The Full Cupboard of Life

McCall Smith, Alexander: The Full Cupboard of Life

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‘You are right,’ she said. ‘I am a very engaged lady. I have been waiting for a long time. But you cannot push men around. They...
The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency

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I said to him that Zululand sounded fine, but that every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart...
A Dimdim in Paradise

Andy Fletcher: A Dimdim in Paradise

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„I went to Papua New Guinea with Mining giant Conzinc Rio Tinto in 1970 to work for a year in their Bougainville Mine, and fell hopelessly...
In The Company Of Cheerful Ladies

McCall Smith, Alexander: In The Company Of Cheerful Ladies

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‘We are all human,’ she would say. ‘Men particularly. You must not be ashamed.’
Blue Shoes and Happiness

McCall Smith, Alexander: Blue Shoes and Happiness

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‘ Ever since women allowed men to think that they did not need to get married, everything has gone wrong. That is what...

Weidensaul, Scott: A World on the Wing

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Researchers have found that in advance of their flights, migrant birds can bulk up with new muscle mass without really exercising, something humans would...

McGuire, Bill: Hothouse Earth

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What I mean by hothouse Earth, then, is not an ice-free planet, but a world in which lethal heatwaves and temperatures in excess of...

Smith, Will: Will

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Are you paying attention to the wall? Or are you paying attention to the brick? Whether it was acing the tests to get accepted...

Conover, Ted: Cheap Land Colorado

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The local expert on cold-calling is Matt Little, charged by the social service group La Puente with “rural outreach.” Matt has let me ride...

Engebrigtsen, Ada I.: Exploring Gypsiness

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The Roma did not understand our problem. ‘Just say that your car has broken down, say you have no petrol, just lie’ was their...

Friedman, Thomas L.: From Beirut to Jerusalem

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But in order to make that state economically viable, the Maronites appealed to France to include in it not only their traditional Mt. Lebanon...

Al Aswany, Alaa: The Yacoubian Building

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Then he would bring his speech to an end by cursing Abd el Nasser, who had introduced free education, or quote as authority the...

Yong, Ed: An Immense World

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Philosophers have long pitied the goldfish in its bowl, unaware of what lies beyond, but our senses create a bowl around us too—one that...

Lamott, Anne: Bird by Bird

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In seventh and eighth grades I still weighed about forty pounds. I was twelve years old and had been getting teased about my strange...

Kolbert, Elizabeth: The Sixth Extinction

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If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment...

Best Remembered Poems

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Francis William Bourdillon The Night Has a Thousand Eyes The night has a thousand eyes,And the day but one;Yet the light of the bright world diesWith...

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