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Tree and Leaf by J. R. R. Tolkien
epub |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien [J.R.R. Tolkien]

NOTES A (see here) The very root (not only the use) of their ‘marvels’ is satiric, a mockery of unreason; and the ‘dream’ element is not a mere machinery of ...
( Category: Arts & Photography January 1,2015 )
THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES by Bobbitt Philip
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-03-26 | Author:Bobbitt, Philip [Bobbitt, Philip]

If we take this idea—the creation of a constitution for the society of states4 from the settlement of an epochal war—in light of the relation between such wars and the ...
( Category: History & Theory December 31,2014 )
O Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
mobi |por | 2014-12-29 | Author:Jorge Luis Borges

Menos me custa admitir um erro no douto Ibn Qutaiba, ou nos copistas, do que admitir que a terra dê rosas com profissão de fé. Assim é. Grandes e verdadeiras ...
( Category: Arts & Photography December 30,2014 )
Franklin by Thomas Fleming
epub |eng | 2013-04-17 | Author:Thomas Fleming [Thomas Fleming]

While the courtiers swarmed around Wedderburn in the anteroom of the Cockpit, Franklin went quietly home to Craven Street. The next day he received a letter from the government informing ...
( Category: Personal Narratives December 27,2014 )
The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage
epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Bill Gammage

9 A capital tour Until 1788 almost no-one in Australia imagined attack from the sea. Sea and shore belonged to the Dreaming, eternal eddies. Only in Sydney and Adelaide did ...
( Category: Historic December 27,2014 )
Pirates: A History by Travers Tim
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-10 | Author:Travers, Tim [Travers, Tim]

7 Death to the Pirates In the western world of the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and along the coasts of the Americas, government forces were engaged in a concentrated campaign of ...
( Category: History December 27,2014 )
The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Cornelius Ryan

On the flagship Augusta lying off the American beaches, Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley plugged his ears with cotton and then trained his binoculars on the landing craft speeding toward ...
( Category: World War II December 27,2014 )
Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri
epub |eng | 2014-11-02 | Author:Ben Okri [Okri, Ben]

9 At first, he heard nothing. Then, after a while, he heard a faint shuffling sound, and muffled cries of agony, as of a small animal dying. He scanned the ...
( Category: Arts & Photography December 27,2014 )
Submarine! by Edward L. Beach
epub |eng | | Author:Edward L. Beach [Beach, Edward L.]

While Tang was going into commission at Mare Island, Trigger completed her refit following Dusty Dornin’s second patrol, and on Christmas Day, 1943, was scheduled to leave for the area ...
( Category: Military December 27,2014 )
Last Train to Paradise by Les Standiford
epub |eng | 2003-08-04 | Author:Les Standiford

However, reports of Flagler’s demise were greatly exaggerated, as the saying goes. Even as the Journal account was being published, crews were back at work, rebuilding work camps and replacing ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
The Lion and the Rose by May Sarton
epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:May Sarton [Sarton, May]

POEM IN AUTUMN Now over everything the autumn light is thrown And every line is sharp, and every leaf is clear. Now without density or weight the airy sun Sits ...
( Category: Arts & Photography December 27,2014 )
Saved by the Fireman
epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Allie Pleiter

Chapter Eleven Crash. The moment came to a loud halt when a dish clattered to the floor. Mo had, at some point, leaped up onto the countertop in an effort ...
( Category: Romantic Comedy December 27,2014 )
Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García Márquez
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Gabriel García Márquez [Márquez, Gabriel García]

I was a dead man I don’t remember the dawn of the next day. I have a vague idea that during the entire morning I lay prostrate, between life and ...
( Category: Hispanic & Latino December 27,2014 )
Fire Underground: The Ongoing Tragedy of the Centralia Mine Fire by David DeKok
epub |eng | 2010-01-27 | Author:David DeKok [DeKok, David]

LL WHO WERE AT CENTRALIA ON FEBRUARY 14, 1981, WERE HORRIFIED. Had SecretaryJames Watt been there, or Governor Dick Thornburgh, aid might have flowed to the beleaguered village within the ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
Doctor Criminale by Malcolm Bradbury
epub |eng | | Author:Malcolm Bradbury [Bradbury, Malcolm]

I was crass, of course; but it was my solution to the problem that brought a new stage in the quest for Criminale. Looking for a compromise, what I did ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs December 27,2014 )

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