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How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Ray Kurzweil [Kurzweil, Ray]

A Strategy for Creating a Mind There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics March 25,2014 )
The Collective by Stephen King
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-10-10 | Author:Stephen King [King, Stephen]

* * * The Night of The Tiger STEPHEN KING From Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1978 I first saw Mr. Legere when the circus swung through Steubenville, but I'd only ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2003-09-11 | Author:Christopher Hitchens [Hitchens, Christopher]

The body-snatching of Orwell, however, is a much more specialized task and probably should not be attempted by any known faction. Least of all, perhaps, should it be undertaken by ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
On Writing by Stephen King
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2001-09-02 | Author:Stephen King

You can read anywhere, almost, but when it comes to writing, library carrels, park benches, and rented flats should be courts of last resort—Truman Capote said he did his best ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
A Celtic Miscellany by Jackson Kenneth
epub |eng | 2006-04-26 | Author:Jackson, Kenneth [Jackson, Kenneth]

159. You Are Whiter than the Swan … You are whiter than the swan on the swampy lake, you are whiter than the white sea-gull of the stream, you are ...
( Category: European March 25,2014 )
The Man by Bram Stoker
epub, mobi | | | Author:Bram Stoker

CHAPTER XIX --A LETTER * * * On Monday evening after dinner Mr. Everard and his son sat for a while in silence. They had not met since morning; and ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1999-05-08 | Author:Margaret Atwood

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX When the night for the Ceremony came round again, two or three weeks later, I found that things were changed. There was an awkwardness now that there hadn’t ...
( Category: Dystopian March 25,2014 )
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-03-04 | Author:Anne Fadiman

Glassrock Health Services will be by at 8:00 p.m. tonight. Give them prescription. Make sure to come to Clinic this Thursday Dec. 11 at 8:00 a.m. Keep egg crate mattress ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 25,2014 )
Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-06-28 | Author:Martin Amis

'Columbia, Slick... Chicago, LA, wherever — in America our seats of learning are surrounded by the worst, the biggest, the most desperate ratshit slums in the civilized world. It seems ...
( Category: Books & Reading March 25,2014 )
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-02-15 | Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

54 This morning, I overslept. Which is to say—sloth that I am, I dozed until the ungodly hour of 4:15 AM. I woke up only minutes before the Gurugita was ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-06-25 | Author:Stephen King

You can read anywhere, almost, but when it comes to writing, library carrels, park benches, and rented flats should be courts of last resort—Truman Capote said he did his best ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1984-01-02 | Author:Raymond Carver [Carver, Raymond]

J. P. and I are on the front porch at Frank Martin's drying-out facility. Like the rest of us at Frank Martin's, J.P. is first and foremost a drunk. But ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
Nickel and Dimed~On (Not) Getting By in America [2001] by Ehrenreich Barbara
mobi |en-us | | Author:Ehrenreich, Barbara [Ehrenreich, Barbara]

Selling in Minnesota From the air Minnesota is the very perfection of early summer - the blue of the lakes merging with the blue of the sky, neatly sculpted clouds ...
( Category: Poverty March 25,2014 )
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
mobi, epub | | 1998-12-17 | Author:Frank McCourt

The bed has cool white sheets. The nurses have clean white uniforms and the nun, Sister Rita, is all in white. Dr. Humphrey and Dr. Campbell have white coats and ...
( Category: Irish March 25,2014 )
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Charles Frazier [Frazier, Charles]

The boar shied off a few feet and stopped and looked back at him dumbfounded, his little eyes blinking. Inman prised his length out of the ground. To rise and ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 25,2014 )

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