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Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation by John Phillip Santos
mobi |eng | 2000-08-01 | Author:John Phillip Santos

At the founding of many American cities lurk unsavory tales of invasion and mayhem, usually whitewashed or forgotten. Whether it’s the hoary presence of old buildings or a nebula of ...
( Category: Minority Studies April 5,2015 )
Burning the Days by James Salter
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:James Salter

II FORGOTTEN KINGS IN MY HAND is a blue square of paper, the blue of Gauloises, and slowly I unfold it once more. I feel the excitement still. The creases ...
( Category: United States April 5,2015 )
The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis by Julie Kavanagh
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-10 | Author:Julie Kavanagh

The veteran actor Marie Bouffé had recently been taken on at the Variétés by Nestor Roqueplan—a significant coup, as Bouffé had made the fortune of the Théâtre du Gymnase. But ...
( Category: France April 5,2015 )
Love, Sex, Death and Words by John Sutherland
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Sutherland

6 July The first Nobel laureate blogs his principles 2009 José Saramago (b. 1922) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998, the first Portuguese writer to do so. A ...
( Category: European April 5,2015 )
Reading Style by Jenny Davidson
mobi |eng | 2014-06-16 | Author:Jenny Davidson

Anton Voyl n’arrivait pas à dormir. Il alluma. Son Jaz marquait minuit vingt. Il poussa un profond soupir, s’assit dans son lit, s’appuyant sur son polochon. Il prit un roman, ...
( Category: Fiction April 5,2015 )
Best American Magazine Writing 2013 by The American Society of Magazine Editors
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-10 | Author:The American Society of Magazine Editors

Brittany couldn’t stop thinking about Sam, a reel that looped endlessly in her head. Sam dancing to one of their favorite metal bands, Drowning Pool. Sam dead in the tub ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction April 5,2015 )
Cane by Jean Toomer
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1923-11-12 | Author:Jean Toomer

THE END AFTERWORD “Song of the Son”: The Emergence and Passing of Jean Toomer by Rudolph P. Byrd and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In memoriam To Charles T. Davis, beloved ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
Fools Crow by Welch James
mobi |eng | 1987-11-03 | Author:Welch, James [Welch, James]

Red Paint spread the greasy mixture on the stiffened hide. Then she took one of the warm stones from the edge of the fire and began to scrub the hide ...
( Category: Native American Studies April 5,2015 )
Tucker's People (1943) by Ira Wolfert
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ira Wolfert [Wolfert, Ira]

XIII IN CALLING Foggarty, it had been Bauer's idea to raid Leo out of business. The moment Leo opened a new place, bang! there would be a raid and another ...
( Category: United States April 1,2015 )
The Shadows (Black Dagger Brotherhood #13) by J. R. Ward
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:J. R. Ward [Ward, J. R.]

THIRTY-EIGHT In the palace’s library, iAm slid out the last volume on the last shelf on the last row of healing texts. As he cracked the leather cover, the scream ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic April 1,2015 )
Leonard Cohen and Philosophy by Holt Jason
epub |eng | | Author:Holt, Jason [Holt, Jason]

Who Like the Hallelujah psalm praising the name of God, Cohen’s “Who by Fire” recounts the New Year prayer, Unetanneh Tokef—who will be inscribed. This is the meaning of the ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory April 1,2015 )
Emperor of the Earth by Czeslaw Milosz
epub |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Czeslaw Milosz [Milosz, Czeslaw]

On Thomas Mayne Reid In Chekhov's story "Boys," written in 1887, twelve-year old Volodia coming home for Christmas vacation brings with him his freckled schoolmate Chechevitzyn. The boys' behavior is ...
( Category: European April 1,2015 )
Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers by Edward Mendelson
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-02-11 | Author:Edward Mendelson

he was unrepentant when he confronted this aspect of his life. . . .“If I had to do it all over again I don’t suppose I would change anything. The ...
( Category: United States March 31,2015 )
Edge of Midnight by Shannon McKenna
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-14 | Author:Shannon McKenna [McKenna, Shannon]

Chapter 16 S omething was wrong with Tam. She wasn’t any pricklier than usual, but she had a strange vibe. Stranger than usual, that was.He would almost describe it as ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling March 27,2015 )
Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare
epub |eng | 1609-03-23 | Author:William Shakespeare [Shakespeare, William]

CERIMON O, you say well. First Gentleman But I much marvel that your lordship, having Rich tire about you, should at these early hours Shake off the golden slumber of ...
( Category: Drama March 24,2015 )

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