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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1988-01-02 | Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

DAY THREE · MORNING Taunton, Somerset I lodged last night in an inn named the Coach and Horses a little way outside the town of Taunton, Somerset. This being a ...
( Category: African American Historical Fiction March 25,2014 )
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2007-02-12 | Author:Joan Didion

11. Sometime in June, after she had left UCLA and was in the sixth of what would be fifteen weeks as an inpatient at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-06-25 | Author:Stephen King

You can read anywhere, almost, but when it comes to writing, library carrels, park benches, and rented flats should be courts of last resort—Truman Capote said he did his best ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
mobi, epub |eng | 1983-01-02 | Author:Sandra Cisneros

I can tell Lucy and Rachel are disgusted, but they don't say anything because she's my sister. Yes, no, maybe so. Yes, no, maybe so . . . Nenny, I ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
The Lovely Bones by Sebold Alice
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2002-08-07 | Author:Sebold, Alice [Sebold, Alice]

FOURTEEN For a week Lindsey cased my killer’s house. She was doing exactly what he did to everyone else. She had agreed to train with the boys’ soccer team all ...
( Category: Ghosts March 25,2014 )
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
epub, mobi | | 2010-05-11 | Author:Scott Turow [Turow, Scott]

Chapter 25 Three a.m. When I awake my heart is racing and cool traces of sweat are abrading my neck, so that in the idiocy of sleep I am trying ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Annie Proulx

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. It ain't goin a be that way. We can't. I'm stuck with what I got, caught in my own loop. Can't get out of it. Jack, I ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-03-24 | Author:Jon Krakauer [Krakauer, Jon]

* Bromet had left Base Camp in mid-April and returned to Seattle, whence she continued to file Internet dispatches about Fischer’s expedition for Outside Online; she relied on regular phone ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 25,2014 )
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette
epub, mobi |eng | 1988-01-02 | Author:Paul Monette [Monette, Paul]

We ended up in the dearest cabin in the woods—#8 Mile High Lodge, run by these two utterly improbable Bengalis—& though I locked the car in gear & nearly stranded ...
( Category: Pathology March 25,2014 )
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-04-24 | Author:Khaled Hosseini

IN THE SUMMER of 1988, about six months before the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, I finished my first novel, a father-son story set in Kabul, written mostly with the typewriter ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
mobi, epub |eng | 1984-03-05 | Author:Jay McInerney

P.S. Should you get lucky with cousin or inflict rare social disease this office will deny all knowledge of your actions. The presumption of Allagash appalls you. When you call ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
Nickel and Dimed~On (Not) Getting By in America [2001] by Ehrenreich Barbara
mobi |en-us | | Author:Ehrenreich, Barbara [Ehrenreich, Barbara]

Selling in Minnesota From the air Minnesota is the very perfection of early summer - the blue of the lakes merging with the blue of the sky, neatly sculpted clouds ...
( Category: Poverty March 25,2014 )
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
mobi, epub | | 1998-12-17 | Author:Frank McCourt

The bed has cool white sheets. The nurses have clean white uniforms and the nun, Sister Rita, is all in white. Dr. Humphrey and Dr. Campbell have white coats and ...
( Category: Irish March 25,2014 )
4 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-04 | Author:J.K. Rowling

— CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO— The Unexpected Task ‘Potter! Weasley! Will you pay attention?’ Professor McGonagall’s irritated voice cracked like a whip through the Transfiguration class on Thursday, and Harry and Ron ...
( Category: Medieval March 25,2014 )
The Prize by Yergin Daniel
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-04 | Author:Yergin, Daniel [Yergin, Daniel]

Purgatory Despite Ike’s reply, the anger of the U.S. government toward Britain, France, and Israel continued unabated. The message from Washington remained the same: It did not approve of the ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )

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