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The Log From the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-11-01 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

“My mule was a complainer. For a while I thought he simply didn’t like me, but I believe now that he had a sour eye for the world. With every ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 14,2017 )
Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, With Occasional Reference to History (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-08-26 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

CHAPTER 3 There were many glittering reputations along the coast of Darien and among the green Caribbean islands when Henry Morgan came to be a buccaneer. In the wine shops ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 14,2017 )
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by John Steinbeck
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-07-08 | Author:John Steinbeck

The deep green pool of the Salinas River was still in the late afternoon. Already the sun had left the valley to go climbing up the slopes of the Gabilan ...
( Category: United States September 14,2017 )
The Survivor by Tom Cain
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Tom Cain [Cain, Tom]

50 At some point in the night, Carver must have given way to his exhaustion, because he suddenly found himself waking up and realizing that the rising sun was shining ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 14,2017 )
Call For The Dead by John Le Carre
epub, mobi | | 2010-05-22 | Author:John Le Carre [Carre, John Le]

( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 14,2017 )
Smiley's People by John Le Carre
epub, mobi | | 2010-05-21 | Author:John Le Carre [Carre, John Le]

The drink, the memories, the revived excitement of the chase were driving her at a speed he could not control. Her breathing had quickened. She was rasping like an old ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 14,2017 )
The Night Manager by John Le Carre
epub | | 2010-05-22 | Author:John Le Carre [Carre, John Le]

"But Derek and I have already met, I think, Dicky!" the Dutch banker carolled to Roper, who was standing before the place where the marble fireplace would have been, if ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 14,2017 )
The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre
epub | | 2005-11-29 | Author:John Le Carre [Carre, John Le]

us something to go on. And you have copies of that correspondence, presumably? Officer: Not at present. BBB (crick): But you know who attended the meeting on our side, presumably? ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 14,2017 )
I am legend by Richard Matheson
epub |eng | 1954-01-01 | Author:Richard Matheson [Matheson, Richard]

Chapter Thirteen IN THE MORNING WHEN he went outside he found that the milk and hamburger were gone. His eyes rushed over the lawn. There were two women crumpled on ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 14,2017 )
Like the Flowing River by Paulo Coelho
epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Paulo Coelho [Coelho, Paulo]

Statutes for the New Millennium 1 We are all different, and should do what we can to remain so. 2 Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. ...
( Category: Contemporary September 14,2017 )
The Outsiders by Susan E. Hinton
epub |eng | 1966-01-01 | Author:Susan E. Hinton [Hinton, Susan E.]

Chapter 7 NOW THERE WERE three of us sitting in the waiting room waiting to hear how Dally and Johnny were. Then the reporters and the police came. They asked ...
( Category: Contemporary September 14,2017 )
Tatja Grimm's World by Vernor Vinge
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-06-05 | Author:Vernor Vinge [Vinge, Vernor]

PART 3 THE FERAL CHILD THIRTEEN The astronomer royal was all wet. At Bayfast the Waterfall lasted more than forty days: nearly a fifth of the year. For the last ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 14,2017 )
The Temptation To Exist by E. M. Cioran
epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:E. M. Cioran [Cioran, E. M.]

STYLE AS RISK INURED to a purely verbal art of thinking, the sophists were the first to occupy themselves with a meditation upon words, their value, propriety, and function in ...
( Category: Philosophy September 14,2017 )
Hot NIght in the City by Trevanian
epub |eng | 2010-11-06 | Author:Trevanian [Trevanian]

“Yes, a hero.” “What had he done?” “It was from his commanding officer. Captain Frances Murphy? He regretted having to tell me that Private Lawrence McGivney had contracted an illness ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 13,2017 )
Incident at Twenty Mile by Trevanian
epub |eng | 2010-11-06 | Author:Trevanian [Trevanian]

“I don't know. It's just that... well, people aren't always to blame for things they do. Sometimes things just happen. People get damaged, and things happen without it being anyone's ...
( Category: Contemporary September 13,2017 )

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