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Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of to Kill a Mockingbird by Mary McDonagh Murphy
azw3 |eng | 2010-06-08 | Author:Mary McDonagh Murphy

Maybe you’ll say it’s my duty to tell the town all about it and not hush it up. Know what’d happen then? All the ladies in Maycomb includin’ my wife’d ...
( Category: United States January 4,2015 )
Scout, Atticus, & Boo by Mary McDonagh Murphy
epub |eng | 2010-01-03 | Author:Mary McDonagh Murphy

Maybe you’ll say it’s my duty to tell the town all about it and not hush it up. Know what’d happen then? All the ladies in Maycomb includin’ my wife’d ...
( Category: United States January 4,2015 )
Couples by John Updike
epub |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

capac. for self-decep. Foxy said sharply, “I won’t believe it. Everything people have ever built up, Freddy, you’d let slide and fall apart.” “I do my job,” he answered. “It’s ...
( Category: General December 27,2014 )
A Temple of Texts: Essays by William H. Gass
epub |eng | 2006-12-26 | Author:William H. Gass [Gass, William H.]

Now, as I continue to dance about the memory of my foolish encounter with Canetti in Berlin, imitating Barth’s felicitous footfalls, the moment becomes as full of significance as it ...
( Category: Authorship December 27,2014 )
When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning
epub |eng | | Author:Molly Guptill Manning

The council decided it was duty bound to wage a fight for the repeal of Title V. From a monetary perspective, it did not matter to the council if one ...
( Category: General December 27,2014 )
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-12-31 | Author:Simon Winchester

It was at about this time that there came two developments, one of which by chance led indirectly to the other. The first stemmed from a factor that is not ...
( Category: Great Britain December 8,2014 )
Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe by Thomas Wolfe
epub | | 2011-04-09 | Author:Thomas Wolfe [Wolfe, Thomas]

"Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears." You really can't beat that (he thought). Aye, Ben! Would he had blotted a hundred! A ...
( Category: United States November 26,2014 )
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind by Ellen F. Brown & Jr. John Wiley
epub |eng | | Author:Ellen F. Brown & Jr. John Wiley [John Wiley, Jr.]

In the fall of 1938, the Marshes saw a glimmer of light at the end of the international rights tunnel—and it was not another oncoming train. Taft finished registering the ...
( Category: Book Industry November 24,2014 )
The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books by Azar Nafisi
epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Azar Nafisi [Nafisi, Azar]

5 It seems quite simple, this condemnation of consumer society, until one realizes that we are, of course, part of the problem. What are my exact grievances against my laptop, ...
( Category: United States November 23,2014 )
Imaginary Homelands by Salman Rushdie
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Salman Rushdie [Rushdie, Salman]

AT THE ADELAIDE FESTIVAL The first time I went to an international literary festival, I was bullied into playing centre-forward for the World against Finland (our host nation) in a ...
( Category: General November 21,2014 )
Small Island by Andrea Levy
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-11-12 | Author:Andrea Levy [Andrea Levy]

Twenty-seven Queenie Sometimes they were still smouldering like a burnt pie pulled from an oven. The pungent stench of smoke, the dust from rubble steaming off them. Shuffling in or ...
( Category: General November 13,2014 )
The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Henry Petroski [Petroski, Henry]

In the 1777 edition of Comenius’s book the illustration of the bookseller’s shop was updated to show that the shelves were stocked with bound books with their spines facing out. ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
epub |eng | 2003-12-29 | Author:Azar Nafisi

9 The meeting with Mrs. Rezvan had thrown me off balance. She was like an intermediary pleading on behalf of an unfaithful and unforgotten lover, pledging complete loyalty in return ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets by J.k. Rowling
mobi |es | 2011-02-11 | Author:J.k. Rowling

CHAPTER ELEVEN The Dueling Club Harry woke up on Sunday morning to find the dormitory blazing with winter sunlight and his arm reboned but very stiff. He sat up quickly ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )
Time Bites by Doris Lessing
epub |eng | 2009-03-01 | Author:Doris Lessing [Lessing, Doris]

…and I force myself to keep in mind that I was born of her, that I lay in her arms as a baby, nursed of her breast and was at ...
( Category: General November 10,2014 )

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