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F My Life by Maxime Valette
mobi, epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Maxime Valette

Today a man on the train asked me if I had any change. I quickly responded, saying, “No habla ingles.” He then tapped me on the shoulder and said, “That ...
( Category: United States February 15,2015 )
The Power of the Ring by Stratford Caldecott
epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:Stratford Caldecott

Given its centrality in Tolkien’s mythology as the link between the world of today and the Elder Days when the world was flat, between mythical time and historical time, the ...
( Category: European February 15,2015 )
Fortress Besieged by Ch'ien Chung-shu
mobi |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Ch'ien Chung-shu

Chapter15-16 By this time he had completely forgotten the French superstition he had told Mr. Sun on the boat. All he wanted was to win money. At the end of ...
( Category: Asian February 13,2015 )
I Can Make You Hate by Charlie Brooker
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Charlie Brooker

PART SIX In which EastEnders is revealed to be a work of fiction, Nick Clegg worries about human beings with feet, and a teenager incurs the wrath of the internet ...
( Category: European February 11,2015 )
Easy Rawlins 1: Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
epub |eng | 2002-09-17 | Author:Walter Mosley [Mosley, Walter]

CHAPTER 12 I PUT AWAY A PINT and a half of bourbon before I could get to sleep. The sheets were crisp and dry and the fear was far enough ...
( Category: United States February 8,2015 )
The Good House (epub) by Tananarive Due
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tananarive Due [Due, Tananarive]

“If I had a reason to feel guilty,” he said, “I wouldn’t have come.” Touché. Angela poked his tea bag with the stirrer in the mug, irritated. Had he trained ...
( Category: Occult February 8,2015 )
Easy Rawlins 4: Black Betty by Walter Mosley
mobi |eng | 2010-06-22 | Author:Walter Mosley [Mosley, Walter]

ORTIZ, STILL SHIRTLESS and in the same pair of trousers, opened Jackson Blue’s door and glowered at me. As a boy I would have gotten my face slapped for looking ...
( Category: United States February 8,2015 )
Revolutionary Petunias: And Other Poems by Alice Walker
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:Alice Walker [Walker, Alice]

The Old Warrior Terror Did you hear? After everything the Old Warrior Terror died a natural death at home, in bed. Just reward for having proclaimed abroad that True Believers ...
( Category: United States February 3,2015 )
The Aspern Papers and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry James
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-01-28 | Author:Henry James [James, Henry]

X ‘IT has not been recovered,’ I wrote early the next day, ‘and I’m moreover much troubled about our friend. He came back from Bigwood with a chill and, being ...
( Category: United States February 3,2015 )
South of Haunted Dreams by Eddy L. Harris
epub |eng | | Author:Eddy L. Harris

XI Do not wish to be anything but what you are—but be that perfectly. —Francis de Sales I settled into the saddle of my bike and rode, taking my time, ...
( Category: United States January 29,2015 )
Hawthorne's Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

THE CELESTIAL RAILROAD NOT a great while ago, passing through the gate of dreams, I visited that region of the earth in which lies the famous City of Destruction. It ...
( Category: United States January 29,2015 )
Shakespeare's Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Michel de Montaigne

And when we others do foolishly fear a kind of death, when as we have already passed and daily pass so many others. For not only (as Heraclitus said) the ...
( Category: Renaissance January 29,2015 )
The Book of Books
epub |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Melvyn Bragg

Its use and its purpose could appear to have come to an end. The weapon of destruction, of course, was a book, by the leading star in the constellation of ...
( Category: General January 29,2015 )
Dickens' Women by Miriam Margolyes
epub |eng | 2012-01-28 | Author:Miriam Margolyes [Miriam Margolyes and Sonia Fraser]

I love doing that – sexual greed and economic greed in the same scene. Dickens’ most successful females always teetered on the edge of monstrosity. It’s with his grotesques, with ...
( Category: European January 29,2015 )
Under the Glacier by Halldór Laxness
mobi, epub |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Halldór Laxness

25 Banquet of Dried Halibut Pastor Jón Prímus has a word with the overnight guest that evening as he sits on the edge of his bed, still glancing through his ...
( Category: European January 29,2015 )

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