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Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Esi Edugyan

When we left Hagenbecks, it was like something gone out of the kid then, some kind of fury. He was just wearied. We ain’t drove back to Ernst’s estate at ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
Beautiful María of My Soul by Óscar Hijuelos
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Óscar Hijuelos

(What neither Ignacio nor even Nestor knew were the most hidden reasons María could be indifferent to the feelings of men. It came down to the way her beloved papito ...
( Category: Hispanic March 25,2014 )
Amigoland by Oscar Casares
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Oscar Casares

They had taken a booth near the back of the little restaurant, where they would still be able to talk if someone put money in the jukebox. Steam billowed out ...
( Category: Hispanic March 25,2014 )
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

CHAPTER 24 Everyone joked about people who went abroad to clean toilets, and so Obinze approached his first job with irony: he was indeed abroad cleaning toilets, wearing rubber gloves ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
The Hope Factory: A Novel by Lavanya Sankaran
mobi |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Lavanya Sankaran

ANAND-SAAR’S HOUSE LOOKED LIKE a white, glowing pearl floating on the dark earth. Light was everywhere, fighting the night: small bulbs in wired lines limning the outlines of the building ...
( Category: Domestic Life March 25,2014 )
Sacred Clowns by Tony Hillerman
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Tony Hillerman

EVEN BEFORE he had finished reading Chee’s memo, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn had come to a couple of conclusions. The first was that he had guessed right about Chee. He was ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
Riven Rock by T. Coraghessan Boyle
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-04-15 | Author:T. Coraghessan Boyle

4. ONE SLIT’S ENOUGH As it turned out, Dr. Brush wasn’t a man to rock the boat, even if it was in his power to do so, which it wasn’t. ...
( Category: Humor March 25,2014 )
Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2010-12-23 | Author:Margaret Mitchell

She went through the orchard under the bare boughs and the damp weeds beneath them wet her feet. She could hear the sound of the axe ringing as Ashley split ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-03-15 | Author:Margaret Mitchell

CHAPTER XXXII SHE WAS STILL CLUTCHING the ball of red clay when she went up the front steps. She had carefully avoided the back entrance, for Mammy’s sharp eyes would ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Fannie Flagg

THE MISHAP PULASKI, WISCONSIN WORKING AT A FILLING STATION COULD BE REALLY DANGEROUS. GAS was highly flammable. Hubcaps could pop off and hit you in the face. You could burn ...
( Category: Humor March 25,2014 )
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck
mobi, epub |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:John Steinbeck

THE NOBLE TALE OF SIR LANCELOT OF THE LAKE (And noble it is.—J.S.) AFTER A LONG AND TURBULENT TIME, King Arthur, through fortune and force of arms, destroyed or made ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-29 | Author:Ann Weisgarber

The worst of the storm passed while I scrubbed the burned pot. The rain didn’t stop though. It rained while I got a fresh pot of mush going and it ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel by John Irving
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-03-15 | Author:John Irving

"Yes, I see," Dr. Dolder said. "Are you tired now? Are you getting tired?" "It's the spelling," I told him. "The spelling and the reading." There were photographs on the ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
George Mills by Stanley Elkin
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-04-14 | Author:Stanley Elkin

6 I told her, I don’t know the matter with me. I suppose I love the neighborhood. I’m no native son, I didn’t even grow up there, but I—most folks—recognize ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
Conquistadora by Esmeralda Santiago
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Esmeralda Santiago

Dr. Vieira asked that Leonor leave while he prepared the body, but she wouldn’t move from Ramón’s side. “There’s nothing more you can do for him, Dr. Vieira,” she said ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )

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