Genre Literature & Fiction
epub |eng | 1973-01-01 | Author:Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 07 - Clock Strikes Twelve [Wentworth, Patricia]

Twenty-Six MISS SILVER DINED with the family and afterwards sat with them in the crimson and gold drawing room, which she admired very much. A grandly proportioned room—such warm colouring—such ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction September 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Fay Weldon [Weldon, Fay]

Trying to lie Elias was bored. Part of him marvelled at this: how could he be in a city so galvanised into action, yet feel so stultified? On the outskirts ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction September 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-27 | Author:Welsh, Louise [Louise, Welsh,]

11 The Worm on the Bud Dark and wrinkled like a violet carnation Humbly crouching amid the moss, it breathes, Still moist with love that descends the gentle slope Of ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction September 4,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Wells

* * * When Heather sat down at her desk, she was so furious she could barely type on her keyboard. It only took her a few moments to find ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction September 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-05-01 | Author:David Weber [Weber, David]

Chapter Twenty-Five It was a strange fog. It hung like a heavy, motionless curtain over the shallow valley between two isolated hills, frozen in place, yet with an odd, internal ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction September 4,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2012-05-03 | Author:Chuck Wendig [Wendig, Chuck]

COBURN SMELLED PEACHES and cigarettes. Heard Kayla laughing somewhere behind the high-pitched tone humming in his ears. Remembered that the last time he saw someone with a grenade, it was ...
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mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-21 | Author:H.G. Wells

* * * THE CONE The night was hot and overcast, the sky red, rimmed with the lingering sunset of mid-summer. They sat at the open window, trying to fancy ...
( Category: Humor & Satire Fiction September 4,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Victoria Hinshaw

Chapter Four Anne knew she ought to stay as far away from Dash as possible at the Cuthbert’s ball. Yet the moment she and Sarah ascended the stairs to the ...
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epub |eng | 2020-09-01 | Author:Robert Vaughan [Vaughan, Robert]

Chapter One Viet Cong Attack Long Binh by Ernie Chapel LONG BINH, South Vietnam, NOV. 7, 1967 — Viet Cong guerrillas staged mortar and sapper attacks last night against United ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction September 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-02 | Author:Máire Claremont [Claremont, Máire]

Chapter 18 “This is pure foolishness, Ian.” Ian stared down into the flames of the fire as if he might find the elusive answer to this mess somewhere in the ...
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mobi, epub |eng | 2018-02-26 | Author:Mark Edwards

It was dark outside when he came to. Once again, his head throbbed, his brain squeezed by ice-cold metal bands. He tried to open his eyes but his lashes were ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction September 4,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2020-08-23 | Author:Roger Silverwood

11 ‘You’re late,’ Mary said. ‘Tea’s ruined.’ ‘It’s only six o’clock,’ Angel said as he removed his coat. He took it through to the hall, returned, crossed quickly to the ...
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epub |eng | 2017-09-11 | Author:Marybeth Mayhew Whalen [Whalen, Marybeth Mayhew]

Darcy THURSDAY She heard the noise like in a horror movie: a twig snapping, then footsteps, heavy, coming closer and closer to her window. She sat up in bed, moving ...
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epub |eng | 2020-04-07 | Author:Jenny Milchman [Milchman, Jenny]

Chapter Forty-One Julie walked home with a sick feeling in her gut. She’d witnessed something ugly in Depot’s treatment at Peter’s hands, and yet the boy’s behavior hadn’t suggested any ...
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epub |eng | 2019-08-01 | Author:Miller, Fenella J

BOOK FOUR An Accommodating Husband Chapter One Castlemere, Essex, April, 1813 'His grace, the Duke of Silchester, my lord.' The butler, Beau misremembered his name, bowed and backed out as ...
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