Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Editorial Content for East on Sunset: A Crime Novel
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Joe Hartlaub
EAST ON SUNSET is Ken Mercer's much-anticipated sequel to SLOW FIRE, which introduced former L.A. cop Will Magowan to the annals of noir crime fiction. It brings Magowan back to his familiar Los Angeles environs, though a step or three down from where he had been career-wise. Magowan and his wife Laurie, recently reconciled and very pregnant, are awaiting the birth of their child and trying to put their past behind them. Magowan is underemployed and overqualified, but dealing with it when his past life comes back to haunt him in a totally unexpected manner. Read More
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In this follow-up to the critically acclaimed SLOW FIRE, hero cop Will MacGowen returns to battle the evils of his past when a killer is released from jail at the worst possible moment.
George Carlin
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
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George Carlin
Socrates
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of --- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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Socrates
Pericles
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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Pericles
Author Louisa Young discusses her World War I-era love story, My Dear I Wanted to Tell You in today's interview.
