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How It All Began by Penelope Lively
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-03 | Author:Penelope Lively [Lively, Penelope]

9 ‘No,’ said Charlotte. ‘There is absolutely no need. Minicab there and back. Helpful driver. On arrival, I can demonstrate my crutch abilities.’ Charlotte was to go to the hospital ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )
Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2006-04-12 | Author:Guy de Maupassant [Maupassant, Guy de]

CHAPTER VI For a week or two nothing occurred. The father went fishing; Jean, with his mother's help, was furnishing and settling himself; Pierre, very gloomy, never was seen excepting ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
Museum Of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
epub |eng | | Author:Orhan Pamuk [Pamuk, Orhan]

53 An Indignant and Broken Heart Is of No Use to Anyone I DID not say another word all night. Because so many languages describe the condition I was in ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 26,2014 )
Daniel Quinn - The Story of B (eBook) by The Story of B
epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:The Story of B

The first thing: reading the signs "Very impressive," I said. "Very unimpressive, believe me, compared to what a real tracker could do, but good enough for our purpose. There are ...
( Category: Magical Realism March 26,2014 )
Julia's Last Hope by Janette Oke
epub, mobi |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Janette Oke [Oke, Janette]

That night, after they had gone to bed, Julia told John the news. “John, we can’t let the church go. We just can’t. We need it. Our children need it. ...
( Category: Western March 26,2014 )
idoru by Idoru
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-02-05 | Author:Idoru

21. Standover Man There was a man on stilts at the intersection nearest the hotel. He wore a hooded white paper suit, a gas mask, and a pair of rectangular ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction March 26,2014 )
Some Great Thing by Lawrence Hill
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Lawrence Hill [Hill, Lawrence]

Mahatma Grafton was bombarded with attention after the morning news. It started with his father, who wandered into Mahatma’s bedroom. “Good work, son. I knew you didn’t mess up.” Then ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 26,2014 )
My Best Friend's Girl by Dorothy Koomson
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Dorothy Koomson [Koomson, Dorothy]

“Have you been crying?” Luke asked over an hour later. He’d read Tiga four stories and listened to her chatter on for a good ten minutes until her wind-up mechanism ...
( Category: Family Life March 26,2014 )
Stories of Mary Gordon by Mary Gordon
epub |eng | 2006-10-03 | Author:Mary Gordon [Gordon, Mary]

Both of us have things to do the next day that we don't want to do. A visit to the country. A friend who has lived in a foreign city ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
Man Of War by Alexander Kent
epub |eng | 2007-04-12 | Author:Alexander Kent [Kent, Alexander]

Man Of War 10 Chasing Shadows Adam Bolitho moved his shoulders very slightly and winced as the heat seared his skin, as though he were naked, or his coat had ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
The Moment by Douglas Kennedy
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Douglas Kennedy [Kennedy, Douglas]

EIGHT AS SOON AS Petra finished talking, I stood up and took her in my arms. But her reaction to this embrace, this attempt to comfort her, was disconcerting. She ...
( Category: Psychological March 26,2014 )
Landry 01 Ruby
epub |eng | 2011-06-12 | Author:V. C. Andrews [V. C. Andrews]

13 I Can't Be You . I felt as if I were caught in a whirlwind because of the way my new stepmother went about taking me shopping. As soon ...
( Category: Media Tie-In March 26,2014 )
The Patient by Michael Palmer
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Michael Palmer [Palmer, Michael]

JESSIE WATCHED AS he made his way down the corridor, pausing just long enough to glimpse into room 2 as he passed. Five years. Almost as long as it had ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joseph Conrad

* * * THE INN OF THE TWO WITCHES--A FIND * * * This tale, episode, experience--call it how you will--was related in the fifties of the last century by ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
Cosmic Banditos by Weisbecker A. C
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Weisbecker, A. C. [C., Weisbecker, A.]

12 Quark Soup50 A Quarky Character is one who, as I see it, goes a bit beyond “spooky.” The term “spook” refers to someone involved in clandestine activities. Some spooks ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )

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