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Year of Reading Dangerously : How Fifty Great Books (And Two Not-so-great Ones) Saved My Life (9780062100627) by Miller Andy
epub |eng | | Author:Miller, Andy

III ‘Mais ne lisez pas, comme les enfants lisent, pour vous amuser, ni comme les ambitieux lisent, pour vous instruire. Non, lisez pour vivre.’ ‘But do not read, as children ...
( Category: General March 7,2015 )
The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution by Shulamith Firestone
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-03-05 | Author:Shulamith Firestone [Firestone, Shulamith]

6 Love A book on radical feminism that did not deal with love would be a political failure. For love, perhaps even more than child-bearing, is the pivot of women’s ...
( Category: General March 7,2015 )
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Larry Watson [Watson, Larry]

Because Daisy kept the curtains drawn and windows closed to keep the heat of the day out, the McAuley house was dark and stuffy. The house always had a strange ...
( Category: General March 5,2015 )
Tomorrow's ghost by Anthony Price
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-18 | Author:Anthony Price [Price, Anthony]

CHAPTER 8 ON THE OUTSKIRTS of Colonel Butler’s village there was a big new garage, with a showroom full of gleaming Japanese cars and an unbeatable offer on its petrol. ...
( Category: Espionage March 4,2015 )
Teacher by Mark Edmundson
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Mark Edmundson

Chapter Seven THE WALRUS But in my life things got not better but worse over the course of that winter. I sniffed at the orphan state prescribed by Lears and ...
( Category: General March 4,2015 )
In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
epub, mobi |eng | 1988-05-01 | Author:Paul Auster [Auster, Paul]

“I don’t believe in God anymore, if that’s what you mean,” I said. “I gave all that up when I was a little girl.” “It’s difficult not to,” the Rabbi ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 4,2015 )
Love Sonnets and Elegies by Louise Labe
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-20 | Author:Louise Labe

Elegie II D’un tel vouloir le serf point ne desire La liberté, ou son port le navire, Comme j’atens, helas, de jour en jour De toy, Ami, le gracieus retour. ...
( Category: Renaissance March 4,2015 )
I can make you hate by Charlie Brooker
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Charlie Brooker

PART SIX In which EastEnders is revealed to be a work of fiction, Nick Clegg worries about human beings with feet, and a teenager incurs the wrath of the internet ...
( Category: European March 4,2015 )
The Portable Henry Rollins by Henry Rollins
epub |eng | 1997-02-10 | Author:Henry Rollins [Rollins, Henry]

August 21, Asbury Park, NJ: Did a photo shoot for some magazine and then went to the gig. Got there late and made sound check. Asbury Park is a hard ...
( Category: United States March 4,2015 )
Volpone and Other Plays by Ben Jonson
epub |eng | 2010-10-24 | Author:Ben Jonson

IV, V [SCENE THREE] [A room upstairs in Lovewit’s house.] [Enter DOL] in her fit of talking [followed by MAMMON.] [DOL COMMON:] For, after Alexander’s death – MAMMON: Good lady ...
( Category: Drama March 4,2015 )
The Stories of Richard Bausch by Richard Bausch
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-03-03 | Author:Richard Bausch [Bausch, Richard]

CONSOLATION Late one summer afternoon, Milly Harmon and her older sister, Meg, spend a blessed, uncomplicated hour at a motel pool in Philadelphia, sitting in the shade of one of ...
( Category: Military March 4,2015 )
Writings from the New Yorker 1925-1976 by E. B. White
epub |eng | 2013-12-17 | Author:E. B. White

Of course, the defenders of scientific progress claim that for every displaced victim of technology, there is a new job opening up—if not in the service industries, or in entertainment, ...
( Category: Essays March 4,2015 )
Living in Hope and History by Nadine Gordimer
epub |eng | 1999-03-03 | Author:Nadine Gordimer

HEROES AND VILLAINS Pascale, my French granddaughter, aged four and enraged at not getting her own way, would shriek at her mother, ‘Vilaine!’ It seems to me there’s something both ...
( Category: African March 4,2015 )
The Adventures of Ulysses by Bernard Evslin
epub |eng | 2012-10-03 | Author:Bernard Evslin [Evslin, Bernard]

The Sirens IN THE FIRST LIGHT of morning Ulysses awoke and called his crew about him. “Men,” he said. “Listen well, for your lives today hang upon what I am ...
( Category: Myths & Legends March 4,2015 )
Twitterature by Alexander Aciman
epub |eng | | Author:Alexander Aciman

Did I set her straight when the young man who knocked her up beat me up? If I could restore her virginity by will alone. Oh. Time for class. Told ...
( Category: General March 4,2015 )

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