Political
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-11 | Author:José Saramago [Saramago, José]

WE ARE LIVING in an age where a nun, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, is likely to encounter the Child Jesus in the cloister, ...
( Category: Historical June 13,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Louis Couperus

Leonie, carrying the letters in her hand, went to the back-verandah and returned with the princess, a distinguished-looking, grey-haired woman, with a proud, royal bearing in her still slender figure. ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 1979-01-15 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

The dirt in the Arapahoe lobby might not have been so obvious, if somebody had not started to do something about it and then stopped. There was a tall stepladder ...
( Category: Classics June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-05-31 | Author:Jennifer Fallon [Fallon, Jennifer]

Chapter 47 “Surely in light of the existing precedent, a delay is unnecessary, my lord,” Jacinta suggested loudly, pushing through the gathered dignitaries who were watching the proceedings with intense ...
( Category: Epic June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-17 | Author:Margot Singer

ESTHER Toward the end of June, the heat comes back, another record-setting, tarmac-melting wave. The TV weather map is dotted with glaring yellow suns and bright red heat index alerts. ...
( Category: Family Saga May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Andreï Makine

5 ON THAT DAY ANY DISTANCE between the painful duty of living and the calm acceptance of death vanishes. A day in May 1942, some twenty miles from Stalingrad, the ...
( Category: Political May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Edward Abbey [Abbey, Edward]

21 Doc’s Return Doc’s turn. Pleading physical, mental, moral and nervous exhaustion (quite justified) and the need, in consequence, for a brief interlude of open space, clean air, stillness, solitude ...
( Category: Political May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-10 | Author:Natalia Ginzburg

Young poets wrote, and submitted to the publishing house, verse of this sort. This particular tercet about Cía was part of a long poem describing the women who worked in ...
( Category: Political May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-27 | Author:John Burke [Burke, John]

Chapter 8 The sun chased the shadow of the car along a bank and then sprawled it on the road ahead as Maggie slowed towards the barrier. She said something ...
( Category: Political May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-13 | Author:Georgi Tenev

How and when did we give someone else the right to command us like mechanical toys, right down to the smallest movements of our arms and legs, fastened with bolts ...
( Category: European May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-02 | Author:HEATH, VIRGINIA [HEATH, VIRGINIA]

Chapter Fifteen Once damaged, a woman’s reputation can never be restored. If there is even the slightest whiff of anything unsavoury, she is definitely not the wife for you... ‘Mother, ...
( Category: Family Life March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Rabih Alameddine [Alameddine, Rabih]

Anger My mother was angry once, I don’t remember the cause, just the manifestation, it was just one time, her madness was the quiet kind, usually she was the easiest ...
( Category: Political March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-24 | Author:Ha Jin

THIRTEEN By mid-October I had read the Said and the Chomsky. I liked their views and arguments but was somewhat underwhelmed by their writing. The authors’ sense of the essay ...
( Category: Asian American March 22,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-08 | Author:Jacob Wren

Part 2 1. I had hired a detective to trace his history, find out who he was and why he had attacked me. It was then I learned that Emmett ...
( Category: Political March 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-16 | Author:Elie Wiesel [Wiesel, Elie]

EXCERPT FROM DR. THéRèSE GOLDSCHMIDT'S NOTES Doriel Waldman's crises and their language. Semantic jargon? Bouts of paraphasia? “Do you like to eat?” I ask. “The bark more than the tree,” ...
( Category: Jewish February 26,2017 )

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