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The Little Lady Agency in the Big Apple by Hester Browne
epub |eng | 2008-11-15 | Author:Hester Browne [Browne, Hester]

The ladies' loos were just as chilly and elegant as the rest of the restaurant. Once safely inside the cubicle, I scrabbled in my bag for my emergency needle and ...
( Category: Contemporary April 3,2018 )
Frank Herbert by The Book of Frank Herbert
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:The Book of Frank Herbert [Herbert, The Book of Frank]

Passage for Piano Had some cosmic crystal gazer suggested to Margaret Hatchell that she would try to smuggle a concert grand piano onto the colony spaceship, she would have been ...
( Category: Science Fiction April 3,2018 )
Francis Stevens by Claimed!
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Claimed! [Claimed!]

CHAPTER X. OUTWARD BOUND Of actual facts transpiring through the remainder of that day, Dr. Vanaman had afterward only a confused and indefinite memory. Perhaps lack of sleep had told ...
( Category: Contemporary April 3,2018 )
The Lady With the Black Umbrella by Mary Balogh
epub |eng | 1989-10-12 | Author:Mary Balogh [Balogh, Mary]

Lady Hetty was delighted by the news. Although she had not for a moment considered turning off her charges as a consequence of the events of the evening before, she ...
( Category: Historical April 3,2018 )
The Payback Club by Rexanne Becnel
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Rexanne Becnel [Becnel, Rexanne]

I met Quentin the next afternoon at the coffeehouse. I’d spent two hours getting dressed. Ridiculous. He, of course, looked better than ever in black slacks and a crisp white ...
( Category: Contemporary April 3,2018 )
The Power Of One by Bryce Courtenay
epub |eng | 2011-03-11 | Author:Bryce Courtenay [Courtenay, Bryce]

I asked for an American cream soda. It was the drink Hoppie had bought me in the cafe at Gravelotte after we'd changed the tackies at the Patels' shop and ...
( Category: World Literature April 3,2018 )
The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
epub |eng | 2010-10-13 | Author:Austin Clarke

The large front-house is quiet now. Only her breathing can be heard. The smell of canes burnt in fires Saturday night rises stronger now that the wind comes from the ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 3,2018 )
Us: A Novel by David Nicholls
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:David Nicholls [Nicholls, David]

95. final call for the heathrow flight . . . Connie was standing now, anxiously looking for me, left and right, no doubt thinking, this is strange, this isn’t like ...
( Category: Genre Fiction April 3,2018 )
The Bloodstone Papers by Glen Duncan
epub |eng | | Author:Glen Duncan

She came to live with us at the Brewer Street house (when she and I were going on six years old) because her mother, Dinah, was mad. ‘Aren’t you going ...
( Category: Contemporary April 3,2018 )
The Vow by Denene Millner
epub |eng | | Author:Denene Millner

11 AMAYA Today is the day. According to the tip that I got from my girl Candy, whose cousin, Sharonda, is temping in the Soular Son office, the execs are ...
( Category: Women's Fiction April 3,2018 )
When the Nines Roll Over by David Benioff
epub |eng | | Author:David Benioff

2 Fourteen years later I was at home by myself, watching a rental movie on the VCR, an old James Cagney gangster flick. Midway through came a few seconds of ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies April 3,2018 )
Frank Schatzing by The Swarm
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:The Swarm

Biohazard Containment Facility Moments after the crabs had arrived, Johanson’s helicopter touched down next to the institute. A lab technician accompanied him to the elevators. They descended two floors, got ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense April 2,2018 )
Eric van Lustbader - Nicholas Linnear 01 by The Ninja
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:The Ninja

Fourth Ring THE FIRE BOOK I West Bay Bridge/New York City, Summer Present ‘No, no, no, no I’ she said, laughing. ‘Let’s forget all about it.’ She ran at him ...
( Category: Action & Adventure April 2,2018 )
A Light at Winter's End by Julia London
epub |eng | 2011-02-21 | Author:Julia London [London, Julia]

Chapter Twelve Hannah received her four-week sobriety pen in a group meeting. She accepted it with a smile, thanked her sponsor and the others in her group, and resumed her ...
( Category: Contemporary April 2,2018 )
Elizabeth Hand by Generation Loss
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Generation Loss

15 We walked back most of the way without talking. We were both pretty loaded; it took most of our energy just to keep our footing in the icy mist. ...
( Category: Mystery April 2,2018 )

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