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Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books by Pierpont Claudia Roth
mobi |eng | 2013-10-21 | Author:Pierpont, Claudia Roth [Pierpont, Claudia Roth]

A Holiday About Snow Operation Shylock is the product of Roth’s renewed vigor after the Halcion-induced breakdown and quintuple bypass surgery. With the concerns that had been running through his ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 2,2017 )
A Song for Mary by Dennis Smith
epub |eng | 1999-06-12 | Author:Dennis Smith [SMITH, DENNIS]

I throw Tom Sawyer on the kitchen table. I am going to also tell my mother about all the books I’ve been reading at Kips. The kitchen light is out, ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 2,2017 )
The Superhero Reader by Worcester Kent Hatfield Charles Heer Jeet
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-15 | Author:Worcester, Kent, Hatfield, Charles, Heer, Jeet [Worcester, Kent, Hatfield, Charles, Heer, Jeet]

A Song of the Urban Superhero SCOTT BUKATMAN Chapter originally titled “The Boys in the Hoods: A Song of the Urban Superhero,” reprinted by permission from Matters of Gravity: Special ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 2,2017 )
30 Great Myths about Shakespeare by Laurie Maguire & Emma Smith
mobi |eng | 2012-11-04 | Author:Laurie Maguire & Emma Smith [Maguire, Laurie]

Myth 17 Shakespeare wrote alone We tend to see genius as a solitary art: the writer alone in a garret. Shakespeare in Love shows Shakespeare at various stages of writer's ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 2,2017 )
A Conventional Corpse: A Claire Malloy Mystery by Joan Hess
mobi |eng | 2001-08-13 | Author:Joan Hess

Chapter 10 Lily was sitting on the steps of the front porch of the Azalea Inn when I drove up. Her knees were splayed rather cradely, but as far as ...
( Category: Mystery September 2,2017 )
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2005-03-01 | Author:Joseph Conrad

Chapter IX Mr Verloc returning from the Continent at the end of ten days, brought back a mind evidently unrefreshed by the wonders of foreign travel and a countenance unlighted ...
( Category: Classics September 2,2017 )
Spider Eaters: A Memoir by R Yang
mobi |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:R Yang

Perhaps the threat we made worried the higher-level officials. Soon afterwards, we were invited to talk with Wu Zhipu, deputy Party secretary of central southern China, who was Zhao Ziyang's ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 2,2017 )
Zane Grey by Thomas H. Pauly
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-03 | Author:Thomas H. Pauly

Launch of the Gladiator at Fellows and Stewart Shipyard, San Pedro, California, March 1921. (Courtesy of Dan Brock.) Mindful of the risk in these ambitious claims, Grey was determined that ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 2,2017 )
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai (Weatherhead Books on Asia) by Anyi Wang
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-02-22 | Author:Anyi, Wang [Anyi, Wang]

Sasha Sasha was a half-breed child of the revolution—a product of the Comintern. He was by right one of the city’s new masters, but his heart had no home here. ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 2,2017 )
Dance of the Tiger by Bjorn Kurten
epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Bjorn Kurten

STAG Mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies. —Psalms 54:7 I have no sons. The words brought another image, of a tall young woman, laughing, standing broad-legged in ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 1,2017 )
E. E. Cummings by Susan Cheever
epub |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Susan Cheever [Cheever, Susan]

8 Eimi and Marion Morehouse Eimi, Cummings’s second memoir, begins on Sunday, May 10, 1931, when he boards the train from Paris for Russia through Poland, and it ends 443 ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 1,2017 )
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased edition) (Vol. 2) (The Annotated Books) by Doyle Arthur Conan
epub |eng | 2007-11-05 | Author:Doyle, Arthur Conan [Doyle, Arthur Conan]

Lee Conrey, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 4, 1914 “The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it,” said Holmes. “I give you my word that for three days ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 1,2017 )
If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Italo Calvino

The last two desires are easily satisfied, and are not mutually exclusive. In the café, waiting for Ludmilla, you begin to read the book sent by Marana. In a network ...
( Category: Literary September 1,2017 )
The Best American Essays 2013 by Robert Atwan
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Atwan [Atwan, Robert]

My back still hurts sometimes, especially on long flights. Niazi called me at home a few days later and left a message on my answering machine. His voice was expressive ...
( Category: United States September 1,2017 )
The Pulpwood Queen's Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life by Kathy Patrick
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Kathy Patrick [L. PATRICK, KATHY]

* * * “Remember the time Kaitlyn (my granddaughter) wanted to dress as a Pulpwood Queen for Halloween? She was just five, and when her mother asked her what she ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 1,2017 )

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