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Last Known Victim by Erica Spindler
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-26 | Author:Erica Spindler

38 Monday, May 7, 2007 12:45 p.m. Patti sat at her desk. What she had said to Yvette Borger had been true—the young woman needed her. But she, ISD captain ...
( Category: Suspense December 27,2014 )
Descent from Xanadu by Harold Robbins
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Harold Robbins [Robbins, Harold]

28 Paul took them to lunch at his usual poolside table at The Four Seasons restaurant. Barbara and Judd sat on the inside chairs next to the bubbling water softly ...
( Category: Action & Adventure December 27,2014 )
Mr Blank (Fill in the Blank) by Robinson Justin
mobi |eng | 2012-10-21 | Author:Robinson, Justin [Robinson, Justin]

-THIRTEEN- Faces are important. So important, in fact, that the human mind naturally creates faces where none exist. It’s a phenomenon called pareidolia, and it’s why people keep seeing Jesus ...
( Category: Contemporary December 27,2014 )
An American Brat by Bapsi Sidhwa
epub |eng | | Author:Bapsi Sidhwa

Jo took up with the state trooper who had given Feroza’s driving test. But so far as she was concerned, it was an uninspiring alliance, despite the uniform. “He’s the ...
( Category: Military December 27,2014 )
Couples by John Updike
epub |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

capac. for self-decep. Foxy said sharply, “I won’t believe it. Everything people have ever built up, Freddy, you’d let slide and fall apart.” “I do my job,” he answered. “It’s ...
( Category: General December 27,2014 )
My Holocaust
epub |eng | | Author:Tova Reich

“Who is a Jew?” Maurice Messer repeated far too loudly as he stood over Krystyna, panting heavily, having found them at last after running around the camp searching for them ...
( Category: Jewish December 27,2014 )
South, America by Rod Davis
epub |eng | 2014-03-26 | Author:Rod Davis [Davis, Rod]

17 The highway dumped into another outside Simmesport, in the old plantation country where blacks outnumbered whites in huge numbers and had suffered proportional repressions. In some places, the faces ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled December 27,2014 )
Far as the Eye Can See by Robert Bausch
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Robert Bausch

The weather got a bit closer to thawing out for a while as Christmas approached, but then it froze up again good and solid. Sometimes the wind cut through you ...
( Category: Literary December 27,2014 )
Gallatin Canyon by Thomas McGuane
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Thomas McGuane

Aliens Homer Newland, a partner and franchise specialist at a Boston law firm, had had a distinguished career and a very long one before retiring at seventy-five, when he was ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
No One Now Will Know by E. M. Delafield
epub |eng | 1941-12-26 | Author:E. M. Delafield

(2) The Newton Players arrived in a big two-horse brake, with Joe Newton’s wife in a stiff white piquè skirt and shirt, and the Newton Players’ cricketing colours—blue and gold ...
( Category: Anthologies December 27,2014 )
A Market Tale by Martin Walker
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Martin Walker

ALSO BY MARTIN WALKER * * * The Bruno, Chief of Police Series BRUNO, CHIEF OF POLICE Meet Benoît Courrèges, aka Bruno, a policeman in a small village in the ...
( Category: Contemporary December 27,2014 )
Saint Jack by Paul Theroux
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Theroux

It was so easy I could not stop. I hustled at a dead run until the streets were empty and the bars closed. New to the enterprise, I had the ...
( Category: Contemporary December 27,2014 )
The Lone Pilgrim by Laurie Colwin
epub |eng | | Author:Laurie Colwin

We got our news about Delia’s father from upperclassmen whose sisters, now in college or married, had (or had friends who had) spent afternoons with him. We learned that he ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Conquer the Night by Heather Graham
epub |eng | | Author:Heather Graham

From the parapets, Kyra looked down longingly at the river below. Aye, the water was cold, frigid. But it was summer, and the cold could be borne. If only she ...
( Category: Scottish December 27,2014 )
No Normal Day III (West) by Richardson J
epub |eng | 2013-07-27 | Author:Richardson, J. [Richardson, J.]

*** It really was just a community. As they walked into the town, they saw just a few old businesses and nearly century old houses in various states of decay, ...
( Category: Adventure December 27,2014 )

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