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The Ivory and the Horn by Charles de Lint
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Charles de Lint [De Lint, Charles]

3 It’s cold for a September night, colder still on the rooftop where I crouch, and the wind can find me so easily, but I don’t feel the chill. I ...
( Category: Fantasy September 15,2018 )
Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint
epub |eng | 1994-06-14 | Author:Charles de Lint [de Lint, Charles]

V As soon as they reached the Crowsea Precinct, the two detectives hustled Alan into their lieutenant’s office, leaving Marisa out in the hall. Waiting inside the office were the ...
( Category: Fantasy September 15,2018 )
Selected Stories of H. G. Wells by H. G. Wells
epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:H. G. Wells [Wells, H. G.]

PART THREE HORROR STORIES INTRODUCTION Horror, as a genre, is enduringly popular both in fiction and film, maybe because we like the luxury of feeling real fear while knowing there’s ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 14,2018 )
All I Love and Know: A Novel by Judith Frank
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Judith Frank [Frank, Judith]

HE LOOKED UP AT April, his heart sinking. “They read the story in the Globe,” she said, handing it to him with the pages folded back to the article. Terrifyingly ...
( Category: Contemporary September 14,2018 )
Plum Boxed Set 1, Books 1-3 (One for the Money Two for the Dough Three to Get Deadly) (Stephanie Plum Novels) by Janet Evanovich
epub |eng | 2007-06-19 | Author:Janet Evanovich [Evanovich, Janet]

I dragged myself out of bed, pulled the curtain aside, and looked down into the lot. Sure enough, the tan Fairlane was parked next to Uncle Sandor's Buick. I could ...
( Category: Romantic Comedy September 14,2018 )
Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
epub |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:Uzma Jalaluddin

Chapter Twenty-Two Khalid should have been miserable at work, but instead he couldn’t stop smiling. Even though Sheila had effectively demoted him from e-commerce manager to website developer, the sort ...
( Category: Humor & Satire September 14,2018 )
A Year In the Merde by Stephen Clarke
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Clarke

Février Make amour, not war THERE IS ONE thing about love that you can’t fail to learn if you live in France. An essential thing. A thing that makes us ...
( Category: Europe September 13,2018 )
The Lost Scrapbook by Evan Dara
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1998-06-28 | Author:Evan Dara [Dara, Evan]

Hi ho— —Just thought you’d like to know that a chaffinch is singing by my window—chortling out cheep trills and chirp cadenzas—perched tall upon a rounded bough… —Although the song, ...
( Category: Contemporary September 13,2018 )
Jacob's Room (Penguin Classics) by Virginia Woolf
epub |eng | 1992-08-14 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Woolf, Virginia]

Let us consider letters – how they come at breakfast, and at night, with their yellow stamps and their green stamps, immortalized by the postmark – for to see one’s ...
( Category: Classics September 13,2018 )
Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
epub |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Edward P. Jones [Jones, Edward P.]

With her directions, Samuel drove out of Washington and found the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, heading to Laurel and the center. He and his car smelled heavily of cigarette smoke. All that ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 13,2018 )
A Smuggler's Bible by Joseph McElroy
epub, pdf |eng | 1986-05-14 | Author:Joseph McElroy [McElroy, Joseph]

Right after my exodus, I wrote Duke and Mary I’d taken a room in a Manhattan YMCA. Those first few days I walked up and down Fourth Avenue looking at ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 13,2018 )
Scenes from a Childhood by Jon Fosse
epub |eng | 2018-05-01 | Author:Jon Fosse [Fosse, Jon]

LITTLE SISTER TALL GRASS He was standing outside the house and he could see the boat. It was tied up down at the shore. It was a pretty boat, white ...
( Category: Contemporary September 13,2018 )
2003 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mark Haddon [Haddon, Mark]

And then I heard Father come up the stairs and walk into the room. He said, ‘Christopher, what the hell are you doing?’ And I could tell that he was ...
( Category: Literary September 13,2018 )
Bernard Cornwell by Sharpe's Triumph
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sharpe's Triumph [Txt] [Triumph, Sharpe's]

CHAPTER 7 Dodd called his new gelding Peter. “Because it’s got no balls, Monsewer,” he informed Pierre Joubert, and he repeated the poor joke a dozen times in the next ...
( Category: Action & Adventure September 13,2018 )
Bernard Cornwell by Sharpe's Fortress
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sharpe's Fortress [Txt] [Fortress, Sharpe's]

CHAPTER 6 Sharpe knew he was in an ox cart. He could tell that from the jolting motion and from the terrible squeal of the ungreased axles. The ox carts ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 13,2018 )

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