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Conover, Ted: Cheap Land Colorado
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...
Dorff, PhD, Rabbi Elliot N.: The Jewish Approach to Repairing the World
Tikkun olam—repairing the world. Quite a task! Yet this is precisely the goal that the Jewish tradition sets for our lives. This gives us...
Al Aswany, Alaa: The Yacoubian Building
Then he would bring his speech to an end by cursing Abd el Nasser, who had introduced free education, or quote as authority the...
Bageant, Joe: Deer Hunting with Jesus
When the middle-class citizens of Winchester or of the new suburbs of America—the 20 percent or so of Americans whose lives most closely resemble...
Moji milí: Sbírka romské narativní prózy
Blížil se den, kdy jsem měla nastoupit do první třídy, babička měla
zrovna práci ve vedlejším městě. Nemohla se mnou tedy jít v osm hodin...
Vance, J. D.: Americká elegie
Během jízdy venkovskou krajinou s
tetou Wee se brzy ráno zastavili na odpočívadle u silnice. Teta Wee si chtěla
upravit účes a vyčistit zuby. Strávila tak...
Šebek, Tomáš: Africká zima
Jo, a přestal jsem ke kritickým pacientům běhat. Pacient, který má umřít, umře tak jako tak. Lékař s tím nic neudělá. Na přeživšího pacienta...
McCall Smith, Alexander: The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Unfairness seemed to be an
inescapable feature of life, at least if you were Mma Makutsi from Bobonong in
Northern Botswana, daughter of a man whose...
Barbara Kingsolver: Poisonwood Bible
Father feels makeup and nail polish
are warning signals of prostitution, the same as pierced ears.
Father surveyed our despair as if
he’d expected it all along,...
Tim Butcher: Blood River
For me the Congo stands as a totem
for the failed continent of Africa. It has more potential than any other
African nation, more diamonds, more...
