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A Common Loss by Kirsten Tranter
epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Kirsten Tranter

Our drinks arrived; I’d ordered a martini in Cynthia’s two-olive style. It tasted salty and made me wish immediately for a glass of water. The dry air sucked moisture away ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania March 14,2016 )
The Italian's Ruthless Seduction by Miranda Lee
epub |eng | 2015-02-04 | Author:Miranda Lee [Lee, Miranda]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN THE KITCHEN IN the villa was large and welcoming, with a flagstone floor, pine cupboards, marble benchtops and a central wooden table that could seat up to eight ...
( Category: Romance March 14,2016 )
Bookless in Baghdad by Shashi Tharoor
epub |nld | 2005-03-13 | Author:Shashi Tharoor

18 Books and Botox AMERICANS, THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM HAS IT, don't read. At least not as much as they used to. Television, movies, computer games, the Internet — all have ...
( Category: Authors March 14,2016 )
Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings by Sackville-West Vita
azw3 |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Sackville-West, Vita [Sackville-West, Vita]

Perhaps Vita’s most celebrated book, about history, house, and herself, concerns her dearly loved and hard-lost Knole. Her relation to her colorful ancestors infuses the book with nostalgia and beauty. ...
( Category: British & Irish March 14,2016 )
A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux
epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Annie Ernaux [Ernaux, Annie]

As I write, I see her sometimes as a “good,” sometimes as a “bad” mother. To get away from these contrasting views, which come from my earliest childhood, I try ...
( Category: French March 14,2016 )
P.G. Wodehouse in his Own Words by Barry Day & Tony Ring
epub |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:Barry Day & Tony Ring [DAY, BARRY]

Nonetheless, the constant process of revision invariably paid off for him and when he comes to review the finished article … It really reads as if I had written it ...
( Category: British & Irish March 14,2016 )
The Beautiful Possible by Amy Gottlieb
epub |eng | 2015-12-21 | Author:Amy Gottlieb

NEW SHANTINIKETAN July 1971 Walter runs his fingers over the stamped cover of his latest book: Religious Themes in Tagore’s Poetry, Paul Richardson and Walter Westhaus, coeditors. He leafs through ...
( Category: Family Saga March 14,2016 )
Betty Boo by Claudia Piñeiro
epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Claudia Piñeiro

16 The improvised and multitudinous social gathering taking place at Nurit’s temporary home has been ravaged by events. The sons, friends, girlfriends and dog, realizing that nobody is going to ...
( Category: General March 14,2016 )
Love Conquers Nothing by Emily Hahn
epub |eng | | Author:Emily Hahn

The Bearded Demoiselle D’Eon In the golden days before most of us were born, we are told, people were nicer, and had codes of conduct which we moderns have lost. ...
( Category: Family Life March 14,2016 )
The Husband She'd Never Met by Barbara Hannay
epub |eng | 2015-03-13 | Author:Barbara Hannay

CHAPTER NINE CARRIE HAD BEEN nervous about brazenly sailing into Max’s office, bearding the lion in his den, so to speak. But now, as his blue eyes smouldered with heat, ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania March 14,2016 )
Family Planning by Karan Mahajan
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-05 | Author:Karan Mahajan [Mahajan, Karan]

CHAPTER 14 DIWAAN-E-KHAAS MR. AHUJA STOOD in the Super Prime Minister’s drawing room—still hot and smoky from a religious ceremony—and carefully studied Rupa Bhalla’s body language as she signaled him ...
( Category: Indian March 13,2016 )
Futurism by Lawrence Rainey & Christine Poggi & Laura Wittman
epub |eng | 2009-03-12 | Author:Lawrence Rainey & Christine Poggi & Laura Wittman

TACTILISM F. T. MARINETTI 16 January 1921 Period. And once again from the top. Futurism, launched by us in 1909 in Milan, has given the world a hatred of Museums, ...
( Category: Essays March 13,2016 )
At Home With The Templetons by McInerney Monica
epub |eng | 2011-01-05 | Author:McInerney, Monica [McInerney, Monica]

together, had a day trip to Brighton. They’d kissed and done a little more than kissing, but Gracie hadn’t wanted to go any further. Barely a month into their dating, ...
( Category: Sisters March 11,2016 )
Apricot's Revenge by Ying Song
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ying, Song [Ying, Song]

— 2 — Nanyuan’s Ming Tien Café. Nie Feng was seated in the same window booth as before. The same ponytailed waitress brought him a glass of water. “What would ...
( Category: Chinese March 11,2016 )
And After Many Days by Ile Jowhor
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-02-16 | Author:Ile, Jowhor [Ile, Jowhor]

“Jealousy!” Paul laughed as if he weren’t also secretly coveting Bibi’s airplane adventure. “Is she still playing that instrument, what is it called?” Ajie asked to lower the tone. “Oboe, ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 11,2016 )

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