Humor
epub |eng | 2007-09-03 | Author:Verlyn Klinkenborg [KLINKENBORG, VERLYN]

Throughout history, the moon has been a byword for mutability, its inconstancy an emblem of the inconstancy of human affairs. One night it rises dark, a new moon. One night ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 2,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-04-03 | Author:Laura Restrepo

BEGONE FROM ME all remorse, Nicholas Portulinus said out loud after the lunch of roast pork. Once he’d had a cup of herbal tea for his digestion and a long ...
( Category: Political September 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-02-13 | Author:Karl Shaw [Shaw, Karl]

Chapter Five Crime & Punishment Har 10 d Ax to Follow: Ten Famous Executioners 1 The chief executioners of Constantinople during the Ottoman Empire excelled in diverse methods of dispatching ...
( Category: Trivia & Fun Facts September 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 1958-01-01 | Author:John D. MacDonald [MacDonald, John D.]

Al Jardine phoned Craig at five minutes of five. “How about joining me for a knock at Nick’s after work? When can you make it?” “Quarter of six okay?” “We’ll ...
( Category: Humor September 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Wolff, Mishna [Wolff, Mishna]

That night when everyone was upstairs watching TV, I said I needed to put wash in the dryer and crept down stairs to Dad’s basement office, convinced that’s where the ...
( Category: Memoirs September 1,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1936-01-01 | Author:John Dos Passos [Passos, John Dos]

In nineteen eleven they were back on the dunes at Kitty Hawk with a new glider. Orville stayed up in the air for nine and a half minutes, which remained ...
( Category: Satire September 1,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-05-15 | Author:Mishna Wolff

Christmas Eve, we spent with Dad, and we were to go to our mom’s for Christmas Day after presents. So Christmas morning Dad made a fire, and when we came ...
( Category: Memoirs September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-01 | Author:Michael Teitelbaum

A Parody written by Michael Teitelbaum illustrated by Jon Apple Skyhorse Publishing A blood-red moon shown down on a corpse that lay rotting beneath the ground. At the crack of ...
( Category: Humor September 1,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-26 | Author:Shana Liebman [LIEBMAN, SHANA]

Freaking By Jordan Carlos MICHAEL ROTH WAS A YOUNG JEWISH PRINCE. His family owned a line of elite department stores in Texas called Roth-Harris, which for a time even trumped ...
( Category: Humor September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Bruce Nash

RED FABER Pitcher · Chicago, AL · October 7, 1917 In the 1917 World Series, Hall of Fame pitcher Red Faber scored his biggest triumph—and committed one of the Fall ...
( Category: Baseball September 1,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-05-30 | Author:Charles Barsotti & George Booth [BARSOTTI, CHARLES]

“Now, now, Harrison, we all start somewhere.” “Of course the company appreciates your years of loyalty.” “I bark at everything. Can’t go wrong that way.” “First, can we agree that ...
( Category: How To Create Comics & Manga September 1,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-14 | Author:Simon Doonan [Doonan, Simon]

CHAPTER 10 DAUGHTERS! I was being treated for a lisp, and Biddie was there because he dropped all his t’s and h’s. In the late 1950s, Biddie and I found ...
( Category: Parenting & Families September 1,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Peter Archer [Archer, Peter; Lawler, Jennifer]

The Eldest, the Youngest & Matchmaker.com TAMI ABSI Elizabeth drew her favorite china teacup from her lips and rested it on the saucer. The delicate plate protected the articles on ...
( Category: Humor September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Verlyn Klinkenborg

May 18 I’m writing from a mile high in a small Wyoming town on the edge of the Wind River range. The snow on the nearby buttes has finally melted, ...
( Category: Memoirs September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:Cowherd, Colin [Cowherd, Colin]

I Value What I Need First, an experiment. Please indulge me for a moment; it won’t take up much time, and you’ll see the results rather quickly. The next time ...
( Category: Miscellaneous September 1,2017 )