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Time Stops At Shamli & Other Stories by Ruskin Bond
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-10-13 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

Going Home The train came panting through the forest and into the flat brown plain. The engine whistled piercingly, and a few cows moved off the track. In a swaying ...
( Category: Contemporary November 3,2015 )
The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories by Ruskin Bond
epub |eng | 2009-07-19 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

My Father’s Trees in Dehra Our trees still grow in Dehra. This is one part of the world where trees are a match for man. An old peepul may be ...
( Category: Contemporary November 3,2015 )
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-05-03 | Author:James Hilton [Hilton, James]

SEVEN CONWAY WAS QUITE UNRUFFLED, but his demeanor covered an eagerness that grew in intensity as he accompanied Chang across the empty courtyards. If the words of the Chinese meant ...
( Category: Contemporary August 29,2015 )
Marshmallows for Breakfast by Dorothy Koomson
epub |eng | 2007-07-24 | Author:Dorothy Koomson [Koomson, Dorothy]

SPANISH OMELETTE CHAPTER 23 Oh, Kendra, there's a message for you,” Janene said to me. She was using her normal voice. The one with which she spoke to Gabrielle and ...
( Category: Contemporary July 25,2015 )
The Full Catastrophe by David Carkeet
epub |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:David Carkeet [Carkeet, David]

Thirteen Cook scampered around his room, peeling his dirty clothes off as if they were on fire. He dashed to the bathroom, splashed water all over himself, and hustled to ...
( Category: Humor & Satire July 25,2015 )
But Beautiful by Dyer Geoff
epub | | | Author:Dyer, Geoff [Dyer, Geoff]

It was daylight by the time they finally stopped for breakfast. Stiff from so many hours in the car, they walked awkwardly into the diner, the screen door slamming behind ...
( Category: Jazz July 14,2015 )
The Discrete Charm of Charlie Monk by David Ambrose
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-06-16 | Author:David Ambrose [Ambrose, David]

Chapter 31 LATIMER WEST’S OFFICE was on the top floor of the main building. She imagined, when she thought about it, that the view must be impressive, but she never ...
( Category: Contemporary June 18,2015 )
Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-05-26 | Author:Lionel Davidson [Lionel Davidson]

* * * She was not as well found as Lydia Yakovlevna; lankier, less yielding. But she was lithe, controlled, and quite used, as she said, to getting what she ...
( Category: Espionage May 27,2015 )
The Pirates! by Gideon Defoe
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-11-10 | Author:Gideon Defoe

Nine I Ride with the Bandit King! After a game of chess that the Pirate Captain later told the pirates he deliberately let Ahab win because he still felt guilty ...
( Category: Humorous April 5,2015 )
(2007) Tomorrow by Graham Swift
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Graham Swift

18 PICTURE US, ANYWAY—and mock us, if you will—in our bedroom in Herne Hill, in the first weak light of dawn, our backs grimly turned on each other, waiting, hoping ...
( Category: Contemporary April 5,2015 )
The Sweet-Shop Owner by Graham Swift
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Graham Swift

18 The telephone was ringing on the little shelf next to the doorway into the stock room. Above it, on the wall, was the list of vital telephone numbers (St ...
( Category: Contemporary April 5,2015 )
Marrying Off Mother by Gerald Durrell
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Gerald Durrell

The Jury The river steamer Dolores broke down — as river steamers are wont to do — midway between her point of departure and her destination at Meriada, a small ...
( Category: Fauna April 5,2015 )
The Angel Makers by Jessica Gregson
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-11 | Author:Jessica Gregson

Marco thought the war was bad, he thought his injury was bad, and the long months after that, with the pain and the memory-loss and the confusion, but he was ...
( Category: Contemporary April 5,2015 )
The Holy Woman by Qaisra Shahraz
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-09 | Author:Qaisra Shahraz

On the day of the wedding, Zarri Bano, like her parents, was kept busy and thus had little time to dwell on Sikander. The guests had all duly arrived and ...
( Category: Contemporary April 5,2015 )
The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Jeanette Winterson

She was out of the place, taking the steep steps two at a time and disappearing up the vertical alleys before I could fumble with the Calor gas of the ...
( Category: Contemporary April 5,2015 )

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