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Istanbul (Deluxe Edition): Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-24 | Author:Orhan Pamuk [Pamuk, Orhan]

Many of these religious injunctions became confused in my mind with my mother’s rules (like “Don’t point”). Or, when she told me not to open a window or the door ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 3,2018 )
Les Miserables (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by Victor Hugo
azw3 |eng | 2003-04-24 | Author:Victor Hugo [Hugo, Victor]

IV The gang These four formed a single, Protean body, wriggling through the meshes of the law, evading the scrutiny of Vidocq ‘in diverse guises, tree, flame and fountain’, exchanging ...
( Category: Classics April 3,2018 )
G. K. Chesterton by Ball & Cross
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ball & Cross [Ball & Cross]

If ever thou gavest hosen and shoon Every night and all, Sit thee down and put them on, And Christ receive thy soul. Turnbull had no such lyrical meditations, but ...
( Category: World Literature April 3,2018 )
The Power Of One by Bryce Courtenay
epub |eng | 2011-03-11 | Author:Bryce Courtenay [Courtenay, Bryce]

I asked for an American cream soda. It was the drink Hoppie had bought me in the cafe at Gravelotte after we'd changed the tackies at the Patels' shop and ...
( Category: World Literature April 3,2018 )
The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
epub |eng | 2010-10-13 | Author:Austin Clarke

The large front-house is quiet now. Only her breathing can be heard. The smell of canes burnt in fires Saturday night rises stronger now that the wind comes from the ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 3,2018 )
The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays (Vintage International) by Albert Camus
azw3 |eng | 2012-10-31 | Author:Albert Camus [Camus, Albert]

Kirilov All of Dostoevsky’s heroes question themselves as to the meaning of life. In this they are modern: they do not fear ridicule. What distinguishes modern sensibility from classical sensibility ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 3,2018 )
Aphorisms (The Schocken Kafka Library) by Franz Kafka
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-17 | Author:Franz Kafka [Kafka, Franz]

Ever since Original Sin, we are basically all alike in our ability to know Good and Evil; even so, this is where we seek a particular advantage. Actually, it’s only ...
( Category: Philosophy April 3,2018 )
Eliot Fintushel by Breakfast & the Ones You Love
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Breakfast & the Ones You Love

We tiptoed past. I gotta say, she looked sweet. She was wearing a strictly old lady black lace dress from some previous century and high-heeled shoes that laced up the ...
( Category: Fantasy April 2,2018 )
Glenda Larke by Heart of the Mirage
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Heart of the Mirage

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Brand and I looked upon the Mirage and did not believe what we saw. ‘It is not real,’ I said flatly. ‘How can anything like this be real?’ ...
( Category: Fantasy April 2,2018 )
Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Smucker

CHAPTER FOURTEEN THERE WASN’T MUCH DANGER from slave catchers on the high mountain paths at night. But even without them, this wild place was terrifying and strange for Julilly and ...
( Category: World Literature April 2,2018 )
The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry by Tony Barnstone
epub |eng | 2005-04-02 | Author:Tony Barnstone [Barnstone, Tony]

( Category: History & Criticism April 2,2018 )
House of Night 2 - Betrayed by P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast
epub |eng | 2007-10-02 | Author:P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast [Cast, P. C. & Cast, Kristin]

CHAPTER 16 I was carrying Nala out of the media center—the cat had been so sound asleep that she hadn't even bothered to complain at me when I picked her ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy April 2,2018 )
In Search of Lost Time 1 - Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
epub |eng | 1957-01-02 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

* * * He might have reminded himself, all the same, that there were various old friends of his family who were just as simple as the Verdurins, companions of ...
( Category: Classics April 2,2018 )
Riley Jenson Guardian 7 - Deadly Desire by Keri Arthur
epub |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Keri Arthur [Arthur, Keri]

Jack didn't. Neither did Sal, who ended up with the task of keeping the teenager in line and safe. Although if the kid wasn't safe in a building filled with ...
( Category: Vampires April 2,2018 )
Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
epub, azw3 |eng | 1996-07-01 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

IV I had been certain the day before that I should be the first to arrive. But it was not a question of being the first to arrive. Not only ...
( Category: Classics April 2,2018 )

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