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Call Me by My Name
epub |eng | | Author:John Ed Bradley

I followed her inside, and she made enough noise to make certain Mama and Pops knew we were there. They came down the hall in their nightclothes and stood in ...
( Category: Literary September 16,2014 )
That Summer in Sicily by Marlena de Blasi
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-08-04 | Author:Marlena de Blasi

“I stop counting after five flights of narrow stone stairs, each one of which seems to veer off in a different direction. Valentino leads the way to a double wooden ...
( Category: Sicily September 16,2014 )
Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia by John Gilmore
azw3 |eng | 2006-05-01 | Author:John Gilmore

11 The Los Angeles County morgue, where the questionable deaths and murder victims were delivered pending identification or burial, was cramped, dingy, and had leaking water pipes. Glass panels in ...
( Category: State & Local September 16,2014 )
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott
epub |eng | | Author:Karen Abbott

Emma spent her days delivering messages to and from Union commanders. Riding along the bank of the river, she saw the rebel batteries frowning on the heights beyond the city ...
( Category: Espionage September 16,2014 )
The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942 by Hamilton Nigel
epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Hamilton, Nigel [Hamilton, Nigel]

Poor Harry Hopkins, having handed over the rest of the President’s cable, now witnessed Churchill’s meltdown. Hopkins, sickly but willing to do anything for his revered president, had traveled to ...
( Category: History & Theory September 16,2014 )
In Real Life by Nev Schulman
epub |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Nev Schulman

Okay, one final note. Ladies: Keep your tops on. That hand-bra shot is not gonna make him like you any more than he already does. Guys: No more dick pics. ...
( Category: Performing Arts September 16,2014 )
Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch by Hollis Gillespie
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Hollis Gillespie

Parents’ wedding So there you have it: perfect examples of the importance of knowing when to let go, and when not to. It’s like gambling, I guess. Back before my ...
( Category: Journalists September 16,2014 )
Einstein and the Quantum by Stone A. Douglas
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Stone, A. Douglas

FIGURE 20.1. Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr in discussion, circa 1925–30. Photograph by Paul Ehren fest, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. So this was the revolutionary step that Einstein, ...
( Category: Quantum Theory September 16,2014 )
Confessions of a Recovering Slut by Hollis Gillespie
epub |eng | | Author:Hollis Gillespie

Lost Love MILL’S MITTENS ARE MISSING. Yes, she wears mittens even though it’s uncommonly hot out. They’re tokens of comfort, I figure, like a blanket. Daniel calls them gloves and ...
( Category: Women September 16,2014 )
City of Truth by James Morrow
epub |eng | 2014-05-29 | Author:James Morrow

Five The weather engineers had just turned up their rheostats, flooding the Saturday morning sky with a dazzling emerald sunrise, when Martina came bouncing into my hospital room. She opened ...
( Category: Short Stories September 16,2014 )
Anne Neville by Michael Hicks
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-22 | Author:Michael Hicks [Hicks, Michael]

CHAPTER FIVE Her Husband’s Wife 1475–83 WHAT ARE DUCHESSES FOR? The Apostle Paul wrote that marriage was a means of carnal satisfaction without sin. Sex was certainly expected of their ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
Margaret of York: The Diabolical Duchess by Weightman Christine
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-21 | Author:Weightman, Christine [Weightman, Christine]

CHAPTER 6 ‘This Diabolicall Duches’ ‘LYKE A DOGGE REVERTYNGE TO HER OLDE VOMYTE.’ ‘Once more’, wrote Jean Molinet, ‘the house of York has been left wretched and deserted by Good ...
( Category: England September 15,2014 )
Richard III and the Murder in the Tower by Hancock Peter A
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-25 | Author:Hancock, Peter A. [Hancock, Peter A.]

Ramsay is even terser on this matter and simply states, ‘de Comines’ assertions that the troth of Edward and Eleanor had been received by the Bishop of Bath was doubtless ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
The Third Plantagenet: George, Duke of Clarence, Richard III's Brother by Ashdown-Hill John
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-15 | Author:Ashdown-Hill, John [Ashdown-Hill, John]

Some historians have chosen to interpret all this as proof positive that the Duchess of Bedford had never been guilty of sorcery. Such an interpretation is extremely naïve. It has ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
Edward IV and the Wars of the Roses by Santiuste David
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Santiuste, David [Santiuste, David]

Perhaps it is true that Edward did not respect Warwick’s abilities as a commander, although Chastelain’s comments may be derived from Edward’s bravado at the Burgundian court in the following ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )

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