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Walden Or Life In The Woods by Henry David Thoreau
epub | | 2009-10-04 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

VILLAGE After hoeing, or perhaps reading and writing, in the forenoon, I usually bathed again in the pond, swimming across one of its coves for a stint, and washed the ...
( Category: State & Local March 27,2014 )
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:Chester Himes [Himes, Chester]

12 When Grave Digger and Coffin Ed came on duty at 8 p.m., Lieutenant Anderson said, “Your car was found abandoned up at 163rd Street and Edgecombe Drive. Does that ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled March 27,2014 )
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Christopher Buehlman [Buehlman, Christopher]

STAY HERE Fully one hundred people had gathered to see the Penitents perform their miracle in the square before Auxerre’s cathedral. A light breeze blew, but it was not so ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy March 27,2014 )
The Good Guys by Bill Bonanno
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Bill Bonanno [Bonanno, Bill]

TEN Numbers can’t lie. Dig deep enough into the numbers and the answer is there. Most people never think about it, but almost all of their daily transactions generate numbers, ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled March 27,2014 )
Hundred Dollar Baby
epub | | 2010-05-25 | Author:Robert B. Parker [Parker, Robert B.]

34 Ollie's clubhouse was locked. There was a big crime-scene sign on the door. But I had a key from Belson, and unlocked the door, and strolled brazenly in. I ...
( Category: Suspense March 27,2014 )
Worth Dying For by Lee Child
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Lee Child [Child, Lee]

THIRTY-FOUR THE OLD CAPRICE’S REAR BENCH WAS CONTOURED LIKE TWO separate bucket seats, not by design but by age and relentless wear and tear. Mahmeini’s man settled into the right-hand ...
( Category: Murder March 27,2014 )
Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-24 | Author:Carl Hiaasen [Hiaasen, Carl]

MICK Stranahan stood on the curb outside La Guardia Airport and watched Reynaldo Flemm climb into a long black limousine. The limo driver, holding the door, eyed Reynaldo’s new hair ...
( Category: Espionage March 26,2014 )
Stranger in Paradise by Robert B. Parker
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Robert B. Parker [Parker, Robert B.]

38. Jesse stood with Jenn and Nina Pinero at the foot of the long, sloping lawn of the Crowne estate. At the top of the slope the children sat on ...
( Category: Murder March 26,2014 )
State of fear by Michael Crichton
epub | | 2003-12-31 | Author:Michael Crichton [Michael Crichton]

Rain dripped in Evans’s eyes as he spun the wrench, tightening the lug nuts on the front wheel of the SUV. The spare tire was now securely in place. He ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
News from Nowhere by William Morris
epub, mobi |eng | 1890-03-25 | Author:William Morris [Morris, William]

Chapter 18 THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW LIFE "Well," said I, "so you got clear out of all your trouble. Were people satisfied with the new order of things when ...
( Category: British & Irish March 26,2014 )
Sharpe's Devil by Bernard Cornwell
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-01-30 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

A rebel officer shouted a piercing warning. The swaying mainmast splintered and cracked. Canvas billowed down onto the deck and into the sea. The collapsing mast dragged in its wake ...
( Category: Military 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 )
The Lady Of The Rivers by Gregory Philippa
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Gregory, Philippa [Gregory, Philippa]

We go west, through surly countryside where the people cannot earn enough to pay their taxes and who see the coming of our spendthrift court as an added burden, and ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett by Arnold Bennett
epub |eng | 2010-09-04 | Author:Arnold Bennett [Bennett, Arnold]

CHAPTER III AN AMBITION SATISFIED I She went to sleep in misery. All the glory of her new life had been eclipsed. But when she woke up, a few hours ...
( Category: Family Life March 26,2014 )
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Stephen Hawking [Hawking, Stephen]

*A lecture given at the Three Hundred Years of Gravity conference held in Cambridge in June 1987, on the three hundredth anniversary of the publication of Newton’s Principia. Ten THE ...
( Category: Cosmology March 26,2014 )

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