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Murder at Union Station by Margaret Truman
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-10-26 | Author:Margaret Truman

“Again?” she’d said when he announced he was going out for dinner with Geoff. “What do you mean, again? I haven’t had dinner with Geoff in a while.” “It has ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime by Michael Sims
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-31 | Author:Michael Sims

THE STORY OF A SECRET The story of the secret was not without its humorous side. Before entering Paris, after our quick run up from Marseilles after the affair of ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
Capitalism: the unknown ideal by Ayn Rand
mobi, epub |eng | 1966-08-15 | Author:Ayn Rand

18. THE OBLITERATION OF CAPITALISM by Ayn Rand In my article “ ‘Extremism,’ or The Art of Smearing,” I discussed the subject of “anti-concepts”—i.e., artificial, unnecessary, undefined and (rationally) unusable ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-03-01 | Author:Jamie Reidy

CHAPTER Nine IT’S THE SALES, STUPID DESPITE BEING PRESENT for all my nonworking working hours, I was stunned to discover that my sales stank. I thought that doctors would find ...
( Category: Industrial Relations March 25,2014 )
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2001-06-05 | Author:David Sedaris

The passage of time has not altered my father’s obsessive attention to my sisters’ weight and appearance. He wonders why the girls don’t drop by more often, and then when ...
( Category: Humor March 25,2014 )
The Best American Crime Reporting 2009 by Jeffrey Toobin & Otto Penzler & Thomas H. Cook
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Jeffrey Toobin & Otto Penzler & Thomas H. Cook

MARDIROS HAD ALWAYS BEEN a student of maps, but what he found when he came to America was something else. “Rita,” he shouted from a backroom. “These Thomas brothers. What ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
Gathering of Waters by Bernice L. McFadden
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-13 | Author:Bernice L. McFadden

Chapter Nineteen When Charlotte Custer knocked on the front door in the fall of 1929, Hemmingway despised her immediately. “Afternoon, ma’am.” It was the parasol Charlotte held over her head. ...
( Category: Ghosts March 25,2014 )
Bad Habits by Jenny McCarthy
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Jenny McCarthy

Ding-dong. An old lady opened her front door and smiled. JoJo, Amy, and I began singing, “We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, we wish ...
( Category: Religion March 25,2014 )
No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington by Condoleezza Rice
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Condoleezza Rice

Being served a strawberry drink in Dubai during a visit with Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates and a member of the ruling family. ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
A Man Without a Country by Vonnegut Kurt
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-09-14 | Author:Vonnegut, Kurt [Vonnegut, Kurt]

The most intelligent and decent prayers ever uttered by a famous American, addressed To Whom It May Concern, and following an enormous man-made calamity, were those of Abraham Lincoln at ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass; Brent Hayes Edwards
mobi |eng | 2005-01-30 | Author:Frederick Douglass; Brent Hayes Edwards

Kbb CHAPTER XVIII. NEW RELATIONS AND DUTIES CHANGE OF MASTERS—BENEFITS DERIVED BY THE CHANGE—FAME OF THE FIGHT WITH COVEY—RECKLESS UNCONCERN—AUTHOR’S ABHORRENCE OF SLAVERY—ABILITY TO READ A CAUSE OF PREJUDICE—THE HOLIDAYS—How ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-08-18 | Author:Sojourner Truth

“An everlasting temple, And saints arrayed in white, There serve their great Redeemer And dwell with him in light. “The meanest child of glory Outshines the radiant sun; But who ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter by Phoebe Damrosch
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Phoebe Damrosch

“BRUNI’S ON TABLE six!” Patrick proclaimed cheerfully one evening soon after our tasting, with the usual twinkle in his eye and wry smile. He had already done his tour of ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic March 25,2014 )
Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit by Andy Rooney
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-26 | Author:Andy Rooney

Life, Long and Short I change my mind a lot about whether life is long or short. Looking back at how quickly a son or daughter grew up or at ...
( Category: Journalists March 25,2014 )
Gasping for Airtime by Jay Mohr
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2004-06-09 | Author:Jay Mohr

During my two years on SNL, the show had the greatest musical guests in its history. No one will ever convince me otherwise. My first year alone, we had Nirvana, ...
( Category: Television Performers March 25,2014 )

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