Essays
mobi, epub | | 2010-12-12 | Author:L'amour, Louis [L'amour, Louis]
First publication: Bantam Books paperback, July 1970 Narrator: Flagan Sackett Time Period: c. 1875-1879 Flagan and Galloway Sackett were just looking for a place to start ranching. It was a ...
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General
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 | | 2010-09-15 | Author:Chuck Klosterman
4 As of this morning, I am one of only forty million Americans who receive the NFL Network in their living room. This is less than the number of Americans ...
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Popular Culture
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Umberto Eco
How to Buy Gadgets The aircraft flies majestically over boundless prairies, immense deserts. This American continent can still offer moments of solitary, almost tactile encounter with nature. I am forgetting ...
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Criticism & Theory
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-21 | Author:Barbara Kingsolver
I know of no one who really went looking to hoe the harder row, especially the daunting one of single parenthood. Yet it seems to be the most American of ...
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Anthologies
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut
jack kevorkian and i thought we knew all the risks I was taking during the controlled near-death experiences he has been giving me. But today I fell in love with ...
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Metaphysical & Visionary
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1999-02-08 | Author:Annie Dillard
Book of the Year There were actually two in my opinion … but I’m only allowed the one so it has to be without question, Love in the Time of ...
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Essays
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-15 | Author:Zadie Smith
2. NATURE’S WORK OF ART September 18, 2005, marks the centenary of the birth of Greta Garbo, an icon both resonant and remote to us. It feels a perilous centenary. ...
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Essays
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2005-08-15 | Author:Ray Bradbury
THE AFFLUENCE OF DESPAIR: AMERICA THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (1998) How come? How come we’re one of the greatest nations in the world … And yet this feeling of doom? ...
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Essays
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:James Patterson
Homo sapiens has been around, as far as we know, for approximately four million years. About four thousand years ago, they invented the plow. Quick, name the top five events ...
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Essays
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Ayn Rand; Gary Hull; Leonard Peikoff
EDITOR’S NOTE: By the novel’s midpoint, the economy is in a state of collapse. Dagny Taggart has quit as operating vice president of Taggart Transcontinental, and has been replaced by ...
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Women Writers
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-03-31 | Author:Vonnegut, Kurt [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 ...
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Essays
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Terry Pratchett
THE SECRET BOOK OF THE DEAD NOW WE ARE SICK, ED. NEIL GAIMAN AND STEPHEN JONES, DREAMHAVEN BOOKS, MINNEAPOLIS, 1991 Given the title of the anthology in which this was ...
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Short Stories
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Stanislaw Lem
IV Sixty-five million years ago, on the so-called C-T geological boundary (between the Cretaceous and the Tertiary), a meteorite fell on our planet. It had a diameter of about ten ...
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Essays
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 1961-12-14 | Author:Ayn Rand
THE FORGOTTEN MAN OF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE This is the explanation given by a distinguished brain surgeon of why he joined Galt’s strike. “I quit when medicine was placed under State ...
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Essays
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-10 | Author:Christopher Buckley
Macho Is as Macho Does One night I had the words “fuck off” tattooed on the outside edge of my right hand. Some explanation is, obviously, in order. I was ...
( Category:
Satire
March 25,2014 )
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