Donald Rumsfeld-Known and Unknown

Donald Rumsfeld-Known and Unknown 

By: Donald Rumsfeld

My life has spanned more than one third of the history of the United States. As I thought more about this memoir and a title, the idea of the known and the unknown seemed to fit. Not only are there things in this book people believe they know about my life, but there are also things that may surprise and differ from what many may have read or heard or assumed. The same holds true about many of the events I observed from my years in Congress during the civil rights struggle and the Vietnam War era, through the Cold War and my service as secretary of defense during the age of terrorism. The known and the unknown are what I have attempted to present in this memoir that slice of our amazing country’s history of which I have been privileged to be a part. [download]

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J.D. Salinger-A Life

J.D. Salinger-A Life

By: Kenneth Slawenski

Since I have maintained a website devoted to the life and works of J. D. Salinger, it has grown extensively over time and receives a healthy amount of tra􀀞c but rarely generates more than a handful of e-mails per day. So you can imagine my surprise when I checked the mail on Thursday, January 28, 2010, and found not three or four messages shouting to be opened but fifty-seven. They were left unopened, too, for hours until I had gathered up the courage to confront them. By glancing at the e-mail on top of the heap, I knew exactly what had happened and how I would always remember that day. The news stared me down from my inbox through the starkest, most ugly of headers. It read: Rest In Peace J.D. Salinger. It should have read: Quicksand. A few words of explanation are probably in order here. For nearly aslong as I had been running the Salinger site, I had been chipping away at this book, determined to one day deliver a true and fair and unsentimental account of Salinger’s life justly infused with appreciation for his works. [download]

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Gorbachev on My Country and The World

Gorbachev on My Country and The World

Translated By: George Shriver 

More than eighty years have passed since the event which in our country, until recently, was generally called the Great October Socialist Revolution. Today debates about its character, content, and consequences are intensifying and often sound just as irreconcilable as the positions taken by the participants in the revolution who found themselves in opposing camps. But then, what is surprising about that? More than two hundred years have passed since the great French revolution of the eighteenth century, but to this day that revolution inspires sharply conflicting judgments and opinions. This is all the more true of the October revolution not only because it is closer to us in time but because, just as the French revolution shaped the entire course of the nineteenth century, the Russian revolution, whatever one might say about it, largely determined the course of the twentieth century. And this century has proven to be a turning point for all humanity. [download]

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Einstein Defiant-Genius Versus Genius in The Quantum Revolution

Einstein Defiant-Genius Versus Genius in The Quantum Revolution 

By: Edmund Blair Bolles

In 1918 Albert Einstein’s face did not yet capture the living union of tragedy with genius. His hair had yet to shoot crazily from his broad, serious brow, and his eyes did not yet laugh and x-ray at the same time. He was still decades away from sticking out his tongue at a camera. Instead, photos from that period show a man not quite 40 years old who seemed firmly settled into middle age. His hair had gone gray; his eyes had lost some sparkle that had been evident in pictures taken only four years earlier. Anybody who saw him the day he rode a tram to the Reichstag probably took him to be just one more exhausted burgher looking for food in a starving city. Outside Einstein’s tram window,Berlinwas cracking open like Humpty Dumpty. Until recently people had thought the Great War was going well. [download]

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Carlos Santana-The Great Hispanic Heritage

Carlos Santana-The Great Hispanic Heritage 

By: Louise Chipley Slavicek

“PROGRESS, NOT SUCCESS” Yet, it was not merely Carlos Santana’s impressive accomplishments as a musician that the Latin Academy wanted to commemorate that August evening in Los Angeles. In choosing him as its Person of the Year, the Academy was also paying. tribute to Carlos Santana’s outstanding humanitarian achievements. In 1998, Carlos and his wife of more than 30 years, Deborah King Santana, founded the Milagro Foundation to assist underprivileged children and teenagers around the globe in the areas of education, health, and the arts. (Milagro is Spanish for “miracle.”) Almost entirely funded by the Santanas, since its creation the Milagro Foundation has provided more than $2 million to agencies and charities in dozens of countries. [download]

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A Ticket To The Circus-A Memoir

A Ticket To The Circus-A Memoir 

By: Norris Church Mailer

Every evening at six, after an afternoon of writing in our studios, Norman and I would meet in the bar next to the living room for a glass of wine. We’d look out at the sea and the boats in Provincetown Harbor, watch the gulls, and talk. After a lifetime of booze bourbon and gin and rum, scotch and vodka now Norman liked red wine mixed with orange juice, a mild sangria punch, while I sipped a dry Kir on ice soda pop wines, a taste of sweet, a drop of alcohol, to help us unwind. Those were hard, slow days, the last days of summer 2007. Norman was still writing, but fighting to breathe, and I had my problems, too. Eternity was on our minds a lot of the time when we talked. [download]

