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The Outfit: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels) by Richard Stark
mobi |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Richard Stark [Stark, Richard]

The mailman put his gun away under his coat, and removed the mailbag from his shoulder. He took cord from the mail sack and tied the receptionist's hands and feet. ...
( Category: Graphic Novels August 28,2017 )
Taxi (English edition) by Khaled Al Khamissi
azw3 |eng | 2012-03-15 | Author:Khaled Al Khamissi [Khamissi, Khaled Al]

Thirty-one When the distance is very short I don’t try to start a conversation with the driver, and this time I had got in on Arabian Peninsula Street in Mohandiseen, ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 28,2017 )
The Portable Mark Twain by Mark Twain
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Twain

CHAPTER XXI It was after sun-up, now, but we went right on, and didn’t tie up. The king and the duke turned out, by-and-by, looking pretty rusty; but after they’d ...
( Category: United States August 28,2017 )
The Portable Roman Reader (Portable Library) by Various
epub, mobi |eng | 1977-01-27 | Author:Various

“0 son, well learned in all the lore of Ilium’s fate,” he said, “Cassandra only of such hap would sing; I mind me well Of like fate meted to our ...
( Category: Poetry August 28,2017 )
Second Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-20 | Author:H.L. Mencken [Mencken, H.L.]

Freudian Autopsy upon a Genius From the American Mercury, June, 1931, pp. 251–52. A review of THE POLISH HERITAGE OF JOSEPH CONRAD, By Gustaf Morf (Richard R. Smith); New York, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 28,2017 )
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2008-11-18 | Author:Francois Rabelais

How Rondibilis, the physician, advises Panurge CHAPTER 31 [Behind Rondibilis probably lies Dr Rondelet, a distinguished physician at Montpellier. Rondibilis advocates the teachings about semen of the Platonico-Hippocratic school which, ...
( Category: Classics August 28,2017 )
Mencken Chrestomathy (Vintage) by H.L. Mencken
azw3 |eng | 2012-03-07 | Author:H.L. Mencken [Mencken, H.L.]

The Boon of Culture From the American Mercury, Sept., 1931, pp. 36–48 EVERY American college president, it appears, is in duty bound to write and utter at least one book ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 28,2017 )
Growing Up Native American by Bill Adler
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Adler

5:55 P.M. Father Buck slipped into the study hall almost as noiselessly as a ghost. He nodded for Brother Manseau to close his book, and Brother Manseau promptly disappeared. Believing ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 28,2017 )
Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King by Lisa Rogak
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-06 | Author:Lisa Rogak [Rogak, Lisa]

In October 1985, King broke his previous record by having four books hit the New York Times bestseller list at the same time: Skeleton Crew in hardcover, and Thinner, The ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 28,2017 )
Virginia Woolf by Ruth Gruber
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-20 | Author:Ruth Gruber [Gruber, Ruth]

the voice of no age or sex, the voice of an ancient spring spouting from the earth; which issued, just opposite Regent’s Park Tube Station, from a tall quivering shape, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 28,2017 )
My Custom Van by Michael Ian Black
mobi |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Michael Ian Black [Black, Michael Ian]

8:30 P.M.: I’m meeting a friend for dinner and a movie, so I head out for the night. SUNDAY 10:15 A.M.: Dinner went long last night, so I got a ...
( Category: Humor August 28,2017 )
James A. Michener by Iberia
mobi, epub |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Iberia

VIII SALAMANCA Salamanca’s Plaza Mayor is the finest in Spain and one of the four best in the world. St. Mark’s in Venice has a richer variety of architecture; the ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 28,2017 )
Ideas and the Novel by Mary McCarthy
epub |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Mary McCarthy [McCarthy, Mary]

4 YOU COULD SAY THAT Crime and Punishment was a novel about the difference between theory and practice. Well, if you were a philistine, you could. The Possessed, too, deals ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 28,2017 )
Iberia by James A. Michener
epub |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:James A. Michener [Michener, James A.]

VIII SALAMANCA Salamanca’s Plaza Mayor is the finest in Spain and one of the four best in the world. St. Mark’s in Venice has a richer variety of architecture; the ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 28,2017 )
Barbara Kingsolver by The bean trees
epub |eng | 1998-08-26 | Author:The bean trees [trees, The bean]

There may have been a world of things I didn’t understand, but I knew when rudeness passed between one human being and another. The things Mrs. Parsons had said about ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 28,2017 )

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