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Variable Star by Robert A. Heinlein; Spider Robinson
mobi |eng | 2007-11-27 | Author:Robert A. Heinlein; Spider Robinson

"It'd chew mine." My mind rejected Matty's problem. I could tell it was going to take a lot of time to imagine what it must have been like to have ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 17,2017 )
Island of Bones by P. J. Parrish
epub |eng | 2013-08-17 | Author:P. J. Parrish [Parrish, P. J.]

CHAPTER 29 “He couldn’t swim.” Vince Carissimi looked up at Louis but then the medical examiner just shrugged and went back to weighing Frank Woods’s heart. Louis was staring at ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense August 17,2017 )
It Burns a Lovely Light by pennington penny mccann
epub |eng | 2013-11-20 | Author:pennington, penny mccann [pennington, penny mccann]

Henry put the car in park and turned off the ignition. "I'll never forget the day Mom and I drove up." He pointed to the lawn. "You were right there, ...
( Category: Contemporary August 17,2017 )
Isolde: Queen of the Western Isle by Rosalind Miles
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Rosalind Miles [Miles, Rosalind]

Chapter 31 The horizon was lost in a line of blinding spray. The ship bucked and reared in the storm like a runaway horse, as wall after wall of water ...
( Category: British & Irish August 17,2017 )
Isle of the Dead by Zelazny Roger
mobi, epub |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Zelazny, Roger [Zelazny, Roger]

VI To have it all to do over again annoyed me. But more than annoyance, there was a certain fear. Shandon had slipped up, selling himself to his emotions once. ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 17,2017 )
Irish Eyes: A Callahan Garrity Mystery by Andrews Mary Kay
epub |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Andrews, Mary Kay [Andrews, Mary Kay]

24 I parked over on the side of the Kroger, near a cluster of shopping carts, turned off the motor, and rolled down the windows. It was still cold, but ...
( Category: Mystery August 17,2017 )
Stephen King by It (v5)
mobi |eng | 2010-11-13 | Author:It (v5)

2 Richie Tozier Makes Tracks Well, there was the day Henry and his friends chased me—before the end of school, this was.... Richie was walking along Outer Canal Street, past ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 17,2017 )
Ishmael - SA by Daniel Quinn
epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Daniel Quinn [Quinn, Daniel]

“To what end? Why increase food production?” “To feed the millions who’re starving.” “And as you feed them will you extract a promise that they will not reproduce?” “Well . ...
( Category: Literary August 17,2017 )
Island by Alistair MacLeod
epub |eng | 1989-01-02 | Author:Alistair MacLeod [MacLeod, Alistair]

SECOND SPRING (1980) It was the summer after the seventh grade that saw me truly smitten with the calf club wish. It was not, of course, a really dazzlingly new ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 17,2017 )
Fannie Flagg by Standing In The Rainbow
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Standing In The Rainbow [Rainbow, Standing In The]

A Close Call Bobby came out of the army happy to be home but a very different man from the one who had left. He was quiet and introspective and ...
( Category: Humor & Satire August 17,2017 )
Stallion Gate by Martin Cruz Smith
epub, mobi |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Martin Cruz Smith [Smith, Martin Cruz]

17 In the Explosive Assembly Building on Two Mile Mesa, Joe held a 20-inch model of the Trinity bomb steady on a wrestling mat. It was a sphere of steel ...
( Category: Mystery August 17,2017 )
Star of Danger by Bradley Marion Zimmer
epub |eng | 1955-05-05 | Author:Bradley, Marion Zimmer [Bradley, Marion Zimmer]

It was dark. He was sore and cramped; his whole body ached, and there was a throbbing, jolting pain in his head. He tried to move, made a hoarse sound, ...
( Category: Contemporary August 17,2017 )
Axler, James - Deathlands 45 by Starfall (V1.0)
epub |eng | 2012-07-20 | Author:Starfall (V1.0) [Html] [Starfall (V1.0) [Html]]

Chapter Eighteen Krysty turned, searching for a weapon but finding none. In desperation, she seized one of the folding chairs and threw it at Elric. He brushed the piece of ...
( Category: Contemporary August 17,2017 )
Stars (The Butterfly Trilogy) by Kathryn Harvey
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Kathryn Harvey [Harvey, Kathryn]

TWENTY-TWO T HIS TIME THE TELEPHONE WAS PICKED UP AFTER ONE RING; the call was expected. It rang on a special line, because it was a special number; only two ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense August 17,2017 )
Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr
mobi |eng | 2003-08-04 | Author:Anthony Doerr

The bison herder had an automatic rifle and wanted nothing to do with bribes. She waited on a bench outside a Belorussian border station eating confiscated muesli bars while helmeted ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 17,2017 )

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