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Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution

Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution 

By: Randal Keynes 

A CHILD’S WRITING CASE. The pale yellow ribbon curled inside is stitched with small glass beads. The goosefeather quills have dried ink on their tips, and the sealing wax has been melted over a candle flame. On the ribbon and the quills lies a fold of paper with a thick lock of fine brown hair. On the paper is written “April 23rd 1851.” And on a leaf torn from a pocketbook is a map of a churchyard: “Annie Darwin’s grave at Malvern.” The writing case was Annie’s, and is filled with her things. She was Charles and Emma Darwin’s first daughter. She died when she was ten. Charles wrote a “memorial” of her, and Emma kept the case to remember her by. It was passed down to my father, one of their great grandsons. [download]

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Chicano

Chicano 

By: Richard Vasquez

In the early 1970s, my cousin Mario Castaneda often visited my family’s home in Los Angeles along with his wife and young children. He ’d arrive, as usual, unannounced (Chicano style, Mario would say), and my parents would hastily prepare a snack and bring out cans of pop for the kids. I looked forward to Mario’s visits because he was the only member of our extended family with long hair and who wore bell bottom jeans. He also spoke in a tongue largely foreign to our household, one that connected us to a particular culture Chicano radical chic, let’s say that my parents could never indulge. “Qué pasa, homes?” Mario would greet me. “How’s my little primo doing in la escuela?” He delivered lines like these while cocking his head back slightly to emphasize his Chicanocool detachment. [download]

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Diana Princess of Wales

Diana Princess of Wales 

By: Sherry Beck Paprocki

The wedding was the social event of the century. The future king of England had chosen as his bride a demure young lady only 19 years old. Yet, she was in the international spotlight as she walked down the aisle at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London on that hot summer day in 1981. Lady Diana Spencer was marrying one of the most eligible bachelors in the world: Charles Phillip Arthur George, more commonly known as Charles, Prince of Wales. London was decked out for the affair, with 4,500 flower pots lining the route from Buckingham Palace to the church. The pageantry of this royal wedding had not been seen for many years. Carriages made their way from the palace to the cathedral just before noon. Diana rode in a glass carriage drawn by horses to the church where the ceremony would take place. [download]

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Martin Luther King Jr-The Dream

Martin Luther King Jr-The Dream 

By: Drew D. Hansen 

In 1963, the year that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered one of the most famous speeches in American history, blacks in America lived under a racial caste system. Twelve million of the nation’s nineteen million black citizens lived in the South, where Jim Crow segregation pervaded nearly every aspect of life. Southern towns maintained separate hotels, beaches, bathrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. Nearly a decade after the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, school desegregation was at a standstill. Fewer than one-half of 1 percent of black children in the South attended public schools with white children. Many Southern states operated completely segregated school systems, in open defiance of Brown. [download]

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Alfred Hitchcock-Filming Our Fears

Alfred Hitchcock-Filming Our Fears

By: Gene Adair 

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1899, in Leytonstone, England, a community on the northeastern edge of London. His father, William Hitchcock, operated a retail and wholesale grocery business specializing in fruits and vegetables. The rooms above the family shop served as living quarters. It was there, at 517 The High Road, that Alfred was born and spent his earliest years under the watchful eye of his mother, Emma. At the time of Alfred’s birth, the family business was thriving, a benefit that came with the area’s swelling population. Located about six miles from central London, Leytonstone had once been a sleepy country village well removed from the bustle of the British capital, but that was rapidly changing. [download]

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The One That Got Away

The One That Got Away 

By: C. Kelly Robinson

An hour before events ripped the scales from his eyes, Tony Gooden faced a moment of truth. The screen on his ringing cell phone announced the caller, and it was the last person he expected today: Serena Height-Kincaid, the college sweetheart he’d just seen for the first time in ten years. Though he was no stranger to stress in three years as the Chicago mayor’s chief of staff he’d battled both gangsters and gangbangers Tony was useless in the face of a simple phone call. Sure, he wanted her back, but then, so did her husband. An hour before the phone call, Tony had been hip-deep in denial. Making his way through the wedding’s receiving line, he took Serena’s silky smooth hand and summoned an emotional force field. [download]

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Madame de Stael-The Dangerous Exile

Madame de Stael-The Dangerous Exile 

 

By: Anjelica Goodden

 

