Humor & Entertainment
epub |eng | 2015-10-19 | Author:Melissa Collins [Collins, Melissa]

“You’re fidgeting. Nervous?” Grace threads her fingers through mine as we wait on the train platform. Scanning the approaching track for the millionth time, I lie, “No. Not at all. ...
( Category: LGBT December 26,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Marc Eliot [Eliot, Marc]

Directing the material himself, Clint Eastwood has attempted to retell the Dirty Harry myth in the style of a forties film noir. Much of Sudden Impact, including all the scenes ...
( Category: Performing Arts December 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-30 | Author:Simon Wills

If anyone ties the eyes of this bird in a cloth, and lay them at the head of one that sleeps too much, they will keep him from sleeping. If ...
( Category: Humor & Entertainment December 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-26 | Author:Mark Osteen [Osteen, Mark]

To Build a Dream On Two 1950s noirs perpetuate the stereotype of musicians as overgrown children. Yet these films also present—implicitly, at least—the potential for new American identities founded on ...
( Category: Movies December 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:P. J. O'Rourke [O'Rourke, P. J.]

This was not President Obama’s suggestion. President Obama suggested we find somebody to pick on that we hate even more than we hate sick people. With the clear-sighted political instincts ...
( Category: Humor December 26,2017 )
mobi, epub | | 2011-02-04 | Author:Franz Werfel

The dossier wandered without delay on to the desk of the Minister of War. It was Enver Pasha's habit never to refuse a request of Talaat's. That evening, when they ...
( Category: Military December 26,2017 )
epub | | | Author:Colette

– Oui, oui... Ah ! les chameaux !... Admirables, d’ailleurs... Ils seront admirables... Surtout... – Surtout qui ? demanda Clara avide. Il lui jeta un coup d’œil de méfiance professionnelle. ...
( Category: Arts & Photography December 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Wodehouse, P.G. [Wodehouse, P.G.]

PROLOGUE After we had sent in our card and waited for a few hours in the marbled ante-room, a bell rang and the major-domo, parting the priceless curtains, ushered us ...
( Category: Humor & Entertainment December 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-25 | Author:Love, Darlene [Love, Darlene]

CHAPTER 17 Uprooted I could usually let remarks like the one that Fanita made about Tom Jones roll off me. The Blossoms, even without hits of their own, had lasted ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-23 | Author:Meghan Daum [Daum, Meghan]

TOY CHILDREN Though I had a stuffed-animal collection that rivaled the inventory of a Toys “R” Us, I was a child who hated dolls. By “hate,” I’m not talking about ...
( Category: Social Sciences December 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-29 | Author:Brand, Russell [Brand, Russell]

Chapter 12 It’s What He Would’ve Wanted Do you, as I do, agree to things assuming that they’ll never happen? These pledges can vary in severity – “Will you pick ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Adler, Steven [Adler, Steven]

BACK ON THE BEAT After checking out of Topanga, I went to a sushi nightclub in Hollywood. There, pop artist George Michael was waiting in line. I got in line ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 1932-12-31 | Author:Dorothy L. Sayers [Sayers, Dorothy L.]

Now, it is not very clear at the first glance what this disagreement between Mr Tallboy and Mr Smayle about a cricket match had to do with the original disagreement ...
( Category: Mystery December 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-01 | Author:D. A. Stern [Stern, D. A.]

Electricity for sale: that item intrigued me. Maybe it was because that was the summer the blackouts really hit in full force; the Mercy Hospital emergency room lost power during ...
( Category: Science Fiction December 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Autumn Stephens [Stephens, Autumn]

Prolix Professionals What I wanted to be when I grew up was—in charge. —Wilma Vaught, brigadier general of the US Air Force. Give me my sword. —Oveta Hobby, first director ...
( Category: Women's Studies December 25,2017 )