Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Bush recounts the car accident that she caused at age seventeen in which a friend and classmate was killed and she was also scarred. She writes that the 1963 crash "is a guilt I will carry for the rest of my life". [1] [2] She describes an idyllic life growing up in Midland, Texas. She calls the town "a place of ice cream sundaes…and Saturday ...
In America is a 1999 novel by Susan Sontag. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction . [ 1 ] It is based on the true story of Polish actress Helena Modjeska (called Maryna Zalewska in the book), her arrival in California in 1876, and her ascendancy to American stardom.
Mary Paik Lee (August 17, 1900 [2] – February 14, 1995 [3]) was a Korean American writer most known for her autobiography, Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America. She was born in the Korean Empire and moved to the United States in 1905, eventually settling in Riverside, California , in 1906.
Triptych is a 2006 thriller novel by American author Karin Slaughter. The first in her Atlanta series, the novel centers on Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and features Angie Polaski. [1] The audiobook is narrated by Michael Kramer.
In "Morella", for example, the dead wife reincarnates as her own daughter, only to die. In " Ligeia ", the first wife returns from the dead and destroys the narrator's new love. Ultimately, the message in "Eleonora" is that a man is allowed to wed without guilt after the death of his first love.
These women are living life at the top. Tamara Gustavson, $5.5 Billion. The richest person in Kentucky, Tamara Gustavson can claim a top spot in America as well, thanks to the self-storage company ...
Finding herself in a seemingly idyllic engagement, Sadeem is abruptly abandoned by her soon to be fiancé and is challenged by the unrealistic expectations the men in her life have for a bride to be. Like Michelle, Sadeem struggles to find a sense of place as she travels between London and Riyadh and avoids the places she has come to associate ...
Yet American women complain about the so-called gender wage gap. ... But the situation in Iran, the tragic death of a 22 year-old woman with her life ahead of her, calls for much-needed ...