How does writing beget exile, and exile writing? What kind of writing can both be fuelled by absence and prolong it? What geography may be traced by desire when absence separates the writer from what she most desires? ‘Exile made me lose the ties that bound me to Paris,’ Germaine de Stae¨l remarked in 1814, ‘and I became European.’ She wrote this towards the end of her third and final stay in England, feeling that it summed up the paradoxes of her exile loss that had become gain, pain become pleasure, and punishment reward. Being banished from the city of her heart’s desire may have spurred her creative imagination, but it also made her suVer as though she had been driven from paradise: her reply to a friend who attempted to console her for being conWned to the family chateau at Coppet was ‘I prefer the gutter of the rue du Bac’, the street in Paris where she had begun her married life. [download]

  

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The Seducer’s Diary

The Seducer’s Diary

By: Soren Kierkegaard

Soren Kierkegaard’s method, dictated by his volatile and provocative temperament resembles that of a fiction writer: he engages in multiple impersonations, assuming various poses and voices with an impartial vivacity. The method is, in one of his favorite words, mnieutic-ftom the Greek term for midwifery like that of his beloved model Socrates, who in his questioning style sought to elicit his auditors’ ideas rather than impose his own. Either/or, Kierkegaard’s fhst major work, was a bulky, two-volume collection of papers ostensibly found by the editor, “Victor Errmita” (“Victor Hermit”), in the secret comparbnent of a writing desk to which he had been mysteriously attracted in the shop of a secondhand dealer. Some time after its acquisitiory he tells us, he took a hatchet to a stuck drawer and discovered a trove of papers, evidently composed by two distinct authors. [download]

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Advertising and Societies

Advertising and Societies

By: Katherine Toland Frith and Barbara Mueller

Globalization refers to the increasing internationalization of economic life and its effects on trade, national sovereignty, laws and regulations, the mass media, and cultural identity (Corcoran, 1998). In economic terms, globalization is the process by which firms attempt to earn additional profits through entry into overseas markets. Although the term “globalization” became popular during the last part of the 20th century, the forces that shaped globalization can be traced back as far as the 15th century. Europeled the move toward globalization through colonization in the 18^th and 19th centuries. The United States led the most recent phase of globalization in the 20th century driven by the increasing access to communication technologies and the opening of international markets to multinational corporations and their advertising agencies. [download]

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Astonishing Stories

Astonishing Stories 

Edited By: Michael Chabon

I SUPPOSE there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two people can agree. The word that I’m thinking of right now is genre, one of those French words, like crêpe, that no one can pronounce both correctly and without sounding pretentious. Among those of us who use the term genre to label regions on a map (sf, fantasy, nurse romance) and not sections of an atlas (epic, tragedy, comedy), there is a deep and abiding confusion. To some of us, “science fiction” is any book sold in the section of the bookstore so designated. The typeface and imagery on the cover of the very attractive Vintage International edition of Nabokov’s Ada would look distinctly out of place there, with the starships and the furryfaced aliens and the electronstarred vistas of cyberspace. [download]

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A Discovery of Witches

A Discovery of Witches 

By: Deborah Harkness

The leather-bound volume was nothing remarkable. To an ordinary historian, it would have looked no different from hundreds of other manuscripts in Oxford’s Bodleian Library, ancient and worn. But I knew there was something odd about it from the moment I collected it. Duke Humfrey’s Reading Room was deserted on this late September afternoon, and requests for library materials were filled quickly now that the summer crush of visiting scholars was over and the madness of the fall term had not yet begun. Even so, I was surprised when Sean stopped me at the call desk. “Dr. Bishop, your manuscripts are up,” he whispered, voice tinged with a touch of mischief. The front of his argyle sweater was streaked with the rusty traces of old leather bindings, and he brushed at it self consciously. A lock of sandy hair tumbled over his forehead when he did. [download]

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I’ll Tell You One Thing and That’s all I Know

I’ll Tell You One Thing and That’s all I Know 

By: Jann Arden

As I read through my journals from the past couple of years, in preparation for publishing this book, I could not believe the contrast from one 24 hour period to the next. Some morning I woke with more willpower and positive energy than anyone on the planet. Apparently as I slept, that glee, that pure joyfulness, would sneak out the back door. I would wake not knowing what I was doing and being unsure of how I felt, or what yhe point was. How could that happen overnight? My mother would always tell us kids, growing up, that as quickly as things could turn to crap, that’s how quickly they could turn themselves around and be good again very much like the way I have written these journals. One day great, fantastic! The next…well you’ll get the picture. The true journey of the human heart is indeed very difficult. I hope that as you read through these pages you’ll recognize bits and pieces of yourself within them. [download]

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Russian Silhouettes

Russian Silhouettes 

By: Genna Sosonko

On 18th August 2001 my life will be divided into two equal halves. The first took place in St Petersburg, which was then called Leningrad, and the second in Amsterdam. Although these two cities have much in common, for me St Petersburgand Amsterdamdo not overlap. The Neva and the Amstel are different rivers, and if I happen to be walking along Amsterdam’s Tsaar Peterstraat or along the Nevsky Prospekt past the DutchChurchin St Petersburg, my peripheral vision registers the difference and I see very well what sets the two cities apart. Just as a child brought up in a dual language family knows with whom in which language to speak. The number five tram has not changed its route and it stops close to my house in Amsterdam, just as it did in my past life in Leningrad, but here too no confusion arises. [download]

