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Tiny Lights for Travellers by Naomi K. Lewis
epub |eng | | Author:Naomi K. Lewis [Naomi K. Lewis]

In When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, Ronald C. Rosbottom asks why so many Parisians kept journals during the German Occupation, recording sentiments and actions ...
( Category: Canadian October 13,2019 )
Under the Water by Paul Pen
epub |eng | 2019-09-30 | Author:Paul Pen [Pen, Paul]

23. Frank walked away from Grace. He had no desire to continue arguing, much less due to Mara—that was what she wanted. He wandered around the RV, taking deep breaths. ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese October 10,2019 )
Japanese Folktales by Yei Theodora Ozaki
epub |eng | 2018-05-22 | Author:Yei Theodora Ozaki

He pressed the old woman to let him stay, but she seemed very reluctant. The old woman as soon as she heard herself spoken to stopped spinning, rose from her ...
( Category: Japanese October 8,2019 )
A Million Drops by Lisa Dillman & Victor Del Árbol
epub |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:Lisa Dillman & Victor Del Árbol

José Díaz was a passionate, headstrong man, and in his eyes—dark as his rakishly disheveled hair—you could still see signs of the boy from Seville who’d started off as a ...
( Category: Murder October 8,2019 )
The Selected Poems of Tu Fu by Tu Fu & David Hinton
epub |eng | 1989-04-15 | Author:Tu Fu & David Hinton [Fu, Tu & Hinton, David]

My oar-strokes hushed, I leave for rivers and lakes, Distances without promise. I step out the gate, look Away—and suddenly, all trace has vanished. These Drug-cakes shoring me up—they alone ...
( Category: Chinese October 8,2019 )
The Year I Left by Christine Brae
epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Christine Brae

We sat side by side in the front row of a tiny passenger van, together with two other couples on the same tour with us. One couple was from London, ...
( Category: Family Life October 8,2019 )
Kill Me Quick by Meja Mwangi
epub |eng | 2017-05-30 | Author:Meja Mwangi [Mwangi, Meja]

Chapter Eight Maina woke up very early on the morning of the next big action, washed, combed his hair, and did his best to make himself look respectable. Sara had ...
( Category: African October 8,2019 )
A Murder Most Watchful by Jefferson Bonar
epub |eng | 2019-06-04 | Author:Jefferson Bonar [Bonar, Jefferson]

Chapter Twenty Lucas watched as Pedro pretended to meander through the camp, looking for something. It was quiet except for the rustling of a large pine tree overhead whose canopy ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese October 7,2019 )
City of Wisdom and Blood by Robert Merle
epub |eng | 2015-09-15 | Author:Robert Merle [Merle, Robert]

9 THE PAIN I SUFFERED at the hands of Figairasse didn’t simply make for “some difficulties sitting down” but for difficulties of another kind, which the reader will easily understand, ...
( Category: French October 7,2019 )
Kokoro: Hints and Echos of Japanese Inner Life by Lafcadio Hearn
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lafcadio Hearn [Hearn, Lafcadio]

The young convert at Yokohama proved a noteworthy example of missionary failures. Within a few years after having sacrificed a fortune in order to become a Christian,—or rather the member ...
( Category: Japanese September 28,2019 )
The House That BJ Built by Anuja Chauhan
epub |eng | 2015-05-24 | Author:Anuja Chauhan [Chauhan, Anuja]

‘Haan bhaisaab, jahan chhoda tha, wahin se utha lo,’ Bonu tells her cabbie wearily that evening as she walks out of the studio after the shoot has wrapped up. And ...
( Category: Indian September 20,2019 )
The Caucasian chalk circle by Brecht Bertolt 1898-1956;Bentley Eric 1916- & Bentley Eric 1916-
epub |eng | 1966-09-19 | Author:Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956;Bentley, Eric, 1916- & Bentley, Eric, 1916-

78 / Bertolt Brecht grusha: Yes. peasant: But your soldier won't come back. Don't you believe it. grusha: No. peasant: You're cheating me. You're my wife and you're not my ...
( Category: Playwriting September 20,2019 )
About My Mother by Tahar Ben Jelloun
epub |eng | 2016-07-05 | Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun [Ben Jelloun, Tahar]

22 I arrive in Tangier a few days before the end of Ramadan. It’s December. There are floods in Andalusia and rain in Tangier. Fasting makes people tetchy, aggressive even, ...
( Category: Biographical September 20,2019 )
Such is Life by Joseph Furphy
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-05-15 | Author:Joseph Furphy

Aweel, A was born on the braes o’ Yarra. Ye ken, the time’s gane lang wi’ me sin’ A rin aboot the braes, an’ pu’d the gow­ans fine. Ay, mun!” ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania September 16,2019 )
Raakshas: The Serial Killer by Piyush Jha
epub |eng | 2015-12-17 | Author:Piyush Jha [Jha, Piyush]

Sixteen I’m still unclear as to what really happened with the young man in Jaipur. His diary entries during this period were very sketchy, as if he was preoccupied with ...
( Category: Indian September 15,2019 )

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