epub, mobi | | 2010-03-23 | Author:Ray Bradbury [Bradbury, Ray]

Mrs Elmira Brown’s foot hurt her in the middle of the night, so she got up and went down to the kitchen and ate some cold chicken and made a ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Julian Barnes [Barnes, Julian]

THE MAN WHO SAVED OLD FRANCE IFIRST STARTED GOING to France almost fifty years ago, on motoring holidays with my parents and brother. The towns and villages we then visited ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-19 | Author:Barnes, Julian [Barnes, Julian]

THE MAN WHO SAVED OLD FRANCE IFIRST STARTED GOING to France almost fifty years ago, on motoring holidays with my parents and brother. The towns and villages we then visited ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:David Shields [Shields, David]

5 THE WOUND AND THE BOW In which I make various self-destructive gestures, flirt none too successfully or seriously with suicide, pull back from the brink via the written word. ...

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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1992-03-14 | Author:Edith Somerville

* * * CHAPTER XXVIII. Nearly three weeks had gone by since Mrs. Beattie’s party, and as Charlotte Mullen walked slowly along the road towards Rosemount one afternoon, her eyes ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Marjorie Garber

The reading tactic deployed here is, as I’ve noted, what has been variously called close reading or slow reading or reading in slow motion. The latter phrase is that of ...

mobi |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Shaunda Kennedy Wenger; Janet Jensen

2 cups fresh green beans, ends removed, cut into 1-inch pieces 1 16-ounce can garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed 1 16-ounce can kidney beans, drained and rinsed ½ cup yellow ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-29 | Author:Sean Manning

DFW, in his sleep: “It’s fun to read.” “Doctors can’t say ‘Oops,’” the doctor said. “Doctors say ‘There.’” The doctor had his costume—the same one Dr. Drew wears, except a ...

mobi, epub | | 2010-12-12 | Author:L'amour, Louis [L'amour, Louis]

First publication: Bantam Books paperback, July 1970 Narrator: Flagan Sackett Time Period: c. 1875-1879 Flagan and Galloway Sackett were just looking for a place to start ranching. It was a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Will Schwalbe

MOM HAD BEEN increasingly in touch with her old Harvard friend, the one with whom she’d recently reconnected, the one who’d given her Daily Strength for Daily Needs. That was ...

mobi |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Nina Sankovitch

Chapter 12 The Expansion of Experience Now that I had taken the pains to learn something about it, I had better ask if I really wanted to know. I did. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-26 | Author:Berthoud, Ella & Elderkin, Susan [Berthoud, Ella]

It is tempting, especially in youth, to go around forming instant and strong opinions about others. To judge, to pronounce, to label—such things can seem to an immature mind to ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:Michael Chabon [Chabon, Michael]

LANDSMAN OF THE LOST LIKE MANY PEOPLE, I was first apprised of the wistful and intrepid pilgrimage of Mr. Julius Knipl by Lawrence Weschler, in his 1993 New Yorker profile ...