Classics
epub |eng | 2015-03-28 | Author:Arthur C. Clarke [Clarke, Arthur C.]

“I have never seen Max so solemn or so tense,” Richard said to Nicole. “Nor have I,” she answered. They were taking an exercise walk an hour after having finished ...
( Category: Science Fiction May 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-21 | Author:Charles Dickinson [Dickinson, Charles]

ELEVEN We were home before Constance spoke. “Does that mean I die in that house?” Three cars were parked in Flo’s lot and Penny’s bike was propped against the wall ...
( Category: Fantasy May 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-29 | Author:Arthur C. Clarke [Clarke, Arthur C.]

. . . All the media reported in 2200 that Rama II was completely destroyed, vaporized by the multiple nuclear bombs that exploded in its vicinity. The missing cosmonauts des ...
( Category: Science Fiction May 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-19 | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Arthur Conan]

Chapter XX How Alleyne Won His Place In An Honorable Guild WHILST the prince’s council was sitting, Alleyne and Ford had remained in the outer hall, where they were soon ...
( Category: Classics May 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-22 | Author:A. E. van Vogt [Vogt, A. E. van]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Ixtl waited. His thoughts kept breaking up into kaleidoscopic memories of all the things he had ever known or thought. He had a vision of his home planet, ...
( Category: Science Fiction May 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-29 | Author:A. Merritt [Merritt, A.]

Graydon sat upon his bench, motionless as a man of stone. How many hours had passed since the whispering Shadow had gone, he did not know. His body was numb, ...
( Category: Action & Adventure May 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-12 | Author:SparkNotes [Sparknotes Editors]

Book Nine, Chapters 1–12 On June 12, 1812, the French forces cross Russia’s frontiers. The narrator explores the question of what caused this invasion, disagreeing with the historians’ answers to ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-28 | Author:Jorge Barón Biza

VI At the end of March of 1966, the doctors concluded the flap had taken. They decided to take off the orthopedic devices and the immense cast that held the ...
( Category: Humor May 9,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-28 | Author:John Dower

“The Inherent Character of the People,” a key chapter in Cardinal Principles of the National Polity, began with a quotation from the seventeenth-century scholar Yamaga Sokō: “The Land of Japan ...
( Category: Asia May 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:H. Rider Haggard [Haggard, H. Rider]

XV AYESHA GIVES JUDGMENT The next thing that I remember was opening my eyes and perceiving the form of Job, who had now practically recovered from his attack of fever. ...
( Category: Action & Adventure May 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Robert Drewe

Sweetlip I am outlining the inquiries I have made since speaking to you after the cremation service. As Director of Security for P & M may I suggest this report ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies May 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-01 | Author:Diana Enright [Enright, Diana]

Chapter 21 Lizzy’s mind raced as she worked to understand this new development. It was her nature to try and think up solutions when there appeared to be none, but ...
( Category: Regency May 6,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Christine Feehan

Chapter Thirteen JONAS came awake, fully alert. It had taken hours for him to drift off, too aware of Hannah beside him. Her sleep was fitful, her body moving constantly ...
( Category: Literary May 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:Christine Feehan

Chapter 11 "JOLEY. Wake up. Wake up, honey." Joley groaned and squeezed her eyes closed tighter. "Go away." There were whispers. She heard them from a distance and tried to ...
( Category: Fantasy May 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-08 | Author:C.H.B. Kitchin

XII THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS By now, the trappings of Christmas had made their way from the shops into private houses. In the Pollitts, a hundred front doors had opened ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction May 5,2018 )