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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Dava Sobel [Sobel, Dava]

Grand Duke Ferdinando II Ferdinando ceded broad discretionary powers to his public health officers—a group of noblemen who answered directly and only to him. Their ordinances, aimed with good intentions ...
( Category: Studying & Workbooks May 29,2014 )
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance : Portrait of an Age
epub |eng | 1992-04-15 | Author:William Manchester [Manchester, William]

Emperor Charles V (Carlos I of Spain) (1500–1558) it, shall be repaid without further delay.” Charles paid—mostly by giving Fugger the right to collect various royal revenues in Spain. CHARLES ...
( Category: Renaissance May 29,2014 )
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple
epub |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Brenda Wineapple [Wineapple, Brenda]

“MOTHER WAS PARALYZED TUESDAY,” Emily penciled a quick note on dark paper to Wentworth in the summer of 1875. “A year from the evening father died. I thought perhaps you ...
( Category: Movements & Periods May 29,2014 )
Blind Justice: A William Monk Novel by Anne Perry
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-27 | Author:Anne Perry [Perry, Anne]

IT WAS ALMOST THREE hours later when he was called to the interview room again. Henry Rathbone was standing beside the table, tall and lean, though a little stooped now. ...
( Category: Historical Mystery May 28,2014 )
Blind Justice by Anne Perry
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-27 | Author:Anne Perry

IT WAS ALMOST THREE hours later when he was called to the interview room again. Henry Rathbone was standing beside the table, tall and lean, though a little stooped now. ...
( Category: Historical Mystery May 28,2014 )
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
epub, azw3, mobi |eng, eng | 1989-05-31 | Author:Raymond Carver [Carver, Raymond]

I look at the word Love and then I underline it. Then I see the word backyard. Is it one word or two? I DRIVE through farm country, through fields ...
( Category: Short Stories May 28,2014 )
Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life by Howard Sounes
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Howard Sounes [Sounes, Howard]

He invariably invited his callers over, whatever their motivation, so long as they could bring a six-pack of beer, and Brad and Tina Darby often saw young women following Bukowski ...
( Category: Beat Generation May 27,2014 )
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-09-21 | Author:A. J. Jacobs [Jacobs, A. J.]

mammals Elephant copulation lasts twenty seconds. That should make a lot of men feel better. Mann, Horace In his final speech, the educational reformer told students: "Be ashamed to die ...
( Category: General May 27,2014 )
When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories From a Persuasive Man by Jerry Weintraub
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-06 | Author:Jerry Weintraub [Weintraub, Jerry]

Once I was established in the entertainment business, I began to see the possibility of shows everywhere. All life was theater and I wanted to put it on a stage ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers May 27,2014 )
Lorraine Hansberry's a Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
epub |eng | 1984-01-15 | Author:Lorraine Hansberry [Hansberry, Lorraine]

WALTER —Do you hear the beating of the wings of the birds flying low over the mountains and the low places of our land— BENEATHA OCOMOGOSIAY! WALTER —Do you hear ...
( Category: United States May 26,2014 )
The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-29 | Author:Joan Schenkar [Schenkar, Joan]

A starched white shirt, her Levi’s, a black wristband on her watch, it looked like one of those Cartier tank watches, and she had on a pair of black loafers ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective May 26,2014 )
A Tragic Honesty by Blake Bailey
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Blake Bailey [Bailey, Blake]

CHAPTER ELEVEN A Natural Girl: 1966-1968 Yates drove straight to Iowa City from Hollywood, but when he arrived he couldn’t find his new apartment at 800 North Van Buren. His ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory May 26,2014 )
Capote by Gerald Clarke
epub |eng | 2013-12-05 | Author:Gerald Clarke [Clarke, Gerald]

37 WHEN he docked in New York, in late October, 1958, Breakfast at Tiffany’s was in the bookstores, and Holly Golightly had already taken her place in America’s fictional Hall ...
( Category: United States May 26,2014 )
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? by Marion Meade
epub |eng | 1989-03-02 | Author:Marion Meade [Meade, Marion]

I saw Dottie many, many times afterwards... but never once was that first evening ever mentioned. For all that she retained of it, it had never happened. A few weeks ...
( Category: Women May 26,2014 )
Amok and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
epub |eng | 2011-05-25 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Stefan Zweig]

Slow footsteps and slapping sounds came from amidships; the sailors were beginning to scour the deck. He started as if caught in a guilty act, and his strained face looked ...
( Category: Short Stories May 26,2014 )

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