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Scifi. Books. Electronic. Speculative. Star Wars by Nick Montfort. Write a Novel in a Month. Library of Quotes. SELECTIONS FROM H.P. LOVECRAFT'S BRIEF TENURE AS A WHITMAN'S SAMPLER COPYWRITER. White Chocolate Truffle What black arts could have stripped this chocolate of its natural hue? The horror of the unearthly, corpselike pallor of this truffle’s complexion is only offset by its fiendish deliciousness.

Nut Cluster Crunch This eerie candy will test the sanity of all but those who possess the strongest of constitutions. Strange congeries of almonds, walnuts, and pistachios dance hypnotically within, promising to reveal their eldritch secrets to anyone foolish enough to take a bite of these ancient nut clusters! Coconut Creme Swirl They say that the Coconut Creme Swirl sleeps. Dark Chocolate Fudge Dark! Peanut Butter Cup In 1856, a fisherman from a tiny hamlet on the New England coast made a terrible pact with serpentine beasts from beneath the sea, that he might create the most delicious sweet seen upon the Earth since the days of the great Elder Race. Chocolate Cherry Cordial Caramel Chew Toffee Nugget Few men dare ask the question “What is toffee, exactly?”

Joyland | a hub for short fiction. The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 ... Library of the World's Best Literature Ancient and Modern. La cola del mundo - Luigi Amara. Spineless books. THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, from Tales of the Jazz Age by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Chapter I As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one.

So young Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were fifty years ahead of style when they decided, one day in the summer of 1860, that their first baby should be born in a hospital. I shall tell you what occurred, and let you judge for yourself. On the September morning consecrated to the enormous event he arose nervously at six o'clock dressed himself, adjusted an impeccable stock, and hurried forth through the streets of Baltimore to the hospital, to determine whether the darkness of the night had borne in new life upon its bosom. Mr. The doctor heard him, faced around, and stood waiting, a curious expression settling on his harsh, medicinal face as Mr.

"What happened? " "Talk sense! " "Is the child born? " Mr. McSweeney's Internet Tendency: History's Monsters à la Mundane. The Bijou Gift Book for 1828. Wu Ming - Download Our Books (novels, essays and short stories) 1775. In Massachusetts, the conflict between the British Empire and the American colonies becomes all out war.

In the colony of New York, the Six Nations - or “League of Peace and Power” – must decide if they are going to participate in the war, and alongside whom. In the Mohawk River Valley a mestizo world exists. It is a great community of Indians, Irish and Scottish, founded by Sir William Johnson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs appointed by King George. Manituana has been translated into Spanish, English and French. THE RED BOOK OF HEROES. Orhan Pamuk from Istanbul. Pamuk in his personal writing space Ferit Orhan Pamuk (generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk; born 7 June 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.

One of Turkey's most prominent novelists,[1] his work has sold over eleven million books in sixty languages,[2] making him the country's best-selling writer.[3] As well as the Nobel Prize in Literature (the first Nobel Prize to be awarded to a Turkish citizen), Pamuk is the recipient of numerous other literary awards. My Name Is Red won the 2002 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, 2002 Premio Grinzane Cavour and 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The European Writers' Parliament came about as a result of a joint proposal by Pamuk and José Saramago.[5] In 2005, Pamuk was put on trial in Turkey after he made a statement regarding the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

Early life[edit] Work[edit] My Name Is Red[edit] Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time.