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The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Edward E. Baptist [Baptist, Edward E.]

Image 7.4. An elderly but still pugnacious Andrew Jackson as President, slaying the many-headed Hydra of the nefarious Second Bank of the United States. The head with the top hat ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 22,2014 )
Science Fiction and Philosophy by Schneider Susan
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Schneider, Susan [Schneider, Susan]

Thus, amid a welter of convoluted prose, was born the cyborg. The acronym “cyborg” stood for Cybernetic Organism or Cybernetically Controlled Organism; it was a term of art meant to ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 17,2014 )
Without Feathers by Woody Allen
mobi, pdf |eng | 1975-01-02 | Author:Woody Allen

Match Wits with Inspector Ford The Case of the Murdered Socialite Inspector Ford burst into the study. On the floor was the body of Clifford Wheel, who apparently had been ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory September 15,2014 )
The Man Who Had All the Luck by Arthur Miller
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur Miller

ACT TWO Scene i June. Three years later. The living room of the FALKs’—now DAVID’s—house. A farmhouse room, but brightly done over. Solid door to outside at the right. In ...
( Category: Drama September 15,2014 )
Timebends by Arthur Miller
epub |eng | 1986-12-31 | Author:Arthur Miller

Once again I was roaming Brooklyn Heights, crossing the liberating bridge on foot or bike, finding my way down to the Battery to watch people boarding the ferry to the ...
( Category: Authors September 15,2014 )
Selected Essays (Penguin Classics) by Johnson Samuel
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-02-27 | Author:Johnson, Samuel [Johnson, Samuel]

No. 168. Saturday, 26 October 1751. —————Decipit Frons prima multos, rara mens intelligit Quod interiore condidit cura angulo. PHÆDRUS.1 The tinsel glitter, and the specious mein,2 Delude the most; few ...
( Category: British & Irish September 15,2014 )
The Five and Twenty Tales of the Genie (Penguin Classics) by Sivadasa
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-08-30 | Author:Sivadasa [Sivadasa]

There is a city named Ćūdāpura, ruled by a king named Ćūdāmani. The Royal Priest was one Harisvāmi, son of Devasvāmi. In looks the Royal Priest was as handsome as ...
( Category: Fairy Tales September 15,2014 )
The Hollows Insider: New Fiction, Facts, Maps, Murders, and More in the World of Rachel Morgan by Harrison Kim
mobi |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Harrison, Kim [Harrison, Kim]

Most pixies live in the country since gardens sophisticated enough to support a growing clan are understandably scarce within city limits, but once established, an elaborate city garden is safer ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy September 10,2014 )
Cooking Up a Business by Rachel Hofstetter
epub |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:Rachel Hofstetter

Each broker represents thirty to forty different companies and will pitch each product to local grocery store buyers. “But of course, these guys are also really expensive and I couldn’t ...
( Category: Marketing September 7,2014 )
The Long Valley by John Steinbeck
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John Steinbeck

At about ten o’clock the news came. Thinking about such things afterwards, you never can remember quite what transpired. Someone comes in; a whisper starts; suddenly everyone knows what has ...
( Category: Short Stories September 7,2014 )
Working Days by STEINBECK JOHN
epub |eng | | Author:STEINBECK, JOHN

The Steinbecks’ first Los Gatos house, Arroyo del Ajo (Garlic Gulch), where they lived from 1936 through 1938, and where the novelist wrote all of The Grapes of Wrath. [Steinbeck ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory September 7,2014 )
Read for Your Life by Pat Williams
epub |eng | | Author:Pat Williams

Reading gives delight, information, stimulation, and ability. The wise crave it, the superficial discourage it, and the stupid neglect it. —Haddon Robinson, communicator Amazingly enough, in the first chapter, mention ...
( Category: General September 6,2014 )
Finders keepers : selected prose, 1971-2001 by Seamus Heaney
epub |eng | 2002-07-24 | Author:Seamus Heaney [Heaney, Seamus]

man' was a pattern. The solitude, the will towards excellence, the courage, the self-conscious turning away from that in which he no longer believes, which is Dublin life, and turning ...
( Category: European September 6,2014 )
The Complete Stephen King Universe by Stanley Wiater
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-09 | Author:Stanley Wiater

KINGDOM HOSPITAL: PRIMARY SUBJECTS PETER RICKMAN: A gifted artist, Peter Rickman functions as King’s alter ego in the miniseries. Rickman (perhaps named after British horror writer Phil Rickman) finds himself ...
( Category: Reference September 6,2014 )
Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
epub |eng | 1999-09-30 | Author:William Blake [Blake, William]

* * * MY PRETTY ROSE TREE A flower was offered to me, Such a flower as May never bore; But I said, ‘I’ve a pretty rose tree,’ And I ...
( Category: European September 4,2014 )

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