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Inventing Scrooge: The Incredible True Story Behind Charles Dickens' Legendary "A Christmas Carol by Carlo Devito
mobi |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Carlo Devito

( Category: European March 22,2015 )
Suburgatory by Linda Keenan
epub |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Linda Keenan

Waitress Wages Anti-Foodie Jihad on Chowhound Suburgatory, USA—A local woman, fed up with the high-end restaurant where she waitresses and the people who eat there, has launched an anonymous online ...
( Category: United States March 22,2015 )
The Complete Tolkien Companion by J. E. A. Tyler
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:J. E. A. Tyler

Labadal ‘Hopafoot’ (Sind.) – Túrin’s pet-name for the crippled family retainer SADOR. It was not given in malice and not resented by Sador. Ladros ‘Fortified-plain’ (Sind.) – The name given ...
( Category: European March 22,2015 )
What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved by John Mullan
epub |eng | 2013-01-29 | Author:John Mullan [Mullan, John]

In Austen, as in the eighteenth-century novels from which she learned, pre-marital sex happens because a young woman gets into the hands of a rakish man, not because two people ...
( Category: European March 21,2015 )
Vintage Ondaatje by Michael Ondaatje
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Michael Ondaatje

ELIMINATION DANCE (an intermission) A crowded dance floor. The band halts in the middle of a number. The Master of Ceremonies steps to the microphone: “Any person who has had ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 21,2015 )
Residence on Earth (New Directions Paperbook) by Neruda Pablo & Walsh Donald D
azw3 |eng | 2004-07-16 | Author:Neruda, Pablo & Walsh, Donald D. [Neruda, Pablo]

Federico, you see the world, the streets, the vinegar, the farewells in the stations when the smoke lifts its decisive wheels toward where there is nothing but some separations, stones, ...
( Category: European March 21,2015 )
Hours by Cunningham Michael
epub |eng | 2000-02-07 | Author:Cunningham, Michael [Cunningham, Michael]

Laura glances over at Richie. He is still holding the red truck. He is still watching. "Please don't worry," Laura says to Kitty. "You'll be fine." Kitty stands, gracefully, without ...
( Category: United States March 19,2015 )
On Poets and Others by Octavio Paz
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Octavio Paz [Paz, Octavio]

In the speech he wrote accepting the 1970 Nobel Prize, Solzhenitsyn spoke a few words which can summarize what Lukács meant by socialist realism, something quite distinct from those propaganda ...
( Category: United States March 16,2015 )
The Siren and the Seashell: And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry by Paz Octavio
epub |eng | 2013-05-15 | Author:Paz, Octavio [Paz, Octavio]

3. THE SOUND OF THE HEART Soul, inseparable sibyl, I no longer know where you end and where I begin; we are two turns of the same refulgent knot, of ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 16,2015 )
Miracles of Life by Ballard J. G
epub |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Ballard, J. G. [Ballard, J. G.]

12 Cambridge Blues (1949) Unlike most undergraduates – never ‘students’, one of countless minor anachronisms – I knew Cambridge well when I first went up to King’s. I knew the ...
( Category: European March 7,2015 )
I can make you hate by Charlie Brooker
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Charlie Brooker

PART SIX In which EastEnders is revealed to be a work of fiction, Nick Clegg worries about human beings with feet, and a teenager incurs the wrath of the internet ...
( Category: European March 4,2015 )
The Portable Henry Rollins by Henry Rollins
epub |eng | 1997-02-10 | Author:Henry Rollins [Rollins, Henry]

August 21, Asbury Park, NJ: Did a photo shoot for some magazine and then went to the gig. Got there late and made sound check. Asbury Park is a hard ...
( Category: United States March 4,2015 )
Living in Hope and History by Nadine Gordimer
epub |eng | 1999-03-03 | Author:Nadine Gordimer

HEROES AND VILLAINS Pascale, my French granddaughter, aged four and enraged at not getting her own way, would shriek at her mother, ‘Vilaine!’ It seems to me there’s something both ...
( Category: African March 4,2015 )
Conversations With James Ellroy (Literary Conversations Series) by Steven Powell
mobi |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Steven Powell [Powell, Steven]

Document Outline Cover Contents Introduction Chronology An Interview with James Ellroy Don Swaim’s Interview of James Ellroy James Ellroy Doctor Noir Interview with a Hepcat Mad Dog and Glory: A ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective March 3,2015 )
Frasers 1 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
mobi |eng | 2004-10-26 | Author:Diana Gabaldon

* * * I was still thinking about Jamie and Hamish when I came to bed that night. I turned down the thick quilts, smiling to myself. There was a ...
( Category: United States February 15,2015 )

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