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Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches by Anna Politkovskaya; Arch Tait
mobi |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Anna Politkovskaya; Arch Tait

57 HOURS November 4, 2002 The last few days have passed in a feverish delirium. Moscow is burying the hostages. Today, just like yesterday, just like tomorrow. It is unbearable. ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
Once there was a war by John Steinbeck
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1958-10-17 | Author:John Steinbeck

MUSSOLINI LONDON, August 9, 1943—The ship was in mid-ocean when Mussolini resigned. Rumor ran among the soldiers and the crew and the Army nurses that something important had happened. Then, ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-07-02 | Author:David Foster Wallace

MONKEY: If, say, you win here in South Carolina, what do you do then? MURPHY: Fly to Michigan that night. MONKEY: And what if hypothetically you, say, lose here in ...
( Category: Postmodernism March 25,2014 )
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by FRANCINE PROSE
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-08 | Author:FRANCINE PROSE

EDWARD CASAUBON The marriage takes place, and next we catch up with Dorothea on her honeymoon in Rome, sobbing bitterly because she has just begun to understand what sort of ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
The book of other people by Zadie Smith
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-15 | Author:Zadie Smith

Puppy George Saunders Twice already Marie had pointed out the brilliance of the autumnal sun on the perfect field of corn, because the brilliance of the autumnal sun on the ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-03-15 | Author:Wally Lamb

I Know[340-525] 7/24/02 12:56 PM Page 458 458 WALLY LAMB I checked the clock again. Did some calculating. If that insurance idiot showed up in the next fifteen or twenty ...
( Category: Family Life March 25,2014 )
On China by Henry Kissinger
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Henry Kissinger

KISSINGER: Thank you and thank you for the reception we have received as always. ZHOU: It is what you deserve. And once the course has been set, as in 1971, ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:William Gibson

I’d love to know what that bot was bidding on. Beanie Babies, probably. (A follow-up message partially reversed course: eBay would not outlaw bid bots, but would require that they ...
( Category: Popular Culture March 25,2014 )
Heretics by Gilbert K. Chesterton
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

XIII. Celts and Celtophiles Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. The word ...
( Category: Religious March 25,2014 )
I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas by Lewis Black
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Lewis Black

CHRISTMAS DAY, 1:00 P.M. Away in a Manger, No Crib for a Bed—Are You Kidding Me? Since practically every cabdriver in New York seems to have little or no interest ...
( Category: Christmas March 25,2014 )
Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards
mobi, epub |eng | 1969-01-02 | Author:Jonathan Edwards

God viewing things so perfectly and unchangeably, as that there is no succession in his ideas or judgment, does not hinder but that there is properly now, in the mind ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
City of God by St. Augustine & Henry Bettenson
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-11-27 | Author:St. Augustine & Henry Bettenson

Even anger was defined in antiquity as being simply the lust for revenge,137 although very often a man is angry even with inanimate objects where the vengeance cannot be felt, ...
( Category: Religious March 25,2014 )
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence; Hannah Whitall Smith
mobi |eng | 2000-12-24 | Author:Brother Lawrence; Hannah Whitall Smith

Third Letter For a soldier friend whom he encourages to trust in God. WE have a God who is infinitely gracious, and knows all our wants. I always thought that ...
( Category: Spiritual Growth March 25,2014 )
Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down by Dave Barry
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-26 | Author:Dave Barry

The Wait for the Tub Is Forever Since the Frogs Moved In I’m wondering if any of you readers out there have noticed any suspicious behavior on the part of ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
Best Food Writing 2010 by Holly Hughes
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Holly Hughes

Rick Bayless’s new book is all about how to throw a great fiesta, or party, and a key part of any great fiesta is the food. “I like to welcome ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference March 25,2014 )

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