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Adrian Mole From Minor to Major by Sue Townsend
epub |eng | 2011-10-23 | Author:Sue Townsend [Townsend, Sue]

Listen, I'm a busy man. I have houses to furnish, planes to catch. Douglas Adams is one of my authors. My hands are full, OK? Buy yourself a typewriter, kid. ...
( Category: Humor March 26,2014 )
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend
epub |eng | 2005-09-01 | Author:Sue Townsend [Townsend, Sue]

Professor Green and I dragged the sodden postbag to the basement of the Old Battery Factory to await collection by the authorities. Although I am increasingly of the mind that ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
21st Century Dodos by Steve Stack
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-29 | Author:Steve Stack [Stack, Steve]

Dodo Rating: Bulldog That’s what we used to call it, anyway. It is also known as British Bulldog, Bullrush, or numerous variations thereof. It is a school playground game that ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction March 26,2014 )
1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off by John Lloyd & John Mitchinson
epub |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:John Lloyd & John Mitchinson [Lloyd, John & Mitchinson, John]

The South American revolutionary Simón Bolívar was, at various times, president of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. Venezuela is Spanish for ‘Little Venice’. In 17th-century Venice, women’s high-heeled shoes ...
( Category: Trivia March 26,2014 )
Chain of Fools by Chain of Fools
epub |deu | 2011-04-04 | Author:Chain of Fools [Fools, Chain of]

( Category: Humor March 26,2014 )
DUST OF DEATH by J.R.A
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:J.R.A. [J.R.A.]

AS THEY ENTERED the general headquarters village, the tall, heavyset, stooped soldier with the squad began to loiter behind. Discipline was lax so he got away with this. It would ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 26,2014 )
Little Wars by H.G. Wells
epub |eng | | Author:H.G. Wells

* * * V EXTENSIONS AND AMPLIFICATIONS OF LITTLE WAR Now that battle of Hook's Farm is, as I have explained, a simplification of the game, set out entirely to ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games March 26,2014 )
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bryson Bill
epub, mobi, azw3 | | 2010-06-03 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bill, Bryson,]

A Short History of Nearly Everything CHAPTER 17: INTO THE TROPOSPHERE THANK GOODNESS FOR the atmosphere. It keeps us warm. Without it, Earth would be a lifeless ball of ice ...
( Category: Astronomy March 26,2014 )
Learning to Be Me by Greg Egan
epub |eng | 1990-06-30 | Author:Greg Egan [Egan, Greg]

* * * I was shopping for food one Sunday morning, two months before the operation was scheduled to take place, flicking through the images of an on-line grocery catalogue, ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences March 26,2014 )
Do the Movies Have a Future? by David Denby
epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:David Denby [Denby, David]

PART FIVE / DIRECTORS INTRODUCTION In thinking about directors, I’m always attracted by a play of contraries. Otto Preminger, a mid-century liberal who believed in free speech and debate and ...
( Category: Industry March 26,2014 )
The Greatest Generation by Brokaw Tom
epub |eng | 2000-02-23 | Author:Brokaw, Tom [Brokaw, Tom]

LOVE, MARRIAGE, AND COMMITMENT The World War II generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility, and the marriage vow: “For better or for worse . . ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
Under Fire: the story of a squad by Henri Barbusse
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-07-31 | Author:Henri Barbusse [Barbusse, Henri]

15 The Egg WE were badly off, hungry and thirsty; and in these wretched quarters there was nothing! Something had gone wrong with the revictualing department and our wants were ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
Great Gambling Scams: True Stories of the World's Most Amazing Hustlers by Nigel Goldman
epub |eng | 2007-09-28 | Author:Nigel Goldman [Nigel Goldman]

London Heathrow Airport, 11 March 2004, 11.35am On this drizzly March morning, no other travellers took much notice of the three casually dressed Eastern Europeans who had flown economy, landed ...
( Category: Gambling March 26,2014 )
Cheerful Money by Tad Friend
epub |eng | 2009-09-21 | Author:Tad Friend [Friend, Tad]

______ SPORTS WERE the Shipley boys’ vehicle for advancement. David Hunt, an intense and meticulous young man who rubbed his forehead wearily when problems arose, was our leader. I was ...
( Category: Journalists March 26,2014 )
The Happiness Myth by Jennifer Hecht
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Jennifer Hecht [Jennifer Michael Hecht]

13 Eating In the medieval West, on feast days, people gorged themselves in animalistic sensualism. In periods of fast they rejected food, sex, and physical effort as antithetical to holiness. ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2014 )

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