epub, mobi |eng | 2009-05-03 | Author:David Sedaris [Sedaris, David]

Christmas Means Giving For the first twelve years of our marriage Beth and I happily set the neighborhood standard for comfort and luxury. It was an established fact that we ...

epub, mobi | | 1965-01-14 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

George file:///G|/Program%20Files/eMule/Incoming/Ku...20-%20God%20Bless%20You%20Mr%20Rosewater.txt (40 of 79) [10/18/2004 5:20:35 PM] file:///G|/Program%20Files/eMule/Incoming/Kurt%20Vonnegut%20-%20God%20Bless%20You%20Mr%20Rosewater.txt To which Noah replied: I am sorry about Fletcher Moon, but, as the _Bible_ says, "A deal is a deal." Enclosed ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Aldous Huxley [Huxley, Aldous]

CHAPTER XVIII At Port Said they went ashore. The flank of the ship was an iron precipice. At its foot the launch heaved on a dirty and slowly wallowing sea; ...

epub, pdf |eng | 1999-09-15 | Author:Evelyn Waugh [Waugh, Evelyn]

A train of porters carried William’s luggage from the Hotel Liberty. When it was all assembled, it seemed to fill the room. The men stood on the verandah waiting to ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 1937-03-07 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

PART TWO 8 The road from Mandalay to Wigan is a long one and the reasons for taking it are not immediately clear. In the earlier chapters of this book ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-28 | Author:Iris Chang [Chang, Iris]

In January 1938, not one shop was officially open in Nanking except for a military store and the International Committee’s rice shop. The harbor was practically empty of ships. Most ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1993-12-31 | Author:Thomas Cahill [Cahill, Thomas]

V A Solid World of Light Holy Ireland Patrick devoted the last thirty years of his life—from, roughly, his late forties to his late seventies—to his warrior children, that they ...

epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Gordon S. Wood [Wood, Gordon S.]

When someone as aristocratic as William Byrd could write of the natural equality of all men, even those of different nations and races, and conclude that “the principal difference between ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Dugard, Martin & O'Reilly, Bill [Dugard, Martin]

Booth tosses a dollar onto the bar and walks downstairs to the Grover’s manager’s office. It’s empty. Sitting at the desk, Booth removes paper and an envelope from the pigeonholes. ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-27 | Author:Dee Brown [Brown, Dee]

ELEVEN The War to Save the Buffalo 1874—January 13, unemployed workmen battle police in New York City; hundreds injured. February 13, U.S. troops land at Honolulu to protect the king. ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Black Hawk Down [Down, Black Hawk]

THE MEN IN THE LOST convoy had braced themselves for another vicious fight at K-4. But as they limped through the flaming barricades on Via Lenin, they saw instead, to ...

epub |eng | 2010-05-16 | Author:Highsmith, Patricia [Patricia, Highsmith]

CHAPTER 13 RICHARD BEGAN IT. "Why do you like her so much?" It was an evening on which she had broken a date with Richard on the slim chance Carol ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2000-02-13 | Author:Colapinto, John [Colapinto, John]

* * * Upon entering Dr. McKenty’s office at the Child Guidance Clinic for her first session on 2 January 1979, Brenda was surprised by the sight of the smiling, ...

epub |eng | 1992-03-25 | Author:Orr, Fred

Summary Speed reading is a function of taking in a wider span of words at each eye fixation point while reading across a line of text. You can generally improve ...

epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:William Least Heat-Moon

Money half gone, I’d come up with a bit of epistemological small change. Not knowing what else to do, I drove off westward. The highway rolled out of the mountains ...