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Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano & Joanna Kilmartin
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-07 | Author:Patrick Modiano & Joanna Kilmartin [Modiano, Patrick & Kilmartin, Joanna]

I remember the intensity of my feelings while I was on the run in January 1960—an intensity such as I have seldom known. It was the intoxication of cutting all ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 25,2017 )
The Secrets of Flight by Maggie Leffler
epub |eng | 2016-03-13 | Author:Maggie Leffler

CHAPTER 16 Miami Grandma’s boyfriend Ray picked me up at the Key West airport, saying, “Change of plans, little buddy. We have to go to Miami tonight.” “Miami,” I repeated, ...
( Category: World Literature August 25,2017 )
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
epub |eng | 1956-08-25 | Author:Naguib Mahfouz [Mahfouz, Naguib]

80 THE STREET was empty and pitch black when he knocked on the door at about nine o'clock. It opened after a while, but the person inside remained hidden. Then ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 25,2017 )
The Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Naguib Mahfouz

25. As he emerged from the archway on his way home he heard a harsh voice asking, “Who’s there?” He recognized the voice of his brother Wahid, the clan chief, ...
( Category: Contemporary August 25,2017 )
A Quiet Place by Seicho Matsumoto
epub |eng | 2016-03-19 | Author:Seicho Matsumoto

For the next two weeks, as he anxiously waited for the detective agency to complete the second investigation, Asai was distracted and unable to concentrate. He was impatient to hear ...
( Category: World Literature August 25,2017 )
What We Become by Arturo Perez-Reverte
epub |eng | | Author:Arturo Perez-Reverte

7 Of Thieves and Spies THE BAY OF Angels was still a deep shade of blue. The high rocks beneath the chateau of Nice offered protection from the mistral wind, ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese August 25,2017 )
A Garden of Trees by Nicholas Mosley
epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Mosley

10 “Hullo,” she said. “You can put it over there.” “It has got the most tremendous roots.” “Oh Marius, you look like a chinaman.” “I really don’t know oh isn’t ...
( Category: World Literature August 25,2017 )
Black Jade by Kylie Chan
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Kylie Chan

21 We landed in the residential part of the Northern Heavens Imperial Palace. It was dark and quiet; everybody was sleeping. I looked around and recognised the courtyard between the ...
( Category: Fantasy August 25,2017 )
Dendera by Yuya Sato
epub |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Yuya Sato [Sato, Yuya]

2 Night came, but nothing had changed. Several fire baskets cast light upon the storehouse, while the surrounding armed women, beset by a mixture of hunger and coldness and irritation, ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 24,2017 )
Jay to Bee by Janet Frame
epub |eng | 2016-04-08 | Author:Janet Frame

Quote: ‘Every exciting letter has enclosures, and so shall this—a bunch of photographs, some out of focus, some with wrong exposures, press cuttings, gossip, maps, statistics, graphs; I don’t intend ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 24,2017 )
Good People by Nir Baram
epub |eng | 2016-03-10 | Author:Nir Baram

… Every morning her husband rose early, thrust the axe into his belt and joined the men from the dachas on the hillside; they planted lemon trees, chopped wood for ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 24,2017 )
Some Clouds by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
epub |eng | 2012-07-19 | Author:Paco Ignacio Taibo II

Chapter Eight “I’m thirty years old, my hair’s going grey. I’m not tired.” —Ernst Toller As he moved into the fifth day of his investigation of the Costa family’s destruction, ...
( Category: World Literature August 24,2017 )
The Eternal Philistine by Odon Von Horvath
epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Odon Von Horvath [Horváth, Ödön von]

Now the train was leaving the sea and would return to it again in Toulon. “We’re almost in Marseille now,” said Schmitz. It was already late in the afternoon; the ...
( Category: Literary August 24,2017 )
The Extra by A. B. Yehoshua
epub |eng | | Author:A. B. Yehoshua

Thirty-Three STRUCK MUTE BY THE SHOCK, hands trembling, she strips off the nightgown of the imaginary patient and returns to her real clothes, and without a backward look hurries to ...
( Category: World Literature August 24,2017 )
Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum
epub |eng | 2016-05-13 | Author:Vicki Baum

WITH THE treachery common to alarm clocks, General Manager Preysing’s failed to rouse him from sleep with the thoroughness and punctuality expected of it. At half-past seven it emitted a ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 24,2017 )

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