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Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Alice Walker [Walker, Alice]

Another entry: I could not imagine living for a hundred years, yet the natives quite often live that long. They say it is because everything they eat is alive. The ...
( Category: Literary June 16,2017 )
Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection by A. J. Jacobs
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:A. J. Jacobs

Chapter 15 The Lungs The Quest to Breathe Better ON A SATURDAY, we take our kids to the Bodies exhibit at the South Street Seaport. This popular museum show displays ...
( Category: Humor June 16,2017 )
I Shudder by Paul Rudnick
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Paul Rudnick [Rudnick, Paul]

I Hit Hamlet The ad in the Times real estate listings said “medieval duplex,” which was tantalizing, unless “medieval” referred to the plumbing. I was apartment hunting, so I arranged ...
( Category: Humor June 16,2017 )
In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays by Katie Roiphe
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Katie Roiphe

The Ambiguities of Austen Back in 1905, Henry James complained about “the body of publishers, editors, illustrators, producers of magazines, which have found their dear, our dear, everybody’s dear Jane ...
( Category: United States June 16,2017 )
True Prep by Lisa Birnbach
epub |eng | 2000-06-15 | Author:Lisa Birnbach [Birnbach, Lisa]

Tom Davis, at Your Service. When Tom Davis was a teenager, he was a member of the Merchandise Club at the High School of Commerce on the West Side of ...
( Category: Humor June 16,2017 )
Tuesday Night Miracles by Kris Radish
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Kris Radish [Radish, Kris]

29 The Blue Dot Karen has been trying for three days to have a conversation with Grace that lasts more than three seconds. She’s worried about her best friend, and ...
( Category: Humor & Satire June 16,2017 )
Fate and Ms. Fortune by Saralee Rosenberg
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-06-15 | Author:Saralee Rosenberg

Josh Vogel was rich enough to buy a building in Park Slope? I lay in bed pondering if that changed my feelings about him. Not if he was the next ...
( Category: Humor & Satire June 16,2017 )
Elvis and The Dearly Departed by Peggy Webb
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-06-15 | Author:Peggy Webb

You’d never believe this, but some of my most relaxing times are spent with the deceased at Uncle Charlie’s funeral home. Maybe it’s because my uncle has turned this old ...
( Category: United States June 16,2017 )
Correspondence by Herman Melville
mobi |eng | 2010-08-27 | Author:Herman Melville

ALS on a 22.8 X 17.9 cm sheet, folded in half, of white wove paper, watermarked with the initials “S M C”. Melville inscribed the first and third pages, in ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 15,2017 )
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Ambrose Bierce [Bierce, Ambrose]

S Sabbath, η. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Among the Jews observance ...
( Category: Humor June 15,2017 )
New England White by Stephen L. Carter
epub |eng | 2007-06-26 | Author:Stephen L. Carter [Carter, Stephen L.]

CHAPTER 32 DENNISON (I) THE FOLLOWING MONDAY, Julia and Lemaster drove up to New Hampshire to pick up Aaron at Exeter, where the fourteen-year-old was marvelously popular, perhaps because of ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense June 15,2017 )
Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-06-23 | Author:Barbara Delinsky [Delinsky, Barbara]

Here are the instructions. My mom translated them into English from my grandmother’s Faroese, and they may have lost something in the process. You know everything about knitting, though. If ...
( Category: Genre Fiction June 15,2017 )
Loose Diamonds by Amy Ephron
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Amy Ephron [Ephron, Amy]

Eight Staying I always wanted the New Yorker to run a cartoon of Hillary Clinton standing on the steps of the White House with the caption: And another thing, I’m ...
( Category: Specific Groups June 15,2017 )
Dead Streets by Tim Waggoner
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Tim Waggoner [Waggoner, Tim]

Bogdan gestured and a baseball bat suddenly appeared in his hand. He got a good grip on it with both hands, stepped forward, and swung as Rondo came at me. ...
( Category: Fantasy June 15,2017 )
Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser
epub |eng | 2010-09-09 | Author:Theodore Dreiser [Dreiser, Theodore]

CHAPTER XXXI There was peace and quiet for some time after this storm. Jennie went the next day and brought Vesta away with her. The joy of the reunion between ...
( Category: Classics June 15,2017 )

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