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The Gradual by Christopher Priest
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Christopher Priest [Priest, Christopher]

41 The man turned away from me and set off across the quay, away from the ship. He walked with his head down and his shoulders hunched. His gait was ...
( Category: Genre Fiction February 24,2017 )
Leopard at the Door by Jennifer McVeigh
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-11-30 | Author:Jennifer McVeigh

XVI Harold returns from his expedition in the bush. He looks stronger—more robust—and older. His skin glows from the sun, and his eyes shine with happiness. He shows us photographs ...
( Category: Historical February 24,2017 )
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
epub |eng | | Author:Penelope Fitzgerald

13 There was nothing wrong, nothing that you could lay a finger on, in the way Selwyn did his work at Reidka’s, but the imminent birth of his first volume ...
( Category: Historical February 13,2017 )
The Great Cities in History by John Julius Norwich
epub |eng | 2016-01-20 | Author:John Julius Norwich

KYOTO Pleasure Gardens and Vermilion Palaces LESLEY DOWNER When you look out over the present Kyoto from the west gate of Kiyomizu Temple, you see such long crowded rows of ...
( Category: World January 21,2017 )
The History of the Rebellion by Earl of Clarendon Edward Hyde ; Seaward Paul; Seaward Paul
epub |eng | 2002-01-07 | Author:Earl of Clarendon, Edward Hyde,; Seaward, Paul; Seaward, Paul

11. The Failure of Peace and the End of the War: Uxbridge and Naseby The revival of an attempt to secure a negotiated peace at the end of 1644 was ...
( Category: British & Irish January 8,2017 )
Victoria: A novel of a young queen by the Creator/Writer of the Masterpiece Presentation on PBS
epub |eng | 2016-11-21 | Author:Goodwin, Daisy [Goodwin, Daisy]

BOOK THREE CHAPTER ONE “There is a letter for you, Majesty, from Brussels.” Lehzen produced the letter from a pocket in her skirts. Victoria sighed. “I don’t want to read ...
( Category: Historical December 10,2016 )
The Flame Bearer (Saxon Tales Book 10) by Cornwell Bernard
epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:Cornwell, Bernard [Cornwell, Bernard]

I had been to Dumnoc before, long ago, and had been trapped in its largest tavern, the Goose, and the only way to escape had been to start a fire ...
( Category: Military December 10,2016 )
English Heart, Hindi Heartland by Sadana Rashmi
epub |eng | | Author:Sadana, Rashmi

I long to build a palace for these refugees among the tombs I, who am yet to find my own house. I stammer in broken words, in distorted sounds from ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 5,2016 )
Conclave by Harris Robert
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-09-21 | Author:Harris, Robert

Thus, out of the fog of human ambition, did the will of God begin to emerge. As always in the second ballot, the no-hopers had fallen away, and the Nigerian ...
( Category: Literary September 26,2016 )
Impossible Modernism: T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the Critique of Historical Reason by Robert S. Lehman
epub |eng | 2016-09-25 | Author:Robert S. Lehman [Lehman, Robert S.]

PART 2 KILLING TIME, WALTER BENJAMIN CHAPTER 4 ORDER IN A LETTER to his friend Gerhard (later, Gershom) Scholem dated 1 February 1918, Walter Benjamin describes a shift in his ...
( Category: British & Irish September 26,2016 )
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Packham

5 My Piece of Sky The Egg April 1973 THE JACKDAWS BLEW off the field like bonfire ash, freckling grey into the bone-white sky, breaking down to the roofs, catching ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists August 22,2016 )
Bandersnatch by Diana Pavlac Glyer
epub |eng | | Author:Diana Pavlac Glyer

DOING WHAT THEY DID: There is an art to giving feedback. It is common for critics to offer diagnoses: This is boring. This is choppy. This character isn’t working. The ...
( Category: Science Fiction July 19,2016 )
1472237684 by Paul Fraser Collard
epub |eng | 2015-11-05 | Author:Paul Fraser Collard [Collard, Paul Fraser]

The British column advanced through the wreckage of the cantonment. It was still not yet noon but already the sun was cooking the advancing infantrymen, even though they advanced in ...
( Category: Military July 10,2016 )
The Jezebel by Walker Saskia
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Walker, Saskia [Walker, Saskia]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN The day that Maisie Taskill traded her virginity for passage aboard the Libertas would forever be etched in her memory. It had begun badly, and grew more frightening ...
( Category: Historical July 10,2016 )
Yes Man by Wallace Danny
epub |eng | 2010-05-08 | Author:Wallace, Danny [Wallace, Danny]

Chapter 12 In Which a Friendship Is Brought into Doubt, and Daniel Buys Some New Spectacles I was driving at full-pelt back toward London. I’d been to Stonehenge. I’d gotten ...
( Category: Satire July 5,2016 )

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