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Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
epub |eng | 1954-01-01 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien [Tolkien, J. R. R.]

Troll sat alone on his seat of stone, And munched and mumbled a bare old bone; For many a year he had gnawed it near, For meat was hard to ...
( Category: Epic August 24,2017 )
Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Amy Tan

HERE IS how it actually happened. At nine-thirty in the morning, my friends had finished visiting the weaving mill. They were standing on the jetty, ready to climb into the ...
( Category: Metaphysical & Visionary August 24,2017 )
A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively
epub |eng | 2009-04-02 | Author:Penelope Lively

The Cedar of Lebanon and Erigeron karvinskianus Landscape is silent until you unlock the codes. The English landscape with its fields and hedges is just an agreeable and apparently arbitrary ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 24,2017 )
The Best Gift by Xondra Day
epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Xondra Day [Day, Xondra]

**** Ryan lubed Patrick’s hole and slipped one finger inside to help loosen him. “Ease into it,” he encouraged. “And breathe nice and deep. The more you relax the easier ...
( Category: Drawing August 24,2017 )
Casanova by Laurence Bergreen
epub |eng | 2016-12-03 | Author:Laurence Bergreen

Chapter 11 * * * Miss Wynne On arrival at The Hague, Casanova received a dinner invitation from his former lover, prospective mate, and would-be antagonist Teresa Trenti. “I found ...
( Category: World August 23,2017 )
Enid Blyton by Barbara Stoney
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-29 | Author:Barbara Stoney

In a church magazine of the early ’fifties, she answered a reader’s question about the necessity of religious teaching in bringing up a child: He can certainly be brought up ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 23,2017 )
The Path Through the Trees by Christopher Milne
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Milne [Milne, Christopher]

FRAMING A single incident, happening out of the blue, starts one off on a new course. It was Miss Channing and her Swiss flowers who had introduced us to greetings ...
( Category: Memoirs August 23,2017 )
Low Road by Eddie B. Allen Jr
epub |eng | | Author:Eddie B. Allen, Jr.

Publisher One chapter for me to remember is the one dealing with young people nodding … Again, try and reveal the sickening, the madness, the horror of drug addiction in ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 23,2017 )
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool by Peter Turner
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Turner [Turner, Peter]

FOUR Old Jack was in his cubby hole listening to the radio; his assistant stage manager was doing all the hard work, setting up the props for the play. All ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 23,2017 )
Something for the Pain by Gerald Murnane
epub |eng | 2015-09-23 | Author:Gerald Murnane

14. Basil Burgess at Moonee Valley ONE OF THE many colloquial expressions that I enjoy hearing or using is the description of some or another man as having short arms ...
( Category: Memoirs August 23,2017 )
Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest by Thomas Hauser
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-06-30 | Author:Thomas Hauser

PENSACOLA, FLORIDA FEBRUARY 27, 1997 As noted earlier in this volume, I spent part of 1996 and 1997 traveling around the country with Muhammad Ali, speaking to students about tolerance ...
( Category: Biographies August 23,2017 )
Little Labors by Rivka Galchen
epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Rivka Galchen

Screens The resolution is that the baby will have no relationship to screens—no iPhones, no iPads, no televisions, none of whatever it is that’s out there. “You have to get ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 23,2017 )
Focus by Michael Gross
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Gross

In December 1970, Richard Avedon moved his studio one last time, to a house on East Seventy-Fifth Street between First and York Avenues he bought from Reid Miles, a photographer ...
( Category: Graphic Design August 23,2017 )
The Silvers by J.A. Rock
epub |eng | 2016-02-21 | Author:J.A. Rock [Rock, J.A.]

The anger comes later. “Do you like living with me?” B asks. He has just come home from work, bringing with him a hard, frantic energy. “Yes,” Imms says. “Except ...
( Category: Architecture August 23,2017 )
A Stranger in My Own Country by Hans Fallada
epub |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Hans Fallada

Notes 1. Incorrectly dated: the Reichstag burned down on 27 February 1933. Fallada had to rely entirely on memory when writing these reminiscences, so there are occasional errors and misdatings. ...
( Category: Historical August 23,2017 )

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