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The PEN O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 by Laura Furman
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Laura Furman [Furman, Laura]

6. I was caught by Lieutenant Wei one night reading Lady Chatterley’s Lover. I was close to finishing the novel; perhaps one more night would do. I had bracketed every ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 9,2017 )
Gray Matter by Kilpatrick Joel;Levy David
mobi |eng | 2011-02-21 | Author:Kilpatrick, Joel;Levy,David

Chapter 8 Paralyzed Sam was a thin man in his mid-forties, with straight black hair and a skeptical, serious personality. He was by most measures poor, having come from another ...
( Category: Christian Living November 9,2017 )
Hometown Appetites by Kelly Alexander
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Kelly Alexander

CHAPTER 5 All the Sights and Smells of the Country Did you hear the one about Clem’s trip to Idlewild? According to the gang who in the early 1950s lunched ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference November 9,2017 )
River Of Time by Jon Swain
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-05-24 | Author:Jon Swain [Swain, Jon]

Hanoi On the days there is no mail from you I sit quietly in my room and reread what I have . . . because I love you I am ...
( Category: Asia November 8,2017 )
Ariel by Derek Johns
epub |eng | 2016-11-08 | Author:Derek Johns [Derek Johns]

These resonant words welcome the reader to the city. (The giving of latitude and longitude figures became something of a trademark in later writings, by the way. It’s as though, ...
( Category: LGBT November 8,2017 )
Peaks and Troughs by Nick Perry
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Perry

9 A New Arrival Jack and I came down out of the clouds above Cesarea with the Land Rover crammed with ewes and entered the blue October morning, past the ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 8,2017 )
Alibaba by Duncan Clark
epub |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Duncan Clark

eBay Comes to China In the fall of 2001, eBay CEO Meg Whitman made a trip to Shanghai to meet Bo. In March 2002, EachNet once again surprised the market ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure November 8,2017 )
Agnes by Peter Stamm
epub |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Peter Stamm [Stamm, Peter]

18 Every year, the university stages a big parade on Halloween, which is the last night of October. Agnes had often told me about it, the costumes she’d worn in ...
( Category: Psychological November 8,2017 )
How We Did It: The Subban Plan for Success in Hockey, School and Life by Karl Subban & Scott Colby
epub |eng | 2017-10-03 | Author:Karl Subban & Scott Colby

Harry was asked if he was aware of our concerns about P.K.’s self-esteem being harmed by the way P.K. was being coached, and that he was being treated differently than ...
( Category: Hockey November 8,2017 )
Polite Lies by Kyoko Mori
epub |eng | 2011-06-10 | Author:Kyoko Mori

Sometimes, when I think of marriages, bodies, or sexuality, I get a hopeless feeling. Everybody is confused, it seems; there is no happy medium for women in dealing with these ...
( Category: Social Sciences November 8,2017 )
The Dream of Water by Kyoko Mori
epub |eng | | Author:Kyoko Mori

The Mansion of Broken Dishes On the old express train, which took three hours from Kobe to Himeji with several stops, my mother, brother, and I ate sandwiches while comparing ...
( Category: Ethnic & National November 8,2017 )
Mauve by Simon Garfield
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-08 | Author:Simon Garfield [Simon Garfield]

Part Two EXPLOITATION 10 RED LETTER DAYS The tyranny of mauve is over! That’s the word from Vivian Kistler, a member of the Color Marketing Group, an organization that helps ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 8,2017 )
Blind Ambition by Dean John W.;
epub |eng | 2016-08-23 | Author:Dean, John W.;

* Richard Moore, special counsel to the President, who worked on public-relations projects at the White House. * In early January 1973 Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield informed all the ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 8,2017 )
Appetites: A Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain & Laurie Woolever
azw3 |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Anthony Bourdain & Laurie Woolever [Bourdain, Anthony]

CLAMS WITH CHORIZO, LEEKS, TOMATO, AND WHITE WINE You need the fresh, soft, fiery red version of chorizo for this dish, the kind that bleeds out bright red-orange grease into ...
( Category: Entertaining & Holidays November 8,2017 )
The Yosemite by John Muir
mobi |eng | | Author:John Muir [Muir, John]

Chapter 8 The Flowers Yosemite was all one glorious flower garden before plows and scythes and trampling, biting horses came to make its wide open spaces look like farmers' pasture ...
( Category: United States November 7,2017 )

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