mobi, epub |eng | 1994-10-15 | Author:Andy McNab

9 They must have been thousand-pounders. We heard several explosions; the area was getting severely hammered. The pressure waves hit us and the car rattled. The guards cursed. The vehicle ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2002-05-01 | Author:Donoghue, Emma [Donoghue, Emma]

Mrs. Jones came back from putting the child in her cot and found Daffy still staring into the dying fire. He nibbled at a callus on the side of his ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-01 | Author:William Klaber

21 THE SYCAMORES STOOD in the mist like rooted spirits. The path through them seemed enchanted, as though I might come out of the fog and find myself along Basket ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-21 | Author:Dan Simmons

* * * CAROLINE WAS WAITING in my bed, sleeping, but I woke her and sent her downstairs to her own room. This was no night for her to be ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Michael Ondaatje

Passing wet chicory that lies in the fields like the sky. Passing wet chicory lies like the sky, like the sky like the sky like the sky passing wet sky ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Ivan Doig

My grandmother could hmpf like a member of royalty. She is hmpfing in a major way to my mother, although not at my mother; Grandma's range of fire simply tends ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-15 | Author:Cathy Marie Buchanan

Antoinette A jailer with breath like boiled onions clomps ahead of me, past a string of weighty doors opened up onto dingy cells the breadth of two arms spread wide. ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:George Eliot

CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR. NO PLACE FOR REPENTANCE. Messer Naldo came again sooner than was expected: he came on the evening of the twenty-eighth of November, only eleven days after his ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Paula McLain

TWENTY-FIVE wanted muskmelons and a really nice piece of cheese, coffee and good jam and waffles. I was so hungry thinking about this I couldn’t sleep. “Waffles,” I said to ...

epub, mobi | | 2010-06-23 | Author:Christie, Agatha [Agatha, Christie,]

The Big Four Chapter 12 THE BAITED TRAP It was mid-January - a typical English winter day in London, damp and dirty. Poirot and I were sitting in two chairs ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Chuck Palahniuk

ACT I, SCENE FOURTEEN Cut to me, running, a trench coat worn over my maid’s uniform flapping open in front to reveal the black dress and white apron within. In ...

epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Penelope Lively

Transatlantic A few years ago, I met up with a woman I had known when we were both young. She had gone to work in the United States when she ...

epub |eng | | Author:Antonio Munoz Molina

WHEN THE DOCTOR RETURNS to the hotel, he will show his wife the physical marks the fingernails made as proof of what happened, the things he will tell her with ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Alan Lightman [Lightman, Alan]

• 29 May 1905 A man or a woman suddenly thrust into this world would have to dodge houses and buildings. For all is in motion. Houses and apartments, mounted ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-03-08 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Woolf, Virginia]

— we know as if we heard him how Mr Pope’s tongue flickered like a lizard’s, how his eyes flashed, how his hand trembled, how he loved, how he lied, ...