Literary
epub |eng | 2010-10-11 | Author:John le Carre [Carre, John le]

Appearing to Luke more like a careworn family solicitor than his irrepressible self, Hector consults a bit of battered card on which he had apparently scribbled himself a march route ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Eric Flint & Charles E. Gannon [Flint, Eric & Gannon, Charles E.]

Jean du Plessis d’Ossonville resisted the urge to produce a handkerchief to dab the sweat from his brown. Weeks of pursuing careful relations with the Caribs of Guadeloupe had not ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan]

Four days later Holmes and I were again in the train, bound for Winchester to see the race for the Wessex Cup. Colonel Ross met us by appointment outside the ...
( Category: Mystery September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-02 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan]

“The case,” said Sherlock Holmes as we chatted over our cigars that night in our rooms at Baker Street, “is one where, as in the investigations which you have chronicled ...
( Category: Mystery September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-14 | Author:Charlotte MacLeod [Kurtovi, Jamezdin]

* * * CHAPTER TWELVE "We're in luck, Professor Shandy. It rained in the night." "Ungh?" For a moment Peter couldn't recognize the voice, or remember why he was lying ...
( Category: Mystery September 4,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gwynne, John [Gwynne, John]

CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX CAMLIN Camlin walked along the giants’ road, its stone slabs cutting a line through green fields. He was near the rear of their company, which had been swollen ...
( Category: Fantasy September 4,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-07-07 | Author:Hobbs, Roger [Hobbs, Roger]

The bullet slammed into the windshield just a few inches from where Angela was standing. It punched out a spiderweb crack and sent powdered glass flying all around us. There ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-10 | Author:Mary Shelley [Shelley, Mary]

CHAPTER XXI DURING his absence Castruccio had reduced in his own mind his various political plans to a system. He no longer varied either in the end which he desired ...
( Category: Classics September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Katherine Taylor

14. Bootsie bit into an apricot. It was so perfectly ripe, she had to slurp. A dollop of pink nectar slopped down her chin. “Such a mess,” she said, leaning ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tan, Amy

WE RECEIVED A letter of eviction a few days later, no doubt hastened by the Ivory family’s thorough plan to dig me up like a weed and be rid of ...
( Category: United States September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-18 | Author:Charlie Fletcher

The passage of time seemed to accelerate for both Lucy and Charlie as the late and lazy summer began to feel more like autumn. In part this was because they ...
( Category: Fantasy September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 1955-01-02 | Author:Ray Bradbury & Joe Mugnaini [Bradbury, Ray & Mugnaini, Joe]

Alice drove him to work the next day. She slowed the car halfway downtown; pulled to the curb and stopped it. Then she turned on the seat and looked at ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Showalter, Gena [Showalter, Gena]

CHAPTER EIGHT THE GOOD PEOPLE of Strawberry Valley had transformed Main Street for the Fourth of July celebration. Traffic had been blocked off from both sides, allowing twenty different booths ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-06-26 | Author:Jane Harris [Harris, Jane]

I’ll say this much for the two gentlemen, they heard me out without really interrupting my testimony (for that is what it felt like I was giving). There was no ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-01-05 | Author:Jerzy Kosinski [Kosinski, Jerzy]

11 The priest took me away in a borrowed cart. He said that he would find someone in a nearby village to take care of me until the end of ...
( Category: United States September 4,2017 )