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Blackberry Bill by Ned Reardon
epub |eng | 2018-09-15 | Author:Ned Reardon

Chapter 17 The boy awoke in a cold sweat, breathing frantically with his thoughts, which were clouded in turmoil. Earlier he would have sworn that he was in the boy’s ...
( Category: Action & Adventure March 26,2020 )
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (World Classics, Unabridged) by Daniel Defoe
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Daniel Defoe [Defoe, Daniel]

I slept none that night; the farther I was from the occasion of my fright, the greater my apprehensions were, which is something contrary to the nature of such things, ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2020 )
The Stoneware Monkey by R.Austin Freeman
epub |eng | 2012-12-22 | Author:R.Austin Freeman

Chapter Thirteen The Inquiry The results of Mr Linnell’s activities on Mrs Gannet’s behalf were slightly disappointing, though she undoubtedly derived great encouragement from the feeling that his advice and ...
( Category: Action & Adventure March 26,2020 )
Tales of Pirates and Blue Water (Annotated) by Arthur Conan Doyle
azw |eng | 2015-07-24 | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

* * * The long-impending catastrophe has come at last. I hardly know what to write about it. The Captain is gone. He may come back to us again alive, ...
( Category: Action & Adventure March 26,2020 )
Historical Tales by S.J.A. Turney
epub |eng | 2019-06-05 | Author:S.J.A. Turney [Turney, SJA]

The three men, none of them young and vital and each armed weapons that were pitted and worn, their blades dulled by the onset of time, stood waiting at her ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy March 25,2020 )
The Lost Princess by Lee Tidball
epub |eng | 2018-09-27 | Author:Lee Tidball [Tidball, Lee]

Well after he’d secured the jail deck for the night, Nur-zai Gin sat in his own quarters, staring at the little data storage device. For the first time in as ...
( Category: Action & Adventure March 25,2020 )
FIGHT CLUB by chuck Palahniuk
epub |eng | | Author:chuck Palahniuk [Palahniuk, chuck]

Chapter 12 MISTER HIS HONOR, mister chapter president of the local chapter of the national united projectionist and independent theater operators union just sat. Under and behind and inside everything ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2020 )
The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit
epub |eng | 1899-03-15 | Author:Edith Nesbit [Nesbit, Edith]

Lord Tottenham seemed very pleased. He thanked us, and talked to us for a bit, and when he said good-bye he said— 'All's fair weather now, mates,' and shook hands. ...
( Category: Fantasy March 25,2020 )
Royal Marines Commandos by Author
epub |eng | 2019-04-04 | Author:Author

( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 25,2020 )
Memoirs of Louis XIV by Duke of Saint-Simon
epub |eng | | Author:Duke of Saint-Simon

CHAPTER LIX .................. ON MONDAY, THE 18TH OF January, 1712, after a visit to Versailles, the King went to Marly. I mark expressly this journey. No sooner were we settled ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 25,2020 )
My Lady Greensleeves by Frederik Pohl
epub |eng | 1957-01-01 | Author:Frederik Pohl [Pohl, Frederik]

VI. After O'Leary and the medic left, the warden tottered to a chair—but not for long. His secretary appeared, eyes bulging. "The governor!" he gasped. Warden Schluckebier managed to say: ...
( Category: Action & Adventure March 25,2020 )
The Works of Edmund Burke Volume 12 by Edmund Burke
epub |eng | 2018-01-31 | Author:Edmund Burke [Burke, Edmund]

We have but one observation more to offer upon this collection of razinamas, upon these miserable testimonials given by these wretched people in contradiction to all their own previous representations,—directly ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2020 )
The Christmas Book Of Mr. Titmarsh by William Makepeace Thackeray
epub |eng | 2014-11-26 | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray [Unbekannt]

"What a comfort it is to live in a country where there is neither insolence nor bankruptcy among the great folks, nor cringing, nor flattery among the small. Isn't it, ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2020 )
Sierra by James Martin
epub |eng | 2006-03-14 | Author:James Martin

Ice encrusts an oak in Yosemite Valley. The morning sun blazes over the summit of Middle Palisade, seen from above Palisade Lakes en route to Cirque Pass. The General Sherman ...
( Category: Architecture March 25,2020 )
Lyn by Lyn Madden
epub |eng | | Author:Lyn Madden

14 ‘Please, will you stop for fags? You said I could get them on the way home,’ Lyn tried. ‘Shut fuckin’ up or I will fuckin’ kill you,’ John said. ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2020 )

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