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Facing the Wave by Gretel Ehrlich
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Gretel Ehrlich

At the island school, now an evacuation center for those who lost their houses, we’re met by a young Japanese man wearing a Yankees jersey, number 55, Hideki Matsui’s number. ...
( Category: Japan April 5,2015 )
A Pig in Provence by Georgeanne Brennan
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Georgeanne Brennan

The quai de Belges, bordering Marseille’s Vieux Port, is still the place to buy the freshest fish and shellfish right off the fishing boats. Many that pull up to the ...
( Category: General April 5,2015 )
Humble Pie by Gordon Ramsay
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gordon Ramsay

Chapter Five Oceans Apart A guy came into the restaurant who had an agency near Nice that employed chefs to work on board the yachts of millionaires. A few days ...
( Category: History April 5,2015 )
Sea of Slaughter by Farley Mowat
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Farley Mowat

Although the execution of the grey whale took place along much of the Atlantic seaboard of what is now the United States, by far the bloodiest destruction was committed in ...
( Category: Wildlife April 5,2015 )
You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know by Heather Sellers
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Heather Sellers

The house fell through. The status quo prevailed. Married but not living as married. A family that wasn’t functioning like a family. Fine and not at all fine. A giant ...
( Category: Medical April 5,2015 )
To Conquer the Air by James Tobin
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Tobin

I have been [so] skeptical [he told Secretary Taft] as to the practicability and value of any so-called “Flying machine” or “air ship” that I did not give much heed ...
( Category: History April 5,2015 )
The Shadow King by Jo Marchant
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jo Marchant

LORD CARNARVON’S DEMISE wasn’t the only source of dramatic stories constructed from evidence that some might consider rather thin. Attention also focused on Tutankhamun’s own death, or to be more ...
( Category: Royalty April 5,2015 )
Retail Hell: How I Sold My Soul to the Store by Freeman Hall
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Freeman Hall

The Two Virginias Meet Virginia . . . and Virginia. Both haunted The Big Fancy on a daily basis. No, they weren’t ghosts. Unfortunately, they were customers. But I wish ...
( Category: Business April 5,2015 )
Ghosts by Daylight
mobi |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Janine di Giovanni

Then, and later, I felt nothing. I never talked about what happened in those places, but I wrote about them. I disagreed that reporters suffered from trauma; after all, I ...
( Category: Women April 5,2015 )
Tete-a-Tete by Hazel Rowley
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hazel Rowley

NINE CRYSTAL BLUE EYES January 1951–December 1954 Sartre had changed, it was true. He had always worked hard, but now, with the help of corydrane, he had turned himself into ...
( Category: Authors April 5,2015 )
A Match to the Heart by Gretel Ehrlich
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gretel Ehrlich

chapter 14 A black-crowned night heron stood on an apron of wet sand, looking across the channel. The feather plume at the back of his head lifted in a faint ...
( Category: Medical April 5,2015 )
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography by Justin Kaplan
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-29 | Author:Justin Kaplan

IV Also returning from a stay abroad in the autumn of 1879 was another American anomaly. The life of Ulysses Grant, like Mark Twain’s, had been a saga of the ...
( Category: Authors April 5,2015 )
On the Noodle Road by Jen Lin-Liu
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-26 | Author:Jen Lin-Liu

8. After Yazd, Mr. Sanjar resumed his job as translator during cooking classes, lazy as he was. In Shiraz, I persevered and learned how to make several tasty pilafs that ...
( Category: Culinary April 5,2015 )
White Jacket Required by Jenna Weber
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Jenna Weber

Spicy Sesame Noodle Bowls Serves 4 Whenever I have a craving for Vietnamese food, I head to the kitchen and make this recipe. Cooked shrimp make a nice addition. 1 ...
( Category: Culinary April 5,2015 )
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery by Vertosick Frank Jr
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-19 | Author:Vertosick, Frank, Jr. [Vertosick, Frank, Jr.]

The next morning, Gary and I rounded in the intensive care unit without making further reference to Andy. Gary must have known that his small slip with the arachnoid knife ...
( Category: Neurosurgery April 5,2015 )

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