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A Little Learning by Evelyn Waugh
epub |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:Evelyn Waugh [Waugh, Evelyn]

4 I returned home for Christmas to find a new member of the household. This was no surprise. I had been kept informed of the change by letter, but whether ...
( Category: Literary August 24,2018 )
I've Got Sand In All the Wrong Places (The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman) by Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella
epub |eng | 2016-07-11 | Author:Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella [Scottoline, Lisa]

Spaghetti and Salad Lisa They say you should never talk about politics or religion. But these days, politics is religion. And I think that’s a wonderful thing. This way, instead ...
( Category: Humor August 24,2018 )
I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool (The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman) by Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella
epub |eng | 2017-07-10 | Author:Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella [Scottoline, Lisa]

Which Spices Would You Take to a Kitchen Island? Lisa There’s nothing like home improvement to improve your life. At least, not in theory. I say this because I’m adding ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 24,2018 )
San Francisco Noir 2 by Peter Maravelis
epub |eng | 2009-02-02 | Author:Peter Maravelis [Maravelis, Peter]

* * * All Souls Legal Cooperative is housed in a ramshackle Victorian on one of the steeply sloping side streets of Bernal Heights, a working-class district in the southern ...
( Category: Mystery August 24,2018 )
The Gnat and Other Minor Poems of Virgil by Virgil
epub |eng | 2012-01-22 | Author:Virgil

THE BARMAID The Syrian barmaid gets up to dance. Her hair is bound in a Greek bandanna and she sways to the sizzle of a tambourine. Her bare thighs flash ...
( Category: Poetry August 24,2018 )
The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert
epub |eng | 2020-12-30 | Author:Jack Gilbert [Gilbert, Jack]

HARD WIRED He is shamelessly happy to feel the thing inside him. He labors up through the pines with firewood and goes back down again. Winter on the way. Roses ...
( Category: Poetry August 24,2018 )
The Half-Finished Heaven by Tomas Transtromer
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:Tomas Transtromer [Transtromer, Tomas]

Preludes I. I shy from something that comes scraping crossways through the blizzard. Fragment out of what is to come. A wall gotten loose. Something eyeless. Hard. A face of ...
( Category: Poetry August 24,2018 )
Poems, 1957-1967 by James Dickey
epub |eng | | Author:James Dickey

GOODBYE TO SERPENTS Through rain falling on us no faster Than it runs down the wall we go through, My son and I shed Paris like a skin And slip ...
( Category: Poetry August 23,2018 )
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky & Oliver Ready
epub |eng | 2015-06-11 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky & Oliver Ready [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor & Ready, Oliver]

II It was almost eight already; both men were in a hurry to get over to Bakaleyev’s rooms before Luzhin arrived. ‘So who was that?’ asked Razumikhin as soon as ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 23,2018 )
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton & Jim Tierney & Jim Tierney
epub |eng | 2017-09-25 | Author:Edith Hamilton & Jim Tierney & Jim Tierney

The third labor was to bring back alive a stag with horns of gold, sacred to Artemis, which lived in the forests of Cerynitia. He could have killed it easily, ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths August 23,2018 )
Robinson by Edwin Arlington Robinson
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Edwin Arlington Robinson [ Robinson, Edwin Arlington]

BEN JONSON ENTERTAINS A MAN FROM STRATFORD You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put an ass’s head ...
( Category: Poetry August 23,2018 )
The Complete Works of Saki by H.H. Munro
epub |eng | 2009-08-31 | Author:H.H. Munro

THE HEDGEHOG A “Mixed Double” of young people were contesting a game of lawn tennis at the Rectory garden party; for the past five-and-twenty years at least mixed doubles of ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 22,2018 )
Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-10-21 | Author:Paule Marshall

During those next weeks he read only those newspapers and nothing beyond their pages seemed important. Each was entitled The New Light. Each had a large picture of a kindly, ...
( Category: Classics August 22,2018 )
Given Up for You by Erin O. White
epub |eng | | Author:Erin O. White

Before Grace was born we thought we might do some traveling during Chris’s maternity leave. Maybe the beach for a little while, or New York. After all, who knew when ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 22,2018 )
Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky
epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Aaron Lansky

18. “Hitler’s Fault” Ten years after we recovered books from the old Atran House, we were invited to the new Atran House. An improbably narrow building on East Twenty-first Street, ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles August 22,2018 )

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