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Wild Mountain Thyme by Rosamunde Pilcher
epub |eng | | Author:Rosamunde Pilcher

11 SATURDAY The weather forecasters had been only partially correct. The sun indeed was shining, but intermittent clouds blew across its face, driven by a western wind, and the very ...
( Category: Contemporary November 8,2017 )
Voices In Summer by Rosamunde Pilcher
epub |eng | | Author:Rosamunde Pilcher

6 PENJIZAL THE WEATHER WAS CHANGING, the barometer dropping. A wind had arisen, flowing in from the southwest, warm and blustery. On the horizon, clouds banked, in dark billows, but ...
( Category: Contemporary November 8,2017 )
Mouths of Babes by Stella Duffy
epub |eng | 2005-11-08 | Author:Stella Duffy

TWENTY-SEVEN Time to make it happen. Sally walked back with Janine to her home, saying they needed to talk, she knew things were hard, she wanted to make it better. ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction November 8,2017 )
The Angel of History by Bruno Arpaia
epub |eng | | Author:Bruno Arpaia

Chapter Twenty-seven They were his footsteps echoing through the atrium and carrying breathlessly up the stairs. He ran along the corridor, past the rooms filled with index cards and came ...
( Category: Contemporary November 8,2017 )
By Dawn's Early Light by Grant R. Jeffrey
epub |eng | 2010-03-22 | Author:Grant R. Jeffrey

CHAPTER TWENTY Moscow 2400 hours VLADIMIR GOGOL SWIVELED HIS OFFICE CHAIR AS SOMEONE RAPPED ON THE door. A thrill of anticipation touched his spine as he called out: “Come.” Petrov ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction November 8,2017 )
Point of No Return by Gellhorn Martha;
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Gellhorn, Martha;

At daylight, shrunken into themselves with cold, Lieutenant Colonel Smithers and Jacob Levy and Dave Penny, a radio operator, got into the jeep and set out for F Company. F ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 8,2017 )
The Spear of Tyranny by Grant R. Jeffrey
epub |eng | 2010-06-16 | Author:Grant R. Jeffrey

SIXTEEN 29 months later PEERING OUT THE WINDOW OF THE JET, ISAAC DECIDED that from 35,000 feet aloft, Europe looked more like a computer simulation than an actual landmass. He ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction November 8,2017 )
Claudine at School by Colette
epub |eng | | Author:Colette

* Lord, how idiotic women are! (Little girls, women, it’s all one.) Would anyone believe that, ever since that inveterate wolf Dutertre’s ‘guilty attempts’ on my person, I’ve felt what ...
( Category: Contemporary November 8,2017 )
Where Dreams Books 1-3 by M. L. Buchman
epub |eng | 2016-06-17 | Author:M. L. Buchman

Chapter 4 Jo had blown off the rest of the afternoon, what was left of it after a three-hour lunch, and gone to the Eastlake Gym. When Renée Linden did ...
( Category: Women's Fiction November 8,2017 )
G Is for Games by Alison Tyler
epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Alison Tyler

But one evening when I walked out of the theater after I’d done my public service, I found the ticket seller sweeping up the lobby. I’d rarely seen him outside ...
( Category: Contemporary November 8,2017 )
Flee The Darkness by Grant R. Jeffrey
epub |eng | 2012-08-01 | Author:Grant R. Jeffrey

Daniel gritted his teeth. Now that his Millennium Project was close to uniting the world, the last thing he needed was resistance from a religious faction. “But other than a ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction November 8,2017 )
Gigi and the Cat by Colette
epub |eng | 1994-04-11 | Author:Colette [Colette]

FOUR HE STOLE INTO the garden like a boy in his teens who has stayed out all night. The air was full of the heady scent of beds being watered, ...
( Category: Contemporary November 8,2017 )
A Portrait of Emily Price by Katherine Reay
epub |eng | 2016-10-01 | Author:Katherine Reay

Chapter 22 The next morning I made sure I was awake to accompany Ben downstairs to breakfast. One, I didn’t want to be rude again. Two, I didn’t want to ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction November 8,2017 )
The Bob Watson by Greg Bardsley
epub |eng | 2016-11-08 | Author:Greg Bardsley

I grab his shoulder. “Ernie.” I’m taking some time . . . to be at my best. Ernie glows, hums along. “Ernie.” I pull out an earbud and speak into ...
( Category: Humor & Satire November 8,2017 )
A Married Man by Catherine Alliott
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-14 | Author:Catherine Alliott

Chapter Seventeen When I arrived at Jack’s location a little while later, it’s fair to say I wasn’t in the best of humours. I drove down a quiet, leafy backstreet ...
( Category: British & Irish November 8,2017 )

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