epub |eng | 2019-09-24 | Author:Daša Drndic

Knut Andersen finds a solution for pigeons. Knut Andersen has a double-­barrelled shotgun and he shoots pigeons. He lives on the main square in Oslo, far to the north and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Dara Horn

THE FOLLOWING EVENING after everyone else had filed out of the factory, Leah remained at her sewing machine as usual. But as soon as all the other workers had left, ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:David Vogel

22 On the red and blue trams, masses of human beings were carted from the suburbs to their day’s labour in the city centre, and from there to the suburbs ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Julian Novitz [Julian Novitz]

WILTON The living room in Eric Stapp’s flat was dominated by a large swastika flag hanging on one of the walls. A little over the top, Nigel Wilton thought. Counterproductive ...

epub |eng | 2017-10-02 | Author:Nina Vida

Chapter 17 November, 1941 Chinese fleeing the marauding Japanese poured into Shanghai. Their waste floated in the swollen gutters. Their starving children begged in the streets. In the past eight ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-17 | Author:Renzo Modiano [Modiano, Renzo]

CHAPTER 8 The fireplace was the only source of warmth in the houses and the only means of cooking food. Women learned early how to juggle the distance from the ...

pdf | | 2022-01-07 | Author:Jiries Meehan-Atrash and Irfan Rahman

epub |eng | | Author:Ellen Brazer

Chapter 24 The stress of living two separate lives was beginning to take a toll on Arria. Circles shaded her eyes from lack of sleep, and she had grown thin ...

epub |eng | 2015-12-15 | Author:Barbara Stark-Nemon

20 1942 Kläre lost count of the trains, the days, the schedule of her hunger. She knew from the path of the sun that she occasionally glimpsed through a crack ...

epub |eng | 1999-12-15 | Author:Thane Rosenbaum

Chapter Eleven CHILDREN WITHOUT SIBLINGS learn to live a certain way. They don’t have to take others into account. Sharing is not an important part of their household experiences. The ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-16 | Author:D. M. Pirrone [Pirrone, D. M.]

TWENTY-FOUR Detective.” Guthrie took a moment to collect himself. “Hanley, isn’t it? Your mother requested a sewing machine, if I recall rightly.” “Yes.” The unexpected question rattled Hanley somewhat, but ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-06 | Author:Andrew Winer

ONLY AS HE WAS driving away did it occur to Daniel that Herman had astutely avoided broaching the one subject that most obviously should have been discussed between the two ...

epub |eng | 2017-12-07 | Author:David Hirshberg

20. He said it the exact same way that Mother said “we’ll see,” which meant no “There are three ways ya can rob someone,” The Boxer told me. “First, ya ...

epub |eng | 2009-09-25 | Author:Michael Golding [GOLDING, MICHAEL]

a trick of memory SOMETIMES, between the pot roasts and the secret maneuvers, amid the growing fear and the deepening sense of danger, Benjamin's old life would rise up over ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-15 | Author:Barbara Stark-Nemon

20 1942 Kläre lost count of the trains, the days, the schedule of her hunger. She knew from the path of the sun that she occasionally glimpsed through a crack ...