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A Crucible of Souls by Mitchell Hogan
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-23 | Author:Mitchell Hogan

After he arrived back, Caldan made a quick detour to the apprentices’ dormitory. To their delight, he emptied his pockets of sweets, leaving a few for himself, since they were ...
( Category: Epic May 19,2014 )
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1990-01-02 | Author:Hermann Hesse

Alphabets From time to time we take our pen in hand And scribble symbols on a blank white sheet. Their meaning is at everyone’s command; It is a game whose ...
( Category: World Literature May 19,2014 )
The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (25+ Works with active table of contents) by Leo Tolstoy
epub |eng | 2009-12-19 | Author:Leo Tolstoy [Leo Tolstoy]

KARÉNIN. Where's the place? LISA. It's that big tenement where the gypsy orchestra lives, on the left bank below the bridge. I went there myself. I went as far as ...
( Category: Classics May 17,2014 )
A Royal Pain by Megan Mulry
epub |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Megan Mulry [Mulry, Megan]

Chapter 11 The car started to slow down as it entered the tree-lined streets of Englewood Cliffs, coming to a stop in front of a 1970s ranch house. The home ...
( Category: British & Irish May 16,2014 )
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2009-11-12 | Author:Zadie Smith [Smith, Zadie]

2. NATURE’S WORK OF ART September 18, 2005, marks the centenary of the birth of Greta Garbo, an icon both resonant and remote to us. It feels a perilous centenary. ...
( Category: British & Irish May 16,2014 )
Sun Tzu's The Art of War by Giles Lionel Minford John Tzu Sun
epub |eng | | Author:Giles, Lionel, Minford, John, Tzu, Sun

CHAPTER 4 tactical Dispositions 形篇第四 1 形 is a very comprehensive and somewhat vague term. Literally, "from," "body," it comes to mean "appearance," "attitude" or "disposition;" and here it is ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People May 14,2014 )
The White Tiger: A Novel by Adiga Aravind
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-01-23 | Author:Adiga, Aravind [Adiga, Aravind]

The Fifth Night Mr. Jiabao. Sir. When you get here, you’ll be told we Indians invented everything from the Internet to hard-boiled eggs to spaceships before the British stole it ...
( Category: Indian May 12,2014 )
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick: A Novel by Peter Handke
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-10 | Author:Peter Handke [Handke, Peter]

Waking up again. “Two, three, four,” Bloch started to count. His situation had not changed, but he must have grown used to it in his sleep. He pocketed the coin ...
( Category: Contemporary May 11,2014 )
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke
epub, azw3 |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Peter Handke [Handke, Peter]

If only once a week, she derived a pleasurable feeling of pride from the fact that a little something was left over for luxury. “We’re still better off than the ...
( Category: Authors May 11,2014 )
Playboy's Lesson by MELANIE MILBURNE
epub |eng | 2014-05-10 | Author:MELANIE MILBURNE

CHAPTER EIGHT LUCCA WOKE TO a raging thirst. He reached for the lamp switch, grimacing as the sweat-soaked sheets clung to his body like plastic wrap. He raked a hand ...
( Category: World Literature May 11,2014 )
The South by Colm Toibin
epub |eng | | Author:Colm Toibin

AUTUMN She chopped up the boiled egg on a saucer for Isona. The child sat at the table in her nightdress and took a cup of milk in her hands. ...
( Category: Historical May 11,2014 )
The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin
epub |eng | | Author:Colm Toibin

CHAPTER FOUR He drove home from the hospital and waited in the empty house in case the phone would ring. He made himself a sandwich and drank a few glasses ...
( Category: Domestic Life May 11,2014 )
Dossier K: A Memoir by Imre Kertesz
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Imre Kertesz [Kertesz, Imre]

I am inclined to the view that if one talks about art and dictatorship, one can’t avoid Adorno’s precept. “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” But why are we ...
( Category: Jewish May 11,2014 )
The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:Irmgard Keun

All three of us are sitting in the kitchen. He’s propped up on the chair, the wife is near the stove, and I’m in front of the bed — we’re ...
( Category: Historical May 10,2014 )
Children of the Street by Kwei Quartey
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Kwei Quartey

26 A little past ten o’clock, Dawson and Chikata found Mosquito hanging around the outside of the railway station. “How are you?” Dawson asked him. The boy looked nervous. “I’m ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense May 8,2014 )

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