Contemporary
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Pai Kit Fai

CHAPTER 17 The Ginger Field Chinese New Year was little more than a week away. As the household staff prepared for their annual holiday, Li decided that the time had ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Bee Ridgway

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Julia frowned at her reflection in the mirror. For an hour or more she had stared at the ceiling, then at her reflection, then out of the window, ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-10 | Author:Edward Rutherfurd

“Lots of people have taken up bathing recently,” said Gretchen. “Doctors say salt water’s bad for the skin,” Mary objected. “We won’t go in for long,” Gretchen promised. There were ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-06-03 | Author:Lian Hearn

Chapter 8 We followed the women slowly back to the town, and then went to our separate lodging houses. Somewhere on the way the Tohan guards caught up with us, ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Kerry Young

When I get back to the house I find Auntie in a mood. She banging and crashing the pans in the kitchen just like she used to in that dark ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 1987-08-17 | Author:Allan Massie

Cleopatra's fate was not of course my only concern, hardly even the chief one. The most urgent was the treatment of Egypt itself. I decided it was too rich and ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 1992-01-02 | Author:Allan Massie

"I didn't expect him to be here to greet me," I said. "This is not a triumphant return after all." "No," she said, "and whose fault is that, I would ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2003-06-15 | Author:Brian Haig

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO PUT TWO AND TWOtogether and we had a king-size problem. Those transcripted telephone taps Imelda was slogging through no doubt proved that Bill Morrison had a dick instead ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-29 | Author:Georgina Harding

She does not know how much effort it took him to begin his drawing. How long he had sat poised before the first scrap of paper, seated before the table ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-14 | Author:Edward Marston

CHAPTER TWELVE After a hectic morning in the lorry, Alice Marmion drove it back to the depot and brought it to a juddering halt. She looked across at Vera Dowling. ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-02-14 | Author:Camilla Gibb

the book of lies Several different chapters being recited simultaneously produced a blissful blur of holy words that echoed throughout the city: my students reciting while Sufis sat in shrines ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-08-04 | Author:Sophie Kinsella

God, we have fun. We line up eight suitcases in a row, and give them marks for looks, heaviness, quality of lining, number of interior pockets, and efficiency of wheels. ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Vanessa Greene

I’d emptied my in tray, processed all the invoices, visited the water cooler twice, tidied my desk, sorted out Zoe’s files, ordered Chloe those cat-shaped paperclips she liked – and ...
( Category: Mothers & Children March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Roddy Doyle

There were twenty-seven dogs in Barrytown, our part, and fifteen of them had had their tails docked. —Docked off. —There’s no Off. Docked, by itself. They got their tails docked ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:David Nicholls

Part Three 1996–2001 Early Thirties ‘Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it’s the same with people.’ James Salter, ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )