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The Plague by Albert Camus
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-10-16 | Author:Albert Camus

PART III Thus week by week the prisoners of plague put up what fight they could. Some, like Rambert, even contrived to fancy they were still behaving as free men ...
( Category: French March 25,2014 )
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-08-29 | Author:Truman Capote

I went straight upstairs, got the bird cage, took it down and left it in front of her door. That settled that. Or so I imagined until the next morning ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
P G Wodehouse - Love Among The Chickens by Love Among The Chickens
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-03 | Author:Love Among The Chickens

And there was, I thought, just the faintest tinkle of annoyance in her voice. ..... "I've been bathing," said Mr. Chase, /a propos des bottes/. "Oh," I replied. "And I ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin Modern Classics relaunch) by Roald Dahl
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-20 | Author:Roald Dahl

The Oompa-Loompa took one look at Mrs Gloop and exploded into peals of laughter. ‘Oh, do be quiet!’ said Mr Wonka. ‘Control yourself! Pull yourself together! Mrs Gloop doesn’t think ...
( Category: Cartoons March 25,2014 )
Amis, Martin - Money (v1.0) by Money
mobi |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Money

'Columbia, Slick... Chicago, LA, wherever — in America our seats of learning are surrounded by the worst, the biggest, the most desperate ratshit slums in the civilized world. It seems ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-15 | Author:Kamila Shamsie

19 He called three times before she was the one to answer the phone instead of her mother. ‘Hello, Fatima?’ she said when she picked up. ‘I have those notes ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Hilary Mantel

Now Edward Seymour is promoted into the king’s privy chamber, a singular mark of favour. And the king says to him, ‘I think I should have young Rafe Sadler among ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Philippa Gregory

I look at him uncomprehendingly, and then I brush past him, open the door to my husband's bedroom, and stride inside. "Henry?" His face is ashen on the pillow, gray ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
Pompeii by Robert Harris
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-21 | Author:Robert Harris

Pliny had grown too fat for a litter. He travelled instead by carriage, a two-seater, with Gaius wedged in next to him. Beside his red and corpulent uncle he looked ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
Toby's Room
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Barker, Pat [Barker, Pat]

Table of Contents PART ONE: 1912 PART TWO: 1917
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Philippa Gregory

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 25,2014 )
The Kingmaker's Daughter by Philippa Gregory
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-08-13 | Author:Philippa Gregory

The pains start at midnight, just when I am going to sleep with Isabel in the big bed beside me. I give a little cry and within moments she is ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
Mary Russell 03 - A Letter of Mary
mobi |eng | 2009-08-15 | Author:King, Laurie R [King, Laurie R]

I had to admit, grudgingly and to myself, that a part of me liked this man Edwards. The part of me that was closest to Mary Small responded to him ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
David Nicholls by One Day
mobi |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:One Day

Part Three 1996–2001 Early Thirties ‘Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it’s the same with people.’ James Salter, ...
( Category: Family Life March 25,2014 )
Family Pictures by Jane Green
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Jane Green

29 Maggie The doorbell rings. I ignore it, muting the television set just in case Kelly Ripa’s voice drifts out the window to the driveway, letting the intruders know I’m ...
( Category: Family Life March 25,2014 )

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