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The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Muriel Barbery

5. A Pleasant Impression But Manuela, not terribly sensitive to the little steps of Japanese women, is already steering us toward another territory. “That Rosen woman is in a regular ...
( Category: World Literature March 25,2014 )
The Soul Thief: A Novel by Charles Baxter
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-02-12 | Author:Charles Baxter

19 THE ZOO SHOULD HAVE BEEN loud and smelly, with children milling around taunting the big cats for having been caught and caged, their kiddie-mockery accompanied by peanut shells launched ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
The satanic verses: a novel by Salman Rushdie
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-12-01 | Author:Salman Rushdie

Nothing further was heard, for some while, about Farishta's film. o o o _It was so, it was not_, that as Saladin Chamcha's incarceration in the body of a devil ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
Krondor: Tear of the Gods by Raymond E. Feist
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-29 | Author:Raymond E. Feist

James was leading his horse. They had dismounted a few minutes earlier to rest the animals, but had kept moving. The journey from Krondor had been uneventful thus far, and ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )
Lottery by Patricia Wood
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Patricia Wood

27 LOTTERY WINNER ASSAULTED AT MARINA HANDY MART WHERE TICKET WAS PURCHASED That was the headline in the paper. The next part made me really upset. RETARDED MAN ATTACKED BY ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-09-07 | Author:Tom Perrotta

THE BEST CHAIR IN THE WORLD IN THE CAR, NORA DID her best to act like it was no big deal, like going to the mall at the height of ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Janice Y. K. Lee

When it rains, it is difficult to rouse oneself. On a cold, damp Tuesday, Will lies in his bed, thin mattress hard against his body, and listens to the rain ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
Flow my tears, the policeman said by Philip K. Dick
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-06-29 | Author:Philip K. Dick

12 The four gray-wrapped pols clustered in the light of the candlelike outdoor fixture made of black iron and cone of perpetual fake flame flickering in the night dark. "Just ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
Perfect Reader by Maggie Pouncey
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Maggie Pouncey

12 Institutional Life CHRISTMAS MORNING BEGAN WITH SEX. Better, longer the second time around, though less stunning. Flora liked having sex with Paul, but she would have preferred to do ...
( Category: Humor March 25,2014 )
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-11-17 | Author:Anita Brookner

8 ‘Dearest David, ‘Astounding news! Mrs Pusey, that pinnacle of feminine chic, that arbiter of taste, that relentless seeker after luxury goods, that charmer of multitudes, is seventy-nine! I know ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Peter Carey

29 His dad’s features existed in his mind like a face made by a windblown tree, but he did have one stable picture and this was in his back pocket ...
( Category: World Literature March 25,2014 )
Harvard Square: A Novel by André Aciman
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:André Aciman

4 THE INDIAN SUMMER WASN’T LETTING GO, EVEN AS September dragged on into early October. Mornings were chilly, but by midmorning the weather would grow warm, then unbearably hot, and ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel by Haruki Murakami
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-11-15 | Author:Haruki Murakami

"Do you suppose this marks the deadline?" she asked. "Either that, or it's (4). Meaning, if the program is cancelled at (3), X won't happen. But if for some reason ...
( Category: World Literature March 25,2014 )
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
mobi, epub | | 2009-12-25 | Author:Martin Amis

It was light enough to risk the walk to Kilburn. Thirty-ones were capricious buses; even so, I wasn't due at Rachel's until seven forty-five. There might be some time to ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-02-05 | Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

This time, when he came downstairs in the middle of the night his aunt was in the kitchen, sitting at the table in a blue robe. He hadn’t expected anyone—she ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )

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