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In Sunlight and In Shadow by Mark Helprin
mobi |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Mark Helprin

At the station in the morning as they waited for the early train to come charging over the flats from Montauk, the sky was clear and a cool breeze came ...
( Category: Contemporary October 15,2014 )
Believe It or Not by Tawna Fenske
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Tawna Fenske

Chapter 11 Drew marched Violet into Moonbeam’s shop and shut the door, making a conscious effort not to slam it behind him. Truth be told, he was angry enough to ...
( Category: Romantic Comedy October 15,2014 )
Laddie; a true blue story by Gene Stratton-Porter
epub |eng | 1995-05-31 | Author:Gene Stratton-Porter [Stratton-Porter, Gene]

"I was bound I wouldn't go, but pap made me, an' the doctor said he'd send a man who'd had it; so I started, but I felt so bad, come ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory October 15,2014 )
Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
epub |eng | 2001-09-30 | Author:Howard Pyle [Pyle, Howard]

IX. How One-eyed Hans came to Trutz-Drachen. Fritz, the swineherd, sat eating his late supper of porridge out of a great, coarse, wooden bowl; wife Katherine sat at the other ...
( Category: Medieval October 15,2014 )
Rollo in Switzerland by Jacob Abbott
epub |eng | 2007-08-22 | Author:Jacob Abbott [Abbott, Jacob]

* * * Chapter IX. The Wengern Alp. It was about twelve o'clock when Rollo and Mr. George, having finished their dinner, came out into the yard of the inn ...
( Category: Contemporary October 15,2014 )
The Boy Knight by G. A. Henty
epub |eng | 2004-09-01 | Author:G. A. Henty [Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)]

CHAPTER XVI. A FIGHT OF HEROES. The horse was a good and spirited one, and when he had once descended to the plains, Cuthbert rode gayly along, exulting in his ...
( Category: Contemporary October 15,2014 )
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1999-10-31 | Author:Rafael Sabatini [Sabatini, Rafael]

BOOK III: THE SWORD CHAPTER I. TRANSITION "You may agree," wrote Andre-Louis from Paris to Le Chapelier, in a letter which survives, "that it is to be regretted I should ...
( Category: Historical October 15,2014 )
Mr. Standfast by John Buchan
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1996-05-31 | Author:John Buchan [Buchan, John]

* * * After that things began very slowly to happen. The first was when Hamilton, having gone to Boulogne to fetch some mess-stores, returned with the startling news that ...
( Category: Suspense October 15,2014 )
A Winter Book by Tove Jansson
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-02 | Author:Tove Jansson [Jansson, Tove]

The Boat and Me WHEN I WAS TWELVE I GOT A ROWING BOAT OF MY OWN. It was two metres thirty long and clinker-built. When they asked me its name ...
( Category: Contemporary October 15,2014 )
Night Soldiers by Alan Furst
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1987-12-31 | Author:Alan Furst

He waited for her, smoking Gitanes, watching the square of sky in the window turn slowly from blue to dark blue, from hazy lavender at sunset to the color of ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense October 15,2014 )
Rituals of the Season by Margaret Maron
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Margaret Maron

CHAPTER 14 Never, when advancing an opinion, assert positively that a thing “is so,” but give your opinion as an opinion . . . your companion may be better informed ...
( Category: Police Procedurals October 15,2014 )
Seeing Things by Patti Hill
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-20 | Author:Patti Hill

SUZANNE LICKED HER FINGERS. “I haven’t had a cookie like this since . . . before my parents divorced.” “I didn’t know. That must have been difficult for you.” “Not ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 15,2014 )
The Score (Parker Novels) by Stark Richard & Banville John
mobi |eng | 2010-10-10 | Author:Stark, Richard & Banville, John [Stark, Richard]

“If it don't, we can sing hymns while we fall.” Chambers started the truck forward again, slowly, and after a minute Parker could see the edge. The brown earth just ...
( Category: Suspense October 15,2014 )
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-29 | Author:Mari Strachan

25 Pretend it’s a story, Sergeant Jones said. But this isn’t like a story in a book at all. In books, the clues are laid out tidily, one at a ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 15,2014 )
The Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-08-24 | Author:Chaim Potok

Following the directions given me by the hotel concierge, I took the Balard line to the Concorde station, changed for a Château de Vincennes train, and got off at Bastille. ...
( Category: Family Saga October 15,2014 )

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