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The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor by Sally Armstrong
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Sally Armstrong [Armstrong, Sally]

A FEW CICADAS speak from the trees behind the house. The crickets chirp cozily in the grass. Little John is awake and playing with his fingers. Charlotte stands her daily ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
For Valour by Douglas Reeman
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Douglas Reeman [Reeman, Douglas]

10 | Hit and Run Commander Graham Martineau leaned on one hand and peered at himself in the small mirror, the hot water helping to take the rawness out of ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joanne Harris [Harris, Joanne]

10. After that our enthusiasm for Tomas’s cause redoubled. Any piece of information, however trivial, was grist to his mill. Madame Henriot at the post office was opening mail in ...
( Category: Psychological March 26,2014 )
Passage to Mutiny by Alexander Kent
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-02-27 | Author:Alexander Kent [Kent, Alexander]

10 Too Much Courage 'Fix your bayonets!' Herrick gritted his teeth to contain his impatience as Prideaux brought the marines into a single line, while further along the uneven slope ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Gil Adamson [Adamson, Gil]

THEY RODE WHEN they could, and when the trees became too thick the tracker made them dismount and walk on in a line, man, horse, man, horse, leading the animals ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
Discworld 31: Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
epub |eng | 2010-03-04 | Author:Terry Pratchett [Pratchett, Terry]

“He is amazing!” said de Worde as the cart rocked back down through the trees. “I know the clacks is against your religion, but he seems to understand all about ...
( Category: War March 26,2014 )
(1999) For Valour by Douglas Reeman
epub |eng | 2005-05-31 | Author:Douglas Reeman [Reeman, Douglas]

10 | Hit and Run Commander Graham Martineau leaned on one hand and peered at himself in the small mirror, the hot water helping to take the rawness out of ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
The Blue Book by A. L. Kennedy
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:A. L. Kennedy [Kennedy, A. L.]

‘Cloudberries.’ ‘I’m sorry, what did you say?’ Beth is sitting and frowning up at a tall, nervy man in a pebble-dashed jacket and bad shoes. He is standing beside her ...
( Category: Architecture March 26,2014 )
A Sangre Fria by Capote Truman
epub | | 2009-12-12 | Author:Capote, Truman [Capote, Truman]

Día 16 de diciembre de 1959. Las Vegas, Nevada. Tiempo e intemperie habían borrado la primera y la última letra (una R y una S), convirtiendo la palabra en un ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 26,2014 )
Emma (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Jane Austen
epub |eng | | Author:Jane Austen

Chapter VII. Emma’s very good opinion of Frank Churchill was a little shaken the following day, by hearing that he was gone off to London, merely to have his hair ...
( Category: Mate Seeking March 26,2014 )
Mike by P. G. Wodehouse
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville]

CHAPTER XXXI SEDLEIGH The train, which had been stopping everywhere for the last half–hour, pulled up again, and Mike, seeing the name of the station, got up, opened the door, ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
epub, azw3, pdf, mobi | | | Author:Charles Bukowski

FOUR 1 Then I developed a new system at the racetrack. I pulled in $3, in a month and a half while only going to the track two or three ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
Wuthering Heights (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Emily Bronte
epub |eng | | Author:Emily Bronte

Chapter XVII That Friday made the last of our fine days for a month. In the evening the weather broke: the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought rain ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-12-01 | Author:Iris Murdoch [Murdoch, Iris]

‘It’s fairy food, not fit for humans — ’ ‘It’sjust the healthiest diet in the world, that’s all!’ said Mother May. ‘You know we wouldn’t hurt you,’ said Ilona, ‘we ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
Nuns and Soldiers by Iris Murdoch
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Iris Murdoch

‘You didn’t want him to stay to lunch?’ said Anne. ‘I was trying to intuit what you wanted.’ Tim had gone. They had chatted for twenty minutes. ‘No, no, just ...
( Category: Friendship March 26,2014 )

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