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Coup by Updike John
epub |eng | 1978-07-14 | Author:Updike, John [Updike, John]

V Esmeralda Miller was an interesting color, a gray as of iron filings so fine the eye could not detect the individual grains. In Hakim's fancy the tint, which savored ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
The White House Mess by Christopher Buckley
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Christopher Buckley [Buckley, Christopher]

PEACE BREAKS OUT Resolve to concentrate on Metrification Initiative. —Journal, Nov. 7, 1991 Major Arnold dressed my wounds, the javelin puncture being the most serious. Mrs. Metz retrieved my glasses ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
Supreme Courtship by Buckley Christopher
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-09-02 | Author:Buckley, Christopher [BUCKLEY, CHRISTOPHER]

PAIGE PLYMPTON came to Pepper’s chambers, where the newest justice had been having a good sob. “My first oral argument,” Paige said, “I became so befuddled that I kept referring ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )
Heart Seizure: A Novel by Fitzhugh Bill
epub |eng | 2010-08-31 | Author:Fitzhugh, Bill [Fitzhugh, Bill]

Despite having lost visual contact with the Mustang half an hour earlier, Rodgers and Hart seemed unconcerned as they cruised down Highway 58. Jed X was driving, equally nonchalant, as ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
epub |eng | 2013-08-06 | Author:Yangsze Choo [Choo, Yangsze]

The streets became increasingly familiar in a strange way. Parts of them looked nothing like what I remembered, yet there was a spatial recognition, some trick of proportion that sang ...
( Category: Ghosts March 26,2014 )
Angel Over My Shoulder by Pace Pepper
epub |eng | 2012-03-03 | Author:Pace, Pepper [Pace, Pepper]

Leslie blinked, returning from her memories. She boxed the rest of the cake and placed it into the refrigerator, and feeling nostalgic she moved to her album collection and searched ...
( Category: African American March 26,2014 )
Quicksand by Iris Johansen
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Iris Johansen [Johansen, Iris]

"Well, I've already antagonized the gallery owner. He wanted to put all the paintings on sale even though I'd put a reserve on one of them." "Which one?" " Guilt. ...
( Category: Kidnapping March 26,2014 )
The Stolen Ones by Richard Montanari
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Richard Montanari [Montanari, Richard]

33 Rachel parked across the street. The house was a four-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom stone front with hardwood floors and a sun porch. It was overpriced for the street, but that ...
( Category: Murder March 26,2014 )
The illustrated man by Ray Bradbury
epub | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Ray Bradbury [Bradbury, Ray]

* * * The Exiles THEIR EYES were fire and the breath flamed out the witches’ mouths as they bent to probe the caldron with greasy stick and bony finger. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
The White People and Other Weird Stories by Machen Arthur
epub |eng | 2011-08-18 | Author:Machen, Arthur

III It might have been different in the evening, and Darnell had matured a plan by which he hoped to gain much. He intended to ask his wife if she ...
( Category: Anthologies March 26,2014 )
Gil's All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-09-29 | Author:A. Lee Martinez [Martinez, A. Lee]

As the first rays of dawn spread across the desert, the ghouls put an end to their ceaseless raspy chattering and fell silent. Legs flopped around in the air in ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )
The Perfect Host by Theodore Sturgeon
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Theodore Sturgeon [Sturgeon, Theodore]

They started by giving me something I didn’t want—but wasn’t that the whole trouble? This time it was a sort of surprise party and testimonial dinner. I guess I was ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d'Art by Moore Christopher
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Moore, Christopher [Moore, Christopher]

Seventeen IN THE LATIN QUARTER DID YOU FIND US A PAINTER?” ASKED THE COLORMAN WHEN SHE CAME IN. He was sitting on the divan, feeding a carrot to Étienne, the ...
( Category: Occult March 26,2014 )
The Roving Tree by Elsie Augustave
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Elsie Augustave [Augustave, Elsie]

Mama aaaa Mu nkoku ibuidi Simbi Umbabakidi Mama aaaa “I saw her in my dream last night. She told me that you have an African water spirit dancing in your ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Louise Erdrich [Erdrich, Louise]

Sitting in a rocker Eating Betty Crocker Watching the clock go Tick, tock, tick, tock Shawallawalla Tick, tock, tick, tock Shawallawalla ABCDEFG Wash those boy germs off of me! The ...
( Category: Native American Studies March 26,2014 )

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