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Where Have You Been? by Michael Hofmann
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Hofmann

ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Zbigniew Herbert died in 1998. He was a very great and idiosyncratic poet—something in me wants to say a peerless poet—and, it is reported, a perennial Nobel bridesmaid. ...
( Category: German January 29,2015 )
Rabbi Gabrielle Ignites a Tempest by Roger Herst
epub |eng | | Author:Roger Herst

CHAPTER SEVEN Senior officials at the Antiquities Authority rarely bothered to knock before entering the office of a colleague. Shmuel Navid, a fastidious scholar who generally confined himself to the ...
( Category: Jewish January 29,2015 )
The Many Lives of Ruby Iyer: A Bombay story ( YA Dystopian Thriller)
mobi |eng | 2014-11-12 | Author:Hariharan, Laxmi [Hariharan, Laxmi]

19 WE HAVE BEEN driving for just over half an hour now and are entering the familiar stretch of road passing by the Haji Ali Dargah. Thousands come from all ...
( Category: Survival Stories January 29,2015 )
Angels Don't Die by Petrek Soren
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-27 | Author:Petrek, Soren [Petrek, Soren]

John reached the bottom of the hill, and moved towards Karen’s position. When he was close, he took cover and called out to her, not wanting to frighten her by ...
( Category: Espionage January 29,2015 )
The Three Kingdoms, Volume 3: Welcome the Tiger: An Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation by Luo Guanzhong
mobi |eng | 2014-05-27 | Author:Luo Guanzhong

I, Jiang Wei, the guilty officer, make a hundred prostrations to Commander Cao: I have never forgotten that my family has always received the bounty of Wei and I myself ...
( Category: Chinese January 29,2015 )
The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy by Richard Huijing
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Huijing

No one observes this death. Nobody visits the faun, by the last train and the last bus, by cars standing at night on the verge, on bikes put askew against ...
( Category: European January 29,2015 )
Ashes for Breakfast by Durs Grünbein
epub |eng | | Author:Durs Grünbein

TO AN OKAPI IN THE MUNICH ZOO The clank of a steel door, and the ignominious entrance Of the heraldic beast, trembling, because it’s feeding time, And the keeper wants ...
( Category: German January 29,2015 )
Getting Warmer by Alan Carter
epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Alan Carter [Carter, Alan]

‘It’s not Ocean’s Eleven,’ snapped Hutchens. ‘Split-second timing, my arse. We’re talking low-level bikie scum and screws who can’t wipe their bums without an instruction manual.’ It was a rather ...
( Category: Police Procedurals January 29,2015 )
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
epub |eng | | Author:Anita Diamant

A girl should always have her own money. Where I grew up, it would have been bad manners to sit in a woman’s kitchen without asking about her children and ...
( Category: Jewish January 29,2015 )
The Ladies' Lending Library by Janice Kulyk Keefer
epub |eng | 2007-01-28 | Author:Janice Kulyk Keefer [Keefer, Janice Kulyk]

“What do you suppose she was sick with—asthma?” offers Nastia. “Of course not. She would have had some kind of terrible fever. They would have had to watch at her ...
( Category: Canadian January 29,2015 )
The Rabbi by Noah Gordon
epub |eng | 1965-01-28 | Author:Noah Gordon

23 Max Gross looked at the girl in her stylish clothing and with her sleek legs and bold American eyes and he felt a surge of annoyance. Only four times ...
( Category: Jewish January 29,2015 )
Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev
epub |eng | 2008-11-11 | Author:Ivan Turgenev

XXVI TWO days later Marya Dmitrievna, according to her promise, arrived in Vasilyevskoye with all her young people. The little girls at once ran into the garden, while Marya Dmitrievna ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 29,2015 )
John Belushi Is Dead by Kathy Charles
epub |eng | 2010-01-28 | Author:Kathy Charles

22 BENJI DROPPED ME OFF at home, and I didn’t invite him in. I was relieved to be out of his car, away from him and away from that gun. ...
( Category: Coming of Age January 29,2015 )
Some Here Among Us by Peter Walker
epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Peter Walker

3 The three men stood under a streetlight by the steps. Three separate sets of concrete steps came down side by side from unseen houses high above The Terrace. From ...
( Category: Historical January 29,2015 )
The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-15 | Author:Henry Handel Richardson

XIV ‘My cousin Bob’s awfully gone on you.’ . Laura gaped at Tilly, in crimson disbelief. ‘But I’ve never spoken to him!’ ‘Doesn’t count. He’s seen you in church.’ ‘Go ...
( Category: British & Irish January 29,2015 )

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