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A Slepyng Hound to Wake by Vincent McCaffrey
epub |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Vincent McCaffrey [McCaffrey, Vincent]

“Huffy and Lu?” “Humphrey and Luella.” “They don’t make names like that anymore.” “No, they don’t.” “People don’t run naked in the fields anymore, either.” “No, they don’t …” “It’s ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles November 23,2017 )
Hound by Vincent McCaffrey
epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Vincent McCaffrey [McCaffrey, Vincent]

Chapter Twelve Y'ever find money in a book?" Her black eyes watched him the way pets often did when he was in a house to look at a collection of ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles November 23,2017 )
Let There Be Laughter by Michael Krasny
epub |eng | 2016-09-27 | Author:Michael Krasny

In this joke, there is anxiety over loss of Jewish identity. Many Jewish jokes, such as the one about the conversion and the goyishe kop, are about this fear, and ...
( Category: Humor November 22,2017 )
Robota by Orson Scott Card & Doug Chiang
epub |eng | 2016-12-14 | Author:Orson Scott Card & Doug Chiang [Card, Orson Scott & Chiang, Doug]

Once their guards had left them alone, Caps went immediately to Elyseo’s inert body. “What are you doing?” demanded Beryl. “I’m going to see if I can wake him up.” ...
( Category: Graphic Novels November 22,2017 )
The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
mobi |eng | 2004-02-10 | Author:Erik Larson

In April 1893 the citizens of Chicago elected Carter Henry Harrison to his fifth term. In preparation for the fair, he ordered two hundred barrels of whiskey, to be used ...
( Category: Studying & Workbooks November 22,2017 )
05 Desolation Island by O'Brian Patrick
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:O'Brian, Patrick [O'Brian, Patrick]

Chapter Seven Dawn broke, and once again Jack was knocked up; once again he was torn from the arms of an ideal Mrs Wogan with the news of a ship ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 21,2017 )
Devil in a Blue Dress by Devil in a Blue Dress
epub |eng | | Author:Devil in a Blue Dress

I put my chair in front of the window so I could look out into my yard. I sat there for a long time, balling my hands together and taking ...
( Category: Mystery November 21,2017 )
Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

Philosophers, mostly in ignorance of the mathematician's analysis, have adopted other and more heroic methods of dealing with the primâ facie difficulties of continuous motion. A typical and recent example ...
( Category: Philosophy November 21,2017 )
William S. Burroughs by Junky
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-09 | Author:Junky

“Those guys wouldn’t tell you nothing, ” Pat said. “It hurts ‘em to do anybody a favor.” We parked the car near Old Sam’s rooming house, and McKinney walked down ...
( Category: Literary November 21,2017 )
Couplehood by Paul Reiser
epub |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Paul Reiser [Reiser, Paul]

And when you find your seats, it’s still not over. One of you has to go back out to get the popcorn. That’s usually my job. I’m happy to do ...
( Category: Humor November 20,2017 )
FEASTING THE HEART by REYNOLDS PRICE
epub |eng | 2000-11-19 | Author:REYNOLDS PRICE

1996 TIME-RIDDEN My friends often remind me of my obsession with time—I’m always asking people’s ages, always celebrating anniversaries; I’m mercilessly prompt. Many Americans prefer not to notice the passage ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 19,2017 )
Why Dylan Matters by Richard F. Thomas
epub |eng | 2017-10-12 | Author:Richard F. Thomas [Richard F. Thomas]

7 MATURE POETS STEAL: VIRGIL, DYLAN, AND THE MAKING OF A CLASSIC Immature poets borrow; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 19,2017 )
The Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford
epub |eng | 2010-11-19 | Author:Francis Spufford [Francis Spufford]

I did experiment, sometimes, with bringing Narnia back over the line into this world. I imagined dryads in the woods at Keele, smoothing out their shining hair with birch-bark combs. ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 19,2017 )
Citizen Steinbeck by Robert McParland
epub |eng | 2012-11-19 | Author:Robert McParland

42. Dooley, “John Steinbeck’s Lower Case Utopia,” pp. 5–6. 43. Joseph Allegretti, “John Steinbeck and the Morality of Roles: Lessons for Business Ethics,” The Moral Philosophy of John Steinbeck (George), ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 19,2017 )
The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory by Malpas Simon. Wake Paul
epub |eng | | Author:Malpas, Simon.,Wake, Paul.

The understanding that the event of testimony effectively produces the event, witness and a co-witness (to testimony) has buttressed the idea that texts can be traumatic, facilitating the over-extension of ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 18,2017 )

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