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Sorcerer's Apprentice by Charles Johnson
epub |eng | 1977-04-07 | Author:Charles Johnson

ALĒTHIA God willing, I’m going to tell you a love story. A skeptical old man, whose great forehead and gray forked beard most favor (when I flatter myself) those of ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 7,2018 )
Book Thief by Markus Zusak
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-03-14 | Author:Markus Zusak [Zusak, Markus]

Unlike most people engaged in the various arts of thievery, Viktor Chemmel had it all. He lived in the best part of Molching, high up in a villa that had ...
( Category: Historical Fiction April 7,2018 )
Payback at Morning Peak by Gene Hackman
epub |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Gene Hackman [Hackman, Gene]

TWENTY-THREE Jubal passed the local post office on Main Street, a building with a high U.S. MAIL facade and an American flag waving off the porch. Thin vertical bars encased ...
( Category: Genre Fiction April 7,2018 )
One Hundred Days of Rain by Carellin Brooks
epub |eng | 2015-03-25 | Author:Carellin Brooks

We’ll have fish and chips again. These can be sublime, or greasy and soaked, depending on the teenager wielding the fryer. They aren’t always the sharpest, these concessionaires. She asked ...
( Category: Mothers & Children April 7,2018 )
The Sacred Place by Daniel Black
epub |eng | 2012-04-13 | Author:Daniel Black

Eleven THE CROWD LEFT, WHISPERING SOFT SALUTATIONS AS THOUGH suspecting a lurking foe. The search committee sneaked into half the barns in the county before they agreed, long after midnight, ...
( Category: Literary April 7,2018 )
The Spinster Sisters by Ballis Stacey
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Ballis, Stacey

At ten sharp I pull up in front of the small bungalow in West Rogers Park. I take a deep breath and steel myself to go inside. Piece of cake. ...
( Category: Women's Fiction April 7,2018 )
A Breed of Heroes by Alan Judd
epub |eng | | Author:Alan Judd [Alan Judd]

8 During the next twenty minutes or so nothing dramatic happened but the trouble continued in a haphazard sort of way, sustained by its own momentum and by the fact ...
( Category: Contemporary April 7,2018 )
The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis
epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Pavlos Matesis [Pavlos Matesis]

In villages they played the coffee-houses mostly. Admission was in kind: eggs, bread, sausage, liver, whatever people happened to have. Didn’t always play to sell-out crowds, either. Sometimes they performed ...
( Category: Contemporary April 7,2018 )
The Ten Best Days of My Life by Adena Halpern
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Adena Halpern

Thank Heaven for Small Favors What the heck is that noise? What the heck is that? I keep hearing this rackety tap then a huge tap—what the heck is that? ...
( Category: Humor & Satire April 7,2018 )
Lalgarh and the Legend of Kishanji by Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
epub |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

The Reverse Tide 16 June 2010. Like primitive hunters, the jawans carried the slain guerrillas, tied to bamboo poles. One by one, eight pairs of jawans emerged from the jungles ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 7,2018 )
Dear Committee Members (9780385538145) by Schumacher Julie
epub |eng | 2014-08-19 | Author:Schumacher, Julie [Schumacher, Julie]

January 25, 2010 Gropp’s Liquor Lounge and Winemart “35 Years of High Spirits” Dan Stimmson, Proprietor 609 Faygre Avenue Saint Paul, MN 55101 Dear Mr. Stimmson, This letter recommends to ...
( Category: Humor & Satire April 7,2018 )
in0 by Beauty Like the Night
epub |eng | | Author:Beauty Like the Night

With grave reluctance, Helene paused at the schoolroom, her hand raised to knock upon the door, but it already stood ajar. Just inside, Helene could see Cam, already wearing his ...
( Category: Regency April 7,2018 )
The Seduction of the... by Lauren Willig
epub |eng | | Author:Lauren Willig

"Awhile." That was certainly informative. He was just lucky I had left my thumbscrews in my other bag. "Right," I said. "Okay. I don't know what's going on between you ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2018 )
The Masque of the Black Tulip by The Masque of the Black Tulip (v1.0)
epub |eng | | Author:The Masque of the Black Tulip (v1.0)

* * * Chapter Twenty-Two "Is there really a Phantom Monk of Donwell Abbey?" The vicar grinned at me as he dumped a very unclerical portion of gin into his ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense April 7,2018 )
The Deception of the... by Lauren Willig
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Lauren Willig

"Poor Edward. He cared so deeply for his causes," said Lord Vaughn, in the tone of one marveling at a fascinating incomprehensibility. "Who was he?" asked Letty, trying to angle ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense April 7,2018 )

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