epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Ha Jin [Jin, Ha]

IN THE PRACTICE OF ESPIONAGE, gathering intelligence is just the first step. After that, there is the task of analyzing the information, and then comes the challenge of how to ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Ha Jin [Jin, Ha]

25 LOCAL AUTHORITIES, uprooted by the war, no longer existed in many areas. According to what refugees told us, guerrillas had caused a good deal of trouble in the country. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Thomas, Sherry [Thomas, Sherry]

CHAPTER 10 Choices Chinese Turkestan 1883 Leighton woke up inexpressibly happy. Every single step that he had taken in his life, it seemed, had led to this place, this moment: ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-29 | Author:Ed Lin [Lin, Ed]

CHAPTER TEN Ming-kuo had dressed in a shirt, tie and jacket. In the bright lights of the Korean restaurant, he looked like a chubby variety-show host minus the microphone and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:Lisa See [See, Lisa]

GRACE Dancing on the Edge Our lives changed quickly in those first few months of the war. We still had air-raid sirens and blackouts, but the curfew was abolished and ...

mobi |eng | 2013-08-06 | Author:Yangsze Choo

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 ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-07 | Author:Sharma, Akhil [Sharma, Akhil]

The day Birju was supposed to be brought to our house, Mr. Narayan rang our doorbell at around eight in the morning. He stood in the doorway smiling, his face ...

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 ...

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 ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-08-15 | Author:Natsume Soseki

PART III SENSEI’S TESTAMENT CHAPTER 55 I have had two or three letters from you this summer. I seem to remember that in the second or third you asked my ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Amy Tan

CHAPTER 9 QUICKSAND YEARS Shanghai March 1925 Violet Loyalty was throwing a big party at the House of Lin to celebrate the fifteen-year-old virgin courtesan Ruby Sky and her upcoming ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-21 | Author:Jhumpa Lahiri [Lahiri, Jhumpa]

At first he had said nothing to reproach her. For a week his only punishment was in refusing to speak, refusing to acknowledge her, just as her in-laws had ignored ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Vaddey Ratner [Ratner, Vaddey]

seventeen So began my education, with Pok as my guide and guardian, this gentle soul who called himself neak prey—a “man of the forest”—because he’d never seen a refrigerator or ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-31 | Author:Rozan, S. J. [Rozan, S. J.]

The main headquarters building of the Hong Kong Police Department, back down the hill and not far from the water, looked like any other Hong Kong skyscraper. An expanse of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:S. J. Rozan [Rozan, S. J.]

22 I understood nothing that went on at Joel’s funeral except the rabbi’s eulogy, which was in English. He praised Joel as a devoted family man, a tireless member of ...