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The Long Divorce (A Gervase Fen Mystery) by Crispin Edmund
azw3 |eng | 2017-11-22 | Author:Crispin, Edmund [Crispin, Edmund]

12 THE Chief Constable's study was slightly shabby – as a room initially well-furnished can be allowed without offensiveness to become: the chintz a little faded; the ceiling smoky; the ...
( Category: Contemporary March 22,2018 )
The Lady for Ransom by Alfred Duggan
epub |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:Alfred Duggan [Duggan, Alfred]

10. Mount Sophon Because of the sack of Chrysopolis the Caesar feared to lead us within the walls of Nicomedia. But for the moment we were rich, and there were ...
( Category: Contemporary March 22,2018 )
Knight with Armour by Alfred Duggan
epub |eng | 2012-09-26 | Author:Alfred Duggan [Duggan, Alfred]

VI. Christian Antioch 1098. On the 27th of June the defenders of Cemetery Castle looked in vain for their dinner. Every day the meals had grown smaller, but up to ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 22,2018 )
The Neighbors by Hannah Mary McKinnon
epub |eng | 2018-01-16 | Author:Hannah Mary McKinnon

NOW ABBY I WAS UP well before my alarm went off, my mind racing as I pulled away the covers. It was the Tuesday after Easter. The day on which ...
( Category: Literary March 22,2018 )
Jurassic Park by Gail Herman
epub |eng | 2018-02-06 | Author:Gail Herman

Dennis Nedry jumped into a truck. He had to hurry if he was going to make that boat. Clutching the shaving cream can full of dinosaur specimens, he drove through ...
( Category: Animals March 22,2018 )
Three's Company by Alfred Duggan
epub |eng | | Author:Alfred Duggan [Duggan, Alfred]

8. Order Reigns 42–41 BC The procession was everything it should be. There were seven legions of soldiers, every man in high spirits at the prospect of a feast when ...
( Category: Contemporary March 22,2018 )
A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-24 | Author:Sigrid Nunez

Now that I recall, in those dreams, it was always a woman or a child needing to be rescued, never a man. There are times when I seem to remember ...
( Category: Contemporary March 22,2018 )
The Flicker of Old Dreams by Susan Henderson
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:Susan Henderson

19 “I’m off to Agate,” I tell Pop as I take my plate to the sink and toss half my sandwich. “I want to get the engine looked at before ...
( Category: Women's Fiction March 22,2018 )
Shell Shaker by LeAnne Howe
epub |eng | | Author:LeAnne Howe

8 | A Road of Stars YANÀBI TOWN WINTER SOLSTICE, 1738 Anoleta is marooned in her sleep. Trapped in a white room with white cane mats on the windows, she ...
( Category: United States March 22,2018 )
The Right Thing to Do by Josephine Gattuso Hendin
epub |eng | 2017-10-14 | Author:Josephine Gattuso Hendin

It is impossible to believe that Fabio was born: that he and his twin sister Lulu had twisted and narrowed in the birth canal of a bumpkin Chicago woman. For ...
( Category: Contemporary March 22,2018 )
I'll Be Your Blue Sky by Marisa de los Santos
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Marisa de los Santos

After breakfast that morning, in a small locked box under the sink in the kitchen, I found the ledgers. It’s how the world works sometimes I guess: you spill your ...
( Category: Women's Fiction March 22,2018 )
The Adulterants by Joe Dunthorne
epub |eng | | Author:Joe Dunthorne

The Co-Star tablet comes at a mid-market price but with the processor and build of a—WAKE UP—far more boutique machine. The 8” Crystallic display reduces eye-strain and the—WAKE UP—projection keyboard ...
( Category: Humor & Satire March 22,2018 )
Dodging and Burning by John Copenhaver
epub |eng | 2018-03-22 | Author:John Copenhaver

12 CEOLA For several days, questions spun through my head as I built up the nerve to confront Jay with the first page of Lily’s letter that I’d found in ...
( Category: Mystery March 22,2018 )
Husbands and Other Sharp Objects: A Novel by Simon Rothstein Marilyn
azw3 |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Simon Rothstein, Marilyn

Chapter 14 Instead of hiding under her white, thousand-thread-count Italian covers until the impending date of the hysterectomy, Candy doubled down on everything. At first, I thought it was a ...
( Category: Women's Fiction March 22,2018 )
Stories by Susan Sontag
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-10-12 | Author:Susan Sontag

A summing up. “I accuse the organization of depriving me of my innocence. Of complicating my will. (I don’t deny that it has improved my mind, taught me to see ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 22,2018 )

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