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My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2005-11-14 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse

By Jove, you know, till I started to tramp the place with this infernal kid, I never had a notion it would have been so deuced difficult to restore a ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1999-09-15 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

The purpose of it was to kill people by jazzing them with more electricity than their bodies could stand. Dwayne Hoover had seen it twice—once during a tour of the ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Tom Wolfe

11 Ghislaine Finding a long-sleeved shirt to cover up those famous—they were literally in the news today—those famous Nestor Camacho muscles of his took some doing. But it had to ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
Cat's Cradle: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1973-01-01 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

67 HY-U-O-OOK-KUH! “PAPA” DIDN’T DIE—not then. He was rolled away in the airport’s big red meat wagon. The Mintons were taken to their embassy by an American limousine. Newt and ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
Cat's cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1963-10-15 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

66 THE STRONGEST THING THERE IS HE WASN’T DEAD. But he certainly looked dead; except that now and then, in the midst of all that seeming death, he would give ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
mobi, epub, azw3 | | 1992-07-14 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

A Good Time to Come to San Lorenzo 65 "Papa" was a self-educated man, who had been majordomo to Corporal McCabe. He had never been off the island. He spoke ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal by James D. Hornfischer
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:James D. Hornfischer

TASK GROUP 67.4 went to general quarters at 8 p.m. The sea rolled easily under a ten-knot southeasterly wind. The moon had set, leaving the squadron in the dark. The ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Bombs away: the story of a bomber team by John Steinbeck
mobi, epub |eng | 1942-08-14 | Author:John Steinbeck

On the machine gun range On the second day on the firing range they did not flinch from the guns any more but they fired at the moving target, the ...
( Category: Historical Events March 25,2014 )
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-27 | Author:William Shakespeare

ACT 3 SCENE 11 Ashamed, Antony urges his followers to take his remaining gold and defect to Caesar. They refuse, but he urges “Let that be left / Which leaves ...
( Category: Shakespeare March 25,2014 )
Book of English Magic by Philip Carr-Gomm
mobi |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Philip Carr-Gomm

The Key of Solomon, which probably originated from Byzantine Greek sources in the late fourteenth century, was translated into Latin, then into Italian, French and English. Some of the most ...
( Category: Theology March 25,2014 )
1434 by Gavin Menzies
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-08 | Author:Gavin Menzies

Chinese irrigation design. The Nung Shu illustrates all manner of techniques for the vital task of regulating water supply to the rice fields—many types of bucket and chain pumps, locks ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries March 25,2014 )
New York at War by Steven H. Jaffe
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-07 | Author:Steven H. Jaffe

June 5, 1917, dawned fair and cool in New York. Through the morning and afternoon, thousands of men lined up outside neighborhood schools, barbershops, and storefronts to register for Selective ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Nature Noir by Jordan Fisher Smith
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Jordan Fisher Smith

A few months later it was my turn to go to the bridge. It was early morning, and the sun rising over the mountains on the eastern skyline was painting ...
( Category: Pacific March 25,2014 )
Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City by Neal Bascomb
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Neal Bascomb

“John Jakob Raskob, capitalist”—so he signed one of the many documents in the purchase of the two-acre plot west of Fifth Avenue between Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Streets. Of the many ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Hero of the Pacific by James Brady
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-08 | Author:James Brady

PART THREE HOME FRONT Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, Colonel Merritt A. Edson, Platoon Sergeant Mitchell Paige, and Sergeant John Basilone after receiving their Congressional Medals of Honor at Camp ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )

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