A magnificent story in the making…

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English

✍ McWhorter, John 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Gotham 🌐 English ⚖ 141 KB

### From Publishers Weekly This evolutionary history of the English language from author and editor McWhorter (The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language) isn't an easy read, but those fascinated by words and grammar will find it informative, provocative and even invigorating. McWhorter's hi

Novels & Stories The Magnificent Ambersons, Alice Adams, In the Arena Stories of Political Life: novel

✍ Booth Tarkington 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Library of America 🌐 en-US ⚖ 508 KB 👁 1 views

**Thomas Mallon and Library of America invite readers to rediscover the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels of a classic American writer on the 150th anniversary of his birth** Much in need of rediscovery today, Booth Tarkington was among the most beloved and widely read writers of his era. In such clas

Novels & Stories: The Magnificent Ambersons; Alice Adams; In the Arena: Stories of Political Life: novel

✍ Booth Tarkington 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Library of America 🌐 en-US ⚖ 508 KB 👁 1 views

**Thomas Mallon and Library of America invite readers to rediscover the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels of a classic American writer on the 150th anniversary of his birth** Much in need of rediscovery today, Booth Tarkington was among the most beloved and widely read writers of his era. In such clas

A Karate Story: Thirty Years in the Making

✍ O'Dowd, Seamus 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🏛 Nintai Publications 🌐 English ⚖ 3 MB

A Karate Story - Thirty years in the Making is the autobiography of Seamus O'Dowd. The book chronicles his journey, over a period of thirty years, from complete novice to a high-ranking and respected international karate instructor. Simple, humorous and heartwarming, the book will inspire and entert

Men in the Making - Stories

✍ Machart, Bruce 📂 Fiction 🏛 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 🌐 English ⚖ 112 KB

From the author of *The Wake of Forgiveness*— ''a mesmerizing, mythic saga''\*—ten remarkable stories that tackle what it means to be a man Whether they find themselves walking the fertile farmland of south Texas, steering trucks through the suffocating sprawl of Houston, or turning logs into loose

Birthday [a love story eighteen years in the making]

✍ Meredith Russo 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Flatiron Books 🌐 en-US ⚖ 151 KB 👁 1 views

Two best friends. A shared birthday. Six years...ERIC: There was the day we were born. There was the minute Morgan and I decided we were best friends for life. The years where we stuck by each other’s side—as Morgan’s mom died, as he moved across town, as I joined the football team, as my parents st