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Seductive Poison by Deborah Layton
epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Deborah Layton [Layton, Deborah]

I made my way to the radio room, where I knew Father was communicating, as he did every night, with Teresa in the United States. I was worried that Sharon ...
( Category: Suicide March 26,2014 )
Varieties of Exile by Mavis Gallant
epub |eng | | Author:Mavis Gallant

The husband of the woman from whom I rented my summer room played golf every weekend. On one of those August nights when no one can sleep and the sky ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Mavis Gallant

THE REMISSION WHEN IT became clear that Alec Webb was far more ill than anyone had cared to tell him, he tore up his English life and came down to ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
The Last Lion by William Manchester
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:William Manchester [MANCHESTER, WILLIAM/REID, PAUL]

( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club, The by Notaro Laurie
epub |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Notaro, Laurie [Notaro, Laurie]

How I Can Relive the Horror of High School for $103 I remember that it was a hot June night; the lights on the football field were searing and white, ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
King John by William Shakespeare
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:William Shakespeare

* * * SCENE 2. The same. Plains near Angiers [Alarums. Excursions. Enter the BASTARD with AUSTRIA'S head.] BASTARD. Now, by my life, this day grows wondrous hot; Some airy ...
( Category: Drama March 26,2014 )
The Black Count by Tom Reiss
epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Tom Reiss [Reiss, Tom]

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: American Revolution March 26,2014 )
The Lodger Shakespeare by Charles Nicholl
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Charles Nicholl

In his deposition at the Court of Requests Wilkins gives his age as ‘36 years or thereabouts’, but in another deposition two years later he says he is about forty. ...
( Category: Renaissance March 26,2014 )
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-07-20 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]

22 The wind blew over the roof and ruffled the shingles. It whistled sharp under the closed door. The chimney made fearful sounds of protest as it was invaded by ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 26,2014 )
Alan Moore: Conversations by Eric L. Berlatsky
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-03-25 | Author:Eric L. Berlatsky

The Craft: An Interview with Alan Moore DANIEL WHISTON, DAVID RUSSELL, AND ANDY FRUISH / 2002 Zarjaz 3 & 4 (2002–2003). Interview conducted on September 9 and October 29, 2002. ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2014 )
Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L'Amour
epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-04-28 | Author:Louis L'Amour

Often I am asked if any writer ever helped or advised me. None did. However, I was not asking for help either, and I do not believe one should. If ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
TIS by Frank McCourt
epub |eng | 2011-10-14 | Author:Frank McCourt [McCourt, Frank]

My father applied for a plot out the road in Rosbrien and the government lent him a spade and a fork for the work. He took my brother Malachy and ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
Out of Africa ; and, Shadows on the grass by Isak Dinesen
epub, mobi | | 1985-10-14 | Author:Isak Dinesen [Dinesen, Isak]

Chapter 5 A FUGITIVE RESTS ON THE FARM There was one traveller who came to the farm, slept there for one night, and walked off not to come back, of ...
( Category: Kenya March 26,2014 )
Darkness Visible by William Styron
epub |eng | 2008-05-30 | Author:William Styron

V ONE OF THE MEMORABLE MOMENTS IN MADAME BOVARY is the scene where the heroine seeks help from the village priest. Guilt-ridden, distraught, miserably depressed, the adulterous Emma—heading toward eventual ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 26,2014 )
Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by McClure Wendy
epub |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:McClure, Wendy [McClure, Wendy]

If their photos are any indication, Laura and Almanzo were the cutest old couple ever. They stood side by side in their photos, their poses stiff but matching, and together ...
( Category: General March 26,2014 )

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