Literary
epub |eng | | Author:William Boyd

The next day, at sunset, I stood at the perimeter fence of the airport and waited for Usman to fly in. The air force officer at the main gate said ...
( Category: Contemporary December 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Jennifer Dawson [Dawson, Jennifer]

Chapter Fifteen Cecilia woke with a start. Skin clammy, her stomach rolled. Sweat beaded at her temples as a hard wave of nausea crashed through her. The Jägerbombs had betrayed ...
( Category: Contemporary December 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-16 | Author:Vargas, Fred [Vargas, Fred]

XVII LOUIS MANAGED TO get up at about nine o’clock. He wanted to hurry, say hello, get it over, the sooner the better, because he couldn’t resist doing it. Marc ...
( Category: Literary December 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-12-05 | Author:Fred Vargas [Vargas, Fred]

XXIV NEVERTHELESS, WHEN VANDOOSLER CAME INTO HIS BEDROOM, WITH Leguennec at his heels at eight o’clock the next morning, Marc started up in panic. ‘I’m just off,’ Vandoosler said. ‘I ...
( Category: Crime December 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Anne Gracie [Gracie, Anne]

Eleven They rode in silence for some miles, then stopped beside a stream for lunch. The landlady had loaded them up with food for their journey: wine, bread, ham, thick ...
( Category: Domestic Life December 5,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Alexander McCall Smith [Smith, Alexander McCall]

42. Behind the Arras POLONIUS HAD AN ARRAS behind which to hide—not that it did him much good. Berthea Snark had no such cover as she stood on the first-floor ...
( Category: Humorous December 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-07 | Author:Ivy, Alexandra & Wright, Laura [Ivy, Alexandra]

About The Author Alexandra Ivy is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Guardians of Eternity series, as well as the Sentinels. After majoring in theatre ...
( Category: Paranormal December 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:D. H. Lawrence

Chapter 11 Willie Struthers and Kangaroo Jaz took Somers to the famous Canberra House, in Sydney, where the Socialists and Labour people had their premises: offices, meeting–rooms, club–rooms, quite an ...
( Category: Literary December 5,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-08-03 | Author:Marisha Pessl

On the windy afternoon of the 26, we said good-bye to the Ritz and took our suitcases across the city to Baba au Rhum’s five-bedroom apartment, occupying the top two ...
( Category: Suspense December 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Louis Begley [Begley, Louis]

Notaben 401, dated “begun 22/ix/70” (excerpt); V spends last night at rue du C-M. Paul in London, where I caused him to be sent. He telephones late and gets Joos. ...
( Category: Family Saga December 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-29 | Author:Louis Begley [Begley, Louis]

WE WERE IN REIMS for the cathedral and because it seemed a good place to spend the night before visiting Verdun and the adjoining battlefields. From there we intended to ...
( Category: Family Saga December 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-29 | Author:Amy Bloom [Bloom, Amy]

U.S.A. October 8, 1944 Dear Evie (and Uncle Sam), Ellis Island, home of Lady Liberty. We’ve been packed in, like enemy sardines, for two weeks. The other sardines are South ...
( Category: Family Saga December 4,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1985-05-12 | Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs [Burroughs, Edgar Rice]

Chapter 2 That was a good little ship—staunch and swift, as are all the ships of The Black Pirates of Barsoom—and it carried us past the farthest camp fires before ...
( Category: Adventure December 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Georges Perec & David Bellos

Foundering brutally at full steam, as if the whole world or, if not the world, then the moderately sickening universe of the room were plunging into the void, the laboratory, ...
( Category: French December 3,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-02 | Author:Graham Swift [Swift, Graham]

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA I NEVER THOUGHT this would happen to me, Hettie, though I always knew it could. But I never thought I’d be lying here like this in your ...
( Category: Short Stories December 3,2014 )