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Leg over Leg: Volumes One and Two (Library of Arabic Literature) by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
epub |eng | 2015-10-14 | Author:Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq [al-Shidyaq, Ahmad Faris]

the mirzāb, “any great, or tall, ship” the zabzab, “a sort of ship” the bārijah, “any large ship for fighting” the khalīj, “a small ship of less size than the ...
( Category: Historical April 17,2018 )
Paper Sons: A Memoir by Dickson Lam
epub |eng | 2018-03-15 | Author:Dickson Lam

erased We introduced ourselves to another writer by asking, “What do you write?” Though we understood our writing had no future, we knew nothing as sweet as mobbing deep, going ...
( Category: Memoirs April 17,2018 )
James Baldwin: A Biography by Leeming David
epub |eng | 2015-02-24 | Author:Leeming, David [Leeming, David]

must first divorce himself from all the prohibitions, crimes, and hypocrisies of the Christian church. If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 17,2018 )
Rickles' Book by Don Rickles
epub |eng | 2007-04-17 | Author:Don Rickles

Friends? Impossible! Like so many other good things in my life, this one happens at the Sahara in Vegas. I’m playing the lounge, while Bob Newhart, a hot comic from ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 17,2018 )
Betwixt-and-Between by Jenny Boully
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-24 | Author:Jenny Boully

Erratum In an ideal world, we would be able to furnish our lovers, years and years after seeing them last, with an erratum. Although we really mean whatever it is ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 17,2018 )
True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness by Christine Lahti
epub |eng | 2018-04-03 | Author:Christine Lahti

But right after our baby Wilson was born, my concerns didn’t center around Tommy’s reneging. I feared I was going to be the worst mother on the planet. Even though ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 17,2018 )
Space Odyssey by Michael Benson
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Benson

There were other drawbacks, however. The camera either had to remain fixed or bring the projector and mirror system along with it wherever it went—a cumbersome proposition. And the lighting ...
( Category: Movies April 17,2018 )
The Recovering by Leslie Jamison
epub |eng | 2018-04-03 | Author:Leslie Jamison

That first winter of my second sobriety, my sponsor gave me a chart to fill out for my Fourth Step, which involved making an inventory of all my resentments. “Just ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 17,2018 )
Walks with Walser by Carl Seelig
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-04-11 | Author:Carl Seelig

April 9, 1945 A fine blue early spring day, as imagined by Mörike: I see the clouds changing and the river The sun’s golden kiss pierces Deep into my veins; ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 17,2018 )
My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Guest

It seems like such a long way away now. We played crazy golf. We hooked the balls through windmills, over mini-ramps, into holes, and on the bonus nineteenth hole we ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 16,2018 )
William Styron by James West
epub |eng | 2010-08-06 | Author:James West

19 Marriage and Ravello AFTER ROSE’S DEPARTURE, Styron hit rock bottom. He decided that the year, thus far at least, had been an utter waste. He had been ill for ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 16,2018 )
Jean-Philippe Rameau by Cuthbert Girdlestone
epub |eng | 2014-04-16 | Author:Cuthbert Girdlestone

The vite is built on a spidery theme with witty jumps of sevenths that turn to octaves in the answer (ex.181); it skips in and out every few bars. It ...
( Category: Music April 16,2018 )
My Better Half and Me by Joss Ackland & Rosemary Ackland
mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Joss Ackland & Rosemary Ackland

1996 WE RETURN TO London – very busy, so very little written. Back in Floral Street – the flat is lovely and clean, but it is very crowded here in ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 16,2018 )
A Short Life of Pushkin by Robert Chandler
epub |eng | 2017-04-16 | Author:Robert Chandler [Robert Chandler]

The plot, as always with Pushkin, is simple. A bored, Byronic man about town, Eugene Onegin, retires to the country. There he befriends a young neighbour, Vladimir Lensky, a Romantic ...
( Category: Historical April 16,2018 )
Byron by Matthew Bevis
epub |eng | 2015-04-16 | Author:Matthew Bevis

Oh pardon my digression – or at least Peruse! ’Tis always with a moral end That I dissert (Don Juan, 1819–24) The moral end of digression is a lesson about ...
( Category: Poetry April 16,2018 )

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