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The Dead of Summer by Mari Jungstedt
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-14 | Author:Mari Jungstedt

EMMA WAS AWAKENED by her own scream. The nightmare had ended with her falling into a deep abyss. She sat up with a jolt, breathing hard and staring into the ...
( Category: Murder October 11,2014 )
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Jeanette Winterson [Winterson, Jeanette]

I hardly know how to describe what I saw. These Idols, staring out to sea with their massy stone faces, stood many feet high, dark and heavy and impassive, and ...
( Category: World Literature October 11,2014 )
Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 1988-03-11 | Author:Amin Maalouf [Maalouf, Amin]

I let two months pass before returning to the palace, since I did not wish to give the chancellor the impression I was rushing him. He seemed extremely friendly, told ...
( Category: Biographical October 11,2014 )
Chinese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-14 | Author:Lafcadio Hearn [Hearn, Lafcadio]

The Tradition of the Tea Plant SANG A CHINESE HEART FOURTEEN HUNDRED YEARS AGO: There is Somebody of whom I am thinking. Far away there is Somebody of whom I ...
( Category: Chinese October 10,2014 )
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-12 | Author:Julia Alvarez [Julia Alvarez]

Next time they gathered under the shade of the thatch, I went out there, carrying my week-old prize. “Hola, Patria,” the men called. “That’s quite a macho you got there!” ...
( Category: Historical October 10,2014 )
The Infinity Gate: Darkglass Mountain: Book Three by Sara Douglass
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-23 | Author:Sara Douglass [Sara Douglass]

“You really don’t like this, do you,” Serge said to Avaldamon, who was sitting looking toward the fort anxiously. Avaldamon shook his head. “There is something wrong, wrong, wrong about ...
( Category: Epic October 10,2014 )
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-11-22 | Author:Yasunari Kawabata

PART TWO IT WAS the egg-laying season for moths, Shimamura's wife told him as he left Tokyo, and he was not to leave his clothes hanging in the open. There ...
( Category: Literary October 10,2014 )
Patriotism
mobi |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Yukio Mishima

At length, in a tremulous voice, Reiko spoke. “Show me. . . . Let me look too, for the last time.” Never before had he heard from his wife’s lips ...
( Category: Contemporary October 10,2014 )
Rashomon and Other Stories
mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Ryunosuke Akutagawa

An hour later he sat at breakfast with Toshihito and his father−in−law, Arihito. In front of him was a huge vat filled to the brim with a tremendous sea of ...
( Category: Japanese October 10,2014 )
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world by Haruki Murakami
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-11-14 | Author:Haruki Murakami

"Do you suppose this marks the deadline?" she asked. "Either that, or it's (4). Meaning, if the program is cancelled at (3), X won't happen. But if for some reason ...
( Category: Paranormal & Urban October 10,2014 )
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Yasunari Kawabata

Still, Otoko had had many opportunities for love and marriage since coming to Kyoto with her mother. But she had avoided them. As soon as she realized that a man ...
( Category: Literary October 10,2014 )
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal
epub |eng | 1983-01-02 | Author:Bohumil Hrabal [Hrabal, Bohumil]

THIS IS A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOK PUBLISHED BY THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS 435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 www.nyrb.com Copyright © 1964 Bohumil Hrabal Translation copyright ...
( Category: Literary October 9,2014 )
On Leave by Daniel Anselme
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Anselme

CHAPTER EIGHT At first glance the Café des Vrais Sportifs, in the alley that runs behind the Arena, looks more like the sort of place with a curved bar where ...
( Category: War October 9,2014 )
So Vast the Prison by Assia Djebar
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:Assia Djebar

When mid-July arrived in 1959, the father, emotional over letting them go on such a long trip alone, accompanied the mother and his daughter to the boat. During the crossing ...
( Category: Literary October 9,2014 )
Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz
epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Naguib Mahfouz [Mahfouz, Naguib]

27 {142} SEATED IN a large chair on the latticed balcony, al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad gazed alternately at the street and at al-Ahram, the newspaper spread across his lap. The ...
( Category: Family Saga October 9,2014 )

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