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The Outcast by Simon Hawke
epub, mobi, pdf | | 1993-11-16 | Author:Simon Hawke [Hawke, Simon]

* * * Sorak had never seen anything even remotely like the warrens before. Long accustomed to the peaceful solitude and open spaces of the Ringing Mountains, he had found ...
( Category: Sword & Sorcery March 27,2014 )
The Becoming by Jeanne C. Stein
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Jeanne C. Stein [Stein, Jeanne C.]

Chapter Twenty-Two Once past the rock, the tunnel entrance yawns open. There are lights here. Electric lamps hang on hooks that stretch past my line of sight like a string ...
( Category: Paranormal & Urban March 27,2014 )
City and the City by China Miéville
epub |eng | 2009-05-07 | Author:China Miéville [Miéville, China]

Chapter Fourteen SIT HIM IN A COFFEE SHOP—a teahouse, really, we were in Ul Qoma—and Dhatt’s aggressive energy dissipated somewhat. He still drummed his fingers on the edge of the ...
( Category: Paranormal & Urban March 27,2014 )
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-03-16 | Author:Olaudah Equiano [Equiano, Olaudah]

Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living. Job xxxiii. 29, 30. ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 27,2014 )
The Social Animal by David Brooks
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-07 | Author:David Brooks [Brooks, David]

The Urge to Merge Wolfram Schultz is a neuroscientist at Cambridge University who did research on monkeys in hopes of understanding Parkinson’s disease. He would squirt apple juice in their ...
( Category: Class March 27,2014 )
Embarcadero by Richard Dillon
epub |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Richard Dillon [Dillon, Richard]

Wakeman sailed up the Mississippi River on the second seagoing vessel to reach Vicksburg. Here he engaged in sundry duels and romances before hurrying off to the Mexican War. He ...
( Category: United States March 27,2014 )
The Last Plantagenet by Thomas B Costain
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Thomas B Costain [Costain, Thomas B]

CHAPTER XXIX The King Had No Horses and No Men 1 IT IS generally supposed that Richard delayed in Ireland and that he lost his throne as a result of ...
( Category: Great Britain March 27,2014 )
Shanghaiing Days by Richard Dillon
epub |eng | 2012-05-29 | Author:Richard Dillon [Dillon, Richard]

This writer’s mother, Mrs. Alice M. Dillon, had a girl friend in 1900, named Alice McDevitt. Miss McDevitt’s father ran a saloon on the Embarcadero near Clay Street, from which ...
( Category: Historical March 27,2014 )
Privileged Information by Stephen White
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Stephen White [White, Stephen]

Twenty-three The thoughts that precluded easy sleep Friday night joined me for coffee Saturday morning. In the time since I remembered seeing the crystal turtle in my hand, which was ...
( Category: Murder March 27,2014 )
Final Account by Peter Robinson
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Peter Robinson [Robinson, Peter]

"Have you talked to Hamilton?" "Yes. This morning. He knows nothing. Believe me, he's so scared of the police he'd sell his own mother down the tubes if he thought ...
( Category: Police Procedurals March 27,2014 )
The Friend of Women and Other Stories by Louis Auchincloss
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-03-09 | Author:Louis Auchincloss [Auchincloss, Louis]

5. The Omelette and the Egg KATE RAND had imbued her philosophy of life—that of a dedicated domestic wife and mother—from her own mother. Emma Laidlaw, a highly intelligent, smartly ...
( Category: Historical March 27,2014 )
Mashi and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
epub |eng | 2010-12-26 | Author:Rabindranath Tagore [Tagore, Rabindranath]

II The child was named Nilmani. When he was two years old his father fell seriously ill. A letter reached Joygopal asking him to come as quickly as possible. When ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
Talking to the Dead by Harry Bingham
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-24 | Author:Harry Bingham [Bingham, Harry]

Home. Anxiety at the door. There’s a security light at the front of the house, so I’m not worried about possible lurkers outside. It’s the possible lurkers within that freak ...
( Category: Murder March 26,2014 )
15 Seconds by Andrew Gross
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-30 | Author:Andrew Gross

Chapter Thirty-Six “Daddy? Daddy?” I’d heard the ring and grabbed one of the phones from the passenger seat, and saw the call was from Hallie! I didn’t know if I ...
( Category: Murder March 26,2014 )
The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor by Sally Armstrong
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Sally Armstrong [Armstrong, Sally]

A FEW CICADAS speak from the trees behind the house. The crickets chirp cozily in the grass. Little John is awake and playing with his fingers. Charlotte stands her daily ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )

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