Tag: Shady

Free Download A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories by Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell
English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 0593733258 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 2.6 MB
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by "one of Latin America’s most exciting authors" (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)

Free Download A Sunny Place for Shady People: How Malta Became One of the Most Curious and Corrupt Places in the World by Ryan Murdock
English | April 23, 2024 | ISBN: 159534294X | True EPUB | 272 pages | 7.6 MB
The car bomb assassination of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017 shocked the European Union and put the world’s spotlight on an island so small that few knew it was an independent country and even fewer could find it on the map. But Caruana Galizia’s death didn’t come as a surprise to those who lived there.

Free Download Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks (Audiobook)
English | November 14, 2023 | ASIN: B0CLVT8X1S | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 9m | 213 MB
Author: Keith Houston | Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick
A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography.
Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger ()-which alternately illuminated and skewered heretical verses of the early Bible-or the at sign (@), which languished in obscurity for centuries until rescued by the Internet, Keith Houston draws on myriad sources to chart the life and times of these enigmatic squiggles, both exotic () and everyday (&).