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The Adventure of the Red Circle by Arthur Conan Doyle
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

* * * Two * * * As we walked rapidly down Howe Street I glanced back at the building which we had left. There, dimly outlined at the top ...
( Category: Linguistics March 25,2014 )
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:Jhumpa Lahiri [Lahiri, Jhumpa]

Mrs. Sen's ELIOT HAD BEEN GOING to Mrs. Sen's for nearly a month, ever since school started in September. The year before he was looked after by a university student ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-10 | Author:Alice Hoffman

LEVITATION ALWAYS keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don’t think the summer is over, even when roses droop ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
epub |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Barbara Ehrenreich [Ehrenreich, Barbara]

Selling in Minnesota From the air Minnesota is the very perfection of early summer - the blue of the lakes merging with the blue of the sky, neatly sculpted clouds ...
( Category: Poverty March 25,2014 )
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1999-05-08 | Author:Margaret Atwood

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX When the night for the Ceremony came round again, two or three weeks later, I found that things were changed. There was an awkwardness now that there hadn’t ...
( Category: Dystopian March 25,2014 )
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-03-04 | Author:Anne Fadiman

Glassrock Health Services will be by at 8:00 p.m. tonight. Give them prescription. Make sure to come to Clinic this Thursday Dec. 11 at 8:00 a.m. Keep egg crate mattress ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 25,2014 )
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1987-01-02 | Author:Tom Wolfe

The Bavardages’ dining room walls had been painted with so many coats of burnt-apricot lacquer, fourteen in all, they had the glassy brilliance of a pond reflecting a campfire at ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-06-28 | Author:Martin Amis

'Columbia, Slick... Chicago, LA, wherever — in America our seats of learning are surrounded by the worst, the biggest, the most desperate ratshit slums in the civilized world. It seems ...
( Category: Books & Reading March 25,2014 )
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-08-31 | Author:Edwidge Danticat

I heard my grandmother's footsteps even before she reached the door to the yellow house. "If you tell her that I'm here, I can't go with you," I said. "Go ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1990-01-02 | Author:Tim O'Brien

The Man I Killed His jaw was in his throat, his upper lip and teeth were gone, his one eye was shut, his other eye was a star-shaped hole, his ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-15 | Author:Dave Eggers

sneer. We quote a professor summing up: “A study of Teach for America tells us more about the ideological, even psychological needs of today’s middle-class white and minority youth than ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-02-15 | Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

54 This morning, I overslept. Which is to say—sloth that I am, I dozed until the ungodly hour of 4:15 AM. I woke up only minutes before the Gurugita was ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
Alice Munro's Best by Alice Munro
epub |eng | 2006-03-24 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

ON THE DAY OF Miss Tamblyn’s death it happened that Louisa was staying in the Commercial Hotel. She was a traveller then for a company that sold hats, ribbons, handkerchiefs ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Denis Johnson [Johnson, Denis]

We walked carefully down there and climbed through the busted fence and stood in the very back. The speakers, which I'd mistaken for grave markers, muttered in unison. Then there ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Alan Hollinghurst [Hollinghurst, Alan]

He closed the door, locked the door, and reached out for Wani, who patted him and kissed him on the nose as he turned away. "Where's the stuff?" said Wani. ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )

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