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Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years: The Wilderness Years by Sue Townsend
epub |eng | 2003-01-30 | Author:Sue Townsend [Townsend, Sue]

Tuesday November 5th Robert Maxwell, the mogul, has fallen overboard from his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine. Went to Age Concern Community Bonfire Party. Pushed Bert Baxter there in his wheelchair. ...
( Category: Humor & Satire May 3,2018 )
Fire by George R. Stewart
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:George R. Stewart [Stewart, George R.]

On Second Street the loud-speaker was still blaring: men to fight forest-fire! Bo Fox, the insignificant man who disliked a closed door behind him, followed the drift. He was out ...
( Category: Contemporary May 3,2018 )
The Earth in Peril by Anthology
epub |eng | 2015-05-20 | Author:Anthology [Anthology]

A newsman’s strange and weary year wore on. Baseball gave way to football. An off-year election kept us on the run. Christmas loomed ahead, with its feature stories and its ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies May 3,2018 )
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-02-02 | Author:Mikhail Sholokhov

Chapter Ten Nineteen-sixteen. October. Night. Rain and wind. The trenches in the alder-grown marshes of Polesie. Barbed-wire entanglements in front. A freezing slush in the trenches. The wet sheet-iron of ...
( Category: Literary May 2,2018 )
The Laughter of Aphrodite by Peter Green
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Green [Green, Peter]

Strange and ironic prophecy. “Thank you,” she said, with a white little smile. “But it is you who need our prayers now, Sappho.” Then, with a formality that matched my ...
( Category: Contemporary May 2,2018 )
WHAT IS TO BE DONE? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky
epub |eng | | Author:Nikolai Chernyshevsky

xvii. If an outsider had come to consult with Kirsanov about the position in which he found himself when he came to his senses, and if Kirsanov had been a ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 2,2018 )
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
epub |eng | | Author:Rachel Kushner

* * * I was exiting work exchange when I ran into the GED teacher, G. Hauser. I had gotten into a scuffle in work exchange, where they said I ...
( Category: Literary May 2,2018 )
Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth von Arnim

"And Bosh from Berlin," added Irais. Minora stared. "I don't think those two last ones would do," she said, "because it is not to be a facetious book. But your ...
( Category: Classics May 1,2018 )
Lucia's Progress by E. F Benson
epub |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:E. F Benson [Benson, E. F]

CHAPTER VII For the next few days Lucia was never once seen in the streets of Tilling, for all day she supervised the excavations in her garden. To the great ...
( Category: Humor & Satire April 30,2018 )
Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot & David Coward
epub |eng | 1934-01-02 | Author:Denis Diderot & David Coward [Diderot, Denis & Coward, David]

Marquis. We shall see. Mme de La Pommeraye. Marquis, I know you. I also know them. It's all quite obvious. The Marquis went two months without calling on Madame de ...
( Category: Contemporary April 28,2018 )
The Kings in Winter by Cecelia Holland
epub |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Cecelia Holland [Holland, Cecelia]

Where he went he hardly cared. The mare carried him west. The clouds blew away in the late afternoon, leaving the sky the color of blue ash. The plain was ...
( Category: Genre Fiction April 27,2018 )
2-The Witches’ Kitchen by Cecelia Holland
epub |eng | 2004-04-17 | Author:Cecelia Holland [Holland, Cecelia]

( Category: Contemporary April 27,2018 )
The Water Thief (Aelius Spartianus #1) by Ben Pastor
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Pastor [Pastor, Ben]

Soter’s house was one of those that had been carved out of the small uphill space between the baths of Titus and the massive walls of those Trajan had later ...
( Category: Contemporary April 27,2018 )
The Name of the Rose: Including the Author's Postscript by Umberto Eco William Weaver (Translator)
epub |eng | | Author:Umberto Eco, William Weaver (Translator)

Terce In which Adso writhes in the torments of love, then William arrives with Venantius’s text, which remains undecipherable even after it has been deciphered. To tell the truth, the ...
( Category: Contemporary April 27,2018 )
Fathers and Children by Turgenev Ivan
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Turgenev, Ivan

1 See note on p. 12. 1 In French in the original. XVIII ON the following day when Odintsova came down to breakfast Bazarov sat for a long time bent ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense April 27,2018 )

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