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The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility 3) by Yukio Mishima
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1973-01-01 | Author:Yukio Mishima [Mishima, Yukio]

26 FORMER BARON SHINKAWA was seated in a chair by the fireside from which point he coldly observed the other guests. He was now seventy-two. Grumbling and complaining without fail ...
( Category: Japanese November 23,2017 )
The Wine Lover's Daughter by Anne Fadiman
epub |eng | | Author:Anne Fadiman

The back cover of the original Lifetime Reading Plan When my father was eighty-seven, he flew to New York to have surgery for spinal stenosis. I’d chosen a distinguished neurosurgeon ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 23,2017 )
Nobu by Nobu Matsuhisa
epub |eng | | Author:Nobu Matsuhisa

PURSUING A SINGLE JOB CAN BROADEN YOUR HORIZONS Not long after this experience, Steven Spielberg and Mike Myers visited Matsuhisa with their wives. “If you’re doing any movies, give me ...
( Category: Regional & International November 23,2017 )
Michael Graves by Ian Volner
epub |eng | 2018-11-23 | Author:Ian Volner [Volner, Ian]

Axonometric drawing of the Crooks House, 1976 Steven Harris worked on the house’s design, and, as he put it, Crooks marked “a transition”: the project found Michael midshift between “all ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 23,2017 )
Population: 485 by Michael Perry
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-11-22 | Author:Michael Perry

When Barry Lynn was a boy, he racked tobacco in North Carolina. The fieldwork made him hardy, and gave him a man’s hands, but he was never like the other ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 22,2017 )
Mozart and Leadbelly by Ernest J. Gaines
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Ernest J. Gaines [Gaines, Ernest J.]

THE TURTLES When we got to Mr. James’s house, my old man leaned the fishing poles against the fence and we went into the yard. Mr. James and Benny were ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 22,2017 )
Devil in a Blue Dress by Devil in a Blue Dress
epub |eng | | Author:Devil in a Blue Dress

I put my chair in front of the window so I could look out into my yard. I sat there for a long time, balling my hands together and taking ...
( Category: Mystery November 21,2017 )
Perfect (Kennedy Ink.) by Jenny Wood
epub |eng | 2017-09-30 | Author:Jenny Wood [Wood, Jenny]

Kingsley It’s a slow day at the shop despite the several appointments I have today, but it’s one of those days where everyone just kind of migrates here to hang ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 21,2017 )
Henry and June by Anaïs Nin
epub |eng | | Author:Anaïs Nin

( Category: Women November 21,2017 )
Pause by Emily Carr
epub |eng | 2007-11-20 | Author:Emily Carr [Carr, Emily]

JOHN’S COUGH WENT from the east wing. Hokey tried to force cheerfulness, settling me for the night. “Books, singing-soldiers, have I done everything?” she prattled, forcing gaiety. “Hokey, don’t sham! ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 20,2017 )
FEASTING THE HEART by REYNOLDS PRICE
epub |eng | 2000-11-19 | Author:REYNOLDS PRICE

1996 TIME-RIDDEN My friends often remind me of my obsession with time—I’m always asking people’s ages, always celebrating anniversaries; I’m mercilessly prompt. Many Americans prefer not to notice the passage ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 19,2017 )
Ghalib by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

When our life passed in this way, Ghalib, Will even we remember that we used to have a God? Then when I feel extremely anxious and full of annoyance, I ...
( Category: Indian November 19,2017 )
Princess Noire by Nadine Cohodas
epub |eng | 2010-11-19 | Author:Nadine Cohodas [Cohodas, Nadine]

AFTER THE LONDON TRIP Henry returned to Vancouver to take care of family matters, and at roughly the same time, Gene Taylor and Buck Clarke went their separate ways. In ...
( Category: Specific Groups November 19,2017 )
Why Dylan Matters by Richard F. Thomas
epub |eng | 2017-10-12 | Author:Richard F. Thomas [Richard F. Thomas]

7 MATURE POETS STEAL: VIRGIL, DYLAN, AND THE MAKING OF A CLASSIC Immature poets borrow; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 19,2017 )
The Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford
epub |eng | 2010-11-19 | Author:Francis Spufford [Francis Spufford]

I did experiment, sometimes, with bringing Narnia back over the line into this world. I imagined dryads in the woods at Keele, smoothing out their shining hair with birch-bark combs. ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 19,2017 )

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