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The Rose Café by John Hanson Mitchell
epub |eng | | Author:John Hanson Mitchell

chapter eight Migrants Migratory birds begin to arrive on the western slopes and headlands of Corsica as early as February, flying north from their wintering grounds in Africa. By March ...
( Category: Corsica February 15,2016 )
Daphne Du Maurier by Margaret Forster
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Margaret Forster [Forster, Margaret]

Chapter Fifteen SEPTEMBER TIDE RAN in London until the beginning of August 1949, giving Daphne ample opportunity to get to know Gertie better and to become as infatuated with her ...
( Category: Authors February 14,2016 )
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey
epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:John Carey [John Carey]

21 Disaster With The Pyramid due to appear on 1 June 1967, Golding followed his usual plan of refusing to talk about the book, and staying out of the country ...
( Category: Authors February 8,2016 )
The Japan Journals by Donald Richie
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Donald Richie

With Jim Jarmusch, 1990. UNIFRANCE FILM 17 AUGUST 1990. In any event, all other concerns eclipsed in the press by Iraq. What timing. Just when the U.S.A. had lost its ...
( Category: Japan February 6,2016 )
The Other Side of Eden by Life & John Steinbeck
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-06-27 | Author:Life & John Steinbeck

26. Close Encounters NANCY People still ask me how I managed to stay in the relationship. In those early years, despite John’s mood swings and heavy drinking, we clung to ...
( Category: Journalists February 6,2016 )
America is in the heart; a personal history by Bulosan Carlos
epub |eng | 1988-02-03 | Author:Bulosan, Carlos [Bulosan, Carlos]

to the trap door of an icebox, watching where the detectives were going. Jose was running when they spotted him. He jumped to the other car and hid behind a ...
( Category: Asian American Studies February 4,2016 )
Stories of My Life (9781101620656) by Paterson Katherine
epub |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Paterson, Katherine

“In an instant,” Maud wrote, “flashed into my mind my father’s last words, ‘Mary, my mother, my Redeemer.’” Despite the fact that she had parted ways with the Episcopal Mission ...
( Category: Children's Literature January 22,2016 )
In Morocco by Edith Wharton
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * VI THE SAADIAN TOMBS On one of the last days of our stay in Marrakech we were told, almost mysteriously, that permission was to be given us ...
( Category: Travel January 21,2016 )
Oliver Goldsmith / A Biography
epub |eng | 2005-03-31 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

CHAPTER TWENTY THE GREAT CHAM OF LITERATURE AND THE KING—SCENE AT SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS'—GOLDSMITH ACCUSED OF JEALOUSY—NEGOTIATIONS WITH GARRICK—THE AUTHOR AND THE ACTOR—THEIR CORRESPONDENCE The comedy of The Good-Natured Man ...
( Category: Authors January 21,2016 )
THE DIVINE INVASION by Philip K. Dick
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Philip K. Dick [Dick Philip]

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine: There sleeps Titania ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers January 18,2016 )
A Journey with Two Maps by Eavan Boland
epub |eng | 2011-02-09 | Author:Eavan Boland

Charlotte Mew: An Introduction I Charlotte Mew was born in London in 1869. Her family—middle-class, respectable, afflicted— lived at number 30 Doughty Street in the borough of Camden. I lived ...
( Category: Essays January 18,2016 )
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-14 | Author:Bill Bryson

INTERESTINGLY, at just about the time I acquired my television I realized that I didn’t really like TV very much—or, to put it more accurately, didn’t much like what was ...
( Category: State & Local January 13,2016 )
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

Eliza Merrett knew very little of books—indeed, she was barely literate. But when she saw how keenly Doctor Minor collected and cherished his old volumes, and when she listened to ...
( Category: Great Britain January 9,2016 )
John Barleycorn by London Jack
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-26 | Author:London, Jack [London, Jack]

CHAPTER XIX When I was with people who did not drink, I never thought of drinking. Louis did not drink. Neither he nor I could afford it; but, more significant ...
( Category: Authors January 9,2016 )
The Cruise of the Snark by London Jack
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-30 | Author:London, Jack [London, Jack]

CHAPTER XI The Nature Man I FIRST met him on Market Street in San Francisco. It was a wet and drizzly afternoon, and he was striding along, clad solely in ...
( Category: Classics January 8,2016 )

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