mobi, epub |eng | 2002-10-02 | Author:Karen Harper

MEG WAITED UNTIL SHE CLOSED THE SHOP THAT AFTERNOON and could escape upstairs. Only then did she take from her canvas apron pocket Dr. Clerewell's note, which Nick had slipped ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-06 | Author:John Banville [Banville, John]

* * * The children went out to the garden. He watched them from the kitchen window as they trailed moodily among the currant bushes and the stumps of last ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Jude Morgan [Morgan, Jude]

10 A Woman Killed With Kindness (1592–4) He is so young that coming into his presence occasions an awkwardness, as of intrusion. Like nudity or someone at stool: I should ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

C.1. Cyrus' generosity: he is not cold, not incapable of soft pleasure, but too pre-occupied with greater things. On the whole, if a hedonist, this type of man, a hedonist ...

epub |eng | 1990-02-14 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

DANGEROUS LOVE I knew I had changed. I knew that Agnes and the Joannas looked at me incredulously and that there was a hint of fear in Guillemote’s eyes. But ...

epub |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

I went into the wardrobe room. Owen was sitting at a table writing. “Have you heard the news about the King of Scotland?” I asked. Owen said he had not. ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-10-24 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

In the little octagonal building which was part of Whitehall Palace and was called the Cockpit, Barbara had her apartments and here she held court. Hither flocked those ambitious men ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:John Banville [Banville, John]

* The battle dragged on for three months. Chapter sessions grew more and more frantic. At one such meeting Andreas himself made an appearance, stumbled drunk into the conference hall ...

epub, azw3, pdf |rus | 2011-11-07 | Author:Yu Hua [Hua, Yu]

In the 1990s, as the tide of economic development swept over China, a similar situation began to reappear. In the fields surrounding one large steel plant in eastern China, backyard ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Paula McLain

TWENTY-FIVE wanted muskmelons and a really nice piece of cheese, coffee and good jam and waffles. I was so hungry thinking about this I couldn’t sleep. “Waffles,” I said to ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-05 | Author:Lee, Tosca [Lee, Tosca]

calloused Levi might now be--what did that mean? 168 No. I had seen what I had seen--not only in the sign of the lepers, but in my heart the night ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-24 | Author:Suetonius & Robert Graves

Divus Claudius 1. When, three months after her marriage to Augustus, Livia gave birth to Decimus (later Nero) Drusus, the father of Claudius Caesar, people suspected that Augustus, not her ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Annabel Lyon

“I’VE READ THIS ALREADY,” Alexander says. We’re in Mieza, in the kitchen, seated beside each other in front of the hearth. Not where I’d prefer to be sharing books, but ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Ivan Doig

My grandmother could hmpf like a member of royalty. She is hmpfing in a major way to my mother, although not at my mother; Grandma's range of fire simply tends ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1996-08-16 | Author:Andy McNab

The chief opposition force to the apartheid regime in South Africa was the African National Congress. It had been crippled by the arrest of Nelson Mandela and his colleagues in ...