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The Girl from Paris (Paget Family Saga Book 3) by Joan Aiken
epub |eng | 2016-10-31 | Author:Joan Aiken [Aiken, Joan]

Ten The journey back to England was long, tedious, and remarkable only for a violent quarrel which took place on deck between Ellen and Benedict Masham; Kitty, who was a ...
( Category: Historical November 30,2017 )
A Scream in Soho by John G. Brandon
epub |eng | 2016-03-13 | Author:John G. Brandon

Chapter XIII Withers Supplies Some Curious Information In the seclusion of his own room McCarthy sat down to mull this thing out; to get it into some sort of chronological ...
( Category: Mystery November 30,2017 )
The Hellfire Conspiracy [Barker & Llewelyn: 4] by Will Thomas
epub |eng | 2007-07-09 | Author:Will Thomas [Thomas, Will]

17 “LIFT YOUR GUARD, TOMMY.” Barker had sent me on to McClain’s as soon as breakfast was over. The time grew short until the match. “What, so you can batter ...
( Category: Mystery November 30,2017 )
I Shot the Buddha (A Dr. Siri Paiboun Mystery) by Colin Cotterill
epub |eng | 2016-08-01 | Author:Colin Cotterill [Cotterill, Colin]

Our office became involved in this affair following M. Marche’s written application for acquiescence to take up a government post in Paris upon his return. It is the guiding principle ...
( Category: Mystery November 30,2017 )
Shakespeare by Another Name by Mark Anderson
epub |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:Mark Anderson [Anderson, Mark]

Poor “poet-ape,” that would be thought our chief, Whose works are even the frippery of wit, From brokage [brokerage] is become so bold a thief As we, the robbed, leave ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 30,2017 )
The Solitary House: A Novel by Lynn Shepherd
mobi |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Lynn Shepherd

On entering the breakfast-room next morning, I found my guardian just as usual; quite as frank, as open, and free. There being not the least constraint in his manner, there ...
( Category: Mystery November 30,2017 )
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
epub | | 2010-04-13 | Author:A.S. Byatt [Byatt, A.S.]

At the time of the old Queen’s death, she had a popular success with a collection of tales, which included the tale of the wraiths and puppets at the Grande ...
( Category: Literary November 29,2017 )
Mini-Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
epub |eng | 2010-12-09 | Author:Sophie Kinsella [Kinsella, Sophie]

"Suze—" It's too late. She's gone. I try redialling but get the busy signal. Oh God. She sounded really hurt. Maybe I was a bit defensive. But how was I ...
( Category: Humor & Satire November 29,2017 )
Shopaholic And Sister by Sophie Kinsella
epub |eng | 2010-12-09 | Author:Sophie Kinsella [Kinsella, Sophie]

But never mind. We can still have a good time! “So! Shall we . . . watch a movie?” I suggest. “Sure.” Jess nods. And anyway, a movie is better. ...
( Category: Women's Fiction November 29,2017 )
Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives by Peter Ackroyd
epub |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Peter Ackroyd [Ackroyd, Peter]

It is the medieval equivalent of an old apothegm. Those that can, do; those that cannot, write. Since these lines were probably composed a little after the time of Cecily ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 29,2017 )
Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory
epub |eng | 2015-08-13 | Author:Philippa Gregory [Gregory, Philippa]

COWDRAY HOUSE, MIDHURST, SUSSEX, SUMMER 1545 The battle is inconclusive, they tell me, when the smoke finally clears and the fleets limp their different ways: the French back to France, ...
( Category: Historical November 29,2017 )
Victory (Collins Classics) by Joseph Conrad
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Joseph Conrad [Conrad, Joseph]

4 With her knees drawn up, Lena rested her elbows on them and held her head in both her hands. ‘Are you tired of sitting here?’ Heyst asked. An almost ...
( Category: Classics November 28,2017 )
The Life of Samuel Johnson by David Womersley & James Boswell
azw3 |eng | 1790-01-01 | Author:David Womersley & James Boswell

( Category: Historical November 28,2017 )
The Luck of the Bodkins by P. G. Wodehouse
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse, P. G.]

CHAPTER 15 THAT NEITHER REGGIE Tennyson nor Mabel Spence should have observed Ambrose’s departure affords striking proof of the whole-heartedness with which they had addressed themselves to the task of ...
( Category: Humor & Satire November 28,2017 )
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters & Jane Austen
epub |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Ben H. Winters & Jane Austen [Winters, Ben H. & Austen, Jane]

CHAPTER IX FROM a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes. ...
( Category: Humor November 28,2017 )

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