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Margaret Cho-Asian Americans of Achievement

Margaret Cho-Asian Americans of Achievement

By: Caroline Tiger

When Margaret Cho was 15 years old, she was a devoted member of the “Cutting Club.” Although her parents would see her leave every morning for the bus, with her backpack swung into place, she never actually arrived at school. Instead, she hung out with the other “bad kids,” drinking alcohol and smoking pot and hanging out at their houses while their parents were at work. In fact, there were entire semesters when she didn’t go to class and she never tried to make up the work she missed. She cared very little about school. She had a 0.6 GPA (the consequence of all F’s and one Incomplete). Not surprisingly, Lowell High expelled her. Lowellwas a magnet school it was fi lled with some of the smartest kids in San Francisco’s public school system. It makes sense that a school for above average students would not tolerate behavior like Margaret’s. [download]

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Collective Intelligence-Creating a Prosperous World at Peace

Collective Intelligence-Creating a Prosperous World at Peace 

Edited By: Mark Tovey

This book is not about collective intelligence as an abstraction, but collective intelligence directed towards a specific end. It attempts to get some traction on difficulties that seem almost impossible to address dealing with poverty and hunger, corruption and terrorism, climate change and resource shortages while at the same time building a more livable and less violent world. The problems that face humanity are trans-institutional. They are not problems that can be solved by governments alone. Only through coordinated cooperation between governments, universities, corporations, and NGOs, can we hope to make a dent in the acute challenges that face us. This involves bridging diverse viewpoints. When we are dealing with as many points of view as are expressed in such institutions, facilitated discussions can be very helpful. [download]

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The Zahiris-Brill Classics in Islam

The Zahiris-Brill Classics in Islam 

By: Dr. Ignaz Goldziher

This reprint of the English translation of Ignaz Goldziher’s monograph on the Zahiri or literalist school of law is indicative of the lasting interest in the oeuvre of this grand master of oriental studies on the one hand, and a renewed interest in the Zahihirs on the other. Ignaz Goldziher (1850–1921) was somewhat of a legend already in his own lifetime, and the interest in his work and his person has never waned. Regarded by many as the one who almost single-handedly laid the foundations of the study of Islam as an independent academic discipline, he wrote a series of ground breaking works covering virtually all aspects of that religion, such as law, exegesis, theology, sectarianism, and relations with other faiths, besides Arabic language and literature. [download]

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The Madame Curie Complex

The Madame Curie Complex

By: Julie Des Jardins

some fathers tell their kids about mythical home run hitters who won the World Series, or of courageous expeditions to Antarctica or the moon. My father’s story to me was about Enrico Fermi and the scientists who created a nuclear chain reaction beneath the stands of the football stadium at the University of Chicago during World War II. As a lifelong Chicagoan, Dad preferred this story to those about heroic men at Los Alamos. It was at this moment under Stagg Field, he believed, that brilliant men had convened for some greater scientific purpose. The only story as awe inspiring was the one he told of the Founding Fathers, who converged on Philadelphia in 1776 to establish, as Dad put it, the most enlightened democracy in the world. [download]

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Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud

Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud

 

By: Friedel Weinert

 

This book deals with issues in the area of intersection between the history and philosophy of science. Using Copernicanism, Darwinism, and Freudianism as scientific traditions, it aims to show that a tight connection exists between science and philosophy. There are many more connections between Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud than their respective contributions to the completion of the Copernican revolution. The study of Copernicanism, Darwinism, and Freudianism shows that scientific approaches to the world naturally and inevitably lead to philosophical consequences. Freud saw that scientific ideas change the way we think about the world. With his heliocentric view, Copernicus displaced humans from the physical center of the universe (1543). With his evolutionary theory, Darwin inserted humans into the organismic order of nature (1859). According to Freud, both Copernicus and Darwin dealt severe blows to the proud image of humans as masters of the universe. [download]

 

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Great Kings’ War

Great Kings’ War 

By: Roland Green and  John F. Carr  

After her visit with her Graduate Advisor, Danar Sirna was still in a state of shock as she rode the gravlift down to the 40th Floor of Dhergabar University Tower where the large assembly halls were situated. Her Advisor had dropped a bombshell, as he put it; he was a well known expert on Fourth Level, Europo-American specializing, she thought wryly, in clichés. Still, Sirna had just received the dream posting of the decade; she’d been assigned to the Kalvan Study Team as the only undergraduate! Lord Kalvan, the former Pennsylvania State trooper Calvin Morrison, had been picked up on a transtemporal conveyor accidentally and been dropped off on Aryan Transpacific, Styphon’s House Subsector where he’d created enough of a stir to spin off an entirely new time line, identified almost immediately by the Paratime Police. [download]

