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Red-Dirt Marijuana: And Other Tastes (1967) by Terry Southern
mobi |eng | 1967-01-02 | Author:Terry Southern [Southern, Terry]

Apartment to Exchange CHARACTERS: FRANZ KAFKA: About 34, of medium height, slender build, and with a thin, haunted, extremely sensitive face; he is carefully dressed in the dark-suited style of ...
( Category: Short Stories July 17,2015 )
0374129231 by Mia Couto
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mia Couto

The Hunter’s Diary FOUR Rituals and Ambushes Where men can be gods, animals can be men. —THE WRITER’S NOTEBOOKS Hanifa comes to call me in the middle of the night. ...
( Category: General July 17,2015 )
The Sonic Boom by Joel Beckerman
epub |eng | | Author:Joel Beckerman

Before we could translate anything into the language of sound, we all had to speak AT&T. The company values inventiveness and is always endeavoring to come up with unique ways ...
( Category: Marketing July 16,2015 )
Jesus' Blood and Righteousness by Brian Vickers
epub, pdf | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Brian Vickers

134 JESUS’ BLOOD AND RIGHTEOUSNESS “because” they sinned in Adam, apart from personally committing sin.80 The guilt of Adam’s sin spreads to all.81 This view rightly recog­ nizes the forensic ...
( Category: New Testament July 15,2015 )
When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning
epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Molly Guptill Manning [Manning, Molly Guptill]

The council decided it was duty bound to wage a fight for the repeal of Title V. From a monetary perspective, it did not matter to the council if one ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 14,2015 )
Prose by Elizabeth Bishop
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Bishop

Chapter 10 The United States and Brazil have many things in common besides both being in the Western Hemisphere and sharing the name of Amerigo Vespucci. It is time we ...
( Category: Anthologies July 12,2015 )
Sylvia Plath: A Biography by Linda Wagner-Martin
epub |eng | 2014-12-17 | Author:Linda Wagner-Martin [Wagner-Martin, Linda]

9 - Marriage 1956-57 “I Am Learning Peacefulness” Sylvia’s humor was not improved when she and Ted returned from Spain completely broke. Partly because their funds were depleted, in September, ...
( Category: Poetry July 12,2015 )
Moby-Dick or, the Whale
mobi |eng | 2009-06-15 | Author:Herman Melville

CHAPTER 72 The Monkey-rope In the tumultuous business of cutting-in and attending to a whale, there is much running backwards and forwards among the crew. Now hands are wanted here, ...
( Category: Classics July 11,2015 )
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
epub |eng | 2011-07-10 | Author:Alan Jacobs

1. (Chiefly in translations from Latin): Affection, friendliness, devotion to another’s welfare; partisan sympathy; desire, inclination; pleasure or interest felt in something—NB: All these meanings are obsolete since 1697. So ...
( Category: General July 11,2015 )
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Vintage Classics) by Nikolai Gogol & Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
mobi |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Nikolai Gogol & Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

Chapter V WHICH CONTAINS AN ACCOUNT OF A MEETING BETWEEN TWO DISTINGUISHED PERSONS OF MIRGOROD Ivan Ivanovich had only just finished his household chores and gone out, as usual, to ...
( Category: Russian July 9,2015 )
25 For 25 by Black Library
epub |eng | 2012-01-19 | Author:Black Library [Library, Black]

THE BURNING Nick Kyme The following events take place between Salamander and Firedrake, the first two novels of the Tome of Fire trilogy. This series follows the Salamander Space Marines ...
( Category: United States June 28,2015 )
The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William S. Burroughs [Burroughs, William S.]

I Sekuin THE MAYAN CAPER—THE CENTIPEDE SWITCH—THE HEAVY METAL GIMMICK. I Sekuin, perfected these arts along the streets of Minraud. Under sign of the Centipede. A captive head. In Minraud ...
( Category: Adventure June 22,2015 )
The Emperor's Pearl by Robert van Gulik
epub, mobi |eng | 1963-12-14 | Author:Robert van Gulik [Gulik, Robert Van]

THE JUDGE HAS TEA IN A CURIO-SHOP 'Why?' 'Because,' Yang replied with a sly smile, ' Mr Kwang also supplies Dr Pien's competitors here with drugs. Besides, Mr Kwang asked ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 21,2015 )
Poets and Murder by Robert van Gulik
mobi, epub |eng | 1968-12-14 | Author:Robert van Gulik [Gulik, Robert van]

JUDGE DEE CONSULTS THE ARCHIVES concubine. Judge Dee put his forefinger on the item and said : 'Please find out in this year's Population Register whether Mr Soong is still ...
( Category: Movements & Periods June 21,2015 )
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
epub |eng | 1998-10-26 | Author:Alberto Manguel [Manguel, Alberto]

Two students’ tablets from Sumer. The teacher wrote on one side, the student copied the teacher’s writing on the other. (photo credit 12.1) A writer can construct a text in ...
( Category: General June 20,2015 )

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