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Madeleine L'Engle Herself by Madeleine L'engle
epub |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Madeleine L'engle

TELLING MYTHIC STORIES I read an article that discusses just why J. R. R. Tolkien is so enormously popular with high school and college age students. One young reader says ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 7,2018 )
Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso
epub |eng | 2014-11-06 | Author:Sarah Manguso

When I was almost nine months pregnant, my mother-in-law began receiving hospice care. My doctor wouldn’t permit me to cross the ocean to see her. My husband didn’t want to ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 7,2018 )
Essays and Stories by Marian Keyes by Marian Keyes
epub |eng | 2005-09-06 | Author:Marian Keyes [Keyes, Marian]

Anyway, when Himself changed his role to being my PA, I knew how important it was to preserve his dignity. So shortly into our new arrangement a concerned friend took ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 7,2018 )
Fashion Climbing by Bill Cunningham
epub |eng | 2018-09-05 | Author:Bill Cunningham [Bill Cunningham]

* * * — EACH MORNING WHEN I OPENED the New York papers, I turned first to the obituary page to see if any of my rich elderly customers had ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 7,2018 )
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books by Alfred Habegger
epub |eng | 2001-12-15 | Author:Alfred Habegger [Habegger, Alfred]

Fame of Myself, to justify, All other Plaudit be Superfluous – An Incense Beyond Nescessity – Fame of Myself to lack – Although My Name be else supreme – This ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 6,2018 )
Retablos by Octavio Solis
epub |eng | | Author:Octavio Solis

JEEP IN THE WATER THE RIO GRANDE WE CALL it on the US side. Río Bravo is what they call it in Mexico. The difference is the difference. Somewhere in ...
( Category: Ethnic & National November 6,2018 )
Party Monster by James St. James
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James St. James [James, James St.]

And I never again felt comfortable at Mavis’s apartment, either. Her snippy manner, coupled with Freeze’s increasingly imperial attitude, were wearing thin. They seemed to have forgotten all about my ...
( Category: True Crime November 6,2018 )
I'll Cry Tomorrrow by Roth Lillian;
epub |eng | 2014-11-05 | Author:Roth, Lillian; [Lillian Roth]

I woke to agonizing consciousness. It was dark. My right arm lay useless at my side. I crawled to the telephone and called an ambulance. At St. Vincent’s Hospital, Dr. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 6,2018 )
In My Mind's Eye by Jan Morris
epub |eng | 2018-11-05 | Author:Jan Morris [Jan Morris]

DAY 93 ‘Chaos’, the dictionary tells me, is a state of complete confusion and disorder, such as existed before the cosmos was created. I know it well, and I know ...
( Category: Memoirs November 6,2018 )
The Last Love of George Sand by Evelyne Bloch-Dano
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Evelyne Bloch-Dano

Chapter Fourteen “MY SOUL HAS GROWN OLD AND WEARY” The coincidence between Nini’s passing and the completion of Story of My Life was striking. The last words were addressed to ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 6,2018 )
'Membering by Clarke Austin;
epub |eng | 2015-07-29 | Author:Clarke, Austin;

My host is a professor. A Frenchman. He is the man who told me to meet him in the Bordeaux train station; that he will be under the sign, Pont ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 6,2018 )
The Dog Rescuers by RSPCA
epub |eng | 2018-07-12 | Author:RSPCA

TIPS ON HOW TO CARE FOR YOUR DOG Owners’ responsibilities DOG OWNERS HAVE a legal responsibility under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 to protect their dog from pain, suffering, injury ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 6,2018 )
Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
epub |eng | 1992-06-20 | Author:Reinaldo Arenas [Arenas, Reinaldo]

THE FLIGHT There was no bathroom in the cell—it was outside—and the detainees were constantly asking for permission to go. The police officer stood by the cell door, padlock in ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 5,2018 )
The Peoples of Middle-earth by J.R.R. Tolkien
epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:J.R.R. Tolkien [Tolkien, J.R.R.]

Egalmoth. In B a note was added (repeated in C): Orc-wars break out'. This is referred to in the Tale of Years in Appendix B: '2740 Orcs renew their invasions ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 5,2018 )
I Might Regret This by Abbi Jacobson
epub |eng | 2018-10-29 | Author:Abbi Jacobson

WORKING WOMAN I work almost constantly. I just took two conference calls, did an interview, listened to a cut of my podcast, gave notes, and had a phone therapy session ...
( Category: Humor November 5,2018 )

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