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Footsteps in the Snow and other Teatime Treats by Trisha Ashley
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-23 | Author:Trisha Ashley [Trisha Ashley]

10 First published by Your Cat Magazine A KITTEN TOO FAR At ninety, my mother was all frail bones and bird-bright eyes but still stubbornly independent, though after the last ...
( Category: Holidays December 27,2014 )
I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-22 | Author:Niccolò Ammaniti

Six When I woke up the old man had gone. He had left the bed unmade, a packet of Dunhills crumpled up on the window sill, his underpants on the ...
( Category: Literary December 27,2014 )
The Color of Money by Walter Tevis
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2014-09-28 | Author:Walter Tevis

Chapter Seven When he came home late one Friday in March, Arabella was gone and the place felt empty. Annoyed, he made a Manhattan in the kitchen and then walked ...
( Category: Billiards & Pool December 27,2014 )
The School on Heart's Content Road by Carolyn Chute
epub |eng | 2008-12-26 | Author:Carolyn Chute

September There’s been some plans to get Jane settled, not just daytimes but nights too. Maybe with Aurel and Josée, or with the Butlers, or with old Lucienne in her ...
( Category: Literary December 27,2014 )
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895 by Anton Chekhov
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-12-26 | Author:Anton Chekhov

IV On the morning of the Monday in Passion Week, Matvey was in his room and could hear Dashutka saying to Aglaya, ‘A few days ago Uncle Matvey was telling ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
The Riders by Tim Winton
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Winton

Twenty-four ALONG THE DARK SHUTTERED WATERFRONT in the storm, Scully held the shivering child to him and saw Arthur ahead holding grimly to the luggage that bucked and swung in ...
( Category: Domestic Life December 27,2014 )
A Little Trouble with the Facts
epub |eng | 2008-12-26 | Author:Nina Siegal [Nina Siegal]

12 Talking Bridge Summer nights in July, the on-ramp to the Queensboro Bridge is an angry furnace of overworked and overheated nine-to-fivers, fuming as their cars inch toward the bridge. ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled December 27,2014 )
The Canyon of Bones by Richard S. Wheeler
epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Richard S. Wheeler

twenty-six The young warriors were wreathed in smiles. They eyed Skye, studied Jawbone, who stood with his ears laid back, and then examined Skye’s party, visible a mile back from ...
( Category: Westerns December 27,2014 )
Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard by Georges Simenon
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Georges Simenon

He wondered what the family was doing in Juvisy. No doubt the widow’s sisters, along with their husbands and daughters, had rallied round. They had probably all dined there, in ...
( Category: Mystery December 27,2014 )
Before I Die by Jenny Downham
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-09-24 | Author:Jenny Downham

Twenty-three Cal comes trotting up from the bottom of the dark garden, his hand outstretched. ‘Next,’ he says. Mum opens the box of fireworks on her lap. She looks as ...
( Category: Death & Dying December 27,2014 )
Prayer of the Dragon by Eliot Pattison
epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Eliot Pattison [Pattison, Eliot]

Chapter Seven THEY APPROACHED THE granary as they had before, running together from rock to rock, using the shadows for cover until they reached the plank door of the low ...
( Category: Mystery December 27,2014 )
Murder on the Potomac by Margaret Truman
epub |eng | 2014-01-09 | Author:Margaret Truman [Truman, Margaret]

Dr. Bernard Kirshbaum, Mac and Annabel’s dentist, maintained elaborate offices in the Watergate complex. His patient roster read like a Washington Who’s Who list. It included familiar names from the ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives December 27,2014 )
Murder in the CIA by Margaret Truman
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Margaret Truman [Truman, Margaret]

16 “Eric Edwards?” “Yes.” “This is Collette Cahill, Barrie Mayer’s friend.” “Hi, how are you? My secretary told me you’d called. I assume you got my message in Budapest?” “Yes, ...
( Category: Private Investigators December 27,2014 )
Observatory Mansions by Carey Edward
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-02-20 | Author:Carey, Edward [Carey, Edward]

To the Porter of Observatory Mansions. My dear Porter, I am sorry not to be referring to you in a more personal manner, but I discovered as I sat down ...
( Category: Literary December 27,2014 )
The Rebellion of Jane Clarke by Sally Gunning
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Sally Gunning [Gunning, Sally]

THE NEXT MORNING JANE brewed up a tea of yarrow, catnip, mint, and sage to treat Otis’s fever and received permission from Aunt Gill to carry it around. At the ...
( Category: Historical December 27,2014 )

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