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[Abhorsen 03a] - Across the Wall by Garth Nix
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Garth Nix [Nix, Garth]

THE HILL rowan sniffed as the awful hospital smell met him at the front door of the Home. A mixture of antiseptic and illness, hope and despair, churned by air-conditioning ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy August 19,2017 )
Fatal Light by Richard Currey
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Richard Currey

Two doctors at my bedside. The light around them haloed, burned, shimmered. They wore olive-drab combat utilities under their white coats and one said, talking too loud, How’s it going, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 19,2017 )
Ever After by Graham Swift
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Graham Swift [Swift, Graham]

And then there was the railway. By 1849 it had reached Plymouth, with further track laid in Cornwall. A little matter, in between, of spanning the Tamar estuary at Saltash: ...
( Category: Contemporary August 19,2017 )
All the Flowers in Shanghai by Duncan Jepson
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-25 | Author:Duncan Jepson

I woke up late in the day to find Yan sitting by my bed watching me. Her skin hung loosely from her face and her eyes were raw and bloodshot. ...
( Category: Contemporary August 19,2017 )
the Emigrants by W. G. Sebald
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:W. G. Sebald

languages, was an arduous task, one I should probably never have accomplished if those words committed to paper almost eighty years before had not, as it were, opened up of ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 19,2017 )
The Lunatic Cafe by Laurell K. Hamilton
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Laurell K. Hamilton [Hamilton, Laurell K.]

23 LILLIAN WAS A small woman in her mid-fifties. Her salt-and-pepper hair was cut short and neat in a no-nonsense style. Her fingers were as quick and sure as the ...
( Category: Fantasy August 19,2017 )
Vanity Fare by Megan Caldwell
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Megan Caldwell

I’d dreamt of him that night. So I was almost ready for her question as I was seated in her big leather patient’s chair. “So you like this guy then, ...
( Category: Contemporary August 19,2017 )
Me and Mr Darcy by Potter Alexandra
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-06-27 | Author:Potter, Alexandra [Potter, Alexandra]

Chapter Nineteen Letting myself into my room, I flop down on to my bed and dig out my crumpled itinerary. I’m still reeling from my conversation with Maeve and the ...
( Category: Contemporary August 19,2017 )
My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon by P. N. Elrod (ed)
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:P. N. Elrod (ed) [Elrod, P. N.]

( Category: Fantasy August 19,2017 )
Edith Layton by The Devils Bargain
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:The Devils Bargain

Alasdair lay in his great bed waiting for sleep to join him there. He had hopes of it even though it was broad daylight, because he’d drunk an evil draught ...
( Category: Contemporary August 19,2017 )
The Big Shuffle by Laura Pedersen
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-08-19 | Author:Laura Pedersen [Pedersen, Laura]

WHEN CRAIG RETURNS AT FIVE O'CLOCK, I DON'T HEAR HIM come through the front door because of all the noise. Darlene, Davy, and Francie are playing some game that involves ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 19,2017 )
Heart's Desire by Laura Pedersen
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Laura Pedersen

Chapter Thirty-eight IT’S THE SECOND WEEK OF JULY AND SUMMER HAS OFFICIALLY settled upon the heartland. By nine o’clock in the morning plants begin to droop, birds cancel all but ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 19,2017 )
Dirty Work by Larry Brown
epub, mobi |eng | 1989-03-30 | Author:Larry Brown [Brown, Larry]

Well, hell, I’d heard it before. Didn’t want to tell him that. Just laughed like I hadn’t. He was talking to me and I didn’t want to mess up no ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 19,2017 )
Danielle Steel by Accident (v5)
epub |eng | 1994-01-01 | Author:Accident (v5) [Accident]

( Category: Contemporary August 19,2017 )
Safe Harbor by Luanne Rice
epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Luanne Rice

AUNT DANA was grocery shopping or doing errands or something, and Quinn and Allie were supposed to be crabbing with Cameron and June, but that was for suckers. Let Allie ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 19,2017 )

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