Contemporary
epub |eng | 2014-04-03 | Author:Sienkiewicz, Henryk [Sienkiewicz, Henryk]

Chapter XXXIV Ok a certain calm night a band of horsemen, about twenty in number, moved along the right bank of the Valadinka in the direction of the Dniester. They ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Scott, Sir Walter [Scott, Sir Walter]

Chapter III A Conference and the Consequence Major Melville had detained Mr. Morton during his examination of Waverley, both because he thought he might derive assistance from his practical good ...
( Category: Classics January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Roald Dahl [Dahl, Roald]

Yesterday was Beautiful He bent down and rubbed his ankle where it had been sprained with the walking so that he couldn’t see the ankle bone. Then he straightened up ...
( Category: Anthologies January 8,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2013-11-26 | Author:Michener, James A. [Michener, James A.]

These were evil years, indeed, in Hawaii. Before the coming of the white man, leprosy had been unknown. Then, in some unfathomable way, the alii contracted it, possibly from a ...
( Category: Action & Adventure January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-21 | Author:Michener, James A. [Michener, James A.]

Now came the days of respite, the days of grass and water before the waterless desert. The longhorns were settling down; they were sufficiently far from home to have ceased ...
( Category: Westerns January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-08-05 | Author:Robinson, Patrick [Robinson, Patrick]

0900 Saturday 7 July Dublin, Ireland Shakira Rashood waited in St. Stephen’s Square for her hired chauffeur to arrive. She had been in the Shelbourne Hotel for three and a ...
( Category: Terrorism January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Willa Cather [Cather, Willa]

V Father Hector Saint–Cyr was not long in following his messenger. On the day of his arrival in Kebec he stopped at the apothecary shop, but, Auclair being out, he ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Smith, Wilbur [Smith, Wilbur]

Drop it! Get away, you brute! Leave it! She sensed that the hyena was perplexed by her aggressive attitude, and though it growled again, it backed up a few steps ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-02 | Author:Percy Fitzpatrick

* * * Chapter Sixteen. The Tiger and Baboons. No one had doubted Jess’s courage, even when we saw her come back alone: we knew there was something wrong, but ...
( Category: General January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Smith, Wilbur [Smith, Wilbur]

The man grunted an acknowledgement and was gone. Fergus had his pickets on every possible approach to the town centre. The police might have split into a number of columns, ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Harold Robbins [Robbins, Harold]

Wednesday afternoon, Harry answered a phone call. “It’s for you,” he said, holding the receiver towards me. I took it. “Hello.” I recognized Gerro’s voice. “Hello, Frank. This is Gerro.” ...
( Category: Crime January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-03 | Author:Jane Unrue

Day 4 Next morning figuring good idea to go back where I’d started I was in the reading room again. Grand hall watched over by elaborately framed dark portraits shining ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-11-11 | Author:Catherine Anderson

Chapter Fourteen Over the next week, Barney and Taffeta went out on the town every night, pretending to be wildly in love with each other. Barney called it “Doing the ...
( Category: Family Life January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse

Chapter 13 I don’t know if you happen to be familiar with a poem called ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by the bird Tennyson whom Jeeves had mentioned when ...
( Category: Humorous January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Brandon Sanderson [Sanderson, Brandon]

After a detour for a late dinner—where some talk about servants getting sick left her concerned—Vin went in and checked on Elend, who had just returned from walking the city ...
( Category: Epic January 8,2016 )