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The Interpreter by Suki Kim
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Suki Kim [Kim, Suki]

The elevator reeks of urine and sweat. The floor appears not to have been swept in years. The loud bass line from a boom box vibrates through each floor, accompanied ...
( Category: Mystery August 29,2017 )
Not All Tarts Are Apple by Pip Granger
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Pip Granger [Granger, Pip]

18 Apart from getting on to the train, I really enjoyed the journey down to Aggie on Horseback. Auntie Maggie had decided that if she and Uncle Bert were taking ...
( Category: Contemporary August 29,2017 )
Carriage Trade by Stephen Birmingham
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Birmingham

“We got a hundred and fifty big ones from your old lady,” he said that evening. “We’re on our way, Silas baby, we’re on our way!” “Si,” he said. “I ...
( Category: Contemporary August 29,2017 )
Shades of Fortune by Birmingham Stephen;
epub |eng | | Author:Birmingham, Stephen;

17 “I’m Jittery, Mimi,” her mother says, twisting her rings. “That’s the only way I can describe it. I’m jittery. I’m all a-jitter. Thank you, dear, for coming by. I ...
( Category: Contemporary August 29,2017 )
These Days of Ours by Juliet Ashton
epub |eng | | Author:Juliet Ashton [Ashton, Juliet]

The shop, on the intersection of two narrow roads, was the cornerstone of Kate’s empire. Her first, her favourite, she’d come through its door as a Saturday girl in her ...
( Category: Contemporary August 29,2017 )
Confederates by Thomas Keneally
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Thomas Keneally

25 About dusk that day some hundred or so Confederate cavalrymen edged down to the forest on the rim of the village of Bristoe Station. They could see the railway ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 29,2017 )
The Dead of Jericho by Colin Dexter
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Colin Dexter [Dexter, Colin]

CHAPTER TWENTY Cerium est quia impossibile est Tertullian, De Carne Christi ‘YOU WERE QUITE right, you know,’ conceded Bell, when Morse looked into his office in the middle of that ...
( Category: Mystery August 29,2017 )
Pride and the Anguish by Douglas Reeman
epub |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:Douglas Reeman

AS THE WATERY SUNLIGHT finally broke through the drifting smoke and thinning patches of cloud the Porcupine rounded the last bend into the widest part of the river below the ...
( Category: Contemporary August 29,2017 )
Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy
epub |eng | | Author:Marge Piercy

MURRAY 2 A Little Miscalculation of the Tides In the hospital, the doctors decided that Murray had hepatitis—not apparently the worst kind, but bad enough. Still it was curable and ...
( Category: Literary August 29,2017 )
Sunset by Douglas Reeman
epub |eng | 2007-06-07 | Author:Douglas Reeman [Douglas Reeman]

11 A Ship of War Esmond Brooke sat squarely in his bridge chair, an unlit pipe clenched between his teeth. The air was heavy and clammy, but compared with between ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 29,2017 )
Dear Fang, with Love by Rufi Thorpe
epub |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:Rufi Thorpe

“THANK GOD YOU SAID SOMETHING,” Susan said, “because I was going to make myself take my medicine and go, but I really think I would have had a mental breakdown.” ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 28,2017 )
Hunger (Chicken Ranch Gentlemen's Club Book 1) by Amanda Young
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Amanda Young [Young, Amanda]

Chapter Six The twinkling lights of town faded in Declan's rearview mirror. Killian sat beside him in the car, staring out the passenger-side window. Although the movie they'd seen in ...
( Category: Christian Living August 28,2017 )
All Is Silence by Manuel Rivas
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-05-02 | Author:Manuel Rivas [Rivas, Manuel]

25 FINS STAYED CLOSE to her for days, stroking her face, without her realising. From a sports boat moored in the harbour he photographed the woman framed in the window. ...
( Category: Contemporary August 28,2017 )
Ashes of Fiery Weather by Kathleen Donohoe
epub |eng | | Author:Kathleen Donohoe

When there is something to be done, there is a fireman who can do it. Whether it’s building a new staircase in your house, shingling a roof, helping you move, ...
( Category: Contemporary August 28,2017 )
The Bay by Di Morrissey
epub |eng | | Author:Di Morrissey

After videoing yet another wedding of a Japanese couple on the lighthouse reserve Eddie wandered over to Tina’s office to take up her invitation for ‘a cuppa’. ‘Another session of ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 28,2017 )

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