, when a known drug dealer and child molester walks free from a punishment rightly deserved, yet not served for lack of evidence. A beautiful young girl entangled in a web of deception and lies. She stayed true to herself and stood alone to regain the life she once loved. Evil persuaded her and that same evil ended her life forever.It is my belief that by sharing my stories, others will gain the knowledge necessary to live a life of abundance and possibly share their own story to help others. I am not famous, I am not a celebrity or a known political figure, I am you! A simple person, who struggled with the past, overcame the horror in my life and I thrive to live day by day in a world doomed by humanities collective stupidity for lack of compassion and love towards each other. Change starts within you and it is your choice to do so.
The Little Friend
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Author : Donna Tartt
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-10-19
The Little Friend written by Donna Tartt and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-19 with Fiction categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. • “Destined to become a special kind of classic.” —The New York Times Book Review The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet—unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and “a bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickens” (The New York Times Book Review), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.
Sex Roles In Literature
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Author : Mary Beth Pringle
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 1980
Sex Roles In Literature written by Mary Beth Pringle and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Fiction categories.
Fascinating Womanhood
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Author : Helen Andelin
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 1982-02
Fascinating Womanhood written by Helen Andelin and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-02 with Psychology categories.
How to Make Your Marriage a Lifelong Love Affair What makes a woman fascinating to her husband? What is happiness in marriage for a woman? These are just two of the questions Helen B. Andelin answers in the bestselling classic that has already brought new happiness and life to millions of marriages. Fascinating Womanhoodoffers timeless wisdom, practical advice, and old-fashioned values to meet the needs and challenges of today's fascinating woman. Inside you'll learn: What traits today's men find irresistible in a woman How to awaken a man's deepest feelings of love Eight rules for a successful relationship How to rekindle your love life How to bring out the best in your manand reap the rewards Plus special advice for the working womanand much more! Fascinating Womanhoodoffers guidance for a new generation of womenhappy, fulfilled, adored and cherishedwho want to rediscover the magic of their own feminine selves.
Snowbird And Winter Texan Guide
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Author : Bill Farlow
language : en
Publisher: Cottage Publications (IN)
Release Date : 1996-03
Snowbird And Winter Texan Guide written by Bill Farlow and has been published by Cottage Publications (IN) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-03 with Transportation categories.
America's only guide on how to enjoy the seasonal lifestyle of snowbirds Focuses on the activities and opportunities associated with traveling by recreational vehicles to ideal Sunbelt locations during the winter. Includes favorite locations and communities throughout the Sunbelt, and their attractions, campgrounds, facilities and activities.