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Survival Math by Mitchell Jackson
epub |eng | | Author:Mitchell Jackson

CALL 2 Another time, another call: “So tell me, what’s your idea of a patriot?” I said. “Hmm. I’d say a patriot is someone who believes in their country, who’s ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism May 27,2019 )
The Last Leonardo by Ben Lewis
epub |eng | 2019-03-21 | Author:Ben Lewis

The restoration troubles Frank Zöllner, and adds to his hesitation about making a decisive call on the painting’s attribution, especially without proper documentation of the restoration process. ‘I would need ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers May 27,2019 )
On David Malouf by Nam Le
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nam Le [Le, Nam]

PATRIA There he is, in his fat golden tie, accepting the honour of his lifetime (so far). In his steady, high-pitched voice, David Malouf delivers his Neustadt Lecture at the ...
( Category: Australian & Oceanian May 27,2019 )
The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
epub |eng | 2014-05-25 | Author:Oscar Wilde

Eloquence is a beautiful thing, but rhetoric ruins many a critic … —“Ben Jonson” … I think that the first duty of an art critic is to hold his tongue ...
( Category: European May 25,2019 )
Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-06-11 | Author:Joy Harjo

WEST West is the direction of endings. It is the doorway to the ancestors, the direction of tests. It represents leaving and being left and learning to find the road ...
( Category: Authors May 22,2019 )
BTS by Triumph Books
epub |eng | 2018-07-05 | Author:Triumph Books

Fun Fact Jin loves Super Mario Bros. and has a huge collection of figurines. He also collects Polaroids. Eat, Jin, Eat! Jin’s “Eat Jin” videos are the stuff of legend. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature May 22,2019 )
The Pat Metheny Interviews by Richard Niles
epub |eng | 2009-12-10 | Author:Richard Niles [Richard Niles]

PM: We were then able to do our first big production for Nonesuch, which was in fact the biggest production the group has ever done, called The Way Up, which ...
( Category: Guitar May 22,2019 )
Father and Son by Edmund Gosse
epub |eng | | Author:Edmund Gosse

‘O Papa, what is that?’ I could not prevent myself from asking. He translated the verses, he explained their meaning, but his exposition gave me little interest. What to me ...
( Category: Authors May 21,2019 )
Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Franz Kafka

[Prague, August 1, 1920] Sunday I still don’t know what you’re going to say to the letter of Saturday evening and I won’t know for a long time; in any ...
( Category: German May 21,2019 )
Finding the Bright Side by Shannon Bream
epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Shannon Bream

“You’ll Never Make It in This Business” I threatened to do a cartwheel across the stage when I collected my law degree, but my parents convinced me that it wouldn’t ...
( Category: Personal Growth May 17,2019 )
The Guardian of Mercy by Ward Terence;
epub |eng | 2015-05-16 | Author:Ward, Terence;

The painter turns to a waiting young man dressed in the costly finery of a knight and gestures to him. “Please, it’s your moment. Walk slowly by this poor man.” ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers May 17,2019 )
The Apology by Eve Ensler
epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Eve Ensler

• • Pizza parlor. Classless joint. Family dinner. No martinis. Annoyed. You antsy in your seat. You’re reaching for things. Sit up straight, Eve. Sit still. I say something. You ...
( Category: Child Abuse May 16,2019 )
Forever and Ever, Amen by Randy Travis
epub |eng | 2019-03-27 | Author:Randy Travis

20 BORN-AGAIN MUSIC I remained an artist without a record label for a while. DreamWorks had closed, and I had not yet signed another recording deal. I was talking with ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians May 16,2019 )
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century by Alexandra Popoff
epub |eng | | Author:Alexandra Popoff

In 1948 the writer Viktor Nekrasov met Grossman in Koktebel, Crimea. Nekrasov’s honest novel Front-line Stalingrad had been awarded a Stalin Prize in 1947. The writer was told that Stalin ...
( Category: Authors May 15,2019 )
The Guarded Gate by Daniel Okrent
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Okrent

* * * Scribner’s was hardly alone in its promotion of scientific racism in the postwar, post–literacy test years. Throughout the culture, many saw all too clearly what the inarticulate ...
( Category: United States May 15,2019 )

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