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Badass: Ultimate Deathmatch by Ben Thompson
mobi |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Ben Thompson [Thompson, Ben]

So Colonel Chamberlain, a schoolteacher in his regular life (kind of like Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan), completely out of ammo and with the entire fate of the Civil ...
( Category: Humor December 17,2015 )
A Man without a Country by Vonnegut Kurt
epub |eng | 2005-09-15 | Author:Vonnegut, Kurt [Vonnegut, Kurt]

The most intelligent and decent prayers ever uttered by a famous American, addressed To Whom It May Concern, and following an enormous man-made calamity, were those of Abraham Lincoln at ...
( Category: Humor October 28,2015 )
The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village by Delany Samuel R
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-01-06 | Author:Delany, Samuel R. [Delany, Samuel R.]

35. I’d given Terry one of my six author’s copies of The Jewels of Aptor when it first appeared. (My mother got another. And the other four …?) Now I ...
( Category: LGBT October 10,2015 )
The Motion of Light in Water by Samuel R. Delany
epub |eng | 2013-12-09 | Author:Samuel R. Delany [Delany, Samuel R.]

35. I’d given Terry one of my six author’s copies of The Jewels of Aptor when it first appeared. (My mother got another. And the other four …?) Now I ...
( Category: LGBT September 3,2015 )
The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure by C. D. Rose
epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:C. D. Rose [Rose, C. D.]

MAXIM MAKSIMICH ONE APRIL MORNING in 1862, Maxim Maksimich set off early so as not to miss the first steamer of the season, the one that would take him up ...
( Category: Humor January 29,2015 )
Houseboat Chronicles by Jake MacDonald
epub |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Jake MacDonald

24 I cooked dinner and waited for the sun to go down. What I knew about bears was a combination of information from old-timers like Junior Robinson, book research, and ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 8,2014 )
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets From Her Notebooks by John Curran
epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:John Curran [Curran, John]

The title page of the Curtain typescript, showing the title and name-and-address in Christie’s own handwriting. Curtain Poirot investigates story of death believed caused by ricin B. Poirot’s Last Case ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 22,2014 )
Men in Dark Times by Hannah Arendt
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Hannah Arendt [Arendt, Hannah]

Broch believed that his theory of the earthly absolute could be applied directly to politics, and in the two chapters of the “condensed” Mass Psychology he actually, though fragmentary, did ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality July 1,2014 )
On Sparta (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch
epub |eng | 2005-05-25 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

14. The Mantineans, then, were the first to appeal to him. And when he crept into the city by night, they expelled the Achaean garrison with his help, and then ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 13,2014 )
Roman Lives by Plutarch & Robin Waterfield & Philip A. Stadter
mobi, epub |eng | 1954-01-01 | Author:Plutarch & Robin Waterfield & Philip A. Stadter

[79] With these last words to his family he climbed on board the boat. It was a long way from the trireme to land, and since none of the men ...
( Category: Rome May 13,2014 )
God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-04-30 | Author:Christopher Hitchens [HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER]

T HE “ARGUMENT FROM AUTHORITY” is the weakest of all arguments. It is weak when it is asserted at second or third hand (“the Good Book says”), and it is ...
( Category: Sociology March 26,2014 )
Genius and Heroin by Michael Largo
epub |eng | 2008-03-25 | Author:Michael Largo [Largo, Michael]

The real Dracula was Prince Vlad Tepes III Dracula, or Vlad the Impaler for short. “Dracula” meant he belonged to the Order of the Dragon, a Catholic chivalric society supposedly ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses March 26,2014 )
A to Z of Earth Scientists (Notable Scientists) by Alexander E. Gates
epub |eng | 2002-12-02 | Author:Alexander E. Gates [Gates, Alexander E.]

Means, Winthrop D. 167 named distinguished professor of science in 1998, a title which he still holds. Also during that time, he was a guest or visiting scientist at the ...
( Category: Reference & Collections March 26,2014 )
Fortunate Pilgrim by Puzo Mario
epub |eng | 1964-01-02 | Author:Puzo, Mario [Puzo, Mario]

LIFE IS SO full of surprises for small boys that Gino was not surprised the next morning to see the long black hair of a girl in his brother Larry’s ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 26,2014 )
Scotch Wit and Humor, Classified Under Appropriate Subject Headings, With, in Many Cases, a Reference to a Table of Authors by Walter Henry [howe
mobi |eng | 2010-09-12 | Author:Walter Henry [howe

A Castle Stor(e)y A Glasgow antiquary recently visited an old castle, and asked one of the villagers if he knew anything of an old story about the building. "Ay," said ...
( Category: Reference & Collections March 25,2014 )

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