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The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Thomas Lynch

That is how she turned it into prayer—the “irregularity,” the cancer, the tumor that moved from her remaining lung up her esophagus, leapt to her spinal cord, and then made ...
( Category: Death March 25,2014 )
The Vanishing Thief (A Victorian Bookshop Mystery) by Parker Kate
epub |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:Parker, Kate [Parker, Kate]

Chapter Twelve IT wasn’t until the next morning that I had time to follow up on the information Edith, or Anne as I’d learned she was, had told me. Truthfully, ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling March 25,2014 )
Making It Up by Penelope Lively
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Penelope Lively

Transatlantic A few years ago, I met up with a woman I had known when we were both young. She had gone to work in the United States when she ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
epub |eng | 1972-03-24 | Author:Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER XLII. Parliament Meets. Parliament opened that year on the twelfth of February, and Mr. Palliser was one of the first Members of the Lower House to take his seat. ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks by Alan Coren
epub |eng | 2009-08-02 | Author:Alan Coren

Appendix The Bulletins of Idi Amin 32 All O’ De People, All De Time ‘General Amin is to sell off the two thousand motor cars left behind by exiled Ugandan ...
( Category: European March 25,2014 )
Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether
epub |eng | | Author:Louise Meriwether [Meriwether, Louise; Baldwin, James]

NINE A MONTH after they was arrested James Junior and three other boys were let loose. It was a nice Christmas present but nobody could get too hysterical over it ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Drinking Water by James Salzman
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:James Salzman [SALZMAN, JAMES]

This incredible—truly incredible—tale invented at Winchcombe Abbey was a likely result of such boosterism, as pilgrimage sites competed with one another to get a cut from the revenue stream. One ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
The Complete and Essential Jack the Ripper by Begg Paul & Bennett John
epub |eng | 2013-11-21 | Author:Begg, Paul & Bennett, John [Begg, Paul]

Though not named in print on this occasion, the ‘queen’s physician’ in 1888 was Sir William Gull. Apparently, on the evening of the day he lunched with Stowell Wilson met ...
( Category: Victorian March 25,2014 )
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
epub |eng | 1984-03-24 | Author:Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER XXVI Impulsive I trust my readers will all remember how Puck the pony was beaten during that drive to Hogglestock. It may be presumed that Puck himself on that ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
Murder as a Second Language: A Claire Malloy Mystery (Claire Malloy Mysteries) by Hess Joan
epub |eng | 2013-12-17 | Author:Hess, Joan [Hess, Joan]

11 “Inez has a date with Toby Whitbream?” I echoed. I would have added something pithy, but I was too astonished. Caron sniffed. “It’s not much of a date, if ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling March 25,2014 )
Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution by Vogelstein Fred
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-12 | Author:Vogelstein, Fred [Vogelstein, Fred]

6 Android Everywhere By 2010 Apple and Google were attacking each other on every possible front: in the courts, in the media, and in the marketplace. Android’s surge in popularity ...
( Category: Mobile & Wireless March 25,2014 )
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Isak Dinesen [Dinesen, Isak]

THE WILD CAME TO THE AID OF THE WILD My manager during the war had been buying up oxen for the army. He told me that he had then, down ...
( Category: Kenya March 25,2014 )
White Girls by Als Hilton
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-30 | Author:Als, Hilton [Als, Hilton]

Of course, part of Mathers’s genius lies in his ability to market his story to the white counterculture. He knew he wasn’t the only wigger out there. From the beginning, ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
Papa Hemingway by A. E. Hotchner
epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:A. E. Hotchner [Hotchner, A. E.]

Chapter Nine Key West ♦ 1955 On the morning of July 3rd I flew to Miami, where I caught the small afternoon plane to Key West and took a taxi ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Early Writings (Pound, Ezra) by POUND EZRA
epub |eng | | Author:POUND, EZRA

III EMOTION AND POESY Obviously, it is not easy to be a great poet. If it were, many more people would have done so. At no period in history has ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )

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