Essays & Correspondence
azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Hessler, Peter [Hessler, Peter]

40 KM/HR IS THE SAFEST 80 KM/HR IS DANGEROUS 100 KM/HR IS BOUND FOR THE HOSPITAL The road climbed steeply to the border of Qinghai Province. We passed slow-moving Liberation ...
( Category: General February 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Taylor, Benjamin & Bellow, Saul [Bellow, Saul]

Benjamin N. Nelson (1911-77) taught history and sociology at the University of Minnesota, where he met Bellow, and later at the New School for Social Research. His books include Freud ...
( Category: Letters February 13,2015 )
mobi, epub |zh | 2010-11-04 | Author:Virginia Woolf

( Category: British & Irish February 12,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Isaac Asimov

1. “Robbie:” This is the first robot story I wrote. I turned it out between May 10 and May 22 of 1939, when I was nineteen years old and was ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-22 | Author:Flanagan, John [Flanagan, John]

21 ALYSS SWEPT TOWARD THE GRAY-GOWNED CASTLE LORD, ignoring Will. “Lord Orman,” she said, “it is so good of you to shelter me for these next few weeks!” She held ...
( Category: Fantasy & Magic February 9,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-11-14 | Author:S Hussain Zaidi [Zaidi, S Hussain]

Yeba Yaqub When Tiger had begun assembling his group, Yaqub, swept by a wave of enthusiasm, had pledged his support, though he had not known precisely how he could help. ...
( Category: India February 7,2015 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Rick Riordan [Riordan, Rick]

Unsatisfactory (Grade = D) Only mildly better than the actively evil parents are the negligent ones. Thalia’s mom falls into this category. All we know about her is that she ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 6,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:nplusone

THE FACE OF SEUNG-HUI CHO Wesley Yang The first school shooter of the 1990s was an Asian boy who played the violin. I laughed when I heard an account of ...
( Category: Essays February 5,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1998-04-06 | Author:Alice Walker [Walker, Alice]

Standing near my house, in a forest that was once ravaged by poorly paid loggers intent on making a profit for rich thieves who do not respect the planet, and ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Dmitry Samarov

As we near downtown Downers Grove, the happy couple reappears in a more or less standard passenger’s pose; seated upright, that is. We get stuck at the rail crossing, where ...
( Category: Essays January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:Christopher Burgess

65 Squadron. 30th December 1917 Thanks for yesterday’s letter, today’s hasn’t arrived yet. I hope you get all mine eventually. We were to go on patrol this morning from 9 ...
( Category: World War I January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Lisa Harris

Nine Tara swallowed hard and forced her horse to sprint faster. She could feel her heart pounding in her chest, but she refused to give in to fear. Fear was ...
( Category: Business Culture January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

THE CELESTIAL RAILROAD NOT a great while ago, passing through the gate of dreams, I visited that region of the earth in which lies the famous City of Destruction. It ...
( Category: United States January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Michel de Montaigne

And when we others do foolishly fear a kind of death, when as we have already passed and daily pass so many others. For not only (as Heraclitus said) the ...
( Category: Renaissance January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Paul Theroux

MATTHEW POWER Excuse Us While We Kiss the Sky FROM GQ AS SINGAPORE AIRLINES Flight 322 descended through the early-morning haze toward Heathrow, Bradley L. Garrett, PhD—just Brad to his ...
( Category: Travel January 29,2015 )