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Made In America by Bill Bryson
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-11-15 | Author:Bill Bryson

12 Democratizing Luxury: Shopping in America In 1846 an Irish immigrant in New York named Alexander Stewart opened a business on Broadway called the Marble Dry-Goods Palace and in so ...
( Category: Linguistics March 25,2014 )
Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-10 | Author:Alexandre Dumas

Chapter XXXV. The Apparition. La Valliere very soon recovered from her surprise, for, owing to his respectful bearing, the king inspired her with more confidence by his presence than his ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
Sex, Lies, and Handwriting: A Top Expert Reveals the Secrets Hidden in Your Handwriting by Michelle Dresbold & James Kwalwasser
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Michelle Dresbold & James Kwalwasser

When he finished chitchatting with his victim, he stuffed the corpse in the crawl space under the floorboards in his living room. A week later, he pulled the body out ...
( Category: Graphology March 25,2014 )
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One by Stanley Fish
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Stanley Fish

(1925) Is this a sentence? It doesn’t have a beginning, middle, or end, and as you read it you can’t chart its progress toward a designed close. Who says “she ...
( Category: General Books & Reading March 25,2014 )
The Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-29 | Author:Mark Forsyth

Flying Peters Piers Plowman is a variant of Peter Plowman because the farmer in the poem was representative of the ideal disciple of Christ, the chief of the apostles and ...
( Category: Etymology March 25,2014 )
Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words by John Marciano
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-27 | Author:John Marciano

pan·der v. To cynically cater to another’s interests. The character from whom this term originates has a long and varied history on the margins of great literature. In Homer’s Iliad, ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867 by Walt Whitman
mobi, epub | | 2008-01-15 | Author:Walt Whitman

Book 20. By the Roadside. A Boston Ballad [1854] To get betimes in Boston town I rose this morning early, Here’s a good place at the corner, I must stand ...
( Category: Poetry March 25,2014 )
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-15 | Author:Walt Whitman

But drill and parade are over, they march back to quarters, Only hear that approval of hands! hear what a clapping! As wending the crowds now part and disperse—but we ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
mobi, epub |eng | 1953-01-01 | Author:Flannery O'Connor

The child crashed through the woods, making the fallen leaves sound ominous under her feet. The sun had risen a little and was only a white hole like an opening ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
The Wisdom of Oscar Wilde by the Wisdom of
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-06 | Author:the Wisdom of

He was a very selfish Giant. The poor children had now nowhere to play. They tried to play on the road, but the road was very dusty and full of ...
( Category: Quotations March 25,2014 )
Cracking the AP English Language & Composition Exam, 2012 Edition by Princeton Review
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Princeton Review

discredit dis CRED it to cause to be doubted The claim that pi is exactly equal to 3 can be discredited simply by careful measurement. disparage dis PAR uj to ...
( Category: Advanced Placement March 25,2014 )
Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:John Allen Paulos

NUMEROLOGY Less worrisome than inaccurate tests is numerology, the last pseudoscience I want to discuss, and my favorite. It is a very old practice common to a number of ancient ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 25,2014 )
The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language by Pinker Steven
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-13 | Author:Pinker, Steven [Pinker, Steven]

There is a very good reason why the erotic side of Man has called forth so much more discussion lately than has his appetite for food. The reason is this: ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 25,2014 )
The pastures of heaven by John Steinbeck
mobi, epub | | 1995-05-01 | Author:John Steinbeck

Eight MOLLY MORGAN got off the train in Salinas and waited three quarters of an hour for the bus. The big automobile was empty except for the driver and Molly. ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-09-29 | Author:Stieg Larsson

Cecilia had also invited Vanger to dinner, possibly to reduce the risk of troublesome topics of conversation. She had made a venison stew. Berger and Vanger spent a good deal ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )

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