epub |eng | 2007-12-01 | Author:Nick Rennison [Rennison, Nick]

CHAPTER TEN ‘I THEN PASSED THROUGH PERSIA…’ WHY THE AMBAN MADE HOLMES’S journey possible and what the two men discussed during the detective’s sojourn in the Tibetan capital are matters ...

epub |eng | 2007-02-01 | Author:Kenneth Grahame [Kenneth Grahame]

7 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn The Willow-Wren was twittering his thin little song, hidden himself in the dark selvedgebc of the river bank. Though it was past ...

epub |eng | 2021-09-14 | Author:Luisa Capetillo [Capetillo, Luisa]

VARIETIES Feminism (from L’Avenir Médical of Paris) The legislative elections, which have just been held, have not been favorable to feminism. One or another female candidate has run, but none ...

epub |eng | 2021-02-08 | Author:Larissa Pham

It was hard for me to be there. I was the only woman on our side of operations. The students in the program were, save for one male student, all ...

epub |eng | 2021-06-08 | Author:Akwaeke Emezi [Emezi, Akwaeke]

Dreams | Dear Katherine The bar is outdoors, by the sea. It’s dusk, and the beach is nothing more than the dark and hungry mouth of an ocean, in that ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Walker, Tangaroa [Walker, Tangaroa]

10. THE BEST MĀORI FARMER IN THE WORLD After I’d been working for Wayne and Debbie for almost a year, Mum got really sick. She got a big infection inside ...

epub |eng | 2008-05-20 | Author:James Rosen

Duly informed, Nixon would have “lowered the boom” on the guilty, a move Mitchell argued would have cost the ’72 election. “I still believe that the most important thing to ...

epub |eng | 2021-04-21 | Author:Elizabeth Lee [Lee, Elizabeth]

Those Within These past two nights I’ve looked for the stone, and found nothing. Tonight I waited as long as I dared, hoping Daniel might come anyway, but he did ...

azw3 |eng | 2011-12-29 | Author:Warsan Shire [Shire, Warsan]

The instructor tells us that the longest a human being has held their breath under water is 19 minutes and 21 seconds. At home in the bath, my hair swells ...

azw3 |eng | 1983-10-09 | Author:Susan Hill

I returned to the Gifford Arms and, instead of telephoning, wrote a letter to Mr. Bentley. In it I described the house and its hoard of papers and explained that ...

azw3 |eng | 2007-03-01 | Author:Richard Henry Dana Jr

CHAPTER XXVII The Sunday Wash-up—On Shore—A Set-to—A Grandee—“Sail Ho!”—A Fandango The only other vessel in port was the Russian government bark, from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we ...

azw3 |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Mary Robison

Chapter Nine 280 I need coffee bad, and I need a clothes dryer that’s free. Over there, Mev, squeezing her fingers into her jeans pocket to find quarters for a ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-05-30 | Author:Julianne Lutz Warren [Warren, Julianne Lutz]

PYRRHIC VICTORY To conquer some of the country’s land, converting it to intensive economic use, was necessary for civilization. But to say that because some conversion was necessary, conversion of ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2012-05-24 | Author:Amy Leach [Leach, Amy]

You Are Going to Fly Once, a friend and I followed a moth that trudged across a whole grocery store parking lot. It was nighttime—not really a safe time for ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2018-12-07 | Author:John Stillman & Lori Stillman [Stillman, John & Stillman, Lori]

March 1, 1968 The sun is out and it is warm. I left LZ Jane by chopper to go down near Hue. LZ Jane was in a bad location and ...