World Literature
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anna Funder [Funder, Anna]

I sat in the kitchen of the flat in Bloomsbury, barely breathing. A fly was making its way around the rim of a teacup, throwing a surreal, leggy shadow into ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-08-06 | Author:Harold Robbins [Robbins, Harold]

I stood in the hallway outside my door, searching my pockets for my key. It wasn’t there. Nothing was there except the five hundred-dollar bills and a stub of a ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-11-24 | Author:Mo Yan [Yan, Mo]

6 The Flood Dragon River had reached flood stage; by looking out the window from my bed, I could see murky yellow water roaring along at the crest of the ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf, mobi |eng | 2003-09-01 | Author:Jostein Gaarder [Gaarder, Jostein]

Perhaps the material will force you to write several volumes. No matter what, don't fall for the temptation of writing too little. You and only you hold the key to ...
( Category: Family Saga March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Malcolm Macdonald [Macdonald, Malcolm]

Well, she would show him! She did not pause to marvel that she had so many reasons for anger—as if the anger grew first, and grew tall, before any reason ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Malcolm Macdonald

Well, she would show him! She did not pause to marvel that she had so many reasons for anger—as if the anger grew first, and grew tall, before any reason ...
( Category: Family Saga March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Sarah Lark [Lark, Sarah]

4 “Now, look, Mr. O’Keefe, I’ve visited several farms in this area,” George said. He sat with Howard O’Keefe on the veranda of Helen’s hut, and Howard had just poured ...
( Category: Family Saga March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Emily Rubin [Rubin, Emily]

* * * “It’s just not practical. We are not going anywhere,” Trofim had said without looking in my eyes. It was a summer night. I was just nineteen and ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie]

Papa-Nnukwu had woken up before everyone else. He wanted to have breakfast sitting on the verandah, to watch the morning sun. And so Aunty Ifeoma asked Obiora to spread a ...
( Category: African March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Lisa O'Donnell [O'Donnell, Lisa]

Nelly While Marnie goes to Lochgilphead with her wayward girlfriends I take the opportunity to get to know our grandfather Robert T. Macdonald at his workshop situated in the Barrowland, ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Jaime Manrique [Manrique, Jaime]

* * * During the brief hours when a thin shaft of afternoon sunlight pierced the darkness of my dungeon, I read and reread Lazarillo’s adventures until I memorized the ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-22 | Author:Georges Simenon [Simenon, Georges]

CHAPTER SIX THE universe grew bigger, people and things altered in appearance, certainties were born at the same time as anxieties, the world became peopled with questions, and a ring ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Bryce Courtenay [Courtenay, Bryce]

Dear Peekay, Much news from the war zone. I have been to see Mr. Andrews. He is the lawyer who comes into the library and only takes out books on ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafón [Zafón, Carlos Ruiz]

23 Fermín could feel the lorry slowing down and negotiating the last obstacles along the dirt track. After a couple of minutes of potholes and groans from the lorry, the ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Karen Miller [Miller, Karen]

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Zandakar was right about one thing. Hotas were hard work. They made her years of training with a foil seem like a giddy romp for infants. By the ...
( Category: Fantasy March 26,2014 )