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Discworld #24 - The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
epub |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Terry Pratchett [Pratchett, Terry]

Lady Margolotta watched the coach until it reached the gates of the town. She stood back a little from the window. There was a slight overcast, but habits of preservation ...
( Category: Fantasy January 25,2019 )
Discworld #13 - Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Terry Pratchett [Pratchett, Terry]

Hierarchy, Vorbis said later. The Ephebians didn’t think in terms of hierarchies. No army could cross the desert. But maybe a small army could get a quarter of the way, ...
( Category: Fantasy January 25,2019 )
Discworld 34 Thud! by Terry Pratchett
epub | | 2010-05-17 | Author:Terry Pratchett [Pratchett, Terry]

It was still night time in the city of endless rain. It was never not night time. No sun rose here. The creature lay coiled in its alley. Something was ...
( Category: Fantasy January 25,2019 )
Discworld #06 - Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
epub |eng | 2001-02-15 | Author:Terry Pratchett [Pratchett, Terry]

The storm was resting. It didn’t want to be, but it was. It had spent a fortnight understudying a famous anticyclone over the Circle Sea, turning up every day, hanging ...
( Category: Fantasy January 25,2019 )
Mangrove Squeeze by Laurence Shames
epub |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:Laurence Shames [Shames, Laurence]

Chapter 26 Sergei "Tarzan" Abramowitz, the muscular young man who always wore suspenders, paced athletically along the length of Ivan Cherkassky's sofa. The ridge above his eyes was furrowed; tangled ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense January 25,2019 )
May We Be Forgiven: A Novel by A. M. Homes
epub |eng | 2012-09-26 | Author:A. M. Homes [Homes, A. M.]

“Apologies for the intrusion,” the front desk says. “You think you have a normal family,” Nate says, as he’s straining on the toilet. I am breathing through my mouth and ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 25,2019 )
Tom Sharpe by Wilt
mobi |eng | 1972-09-30 | Author:Wilt

Chapter 12 On Eel Stretch–Gaskell’s map-reading had misled him and they were nowhere near Frogwater Reach or Fen Broad–the situation was getting on everyone’s nerves. Gaskell’s attempts to mend the ...
( Category: Contemporary January 25,2019 )
Lake City by Thomas Kohnstamm
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-10-25 | Author:Thomas Kohnstamm

TWENTY “DAISY. C’MON, DAISY, YOU BITCH.” Inez pushes past Lane onto the porch, calling the dog back in with a shrill, two-fingered whistle. Lane has always been envious of people ...
( Category: Humor & Satire January 24,2019 )
Stephanie Plum 11 - Eleven On Top by Evanovich Janet
epub |eng | | Author:Evanovich, Janet

NINE “I HAVE AN office position open,” Ranger said. “Are you interested in working for Rangeman?” Unknown “Oh great. A pity position.” “If I gave you a pity position it ...
( Category: Mystery January 23,2019 )
Stephanie Plum 13 - Lean Mean Thirteen by Evanovich Janet
epub |eng | | Author:Evanovich, Janet

ELEVEN Ranger's apartment occupies the seventh floor of the RangeMan building. It's professionally decorated in neutral earth tones and classic comfortable furniture. Its cool. Its calm. It's inviting in a ...
( Category: Mystery January 23,2019 )
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
epub |eng | 2011-05-23 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

Billy traveled in time back to the veterans’ hospital again. The blanket was over his head. It was quiet outside the blanket. “Is my mother gone?’ said Billy. ‘Yes.’ Billy ...
( Category: Science Fiction January 23,2019 )
The Job by Sinclair Lewis
epub |eng | 1917-01-23 | Author:Sinclair Lewis [Lewis, Sinclair]

2 It was hard to leave the kindly Herbert Grays of the flat, but Una made the break and arranged all her silver toilet–articles—which consisted of a plated–silver hair–brush, a ...
( Category: Classics January 23,2019 )
Parnassus On Wheels by Christopher Morley
epub |eng | 1917-01-23 | Author:Christopher Morley [Morley, Christopher]

Chapter 9 My feelings were as mixed as a crushed nut sundae. So the Professor hadn't gone to Brooklyn after all! What did he mean by prowling after me like ...
( Category: Classics January 23,2019 )
The Trail of the Hawk by Sinclair Lewis
epub |eng | 1915-01-23 | Author:Sinclair Lewis [Lewis, Sinclair]

CHAPTER XXIII (THE DIARY OF MR. ERICSON, CONTINUED.—EDITOR) AUGUST 20, (1911, as before): Big Chicago meet over. They sure did show us a good time. Never saw better meet. Won ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 23,2019 )
The Innocents by Sinclair Lewis
epub |eng | 1917-01-23 | Author:Sinclair Lewis [Lewis, Sinclair]

CHAPTER XI The day before Christmas—an anxious day in Regalberg’s department store, where the "extra help" were wondering which of them would be kept on. Most of them were given ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar January 23,2019 )

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