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The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind-and Almost Found Myself-on the Pacific Crest Trail by Dan White
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-13 | Author:Dan White

Chapter 19 Why I Walk I walk because I want to be cool. I walk because I want to be a rebel. All my life, I’ve shied away from doing ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 25,2014 )
Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons From a Writing Life by Terry Brooks
mobi |eng | 2003-03-04 | Author:Terry Brooks

* * * The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don’t change. * * * * * * ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy March 25,2014 )
How to write Science fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-07-15 | Author:Orson Scott Card

Novice writers continue to make this same mistake, choosing as the main character people who don’t-or shouldn’t-have enough freedom to be interesting. If the story is about a great war, ...
( Category: Reference March 25,2014 )
The Ramayana: a shortened modern prose version of the Indian epic by R. K. Narayan
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-10-15 | Author:R. K. Narayan

Kara, one of Ravana’s stepbrothers, a dreaded warrior-demon with fourteen chiefs under him commanding an army, protected Soorpanaka and carried out her orders. After leaving Panchvati, Soorpanaka stormed in at ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales March 25,2014 )
The Elements of Mystery Fiction by William G Tapply
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-20 | Author:William G Tapply

A prologue is usually a short, focused, single scene showing an event that occurred before the time in which the story itself unfolds. Similarly, an epilogue concerns events that occur ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective March 25,2014 )
The Time of Our Lives by Tom Brokaw
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Tom Brokaw

THE PROMISE Jenny has become an advocate for other wounded veterans, writing regularly on a website called CaringBridge, an information center for families with members who are struggling with war ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 25,2014 )
The Mammoth Book of Journalism by Lewis Jon E
mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lewis, Jon E. [Lewis, Jon E.]

“The 1984 peak was followed by a marked decline,” says Postovalova, “which we attribute to the recent anti- alcohol campaign, since so many suicides are committed under the influence of ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 25,2014 )
Train of Powder by Rebecca West
mobi |eng | 1955-01-01 | Author:Rebecca West

Mr. Setty and Mr. Hume 1 The murder of Mr. Setty was important, because he was so unlike the man who found his headless and legless body. It was news, ...
( Category: Criminology March 25,2014 )
Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays by Christopher Hitchens
mobi |eng | 2004-11-01 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION Last May 22, Larry Wayne White was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. As a celebrated double murderer, he attracted few mourners and only a ...
( Category: National March 25,2014 )
Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind by Groseclose PhD Tim
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:Groseclose PhD, Tim

Thus, to summarize the third lesson, if you want a good idea of what it means to be centrist in America, you won’t find it in New York City, nor ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 25,2014 )
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 )
Bonk by Mary Roach
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mary Roach

rather than shore up a broken penis, might it be possible to simply install a new one? If a hand or face can be transplanted, why not a penis? Surgeons ...
( Category: Sexuality March 25,2014 )
Best American Crime Writing 2003 by Otto Penzler; Thomas H. Cook
mobi |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Otto Penzler; Thomas H. Cook

He remembers. Timmy Titimski remembers the bully—his bully, the one designed especially for him, like a bullet with his name on it. I remember him, too, of course. How can ...
( Category: Organized Crime 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 )
The art of fiction: a guide for writers and readers by Ayn Rand; Tore Boeckmann
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-08-15 | Author:Ayn Rand; Tore Boeckmann

8 Style I: Depictions of Love When I was writing Atlas Shrugged, I spent a long time planning the scene where Francisco comes to Dagny in the country. Many issues ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )

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