Contemporary
epub |eng | 1981-01-02 | Author:William S. Burroughs [Burroughs, William S.]

The country here is low hills with outcroppings of limestone, ideally suited for ambush. We select a narrow valley between slopes strewn with limestone boulders. Rocky terrain is the best ...
( Category: Literary September 7,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-06 | Author:Dag Solstad

It was the year 1989. Elias Rukla was a quiet-mannered Norwegian high school teacher who had not distinguished himself in any way whatsoever in his life, which did not bother ...
( Category: Literary September 7,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Frederick Barthelme [Barthelme, Frederick]

10 In the next week or so we spent some time toting up our losses and figuring how to get around them. Most of the money could sit on the ...
( Category: Contemporary September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:F. Paul Wilson [Wilson, F. Paul]

5 After a slow, frustrating trip uptown, mostly on First Avenue, Thompson’s cab made a left on 39th Street and headed west. Back to his publisher? Could have a meeting, ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 6,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-14 | Author:Patricia Highsmith

Chapter 16 He waited after all until nearly eight, because around seven there were always more people coming in and out of the house than at other times. At ten ...
( Category: Mystery September 6,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Daaimah S. Poole; Miasha; King Deja; T. Styles

That evening Chloe didn’t get home until eight o’clock. She was one of the last people to leave the office and that’s exactly how she liked it. But she couldn’t ...
( Category: United States September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 1996-07-01 | Author:Edgar Burroughs [Burroughs, Edgar]

CHAPTER IX HOOJA'S CUTTHROATS APPEAR I had built a little shelter of rocks and brush where I might crawl in and sleep out of the perpetual light and heat of ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-27 | Author:E.E. Doc Smith [Smith, E.E. Doc]

CHAPTER XII The Mastery of Mind Over Matter They descended rapidly, directly over a large and imposing city in the middle of a vast, level, beautifully-planted plain. While they were ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-22 | Author:Edgar Burroughs [Burroughs, Edgar]

* * * Chapter 13. The "Gunner" Walks Like a great cat, Tarzan of the Apes scaled the palisade of the raiders' village, dropped lightly to the ground upon the ...
( Category: Action & Adventure September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:Edgar Burroughs [Burroughs, Edgar]

* * * CHAPTER TWELVE THE MAN IN THE LION PIT As Tarzan and Gemnon turned away from Belthar's cage a slave approached the ape-man and addressed him. "Nemone, the ...
( Category: Fantasy September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 1929-01-01 | Author:Edgar Burroughs [Burroughs, Edgar]

Chapter 10 ONLY A MAN MAY GO IT REQUIRED no Sherlockian instinct to deduce that Jana was angry, and Jason was not so dense as to be unaware of the ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 6,2018 )
azw |eng | 2012-01-13 | Author:Richard Hooker

9 FOUR months before the opening of the clinic and the completion of the new Spruce Harbor General, Trapper John McIntyre arrived. He had left the city forever and would, ...
( Category: Contemporary September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-20 | Author:Mars Arena (v1.0) [html] [Arena, Mars]

Chapter Twenty-Six Dean continued to stare across the length of the shotgun at Baron Vinge Connrad, not letting himself feel anything. Several of the baron's sec men started forward, drawing ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-05 | Author:Gregory Maguire

“CHRISTMAS DAY, my dimpled dumpling!” Oh, la!—precious oranges, and anise cookies, and the fragrant dust of nutmeg to stir into his morning milk. WHILE DAME PEDERSEN dawdled over her tea, ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Daaimah S. Poole & Miasha & King Deja & T. Styles [King, Deja]

That evening Chloe didn’t get home until eight o’clock. She was one of the last people to leave the office and that’s exactly how she liked it. But she couldn’t ...
( Category: United States September 6,2018 )