Literary
epub, mobi |eng | 1980-01-01 | Author:Dudley Pope [Pope, Dudley]

Everybody is dead," he added vaguely. "I feed them both. Very hungry we are, too; it has been a long walk." The innkeeper understood his customer better than Ramage, and ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 1985-01-01 | Author:George MacDonald Fraser [Fraser, George MacDonald]

"Jung Lu was a noble, a Manchoo, a Banner Chief who would have married you if he could," he whimpered, pawing her feet. "Oh, please, Orchid, i seek only your ...
( Category: Literary January 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:Richard Woodman [Woodman, Richard]

* * * * Captain Edgecumbe of His Britannic Majesty's frigate Galatea was an officer of the old school. When a ragamuffin midshipman appeared before him in filthy ducks the ...
( Category: War January 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:George MacDonald Fraser [Fraser, George MacDonald]

I screamed as he swung the whip, and leaped as it struck me. God, I never knew such pain; it was like a fiery razor. He laughed and swung again ...
( Category: Historical January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 1970-01-01 | Author:George MacDonald Fraser [Fraser, George MacDonald]

8 Cowards, as Shakespeare has wisely observed, die many times before their deaths, but not many of them can have expired in spirit more often than I. And I've seldom ...
( Category: Historical January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 1975-01-01 | Author:George MacDonald Fraser [Fraser, George MacDonald]

I leaned out and cadged five rupees off him, explaining it was a bribe for an old sick man who knew the way; he passed it up, I struggled into ...
( Category: Historical January 16,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:Vining, Season [Vining, Season]

13. HIM The traffic in Los Angeles is a nightmare. We sit in one spot for almost thirty minutes without moving. The smog surrounding us and the endless sea of ...
( Category: Coming of Age January 16,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Griffith, Nicola [Griffith, Nicola]

15 IN YORK, the first day of Blodmonath dawned unseasonably mild. High, bright clouds coated the sky as evenly as egg foam. Larks and starlings gathered in flocks on the ...
( Category: Historical January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Edward Bunker [Bunker, Edward]

Now that he didn’t have to go to the furniture factory, Ron followed Earl’s example of sleeping through breakfast and coming out on the lunch unlock. He ate that meal ...
( Category: Literary January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:Miranda July [July, Miranda]

CHAPTER NINE All the women in Clee’s birth class were in their twenties or thirties, except the teacher, Nancy, who was my age. Whenever Nancy referred to what obstetricians were ...
( Category: Humorous January 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Bettye Griffin [Griffin, Bettye]

Dawn and Milo waved good-bye to their guests, whose sleepy children heavily leaned on them as they walked to their cars. “Well, that was fun, wasn’t it?” Dawn asked as ...
( Category: Women's Fiction January 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:O'Nan, Stewart [O'Nan, Stewart]

INFIDELITY He hated coming home to an empty place, the still silence a reproof. The only mail was an overdue bill from the cleaners. He’d left the stove light on, ...
( Category: Biographical January 14,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:Carey, Peter [Carey, Peter]

FELIX MOORE’S PRESENT RESIDENCE had been built on a sandstone outcrop which, in the shadow of lantana, and in secret places beneath the floor, looked like a fine-ground concave lens. ...
( Category: Technothrillers January 14,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-06 | Author:Massimo Carlotto [Carlotto, Massimo]

* * * Luana MONDAY 14:00 Anedda was nervous. In a hurry. They were waiting for him at police headquarters to set up a bust. Algerian terrorists holed up in ...
( Category: Literary January 14,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-02 | Author:Frank Bill

Losing feeling to cold, Lazarus screamed, “Fuck you!” Kurt glanced over his shoulder, smirked, said, “No, fuck you!” Connie asked, “How you know who we are?” “A personal contact, little ...
( Category: Short Stories January 14,2015 )