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein 

By: Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

To Mrs. Saville, England. You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an entetprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived have yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking. I am already far North of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. Do you understand this feeling? This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am dancing, gives me foretaste of those ice climes. Inspirited by this wind of promise, my datdreams become more fervent and vivid. I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation. [download]

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A Matter of Oaths

A Matter of Oaths

By: Helen Wright 

I, the Emperor Julur, solemnly dedicate myself to the worlds of the Old Empire and to the people of those worlds. On my honour and on my immortality, I swear: That my loyalty will be to my people before all others. That my laws will be just. That I will serve my people to the best of my ability, in every way that I am able to serve, respecting their beliefs and taking responsibility for their well-being, and causing no harm to any unless for the protection of the Old Empire. That I will cherish the Guild of Webbers, and each member of the Guild, respecting their beliefs and taking responsibility for their well-being, causing harm to no member of the Guild unless for the protection of the Twin Empires. That I will keep this oath forever, or forfeit the loyalty of the Guild of Webbers. [download]

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The Mediator Darkest Hour

The Mediator Darkest Hour

By: Meg Cabot

I don’t even really know how it happened. I was being way careful, you know? Careful not to fall in love with Jesse, I mean. And I’d been doing a really good job. I mean, I was getting out and meeting new people and doing new things, just like it says to do in Cosmo. I certainly wasn’t sitting around mooning over him or anything. And yeah, okay, the majority of guys I have met since moving toCaliforniahave turned out either to have psychopathic killers stalking them, or were actually psychopathic killers themselves. But that’s really not a very good excuse for falling in love with a ghost. It really isn’t. But that’s what happened. [download]

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Spiderman 3

Spiderman 3 

By: Peter David 

Peter Parker does not believe that old notion that, when one is about to die, one’s life flashes before one’s eyes. He considers it a sort of “after the fact” add-on. Someone has a near death experience and, in recalling it, mentally inserts all the highlights of his existence after the fact as a sort of mental counterpoint to life’s near termination. Memory, after all, is a tricky thing, possibly the most deceptive aspect of the brain’s function. The main reason Peter has come to be dismissive of the concept is because, in his activities as Spider-Man, he has been near death more times than he can count. More times, in fact, than any reasonable person should have to experience. In all those times, all those close shaves, he has never once seen his life go flashing before his eyes. [download]

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Murder for Revenge

Murder for Revenge 

By: Otto Penzler

Is there a more human emotion than revenge? In fact, does any other lifeform known to us engage in revenge, or even consider it? Animals kill other animals for food, or self-defence, or for power, for rank within the community. But for revenge? No. Humans, on the other hand, have engaged in this activity through all of recorded history. There have been many motivations for seeking revenge political and financial, for example but it is unlikely that any desire for revenge has been more frequently dragged from the centre of a person’s soul than the anguish of lost love. Whether that love is taken away by a decision of the beloved or surreptitiously stolen by a rival lover, or heinously and permanently erased by a murderer of that love object, the passion for revenge springs readily into the heart to avenge that greatest of all losses. [download]

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Winter Garden

Winter Garden

By: Kristin Hannah

On the banks of the mightyColumbia River, in this icy season when every breath became visible, the orchard called Belye Nochi was quiet. Dormant apple trees stretched as far as the eye could see, their sturdy roots coiled deep in the cold, fertile soil. As temperatures plummeted and color drained from land and sky, the whitened landscape caused a kind of winter blindness; one day became indistinguishable from the next. Everything froze, turned fragile. Nowhere was the quiet more noticeable than in Meredith Whitson’s own house. At twelve, she had already discovered the empty spaces that gathered between people. She longed for her family to be like those she saw on television, where everything looked perfect and everyone got along. No one, not even her beloved father, understood how alone she often felt within these four walls, how invisible. [download]

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The Hidden Queen

The Hidden Queen 

By: Alma Alexander

There were still echoes of sporadic fighting, but night was drawing in fast. Fodrun, finding himself suddenly alone in the middle of what had until less than an hour ago been a fierce battlefield, paused and looked around, taking stock. There was blood on him, none of it his own, but fatigue ached like a wound and his wrists throbbed with the pain of simply holding his sword. He remembered very little after the incandescent moment when he had seen Red Dynan, the king, stagger and slide off his horse with a cursed Rashin arrow in his eye. Fodrun had succumbed to pure battle frenzy, leading his small knot of men directly into the Tath army’s flank, exposing all to certain death for an instant of revenge. All were now dead. All except him. And he seemed only now to have woken from a nightmare. [download]

