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epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Richard Stark [Richard Stark]

2 Claire fired, and the rifle stock thumped hard into her right shoulder. She grimaced, and stepped backward away from the pain, and held the rifle with her right hand ...
( Category: Crime October 9,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Robert Goddard

P A S T C A R I N G 255 “Well, I don’t like. I’m not some adolescent for you to dazzle and bed and throw away.” “I never ...
( Category: Suspense October 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-01-30 | Author:Robert Goddard [Goddard, Robert]

On the third day of his illness, Harry received his first visitor. Alan Dysart. Harry’s mother reacted to his arrival as if the Prince of Wales had called by unexpectedly. ...
( Category: Murder October 9,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-04-10 | Author:Trevor, William [Trevor, William]

THREE 1 Prayer continued to be the solace of the man who had become a soldier. But his expectation that the rigours and severity and the communal nature of military ...
( Category: Historical October 9,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-09-13 | Author:William Trevor [Trevor, William]

7 Mahonia shoots shrivel, the elaeagnus is arrested. The climbing hydrangea droops, the leaves of the smoke shrubs have lost their sheen. Thaddeus’s spinach goes to seed, the potatoes he ...
( Category: Suspense October 9,2014 )
epub |eng | 1983-01-02 | Author:William Trevor [Trevor, William]

6 Two rooms, never before used, were prepared for your arrival. A man came to freshen them up with paint and to replace some wallpaper. Both chimneys were swept in ...
( Category: Domestic Life October 9,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Albert Einstein [Einstein, Albert]

20 Science and Society THERE ARE TWO WAYS in which science affects human affairs. The first is familiar to everyone: Directly, and to an even greater extent indirectly, science produces ...
( Category: Anthologies October 9,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1980-01-01 | Author:Ismail Kadare [Kadare, Ismail]

CHAPTER IV Mark Ukacierra was going up the wooden stairway leading to the third storey of the kulla when he heard a voice calling to him in a low tone, ...
( Category: Contemporary October 9,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Charles Bukowski

When Margie awakened the next morning it was 8:45. She made her toilet, put two eggs on to boil, and had a coffee with a jigger of brandy. She walked ...
( Category: Short Stories October 9,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Charles Bukowski [Bukowski, Charles]

( Category: Contemporary October 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:Tropper, Jonathan [Tropper, Jonathan]

There’s something about the rain in the country that I find viscerally satisfying. The rain in the Catskills doesn’t screw around. It comes down harder and more violently than in ...
( Category: Coming of Age October 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-02 | Author:Jeanne Martinet [Martinet, Jeanne]

And so, fifteen days later (the WOOSH check having finally arrived and—rather miraculously, Tess felt—cleared in one day), Tess found herself on a plane to Guadalajara. After she had finally ...
( Category: Contemporary October 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-12-31 | Author:Amanda Scott [Scott, Amanda]

Chapter 12 Although her lips had already parted to respond to Lady Ellen Logan’s greeting, Adela froze at the airy disclaimer, unable to believe what she had heard. Her first ...
( Category: Historical October 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Elinor Lipman [Lipman, Elinor]

I accomplished this much: My headline in boldface was NERVOUS. Below that: “This ad has less 2 do w/me wanting 2 find love & more 2 do w/pushing myself out ...
( Category: Family Life October 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Anita Amirrezvani [Amirrezvani, Anita]

Pari’s request made me restless, and so did not knowing about the fate of Mahmood. I still had had no letter from him and no news. I hoped Khadijeh might ...
( Category: Historical October 9,2014 )