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Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1988-01-01 | Author:Margaret Atwood

Cordelia begins to pinch things from stores. She doesn’t call it stealing, she calls it pinching. She pinches tubes of lipstick from Woolworth’s, packets of licorice Nibs from the drugstore. ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
Space by James A. Michener
mobi, epub |eng | 1982-08-15 | Author:James A. Michener

“Pope, avoid this temptation. It looks enticing-to be an astronaut and to have your picture in the newsreels. And we can be proud of our Navy men. They’ve done a ...
( Category: Christian Historical Fiction March 25,2014 )
The Cement Garden (Ian McEwan Series) by McEwan Ian
mobi |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:McEwan, Ian [McEwan, Ian]

CHAPTER SEVEN THERE WEEKS after Mother died I began to reread the book Sue had given me for my birthday. I was surprised how much I had missed. I never ...
( Category: Family Life March 25,2014 )
Inca Gold by Clive Cussler
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-01-01 | Author:Clive Cussler

“Forty or nothing.” Moore said resolutely. “Do you want it in writing?” “Would it stand up in a court of law?” “Probably not.” “Then we'll just have to take each ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
Twisted (Torn Series) by K.A. Robinson
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-13 | Author:K.A. Robinson

Chapter Thirteen Chloe The elation I felt at seeing Drake standing in the parking lot quickly turned to confusion as he weaved around me and went to Jordan. I watched ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
A House for Mr. Biswas by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
mobi, epub |eng | 1973-01-02 | Author:Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

The thin, short-winded and repetitive cry of the baby hardly made itself heard outside the Rose Room. The midwife no longer squatted in the hall and smoked. She was busy. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 25,2014 )
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1995-01-15 | Author:Daniel Quinn

6 “So, what have we discovered here?” “We’ve discovered that any species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its ...
( Category: Magical Realism March 25,2014 )
Mona Lisa overdrive by William Gibson
mobi, epub |eng | 1989-08-15 | Author:William Gibson

21 - The Aleph As the sun rose, still no power for the 100-watt bulbs, Gentry's loft filled with a new light. Winter sunlight softened the outlines of the consoles ...
( Category: Cyberpunk March 25,2014 )
The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-01 | Author:Maria Edgeworth

CHAPTER X Towards the evening of the second day's journey, the driver of Lord Colambre's hackney chaise stopped, and jumping off the wooden bar, on which he had been seated, ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
The Mountains of California by John Muir
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:John Muir

View of Forest of the Magnificent Silver Fir It is in these woods the great granite domes rise that are so striking and characteristic a feature of the Sierra. And ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1973-12-31 | Author:Samuel R. Delany

He listened for people moving around the house, thinking it must be growing late in the morning. Something—Denny's elbow—hit the side of his head, and he realized he was waking ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
When the Sleeper Wakes by Herbert George Wells
mobi |eng | 1977-01-02 | Author:Herbert George Wells

CHAPTER 15 PROMINENT PEOPLE The state apartments of the wind vane keeper would have seemed astonishingly intricate to Graham had he entered them fresh from his nineteenth century life, but ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:J. D. Salinger

THE Glasses’ living room was about as unready to have its walls repainted as a room can be. Franny Glass lay asleep on the couch, with an afghan over her; ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-08-15 | Author:Giovanni Boccaccio

THE EIGHTH STORY [Day the Fifth] NASTAGIO DEGLI ONESTI, FALLING IN LOVE WITH A LADY OF THE TRAVERSARI FAMILY, SPENDETH HIS SUBSTANCE WITHOUT BEING BELOVED IN RETURN, AND BETAKING HIMSELF, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2003-03-15 | Author:John Steinbeck

Chapter 25 1 It was a deluge of a winter in the Salinas Valley, wet and wonderful. The rains fell gently and soaked in and did not freshet. The feed ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )

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