Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | 2009-04-07 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

That night, Elmer prayed for a new husband for Ivy, a stout heart for Ethelbert, and a merciful death and paradise for himself on the morrow. “Amen,” said Elmer. “Maybe ...
( Category: Anthologies April 5,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-11 | Author:Cantrell, Scarlett [Cantrell, Scarlett]

*** Leanne had already decided, within seconds of meeting Priscilla, that she despised the woman. Which was quite okay, seeing as Priscilla seemed to despise her, too. In fact, Priscilla ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 4,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:John Keegan [Keegan, John]

It is, however, towards China, not India, that the Mongols first set their course, since they were borderers of that empire. From the time of the earliest unification under the ...
( Category: Military Technology April 2,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-11-10 | Author:george carlin

There is a clear line of evolution between “Shoot” and “Seven Words.” The piece grew out of a desire to talk about language standards and the inconsistency in them. So ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 1970-01-01 | Author:Unknown [Unknown]

1 0 4 8 / E M I L Y B R O N T E All my life's bliss f r o m thy dear life w a s ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-21 | Author:Peter Carey

What was this about?Why, open the book and you can find work by Arup, the engineer who would finally work on Utzon's opera house. Thus proving? Thus proving that Arup ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Jeanne C. Stein [Stein, Jeanne C.]

Chapter Twenty-Two Once past the rock, the tunnel entrance yawns open. There are lights here. Electric lamps hang on hooks that stretch past my line of sight like a string ...
( Category: Paranormal & Urban March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-12 | Author:Craig Childs [Childs, Craig]

1st firefly at 7:45 many more by 7:49 dazzling by 7:54 Finally, in the dark, the gurgling sound of the creek became loud enough that the bottom of the canyon ...
( Category: Natural Resources March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

CHAPTER XXIII ENGLISH SNOBS ON THE CONTINENT 'WHAT is the use of Lord Rome's telescope?' my friend Panwiski exclaimed the other day. 'It only enables you to see a few ...
( Category: Essays March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Henry James

She has meanwhile probably her hours of amazement at the size of her windfall; she cannot quite live without wonder at the oddity of her so "sleeping" partner, the strange ...
( Category: Anthologies March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Laura Lippman [Lippman, Laura]

She knocked on the stable door. Minutes passed. She knocked again. “I saw you,” she said to the dusk, to herself, possibly to the man inside. “I know you’re in ...
( Category: Murder March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-08 | Author:John D. MacDonald [MacDonald, John D.]

Thirteen She was all combed and showered and lipsticked and dressed when she woke me up and said that she was leaving to go back to her place and change ...
( Category: Suspense March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Holly Phillips [Phillips, Holly]

Virgin of the Sands Neil came out of the desert leaving most of his men dead behind him. He debriefed, he bathed, he dressed in a borrowed uniform, and without ...
( Category: Fantasy Anthologies March 27,2014 )
epub | | 2009-10-04 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

VILLAGE After hoeing, or perhaps reading and writing, in the forenoon, I usually bathed again in the pond, swimming across one of its coves for a stint, and washed the ...
( Category: State & Local March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Henry David Thoreau

The cars never pause to look at it; yet I fancy that the engineers and firemen and brakemen, and those passengers who have a season ticket and see it often, ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 27,2014 )