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Statue of Limitations

Statue of Limitations

By: Tamar Myers


It is no secret that I am an S.O.B. I love living South of Broad, in the historic district of Charleston, South Carolina. Mine is one of the most coveted addresses in the nation, and it is rumored that God Himself lives here although I have yet to run into Him on my daily walks. I have, however, met several people who think they fit the bill. My best friend, Wynnell Crawford, is not as lucky. She’s merely a W.O.T.A. West of the Ashley. The Ashley, of course, is one of Charleston’s two principal rivers. The other important river is the Cooper. They meet at Charleston’s famous Battery, where together they form the Atlantic Ocean. Please don’t misunderstand me. There is nothing wrong with living west of the Ashley, but unless one lives on an honest-to-goodness plantation, being a W.O.T.A. is just not as good as being an S.O.B. [download]

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Erotic Stories

Erotic Stories 

By: Stephanie Sarg

Claire finished the breakfast dishes and was on her way out the door from her upscale suburban home and into the big four wheel drive Ford Explorer. Gliding smoothly into traffic, she thought that lately shopping seemed to be her only outlet. Her husband Frank was away on business at least three nights a week, and usually more. Not to be complaining, Frank is a wonderful provider and father for her and the twins, but it seemed like they hardly ever saw each other, let alone spending any meaningful time together. As she pulled into the mall parking garage, Claire’s thoughts turned to the ad she had seen in the local newspaper OPENING FRIDAY!!! BOUDOIR LINGERIE!!! Claire had been taken by the ad immediately, and she really could use some new bras and panties. [download]

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The Best Girl

The Best Girl

By: Emma Harrison

This is it. You’re almost done, I told myself as a cold gust of wind nearly knocked me into an evergreen. One more exam and you’re home free. Well, not exactly home, but still. No studying for four whole weeks. My very fingertips tingled in anticipation or was that from the frigid cold? Either way, I couldn’t believe I was on my way to my last final of my first semester of freshman year. It was almost over. The week I had dreaded ever since midterms. And it hadn’t even been that bad. Sure, I’d spent countless hours on a hard-asgranite chair in the library, surrounded by highlighted textbooks and nursing a rank case of permanent coffee breath. And of course there were half a dozen moments when my mind had gone utterly blank and I couldn’t even remember how to spell my own name, let alone who had written The Beauty Myth or why. [download]

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Secret Justice

Secret Justice

By: James W. Huston

Pierre Lahoud stood and smiled. “At last, you have arrived,” he said to Wahamed Duar, perhaps the most hated man in the world. They embraced in a cold, distrusting, automatic manner. They crossed warily to the single table sitting in the middle of the candlelit room. Duar took the far side of the table, the side facing the single door. He sat slowly, scrutinizing everyone. His men were dispersed throughout the room, their weapons at their sides. Acacia controlled his expression of shocked disbelief. Where had Duar been? All the buildings had been searched carefully. They had been waiting for him in this abandoned building in the remote desert of Sudan for two hours how could ten men show up out of nowhere? He stood and moved slowly toward the exit. He had to transmit the signal to the American Special Forces circling overhead, waiting for this meeting, waiting to catch Duar. [download]

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

MANY YEARS LATER as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point. Every year during the month of March a family of ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village, and with a great uproar of pipes and kettledrums they would display new inventions. First they brought the magnet. A heavy gypsy with an untamed beard and sparrow hands, who introduced himself as Melquíades, put on a bold public demonstration of what he himself called the eighth wonder of the learned al-chemists of Macedonia. [download]

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Compass Rose

Compass Rose

By: JohnCasey.

May sat on the first row of the bleachers, watching the boys warm up. Tom was the second-string catcher, might get in if their team got ahead by a lot. He was good behind the plate all that practice catching for Charlie in the backyard but he couldn’t hit as well as the first-string catcher. At least Charlie and Tom got to play on a team this year. Before Dick got his boat built he’d kept them busy during the summer doing chores. No games. And while Eddie Wormsley was fixing the house, they’d helped with that. Now there was some pleasure in their lives. Dick still expected them to work at something that brought in some money, but since he was at sea more than half the time, Charlie set his own schedule. He used the work skiff the same way Dick used to had his tongs, pots, hand lines. Tom at fourteen was an off-the-books boy at the boatyard, but they didn’t keep him half as busy as Dick used to. [download]

