Humor & Entertainment
epub |eng | 2014-06-25 | Author:Alan Connor

BREAK THIS WITH SOME EGGS? FAST The urge to time your solve Got up Had shave Did Times crossword Had another shave —ROGER MCGOUGH The wonderful 2006 documentary about crosswords, ...
( Category: Trivia July 23,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Chris Robinson

6 Lust Than lichery, that lathly cors, Come berand lyk a bagit hors; And Idilnes did him leid; Thair wes with him ane vgly sort And mony stynkand fowll tramort ...
( Category: Slang & Idioms July 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-12 | Author:Chris Robinson & Eileen Finlayson [Robinson, Chris]

Flan − gust of wind, especially one blowing smoke down a chimney, back draught; squall. As the following quotations show, flans are not good for housewives, sailors or gardeners. A ...
( Category: Vocabulary July 23,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Chris Robinson

3 Wee Beasts And lat no small beistis suffir skaith [harm] na skornis This quotation from William Dunbar, writing at the beginning of the sixteenth century, makes him sound like ...
( Category: Linguistics July 23,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-28 | Author:Meno, Joe [Meno, Joe]

ON HER BICYCLE THEN. Off she rides through the snow at 5:19 p.m., almost twenty minutes late, locking it to a parking meter in front of the narrow office building. ...
( Category: Urban Life July 22,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:James Franco

Once upon a time there was a giant sea serpent named Cyrus. Even though he was a horrible looking monster he wasn’t the least bit fierce. All he ever did ...
( Category: Coming of Age July 22,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 | | | Author:Terry Pratchett

HERE’S a werewolf with Pre-Lunar Tension in Ankfe-Morpork. And a dwarf with attitude and a golem who’s begun to think for itself. But for Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City ...
( Category: Humorous July 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-06-05 | Author:Bill Fitzhugh [Fitzhugh, Bill]

38. Big Bill was in such a high and palmy state after the recording session that he took everybody out to Estella’s. He was hunched over his plate biting a ...
( Category: Humorous July 21,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 | | 2010-04-06 | Author:Elizabeth Berg

THIRTEEN CANDY SULLIVAN LETS ESTHER OUT OF HER LITTLE CARRYON, and the dog runs excitedly around the room, sniffing deeply at this place and that. Candy and Cooper once watched ...
( Category: Family Life July 20,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vincent Bugliosi [Bugliosi, Vincent]

With respect to shots allegedly coming from the grassy knoll, where, specifically, on the knoll do the conspiracy theorists claim the triggerman was? The consensus among theorists, including the HSCA, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-08 | Author:Bill [Bill, Bill]

‗Very well. Appleby.‘ The boy returned Kane‘s salute, turned and doubled away. ‗I thought Americans were supposed to take things terribly easy,‘ Pamela said. Kane grinned. ‗You don‘t know Shafto. ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences July 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 1997-11-02 | Author:Dixie Lee McKeone [McKeone, Dixie Lee]

Chapter 19 Halmarain continued to deny any knowledge of the items, waving a hand to indicate the loose steel pieces, the knife, the gloves, and the necklace. She glared accusingly ...
( Category: Reference July 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-09-01 | Author:Chris Pierson [Pierson, Chris]

Chapter 15 “It should be around here somewhere,” Kronn said, poking at a thornbush with the head of his chapak. Swiftraven glanced at Riverwind, who shook his head and shrugged. ...
( Category: Reference July 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Shawn Levy [Levy, Shawn]

You start with the name, an impossible encumbrance: Rupert Pupkin. “Often misspelled and mispronounced,” he repeatedly says, and before long we hear “Pipkin” and “Pumpkin” and “Pupnik.” There is the ...
( Category: Biographies July 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-28 | Author:H. P. Lovecraft

( Category: Adventure July 19,2014 )