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Instinct (Previously Published as Murder Games) by James Patterson & Howard Roughan
epub |eng | 2017-06-26 | Author:James Patterson & Howard Roughan [Patterson, James & Roughan, Howard]

Chapter 59 WE WERE heading back to Harlem. Fast. The “we” was everybody. Me, Elizabeth, the mayor, his entire detail, and key staff members, including Livingston. It was a speeding ...
( Category: Murder December 7,2019 )
Genius and Ink by Virginia Woolf
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-10-10 | Author:Virginia Woolf

Montaigne Once at Bar-le-Duc Montaigne saw a portrait which René King of Sicily had painted of himself, and asked, ‘Why is it not, in like manner, lawful for everyone to ...
( Category: Feminist December 6,2019 )
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2019-10-15 | Author:Bill Bryson

III ONE OTHER ALL-TOO-COMMON affliction of the lungs deserves a mention, not so much because of what it does to us as because of how extraordinarily long it took us ...
( Category: Anatomy November 30,2019 )
African American Literature by Hans A. Ostrom
epub |eng | 2020-11-28 | Author:Hans A. Ostrom

Jones, Gayl (1949–) Fiction writer, poet, playwright, professor, and literary critic. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Gayl Jones was creatively precocious, writing her first short story at the age of seven. ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic November 29,2019 )
Long Live Latin by Nicola Gardini
epub |eng | 2019-10-23 | Author:Nicola Gardini

I didn’t really start reading Ovid until after college. Rather than start right in on the Metamorphoses, I began with the Heroides, a collection of imaginary letters written by mythological ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical November 29,2019 )
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales by Tatar Maria;
epub |eng | 2018-11-28 | Author:Tatar, Maria;

7 TAMING THE BEAST Bluebeard and Other Monsters Curiosity is a valuable trait. It will make the simians learn many things. —CLARENCE DAY, This Simian World “OF ALL the irrational ...
( Category: European November 29,2019 )
Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg by Michael Schumacher
mobi |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Michael Schumacher

7 There was resistance to the radical changes taking place in New York’s bohemian community, and soon enough Allen found himself battling the political forces that advocated censorship in opposition ...
( Category: Beat Generation November 29,2019 )
Afropean: Notes From Black Europe by Johny Pitts
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-06-06 | Author:Johny Pitts

It seemed to me that the big challenge for Germany, being at the centre of the Eurozone, is to stop using the idea of multiculturalism as and when it sees ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies November 25,2019 )
Simply Tolstoy (Great Lives) by Donna Tussing Orwin
epub |eng | 2017-07-25 | Author:Donna Tussing Orwin [Tussing Orwin, Donna]

“Church and State” (1879) A short essay written early in Tolstoy’s quest for religious certainty and not published until much later already attacks the established Church in sharp, precise, and ...
( Category: Authors November 24,2019 )
Poor Folk Anthology by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

"Yes." "That'll scarcely be possible in our time," Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch responded slowly and, as it were, dreamily; the two spoke without the slightest irony. "In the Apocalypse the angel swears ...
( Category: Russian November 20,2019 )
The Measure of a Man by Marco Malvaldi
epub |eng | 2019-09-13 | Author:Marco Malvaldi [Malvaldi, Marco]

* * * “You see, Your Lordship, the letter is signed by Bencio Serristori, Accerrito Portinari’s associate and my good friend in Florence. It’s clearly dated the twenty-fourth of June ...
( Category: Renaissance November 20,2019 )
The Poetic Edda by Jackson Crawford
epub |eng | 2015-03-15 | Author:Jackson Crawford [Crawford, Jackson]

{177} Helgakvitha Hjorvarthssonar Concerning Hjorvarth and Sigerlinn A king was named Hjorvarth; he had four wives. One was named Alfhild, and their son was named Hethin. The second was named ...
( Category: Medieval November 20,2019 )
Splinters Are Children of Wood by Leia Penina Wilson
epub |eng | 2019-07-10 | Author:Leia Penina Wilson

is it worseto return empty or not at all in the poems we all die just another way poetry reflects life another way a woman is made i mean marginalized ...
( Category: Women Authors November 20,2019 )
The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury
epub |eng | | Author:Christine Féret-Fleury

( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling November 20,2019 )
Critics Who Know Jack by Joseph Maviglia
epub |eng | 2014-09-07 | Author:Joseph Maviglia [Maviglia, Joseph]

THE IMAGE THAT A SOUND CREATES Screen projectors used to rattle, and before you even saw an image related to the sound of the moving picture, that hum and rattle ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 20,2019 )

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