Study Guides
epub, mobi |eng | 1966-01-01 | Author:Jean Shepherd [Shepherd, Jean]

XVII I SHOW OFF Flick looked puzzled. “A Bloody Charlie? How the hell do you make a Bloody Charlie?” “You mean you don’t serve Bloody Charlies here?” Flick rummaged under ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 | | 2010-06-03 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bill, Bryson,]

A Short History of Nearly Everything CHAPTER 17: INTO THE TROPOSPHERE THANK GOODNESS FOR the atmosphere. It keeps us warm. Without it, Earth would be a lifeless ball of ice ...
( Category: Astronomy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Greenblatt, Stephen [Greenblatt, Stephen]

The Spanish-born Harvard philosopher George Santayana called this idea—the ceaseless mutation of forms composed of indestructible substances—“the greatest thought2 that mankind has ever hit upon.” • The elementary particles are ...
( Category: Study Guides March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-12 | Author:James Joyce [Joyce, James]

The transept of the Jesuit Church in Gardiner Street was almost full; and still at every moment gentlemen entered from the side-door and, directed by the lay-brother, walked on tiptoe ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Jill Lepore [Lepore, Jill]

“WHAT NEWS?” Jack asked Ben, hauling his keg to the tea-water pump. “What News?” he asked Cato on “the Night that Hilton’s House burnt . . . for he had ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Isabel Wilkerson [Wilkerson, Isabel]

LOS ANGELES, 1954 ROBERT JOSEPH PERSHING FOSTER ALICE BEGAN SETTING UP HOUSE in the walk-up apartment Robert had scrambled to secure for his family after the apartment he wanted mysteriously ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

( Category: Breast Cancer March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-19 | Author:Emily M. Danforth [Danforth, Emily M.]

Part Three God’s Promise 1992–1993 Chapter Thirteen It was Jane Fonda who gave Ruth and me our official welcome tour of the God’s Promise Christian School & Center for Healing. ...
( Category: Gay & Lesbian March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1958-01-17 | Author:Yukio Mishima [Mishima, Yukio]

The young men float on their backs—their white bellies bulge to the sun . . . But now again I said not a word. I was ashamed of my own ...
( Category: Japanese March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-05-01 | Author:Yasmina Khadra [Khadra, Yasmina]

* * * Two of the three men who saw me out of the mosque continue to follow me—ostentatiously—while I walk toward the center of town. They want me to ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf | | 2010-06-12 | Author:Ray Bradbury [Bradbury, Ray]

"I'm not bad at shootin' white folks neither." Teece didn't look at Grandpa. Grandpa turned his head away and shut up his mouth. "Hold on there!" Samuel Teece leaped off ...
( Category: Anthologies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-02 | Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon [Carlos Ruiz Zafon]

'Getting there. As I was saying, the fact is that Don Manuel was on duty the day they brought the body of Julian Carax to the autopsy department, in September ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-06-03 | Author:Diamond, Jared [Jared, Diamond,]

Guns, Germs and Steel CHAPTER 13 NECESSITY'S MOTHER O N JULY 3, 1 9 0 8 , ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXCAVATING THE ancient Minoan palace at Phaistos, on the island of Crete, ...
( Category: Human Geography March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-28 | Author:Pollan, Michael [Pollan, Michael]

"In nature you'll always find birds following herbivores," Joel explained, when I asked him for the theory behind the Eggmobile. "The egret perched on the rhino's nose, the pheasants and ...
( Category: Food Science March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-09-01 | Author:Rick Riordan [Riordan, Rick]

13 I PLUNGE TO MY DEATH We spent two days on the Amtrak train, heading west through hills, over rivers, past amber waves of grain. We weren't attacked once, but ...
( Category: Fantasy & Magic March 26,2014 )