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A Parrot in the Pepper Tree by Chris Stewart
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Chris Stewart

10 A Parrot in the Pepper Tree Outside our holiday cottage, El Duque, is a false pepper tree. We planted it as a seed, a little thing encased in what ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
Jizzle by John Wyndham
epub |eng | 1953-12-31 | Author:John Wyndham

Affair of the Heart 1952 Tells of a man who has proposed to the same woman on the same day for over thirty years. Why, then, does he commit suicide ...
( Category: Arts & Photography December 8,2014 )
Number Ten by Sue Townsend
epub |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Sue Townsend

TWELVE At three a.m. the Prime Minister was admitted to Bevan observation ward. Jack helped an exhausted junior doctor to fill in an admission form then settled back in an ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction December 8,2014 )
A Guide to the Beasts of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson
epub |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Nicholas Drayson

18 As raindrops wash away the leopard’s spots, so wishes blunt its teeth What he really needed, thought Mr Malik, was an umbrella. He looked out of the tent – ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction December 8,2014 )
The Saga of Cimba by Richard Maury
epub |eng | 1970-12-31 | Author:Richard Maury

Quite suddenly the bell sounds – and he awakes. Midnight already! Half asleep, he feels for the bell-clapper over the bunk, striking an answer before turning up the wick and ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1999-12-31 | Author:Richard Peck

Hearts and Flour After several weeks of hard winter, this end of the county is enjoying a January thaw. Mrs. Dowdel, a lifelong resident, observes that ‘A January fog will ...
( Category: Classics December 8,2014 )
To the Elephant Graveyard by Tarquin Hall
epub |eng | 1999-12-31 | Author:Tarquin Hall

Had the sacrifice been worth it, I asked. “Oh, don’t know about sacrifice,” he replied, trying to make light of it. “Did what we had to do, really. But of ...
( Category: General December 8,2014 )
Solomon Time by Will Randall
epub |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Will Randall

Wuni, leaning heavily on his stick, his pipe clenched firmly between his teeth, looked up at me as I studied it. “Mr Wu. He can help you but he won’t ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
Bob Marley by David V. Moskowitz
epub |eng | 2006-12-31 | Author:David V. Moskowitz

Babylon by Bus An offshoot of the recording of several of the Wailers shows from the Kaya tour was the release of another live album. Blackwell headed into the studio ...
( Category: Arts & Photography December 8,2014 )
Houseboat Chronicles by Jake MacDonald
epub |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Jake MacDonald

24 I cooked dinner and waited for the sun to go down. What I knew about bears was a combination of information from old-timers like Junior Robinson, book research, and ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 8,2014 )
Is It Just Me? Or Is It Nuts Out There? by Whoopi Goldberg
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Whoopi Goldberg

34 Play Nice or Stay Home Rude fans at sports stadiums don’t stop at heckling. Hell, no. Why should they be satisfied merely yelling trash about a player’s mother’s STDs ...
( Category: Satire December 8,2014 )
The Dead Look On by Gerald Kersh
epub |eng | 1942-12-31 | Author:Gerald Kersh

10 Prelude to Promotion for Pommer It was scarcely necessary for Captain Johann Pommer to receive the word of command before he went to work. He was a young man ...
( Category: History December 8,2014 )
Ghost Riders by Richard Grant
epub, pdf |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:Richard Grant

We don’t know the name of Walker’s wife, and we can only speculate in the broadest terms about their marriage. From her perspective, a white chieftain trader like Joe Walker ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society by Chris Stewart
epub |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Chris Stewart

9 Casa & Campo Some years later I found myself reflecting on Mourad’s reaction to our home, after a phonecall from one Eduardo Mencos. El Valero had looked depressingly like ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
The Second Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd & John Mitchinson
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:John Lloyd & John Mitchinson

Where was football invented? Not in England, but in China. The Chinese played football for over 2,000 years before the English claimed it. Cuju or tsu’ chu – literally ‘kick-ball’ ...
( Category: Trivia December 8,2014 )

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