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Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir by Tony Hillerman
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Tony Hillerman [Hillerman, Tony]

16 Now the Good Life Begins! I tend to blame the troubles that led up to the altar rail of St. Benedict’s Church in Shawnee, Oklahoma, on Tommy and Brad. ...
( Category: Memoirs October 15,2017 )
Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos De Laclos
epub |eng | 2007-10-15 | Author:Choderlos De Laclos

LETTER 86 The Maréchale de — to the Marquise de Merteuil (Note included in the preceding letter) Heavens above! What is this I hear, my dear? Can it be that ...
( Category: Classics October 15,2017 )
How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity by Patricia Carlin
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Patricia Carlin [Carlin, Patricia]

25. PAPER BAG There are few certainties in the high-stakes universe of ailurophilic entrepreneurship, but this is one: Place an empty paper bag on the floor, and your cat will ...
( Category: Humor October 15,2017 )
Out of Africa: And Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Isak Dinesen [Dinesen, Isak]

THE WILD CAME TO THE AID OF THE WILD My manager during the war had been buying up oxen for the army. He told me that he had then, down ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 15,2017 )
Beatrix Potter by Linda Lear
epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Linda Lear

14 Salvages Harold warne and his brother Fruing had been walking near their office in Covent Garden when the police arrested Harold and charged him before the Lord Mayor in ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 15,2017 )
Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin
epub |eng | 2016-09-09 | Author:Ursula K. Le Guin [Guin, Ursula K. Le]

Every day species of plants and animals are disappearing, along with languages and professions. The rich always get richer and the poor always get poorer. . . . Ignorance is ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 15,2017 )
Dashiell Hammett - 1929 The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
epub |eng | | Author:Dashiell Hammett [Hammett, Dashiell]

XIV. The Crumpled Chrysler We climbed to the path again and went on to the Collinsons' house. I showed Rolly the stained towels, handkerchief, dress, and slippers; the paper that ...
( Category: Mystery October 14,2017 )
Dashiell Hammett - 1930 The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
epub |eng | | Author:Dashiell Hammett [Hammett, Dashiell]

XIII. The Emperor's Gift Gutman opened the door. A glad smile lighted his fat face. He held out a hand and said: "Ah, come in, sir! Thank you for coming. ...
( Category: Mystery October 14,2017 )
And Other Stories Of Communist Russia by Zoshchenko Mikhail
mobi |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Zoshchenko,Mikhail.

Still, you know, it is well that in the sense of the poets, as it is said, God has blessed our house. It is true we have one tenant, Tsaplin, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies October 14,2017 )
Don't Panic - Douglas Adams and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Neil Gaiman
epub |eng | 1993-10-14 | Author:Neil Gaiman [Gaiman, Neil]

16 Life, the Universe, and Everything ZAPHOD: There's nothing wrong with my sense of reality. I have it thoroughly serviced every fortnight. - Cut from radio script, Episode Three. The ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 14,2017 )
Synge by Colm Toibin
epub |eng | 2005-04-22 | Author:Colm Toibin [Toibin, Colm]

March 24: Too wet to walk to Montparnasse cemetery to visit Beckett’s grave. It had somehow seemed like the best way to mark the anniversary of Synge’s death. Instead I ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays October 14,2017 )
What Makes a Child Lucky by Gioia Timpanelli
epub |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Gioia Timpanelli

Nothing came or went from there that the gang didn’t know about. How did they come across the mountain farm? Was Gino a son come home? How did they know ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense October 14,2017 )
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse by Geoffrey Bownas & Anthony Thwaite
epub |eng | 2009-08-11 | Author:Geoffrey Bownas & Anthony Thwaite

All were moved by this same sadness and wept, their tears falling on the dried rice and making it sodden… They continued on their journey and came to a wide ...
( Category: Poetry October 14,2017 )
Agatha Christie (Pocket Essential series) by Mark Campbell
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-07-31 | Author:Mark Campbell [Campbell, Mark]

10: Miscellaneous Mysteries (10 novels, 18 short stories) As well as her thriller stories, Christie also wrote several mysteries that excluded her more famous detectives. These range in style from ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 14,2017 )
Uncle's Story by Ihimaera Witi
epub |eng | 2011-03-18 | Author:Ihimaera, Witi

Chapter Eleven 1 The gunship was lifting and wheeling back into the past. Thirty years later it had all come to this: me and a Vietnam Vet named George, sitting ...
( Category: Movements & Periods October 14,2017 )

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