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All the Colours of the Town by McIlvanney Liam
epub |eng | 2011-03-16 | Author:McIlvanney, Liam [McIlvanney, Liam]

Chapter Twelve The restaurant was large but I spotted John Rose straight away, his bleached poll glowing like a struck match. A pained look crossed his face and I smiled ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
The Watsons and Emma Watson by Jane Austen & Joan Aiken
epub |eng | 2013-08-29 | Author:Jane Austen & Joan Aiken

Chapter 5 The following morning brought a visit from Miss Osborne and Miss Carr in the pony-phaeton. It soon became plain to the parsonage sisters that a certain amount of ...
( Category: Mate Seeking March 25,2014 )
Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-08-06 | Author:Rupert Thomson

24 There was a name he could no longer avoid. It had come to him on Friday, when he sat in his car and listened to the news, and then ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
Trans-Atlantyk by Witold Gombrowicz
epub |eng | 1994-12-11 | Author:Witold Gombrowicz [Gombrowicz, Witold]

But this laughter not out of will, forced; and belike they would instead undo me. But the Minister speaks: “What say you? With that Pan Kobrzycki, a Major, apparently there ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
epub |eng | 2009-05-21 | Author:Anthony Trollope

Harrington Hall, 5th April. Dear Gerard,— I have been thinking that I should hear from you, and have been surprised,—I may say unhappy,—because I have not done so. Perhaps you ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
Le Divorce by Diane Johnson
epub |eng | 1997-03-24 | Author:Diane Johnson

23 “Yonder,” I said to myself, “some poor wretch may be struggling on in grief, or wrestling with death . . . the certain end which brings neither consolation nor ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
The Betrayal of Trust by Susan Hill
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Susan Hill [Hill, Susan]

Twenty-eight ‘I don’t have good news,’ John Lowther said. ‘The director, the medical officer and I have gone through everything. We have tried to identify any hidden reserves we can ...
( Category: Police Procedurals March 25,2014 )
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
epub |eng | | Author:Henry Roth

BOOK IV The Rail I TRANQUILLY the months had passed. Summer had come and the advanced grade and the glowing, incalculable and unlimned vista of the school vacation—that had remained ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots by Hill Loretta
epub |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Hill, Loretta [Hill, Loretta]

Three days later Lena was back on the plane to site having not really achieved much of anything else. This time fear and dread didn’t grip her. She was actually ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
Boyfriend from Hell by Avery Corman
epub |eng | | Author:Avery Corman [Corman, Avery]

9 FROM THE ARTISTIC RENDERINGS of Satan in the books she had been researching, Ronnie dreamed a composite Satan, much as police artists create a composite drawing out of an ...
( Category: Occult March 25,2014 )
God's Highlander by Thompson E. V
epub |eng | 2012-03-30 | Author:Thompson, E. V.

Twenty-six DONNIE ROSS AND Seonaid were married in the little Eskaig church four weeks after Eneas Ross turned his back on his youngest son. Donnie Ross arrived at the church ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
The Brotherhood of the Grape by John Fante
epub, mobi |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:John Fante [Fante, John]

I rang Hilda Dietrich’s door chimes four times before the curtains parted and the old lady’s white face appeared behind the glass door, her cold eyes widening in annoyance. She ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-07 | Author:Susan Hill

An hour and a half later, Freya had talked about herself and her past life more intimately than she had ever talked to anyone. Simon was a listener, prompting only ...
( Category: Police Procedurals March 25,2014 )
Out of the Night That Covers Me by Pat Cunningham Devoto
epub |eng | 2001-01-03 | Author:Pat Cunningham Devoto [CUNNINGHAM DEVOTO, PAT]

CHAPTER 30 THEN next morning, Tuway had not returned, and so it fell to John to take the Judge over to the cotton gin for coffee. Saturday was the day ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Douglas Coupland

The next thing I remember is being in Seattle. Judging by beard stubble it was maybe two nights later. I was on Interstate 5 entering downtown, riding shotgun in an ...
( Category: General Broadcasting March 25,2014 )

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