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A Gate At The Stairs

A Gate At The Stairs 

By: Lorrie Moore

The cold came late that fall and the songbirds were caught off guard. By the time the snow and wind began in earnest, too many had been suckered into staying, and instead of 􀀜ying south, instead of already having flown south, they were huddled in people’s yards, their feathers puffed for some modicum of warmth. I was looking for a job. I was a student and needed babysitting work, and so I would walk from interview to interview in these attractive but wintry neighborhoods, the eerie multitudes of robins pecking at the frozen ground, dungray and stricken though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken until at last, late in my search, at the end of a week, startlingly, the birds had disappeared. [download]

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Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You

Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You 

By: Dorian Cironne

I and find a naked guy on her bed, especially when naked Christine. It isn’t every day you walk into your sister’s bedroom that guy is your best friend, Joey. Now that I’ve gotten your attention it’s not what you’re thinking. But isn’t it amazing what happens when you hear the word ? The thing I didn’t mention is that my sister, Paterson, is an artist, and her bedroom doubles as a studio. My parents named her that because she was conceived in a Paterson, New Jersey, motel room about eighteen years ago. When she was younger, she used to ask why she couldn’t have a normal name, like Ashley or Christine . “You were lucky,” my mother would say. “If your father had taken another road, you could have been named Secaucus Callaway.” [download]

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Adventures of An Ice Princess

Adventures of An Ice Princess 

By: Liz Maverick

There are few things more humiliating in a woman’s life than having an engagement party thrown in her honor when the man in question hasn’t proposed. As she stood blushing violently in the doorway of the office conference room, Clarissa Schneckberg tried to look on the bright side of the situation. Although it was much, much worse than the typical fast-resolving, base-model public humiliation (say, walking around all day with something stuck to your ass), it was considerably better than the sort of lifechanging disaster which might involve an unwitting female in some combination of excessive nudity, a police chase, and a national television broadcast. It didn’t take long to assess what she faced. Kate had clearly told everyone that the engagement was a done deal. [download]

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The Confessions of Aleister Crowley

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley 

Edited By: John Simonds and Kenneth Grant 

When Alick was about six years old his father moved from Leamington to Redhill, Surrey. There was some reason connected with a gravel soil and country life. The house was called The Grange. It stood in a large long garden ending in woods which overhung the road between Redhill and Merstham; about a mile, perhaps a little more, from Redhill. Alick lived here until 1886 and his memory of this period is of perpetual happiness. He remembers with the utmost clearness innumerable incidents and it becomes hard to select those which possess significance. He was taught by tutors; but they have faded, though their lessons have not. He was very thoroughly grounded in geography, history, Latin and arithmetic. His cousin, Gregor Grant, six years older than himself, was a constant visitor. [download]

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The Kitchen Witch

The Kitchen Witch 

By: Annette Blair

LOGAN Kilgarven plucked a bright red leaf off the sleek black hearse in his neighbor’s driveway. “What if she really is a witch?” Jessie Harris laughed as she buffed the chrome hood ornament. “Melody Seabright is no more a witch than I am.” “Jess, I only moved into the apartment above her a couple of days ago, and already I’ve heard that she’s flighty, unpredictable, and quite possibly a witch. After all that, you still think I should ask her to baby-sit?” Jessie straightened, raised a speaking brow, and gazed at him through the top of her bifocals. “What would have happened to you,” she asked, “if I had believed what people said about the town bad boy when you stood before me in juvenile court all those years ago?”. [download]

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Only His

Only His 

By: Elizabeth Lowell

THE man looked dangerous. Dark, strong, unsmiling, he filled the hotel doorway. Leashed power radiated from his stillness. When he moved, the muscular coordination of his body was predatory rather than merely graceful. Dear God, Willow Moran thought as she watched the man stride closer to her across the lobby of the newly built Denver Queen hotel. This can’et be Caleb Black, the God-fearing military scholar Mr. Edwards found to take me to my brother. Willow’s dismay didn’t show in her hazel eyes or her posture. She didn’t back away so much as an inch despite the sudden frantic beating of her heart. The War Between the States had taught Willow that when a girl couldn’t run and couldn’t hide, she stood her ground with as much dignity as she could muster…and a two-shot derringer hidden in a special pocket of her skirt. [download]

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Plattinete Tutto di me Reflessioni

Plattinete Tutto di me Reflessioni 

A cura di : Valerio de Filippis 

Conosco Platinette da qualche anno. Da quando ci siamo incrociati davanti alle telecamere. L’ho detto e lo ripeto: è un uomo colto, malinconico, ironico. È un uomo. Come insieme abbiamo dimostrato a Buona Domenica. È un uomo spesso disperato più per una somma di solitudini che non per altro. La sua “diversità”, i suoi abiti esagerati, il suo eloquio non sempre castigato sono aspetti di cui non ci si scandalizza più.  In questo libro Platinette si racconta sul filo della memoria, ma anche immaginando incontri e sbocchi professionali che nella realtà non si sono ancora avuti. Non gli è stato facile aprirsi, malgrado in genere si esibisca in modo persino eccessivo. Ha pudore dei sentimenti, delle amicizie, degli amori e quant’altro. Stimo Mauro (il vero nome di Platinette) e spero che nei prossimi anni riesca a venire a patti con questa malinconia che l’aggredisce (volendosi un po’ più bene e quindi dimagrendo). Vi consiglio la lettura di questo libro-confessione nella certezza che vi piacerà e ne saprete trarre un piccolo insegnamento: prima di giudicare una persona, pensiamoci un po’. Non sempre con un giudizio sommario siamo nel vero. [download]

