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How to Set Yourself on Fire by Julia Dixon Evans
epub |eng | 2018-08-21 | Author:Julia Dixon Evans

THIRTY-FOUR I CURL UP ON my front step. Despite the morning chill, I drift off to sleep until the click of Vinnie’s door startles me awake. “Hey, you sleeping out ...
( Category: Contemporary August 22,2018 )
Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners by Y. Euny Hong
epub |eng | 2006-08-07 | Author:Y. Euny Hong [Hong, Y. Euny]

January 16 Dearest girls, Dearest Madame Tartakov: I am so depressed I hardly can live any more. The courtesans’ ball plays again and again in my mind, like new every ...
( Category: Contemporary August 22,2018 )
Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners by Hong Y. Euny
mobi |eng | 2006-08-06 | Author:Hong, Y. Euny [Hong, Y. Euny]

January 16 Dearest girls, Dearest Madame Tartakov: I am so depressed I hardly can live any more. The courtesans’ ball plays again and again in my mind, like new every ...
( Category: Contemporary August 21,2018 )
Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-06-19 | Author:Neil Bartlett

Talking to him, that was his main problem. On the Tuesday, for instance, come half past ten, he’d still uttered barely a word to the boy. If he kept this ...
( Category: Contemporary August 21,2018 )
Gemini by Michel Tournier
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:Michel Tournier

The winter, which came very early that year, was broken up by such generous allowances of Christmas leave that Saint-Amand and its vicinity were emptied of Allied troops as though ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 21,2018 )
Gilles et Jeanne by Michel Tournier
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-03-23 | Author:Michel Tournier

Thus for hours on end they talked as they walked along the banks of the Arno, through the alleyways of the old city, on the ramparts overlooking the surrounding countryside ...
( Category: Contemporary August 21,2018 )
Jerusalem Interlude (Zion Covenant) by Bodie Thoene & Brock Thoene
azw3, epub |eng | 2009-06-10 | Author:Bodie Thoene & Brock Thoene

The letter to Etta was duly deposited into the mail slot at the Mandate post office in Allenby Square. The old rabbi knew that it would take at least eight ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 21,2018 )
Dunkirk Crescendo (Zion Covenant) by Bodie Thoene & Brock Thoene
azw3, epub |eng | 2009-06-12 | Author:Bodie Thoene & Brock Thoene

Horst watched the SS soldiers streaming away from the Arras battlefield. He felt a curious sense of satisfaction at their precipitate retreat, as if every doubt he had about their ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 21,2018 )
Munich Signature (Zion Covenant) by Bodie Thoene & Brock Thoene
azw3, epub |eng | 2009-06-12 | Author:Bodie Thoene & Brock Thoene

21 The Turtle and the Barking Dog Just behind the quay along the River Seine was the winding little street where Thomas spent much of his free time in Paris. ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 21,2018 )
House Rules (2010) by Picoult Jodi
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Picoult, Jodi [Jodi, Picoult,]

Emma stares at me. ―None of this has anything to do with Jacob.‖ ―It does,‖ I say, ―because in the State of Vermont, in spite of everything I just told ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 20,2018 )
How We Are Hungry: Stories by Dave Eggers
epub |eng | 2005-07-15 | Author:Dave Eggers [Eggers, Dave]

YOUR MOTHER AND I I TOLD YOU about that, didn’t I? About when your mother and I moved the world to solar energy and windpower, to hydro, all that? I ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 20,2018 )
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carre
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John le Carre

In the sudden quiet of her own office, in the very room where she had first received Ursula’s referred call from Melik imploring her to come and visit this Russian-speaking ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense August 20,2018 )
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher) by Lee Child
epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Lee Child [Child, Lee]

18 I DROVE PAST ENO’S DINER AND ROLLED ON NORTH AWAY from town. The plain sedan followed. Forty yards back. No attempt to hide. The two guys just cruised behind ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense August 20,2018 )
(1936) Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

She threw her arm over her face and rolled over on her side, away from him, suddenly ashamed. 'What is it?' he repeated. 'How could you be so THOUGHTLESS?' 'What ...
( Category: Classics August 20,2018 )
Tourmaline by James Brogden
epub |eng | 2014-11-01 | Author:James Brogden [Brogden, James]

Chapter 18 Jail 1 Timini was a small town on a tiny island, with little to trouble it beyond some petty theft and the inevitable drunken scuffle, and so the ...
( Category: Fantasy August 20,2018 )

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