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Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire by Thomas Hardy
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy

Chapter VII Dick Makes Himself Useful The effect of Geoffrey's incidental allusions to Mr. Shiner was to restrain a considerable flow of spontaneous chat that would otherwise have burst from ...
( Category: British & Irish January 8,2016 )
Jock of the Bushveld by Percy Fitzpatrick
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-02 | Author:Percy Fitzpatrick

* * * Chapter Sixteen. The Tiger and Baboons. No one had doubted Jess’s courage, even when we saw her come back alone: we knew there was something wrong, but ...
( Category: General January 8,2016 )
A Message from the Sea by Charles Dickens
mobi |eng | 1998-08-01 | Author:Charles Dickens

CHAPTER V {1}—THE RESTITUTION Captain Jorgan, up and out betimes, had put the whole village of Lanrean under an amicable cross-examination, and was returning to the King Arthur’s Arms to ...
( Category: British & Irish January 8,2016 )
Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Hainsworth Peter & Robey David
epub |eng | 2012-02-22 | Author:Hainsworth, Peter & Robey, David [Robey, David]

8. Elio Vittorini (right) with Alberto Moravia in the 1950s Like Vittorini, the narrator and protagonist is a Sicilian, Silvestro, living and working in the north, who recounts a journey ...
( Category: Medieval January 6,2016 )
The Graveyard by Marek Hlasko
epub, azw3 |eng | 1975-01-01 | Author:Marek Hlasko [Hlasko, Marek]

IX HE WAS WIFELESS; HIS WIFE HAD DIED A FEW weeks after the end of hostilities; though of poor health, she had managed to stay alive until his return from ...
( Category: Eastern January 5,2016 )
The Sleep of the Righteous by Wolfgang Hilbig
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Wolfgang Hilbig [Hilbig, Wolfgang]

THE DARK MAN Best of all I seemed to remember the phone call with which the story began. The voice came from a pub, around ten in the evening, I ...
( Category: German January 5,2016 )
The Devil and the Detective by John Goldbach
epub |eng | 2013-04-18 | Author:John Goldbach [Goldbach, John]

Chain-smoking, I sat at my kitchen table in the dark. I’d finished the wine and was now drinking a can of beer, which was the only alcohol I had left ...
( Category: Humorous January 4,2016 )
Confession of the Lioness by Mia Couto
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mia Couto [Couto, Mia]

The Hunter’s Diary FOUR Rituals and Ambushes Where men can be gods, animals can be men. —THE WRITER’S NOTEBOOKS Hanifa comes to call me in the middle of the night. ...
( Category: African January 4,2016 )
The Lady's Command by Laurens Stephanie
mobi |eng | 2015-12-28 | Author:Laurens, Stephanie [Laurens, Stephanie]

CHAPTER 10 An hour later, Declan returned to the bungalow, walked into the drawing room where Edwina was waiting, and slumped into an armchair. For several seconds, he stared unseeing ...
( Category: Historical December 30,2015 )
The Lady's Command (Adventurers Quartet #1) by Stephanie Laurens
epub |eng | 2015-12-27 | Author:Stephanie Laurens [Laurens, Stephanie]

CHAPTER 10 An hour later, Declan returned to the bungalow, walked into the drawing room where Edwina was waiting, and slumped into an armchair. For several seconds, he stared unseeing ...
( Category: Historical December 29,2015 )
Ascendance: Dave vs. the Monsters by John Birmingham
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-04-30 | Author:John Birmingham [Birmingham, John]

18 As was so often the case, Lord Guyuk ur Grymm was not entirely sure of what the Threshrend spoke. From the tenor of his delivery he thought the empath ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense December 27,2015 )
Forged by Desire
epub |eng | 2014-07-24 | Author:Bec McMaster

Fourteen Light spilled over his desk. Garrett blinked and pinched the bridge of his nose. He’d been staring too long at the case file. Most of the night, in fact, ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania December 22,2015 )
Wherever There Is Light by Golden Peter
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Golden, Peter [Golden, Peter]

The last time Julian cried, he was fifteen years old and crossing the Atlantic on a ship from Hamburg to New York. He was standing on deck in a moonless ...
( Category: Jewish December 20,2015 )
Late Harvest Havoc by Alaux Jean-Pierre
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-11-22 | Author:Alaux, Jean-Pierre [Alaux, Jean-Pierre]

8 The vines descended the mountain in highly regimented rows. They were battalions in golden armor ready to do battle in the valley. But these vines would never cross the ...
( Category: Culinary December 18,2015 )
Blood of Innocents by Mitchell Hogan
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-31 | Author:Mitchell Hogan [Hogan, Mitchell]

Chapter Twenty-Four With Joachim recuperating, Caldan decided to leave him be and found a few journeymen to question. The journeymen were always short of coin and they’d likely have spare ...
( Category: Epic December 14,2015 )

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