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Roughing It by Mark Twain
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Mark Twain

* * * CHAPTER XLV. The "flush times" held bravely on. Something over two years before, Mr. Goodman and another journeyman printer, had borrowed forty dollars and set out from ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
Buried Child by Sam Shepard
epub |eng | 1979-01-01 | Author:Sam Shepard [Shepard, Sam]

VINCE: Boy! This is amazing. This is truly amazing. (Keeps moving around.) What is this anyway? Am I being punished here or what? Is that it? Some kind of banishment? ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
The Hard Truth by Amanda Young
epub, pdf |nld | 0101-01-01 | Author:Amanda Young [Young, Amanda]

The Hard Truth 59 Red didn"t want to give Cadge any more time to second-guess why they couldn"t be together. He was so fucking sick of all the games and ...
( Category: Vampires March 26,2014 )
The Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [Cooper, James Fenimore]

Chapter XVII * "'Twas not without some reason, for the wind Increased at night, until it blew a gale; And though 'twas not much to a naval mind, Some landsmen ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 26,2014 )
Ssn (1996) by Clancy Tom
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-17 | Author:Clancy, Tom [Tom, Clancy,]

The three Alfas were approaching within range, running at fifty meters' depth, abreast of one another and only four thousand yards apart. Mack waited awhile longer. He had six torpedoes ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
Last to Die: (Rizzoli & Isles 10) by Tess Gerritsen
epub |eng | 2012-08-15 | Author:Tess Gerritsen [Gerritsen, Tess]

CHICKEN KILLER. Though no one said it to her face, Claire knew what they were whispering as they leaned their heads together and shot glances at her from the other ...
( Category: Murder March 26,2014 )
The Husband: A Novel by Dean Koontz
epub |eng | 2007-06-15 | Author:Dean Koontz [Koontz, Dean]

33 As Mitch lay in indecision, he heard in memory Holly’s scream, and the sharp slap of her being hit. A real sound refocused his attention on the present: his ...
( Category: Kidnapping March 26,2014 )
Creekers by Edward Lee
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-08-06 | Author:Edward Lee [Lee, Edward]

“Yeah,” Phil said. “I heard all about that.” His next question, however morbid, wouldn’t let go. “How much you think she costs?” “Vicki? Shit, she’s the prime beef of the ...
( Category: Suspense March 26,2014 )
Overwinter by David Wellington
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-13 | Author:David Wellington [Wellington, David]

50. The others returned a little later, Dzo holding up a flap of seal skin that was the dome’s door while Powell and Lucie squeezed inside. Powell proudly brandished a ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
Comstock Lode (1981) by L'amour Louis
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-12 | Author:L'amour, Louis [Louis, L'amour,]

Chapter XXX At daylight, putting the last finishing touches to her hair, Grita looked around at Mary. "Have you a pistol?" she asked. Mary Tucker looked up, surprised. "I do, ...
( Category: Westerns March 26,2014 )
A Feast for Crows + A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:George R. R. Martin [Martin, George R. R.]

THE REAVER (A Feast for Crows 30) The drums were pounding out a battle beat as the Iron Victory swept forward, her ram cutting through the choppy green waters. The ...
( Category: Fantasy March 26,2014 )
The Babylon Rite
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Knox

31 Thornhill Crescent, Islington, London Adam sensed the danger immediately. He leapt from his stool and ran to the door; just as the dark, leather-coated man kicked it with a ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 26,2014 )
History of Friedrich II of Prussia by Thomas Carlyle
epub |eng | 2010-02-17 | Author:Thomas Carlyle [Carlyle, Thomas]

'Partez, ma Soeur, partez; La Suede vous attend, la Suede vous desire,' 'Go, my Sister, go; Sweden waits you, Sweden wishes you. [Does not now exist (see OEuvres de Frederic, ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
Knights of the Black and White by Jack Whyte
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Jack Whyte [Whyte, Jack]

THREE In the course of the six weeks that followed their initial meeting, Stephen St. Clair met the princess three more times, apparently by sheerest accident on each occasion. Unworldly ...
( Category: Canadian March 26,2014 )
The fourth protocol by Frederick Forsyth
epub, mobi | | 1984-09-03 | Author:Frederick Forsyth [Forsyth, Frederick]

That Sunday afternoon, the regular Aeroflot service from Moscow came into London’s Heathrow Airport at just after five. As with all Aeroflot crews there was one member who worked for ...
( Category: Espionage March 26,2014 )

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