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The Short Forever

The Short Forever

By: Stuart Woods

Stone Barrington sipped his third Wild Turkey and resisted the basket of hot sourdough bread that the waiter had just placed on the table. Callie was to have been there an hour and a half ago, and he was very, very hungry. She’d called from the airport to say that she was on the ground and on her way, but that had been an hour ago. It just didn’t take that long to get to Elaine’s from Teterboro Airport, where her boss’s jet landed. He glanced at his watch: He’d give her another three minutes, and then he was ordering. He had been looking forward to seeing her. They’d spent some very pleasant time together in Palm Beach a few months before, on the yacht of his client Thad Shames. She was Shames’s majordomo assistant, cook, social secretary, whatever he needed and she moved when Shames moved, back and forth between Palm Beach and New York. [download]

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Maryamah Karpov

Maryamah Karpov

Penulis: Andrea Hirata

Sebagaimana kawan telah tahu. Aku ini, paling tidak menurutku sendiri, adalah lelaki yang berikhtiar untuk berbuat baik, patuh pada orang tua, sejak dulu. Rupanya, begitu pula ayahku yang sederhana itu. Katanya, ia selalu menempatkan setiap kata ayah bundanya di atas nampan pualam, membungkusnya dengan tilam. Dan ternyata, Tuhan telah menerapkan dalil yang tetap untuk lelaki sepertiku dan ayahku, yakni: lelaki seperti kami umumnya jarang diganjar dengan ujian, yang oleh orang Melayu Dalam sering disebut sebagai “cobaan nan tak tertanggungkan”. [download]

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The A to Z of The Coptic Church

The A to Z of The Coptic Church 

By: Gawdat Gabra

Today’s Copts, members of the Coptic Orthodox Church, comprise the largest Christian community in the Middle East. Unofficial sources estimate their number at 9 million or more. The term “Copt” and the adjective “Coptic” derive from qibt, an abbreviated, Arabic transliteration of the Greek word for the indigenous inhabitants of Egypt (Άίγυπτος)/“aigyptioi” (Egyptians), itself a phonetic corruption of ancient Egyptian “Hikaptah,” a name for Memphis, the ancient capital at the apex of the Nile Delta. After the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641, the term qibt came to distinguish the native Christians from the Muslim Arabs. When the majority of Egyptians converted to Islam during the following centuries, they naturally ceased to be Christians (qibt). [download]

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Revolution of The Heart

Revolution of The Heart 

By: Haiyan Lee

Before I comment on Liu’s preface, let me turn to an article by the anthropologist Sulamith Potter on the cultural construction of emotion in ruralChina. In this article, Potter contrasts the privileged status of emotion in western societies to the Chinese devaluation of emotion as a social force. Speaking reflectively, Potter reminds us that one of “our” most basic assumptions about emotion is that it is the legitimizing basis of all social relationships and social actions. We believe that social relationships are formed and sustained on the basis of emotion, and that any relationship that is not founded on emotional authenticity is impoverished and doomed to dissolution. We therefore invest great amounts of time, money, and eƒort to initiate, maintain, and fortify emotional ties, and we place a high premium on the expression and enactment of personal feelings. [download]

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Detik-Detik Yang Menentukan–Jalan Panjang Indonesia Menuju Demokrasi

Detik-Detik Yang Menentukan–Jalan Panjang Indonesia Menuju Demokrasi

Penulis: Bacharuddin Jusuf  Habibie

Sejumlah buku sudah terbit dan mengungkapkan sejarah politik kontemporer Indonesia, khusus masa lahirnya reformasi yang ditandai dengan mundurnya Presiden Soeharto dari gelanggang politik di Indonesia. Buku-buku tersebut-beberapa diantaranya ditulis oleh pelaku sejarah-telah membantu kita menelaah sejarah perpolitikan di Indonesia, dalam kurun waktu tertentu  tetapi, sejujurnya, buku yang ditulis secara deskriptif dengan berbagai sumber-sumber utama dan sekunder itu, belum lengkap mengungkapkan apa yang sebetulnya telah terjadi. Inilah Buku sejarah perpolitikan Indonesia yang harus dibaca. [download]

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