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Booze and the Private Eye: Alcohol in the Hard-Boiled Novel by Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
epub |eng | 2011-09-22 | Author:Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe [Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe]

"A month ago I wouldn't have given a hoot. Hell, I would have welcomed the big out. Then you go and show up all blown to pieces and I take ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 26,2020 )
Conversations with Casanova by Derek Parker
epub |eng | | Author:Derek Parker

GIRLS, ST PAUL AND OYSTERS Living in Rome and performing minor church duties, Casanova had no difficulty in reconciling his promiscuity with the teachings of the Church. Like many – ...
( Category: Authors February 26,2020 )
Treasure Neverland by Neil Rennie
epub |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Neil Rennie

Figure 6.1. ‘Captain Mackra, and the Pirate with a wooden leg’, from The Pirates Own Book (1837). Although based on Irving’s and Cooper’s narratives, the opening of Treasure Island is ...
( Category: European February 26,2020 )
9781787373365 by Anonymous
epub |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

CHANCELLOR But, Your Majesty, don't eat them all. They must go to the museum with the dishes of the previous Queens of Hearts. YELLOW HOSE A museum—those tarts! As well ...
( Category: Relationships February 26,2020 )
These Fevered Days by Martha Ackmann
epub |eng | 2020-01-17 | Author:Martha Ackmann

* Charles Thompson lived with the Stearns family from the time he was fifteen until his marriage. He worked as a “choreboy” for the family and later as custodian at ...
( Category: Poetry February 26,2020 )
Poetry in Person by Alexander Neubauer
epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Alexander Neubauer [ Neubauer, Alexander]

CLIFTON: I quite agree. LONDON: But still, we have your poem “In Salem”—there’s a lot of anger and that poem is gorgeous. What about anger? CLIFTON: Well, first of all, ...
( Category: United States February 26,2020 )
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
epub |eng | 2020-02-24 | Author:Cathy Park Hong

I turned to the modular essay because I am only capable of “speaking nearby” the Asian American condition, which is so involuted that I can’t stretch myself across it. The ...
( Category: Asian American Studies February 26,2020 )
The Books They Gave Me by Jen Adams
epub |eng | | Author:Jen Adams

McCOURT Angela’s Ashes He made me fall back in love with words. After giving me Vonnegut, Heller, Salinger, and Orwell, my first love shyly offered his copy of Angela’s Ashes ...
( Category: Interpersonal Relations February 26,2020 )
Machine in the Garden by Marx Leo;
epub |eng | 2000-02-25 | Author:Marx, Leo;

“The Lackawanna Valley” by George Inness. “American Landscape” by Charles Sheeler In 1855, the Year that Inness completed his painting, Thomas Buchanan Read, a Connecticut poetaster, published his long poem, ...
( Category: United States February 26,2020 )
Around the House and In the Garden by Dominique Browning
epub |eng | 2002-04-30 | Author:Dominique Browning

SMELL THE ROSES One summer my younger son informs me that, come September, I will no longer be permitted to walk him to school. Actually, Theo has been gently preparing ...
( Category: How-to & Home Improvements February 26,2020 )
9781787805569 by Anonymous
epub |eng | 2019-05-17 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

“I’ve done something very unusual, uncle Robert,” she began. “And I’ve come to tell you all about it, and I prepared a speech for you. But it won’t do. Somehow, ...
( Category: Relationships February 26,2020 )
9781787805491 by Anonymous
epub |eng | 2019-05-17 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

As a matter of fact he had done nothing in particular, and had set himself a rather disagreeable task; for he did not wish Messer Sebastian to know that Zoë ...
( Category: Relationships February 26,2020 )
Conversations with Wilde by Merlin Holland
epub |eng | | Author:Merlin Holland

A FATAL FRIENDSHIP Contrary to appearances, the relationship between Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas was not that of an older man leading a younger man astray. Douglas, the third ...
( Category: Victorian February 26,2020 )
The Best American Erotica2007 by Susie Bright
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:Susie Bright

from Towelhead A LICIA E RIAN AT LUNCH THE NEXT day, Thomas said, “I thought of something you could do to impress me.” “What?” I asked. It was Hamburger Day ...
( Category: Anthologies February 26,2020 )
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 by Dave Eggers
epub |eng | 2019-03-03 | Author:Dave Eggers

( Category: United States February 26,2020 )

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