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Life (2010) by Keith Richards
epub | | 2010-06-06 | Author:Keith Richards

Dickinson was a beautiful piano player. Probably at the time I did take him for a country player, just because he was a southern guy. I found out later he ...
( Category: Music June 7,2017 )
Improv Wisdom by Patricia Ryan Madson
epub |eng | 2005-06-06 | Author:Patricia Ryan Madson [Madson, Ryan Patricia]

try this: “What is my purpose now?” Use this question as a weathervane. Ask it often, especially when you are anxious or unsure of what to do next. When you ...
( Category: Performing Arts June 7,2017 )
XANTH 21 Faun and Games by Piers Anthony
epub |eng | | Author:Piers Anthony

“I fear I have even worse news for him,” Raven said faintly. He looked at her in surprise. "What could be worse than suddenly never having been a king?" “Suddenly ...
( Category: Epic June 7,2017 )
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
epub |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:Joan Didion [Joan Didion]

36 "THERE'S SOME PRINCIPLE I'm not grasping, Maria," Carter said on the telephone from New York. "You've got a $1,500-a-month house sitting empty in Beverly Hills, and you're living in ...
( Category: Literary June 7,2017 )
I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron
epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Nora Ephron [Ephron, Nora]

I Just Want to Say: Teflon I feel bad about Teflon. It was great while it lasted. Now it turns out to be bad for you. Or, to put it ...
( Category: Humor June 7,2017 )
Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan
epub | | 2001-06-06 | Author:Ian McEwan

PART TWO THERE WERE HORRORS enough, but it was the unexpected detail that threw him and afterward would not let him go. When they reached the level crossing, after a ...
( Category: Alternate History Science Fiction June 7,2017 )
A Piano in The Pyrenees (2006) by Tony Hawks
epub | | 2006-06-06 | Author:Tony Hawks

≡ A Peruvian dice game for all the family, but mainly the immature ones. Kevin had come back to the house that he’d first seen on our abortive skiing weekend. ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers June 7,2017 )
What Do We Do Now? by Keith Malley
epub |eng | 2010-06-06 | Author:Keith Malley [Malley, Keith]

Every time you think about settling with a lesser version of what you really want, go to one of your married friends’ houses and spend the day with him. The ...
( Category: Relationships June 7,2017 )
Madam How and Lady Why (Yesterday's Classics) by Kingsley Charles
epub |eng | 2010-11-10 | Author:Kingsley, Charles [Kingsley, Charles]

Now, it is these very Guacharo birds which are to me the most wonderful part of the story. The Indians kill and eat them for their fat, although they believe ...
( Category: Geography June 7,2017 )
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989) by Bill Bryson
epub | | 1989-06-06 | Author:Bill Bryson

SIXTEEN I HAD ALWAYS thought that New England was nothing but maple trees and white churches and old guys in checkered shirts sitting around iron stoves in country general stores ...
( Category: Travel June 7,2017 )
Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Chuck Klosterman [Klosterman, Chuck]

NOVEMBER 24, 1983 (Mitch) “Post pattern,” he said. “Sprint upfield thirteen steps, plant your outside foot hard, and break toward the center of the field at a forty-five degree angle. ...
( Category: Humorous June 7,2017 )
Horace Afoot by Frederick Reuss
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-01 | Author:Frederick Reuss

I haven’t set foot outside for days except to bring in wood from the porch. It is quiet. The only sounds are water dripping from the roof, the crackle of ...
( Category: Humor June 7,2017 )
The F-Word by Sheidlower Jesse
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-03 | Author:Sheidlower, Jesse [Sheidlower, Jesse]

4. to astonish; bring up short. 1978 W. Brown Tragic Magic 139: Sands of Iwo Jima. That’s the one that really fucked me around. fuckass noun a despicable or contemptible ...
( Category: Etymology June 7,2017 )
Breathers: A Zombie's Lament by S. G. Browne
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-03 | Author:S. G. Browne [Browne, S. G.]

scribble words down on my dry erase board so Ted can’t see what I’m writing as I watch him out of the corner of my eye, studying me with a ...
( Category: Dark Humor June 7,2017 )
Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill
epub |eng | 2004-04-30 | Author:John Stuart Mill [Mill, John Stuart]

In the preceding argument for universal but graduated suffrage, I have taken no account of difference of sex. I consider it to be as entirely irrelevant to political rights as ...
( Category: Democracy June 7,2017 )

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