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The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2001-11-23 | Author:Henry Adams

CHAPTER XVII PRESIDENT GRANT (1869) THE first effect of this leap into the unknown was a fit of low spirits new to the young man's education; due in part to ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-11 | Author:Mark Vonnegut

THE VOICES. Testing one, two, testing one. Checking out the circuits: “What hath God wrought. Yip di mina di zonda za da boom di yaidi yoohoo.” By this time the ...
( Category: Pathologies March 25,2014 )
The Coalwood Way by Homer Hickam
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Homer Hickam

18 THE DUGOUT “GOL, SONNY, DON’T you own anything besides overalls and flannel shirts?” Roy Lee asked. “You want Ginger to think you’re a hillbilly? And what is that smell? ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
mobi, epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Frank McCourt

Nancy Chu asks if she can talk to me after the last class of the day. She sits at her desk and waits for the room to empty. She reminds ...
( Category: Educators March 25,2014 )
Surprised by Joy
mobi |eng | 2010-12-08 | Author:C. S. Lewis

IX. The Great Knock You will often meet with characters in nature so extravagant that a discreet poet would not venture to set them upon the stage. LORD CHESTERFIELD ON ...
( Category: Religious March 25,2014 )
Summertime: Scenes From Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-01 | Author:J. M. Coetzee

'He doesn't have plans. He is a Coetzee, Coetzees don't have plans, they don't have ambitions, they only have idle longings. He has an idle longing to live in the ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Education Of a Wandering Man (1990) by L'amour Louis
mobi, epub | | 2010-12-12 | Author:L'amour, Louis [L'amour, Louis]

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( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir by Anatole Broyard
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-01-02 | Author:Anatole Broyard

12 I found an apartment at last, on Prince Street between Sullivan and Thompson, which was then the south-eastern edge of the Village. It was a tenement like Sheri’s, built ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Joseph Anton: A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Salman Rushdie

VI Why It’s Impossible to Photograph the Pampas ON A VISIT TO MIJAS LONG AGO—MIJAS, WHERE MANUEL CORTÉS HAD hidden from Franco for three decades, spending his days in an ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 25,2014 )
Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Salman Rushdie

VI Why It’s Impossible to Photograph the Pampas ON A VISIT TO MIJAS LONG AGO—MIJAS, WHERE MANUEL CORTÉS HAD hidden from Franco for three decades, spending his days in an ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Joan Didion

18 I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the markers that indicate (their own) status in the world: ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Thompson Hunter S
mobi |eng | 2010-07-20 | Author:Thompson, Hunter S. [Thompson, Hunter S.]

3. Savage Lucy . . . ‘Teeth Like Baseballs, Eyes Like Jellied Fire’ I gave my bag to the boy who scurried up, and told him to bring a quart ...
( Category: Journalists March 25,2014 )
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D. T. Max
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-30 | Author:D. T. Max

Harris became an old heartthrob, someone who “worked detasseling summer corn with me in high school.” She was in real life neither “a Native Companion,” as Wallace called her in ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi
mobi |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:Dean Faulkner Wells

*Before Jimmy and T, I had been a hymn-singing Baptist with Mama and Papa. My predestination phase lasted through high school until I discovered and fell in love with the ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Elsewhere: A Memoir by Richard Russo
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Richard Russo

RETURNING TO GLOVERSVILLE yet again might have been a lunatic notion, but it was hardly a new one. The idea began to take form, as near as I could tell, ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )

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