epub |eng | 2004-10-25 | Author:Louis L'Amour

Where Buzzards Fly The Mexican’s rifle lay over his horse’s body, his pistol near his hand. He had gone out fighting, riddled with bullets. His flat, knife-scarred face was unforgettable, ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Megan Mayhew Bergman

Even inside the convent walls we felt the threat of typhus and malaria, the stress and strain of political turmoil. We washed our hands raw. The last of winter was ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-24 | Author:Delia Sherman [Sherman, Delia]

“Ooh, listen to the green-eyed monster,” Silver cooed. “Don’t be jealous, honey. Ophelia’s the best. Nobody understands plants like Ophelia.” “I’m not jealous,” I said with dignity. “I’m wistful. There’s ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Monika Zgustova [Zgustova, Monika]

“Fräulein Zaleski, we do not have enough information on the activity of the writer Němcová during the revolutionary upsets of 1848. Unfortunately, during that period we had not yet started ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2004-11-30 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

"Get you on horseback, Dr. Melmoth, and proceed as speedily as may be down the valley to the town," said the dame, the influence of whose firmer mind was sometimes, ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Italo Calvino [Calvino Italo ]

UNPA Nights As a boy, I was a bit of a slow developer; when I was sixteen, given my age, I was rather behind in many things. Then, all of ...

epub |eng | 2010-09-17 | Author:Karen Joy Fowler [Fowler, Karen Joy]

Private Grave 9 Every week Ferhid takes our trash out and buries it. Last week's included chicken bones, orange peels, a tin that cherries had come in and another for ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2003-11-03 | Author:Louis L'Amour [L'Amour, Louis]

LONIGAN Heat lay like the devil’s curse upon the slow-moving herd, and dust clouded above and around them. The eyes of the cattle were glazed, and the grass beneath their ...

mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Ryunosuke Akutagawa

An hour later he sat at breakfast with Toshihito and his father−in−law, Arihito. In front of him was a huge vat filled to the brim with a tremendous sea of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Alice Munro [Alice Munro]

had labored at for me. I remember a red V-necked sweater often worn by her, and a pleated Royal Stewart skirt. Maybe Gloria and Susannah thought of her as the ...

mobi |eng | 2012-04-04 | Author:Donald Barthelme & Dave Eggers

At The Tolstoy Museum AT the Tolstoy Museum we sat and wept. Paper streamers came out of our eyes. Our gaze drifted toward the pictures. They were placed too high ...

epub |eng | 2005-06-27 | Author:Mark Helprin [Helprin, Mark]

THE WHITE SOX were a repulsive bunch of taciturn midgets whose throwing arms seemed attached to stolid blocks of steel. Whereas most pitchers were like supple human fly rods, the ...

epub |eng | 2005-03-08 | Author:Louis L'Amour [L'Amour, Louis]

IV Here, where i stood, there was a level place where waste rock from the mine had been dumped and smoothed off. Across the narrow canyon the opposite side loomed ...

epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Susanna Clarke [Clarke, Susanna]

10 o'clock, Sept. 17th., 1811. Last night complete despair! This morning perfect hope and cheerfulness! New plans constantly bubbling up in my brain! What could be more calculated to raise ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:Ismail Kadare [Kadare, Ismail]

The Blinding Order 1 By the last week of September it became obvious that the sequence of events could not have been just a string of coincidences. No sooner had ...