Travelers & Explorers
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Conor Grennan

Part IV INTO THE MOUNTAINS November 2006-December 2006 Five Farid and I both lived in Kathmandu now. I had my apartment, and Farid had taken a small room—a former pantry, ...
( Category: Child Abuse March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-11-16 | Author:Simon Hawke

* * * 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 25,2014 )
mobi, azw, epub |eng | 2006-07-14 | Author:Ben Elton

116: MISSILE FUEL As they drove slowly towards town, Zimmerman was in a reflective mood. ‘It just goes to show,’ he remarked, ‘that sometimes it ain’t worth trying to do ...
( Category: Assassinations March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-08-14 | Author:Evelyn Waugh

Quarter of an hour hater both Basil and Mr Youkoumian were engaged in what seemed more important business. A morning’s routine at the Ministry of Modernization. ‘Now, look, Mister, I ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |zho | 1930-01-01 | Author:Evelyn Waugh

VIII TWO nights later Adam and Nina took Ginger to the party in the captive dirigible. It was not a really good evening. The long drive in Ginger’s car to ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Peter Nichols

Sailing Route Across the Indain Ocean Two thousand miles to the east – 1,100 miles the other side of Cape Town, well into the Indian Ocean – Bernard Moitessier was ...
( Category: Narratives March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-02-04 | Author:Iain M. Banks

‘Thank you, Li,’ I said, putting my feet back on the upended stool. Li lay breathing heavily on the floor and looking up at me, then his lips parted in ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stewart, Sean [Stewart, Sean]

“Um-nothing,” she said, collecting her wits. “Nothing. Tell my friends, is what I meant. I have to get back to the room and tell my friends right away.” “Certainly,” Solis ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-11-23 | Author:Sean Stewart

Meanwhile, in a turbolift moving briskly toward the Taupe Corridor of Level 17A, Scout and Solis were debating the conduct of the Republic and the Confederacy in the current conflict. ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2004-11-23 | Author:Sean Stewart

Routine security in the public spaces of Reasonable Doubt was handled by bottom-of-the-line Carbanti surveillance monads. Each monad was essentially a small cam and microphone slaved to a very dim ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-10-28 | Author:William Trevor

After that they had lunch together every day, always in the Drummer Boy. People saw them, Ron Stocks and Mr Blackstaffe from Travel-Wide, Mr Fineman, the pharmacist from Green’s the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-23 | Author:Laurence Bergreen

AS MARCO veered back toward the east, heading for Hangzhou, he traveled the rivers of China. Although he was familiar with the sight of the canals of Venice teeming with ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Tom Wolfe

11 Ghislaine Finding a long-sleeved shirt to cover up those famous—they were literally in the news today—those famous Nestor Camacho muscles of his took some doing. But it had to ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Neil Ansell

6. The Bird in the Bush The goshawks caught me unawares. So far as I knew they had died out in Britain decades ago, and their stealthy return had passed ...
( Category: Ecology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:Tony Judt

Back in 1970 the École boasted quite a few self-styled “Maoists.” One of them, a talented mathematician, took pains to explain to me why the great Bibliothèque des Lettres should ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )