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Limey Gumshoe by Will Randall
epub |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Will Randall

11 Atlantic View Rounding the next corner and then the next, I realised that something had gone horribly wrong. Ahead of me stretched a long straight piece of road perhaps ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs December 8,2014 )
The Boer War by Martin Marix Evans
epub |eng | 1998-12-31 | Author:Martin Marix Evans

A challenge when they reached the top was followed by a fusillade before the little picquet of Boers fled, leaving one of their number dead to a bayonet thrust. Now ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs December 8,2014 )
Botswana Time by Will Randall
epub |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Will Randall

8 Standard One Now with my own accommodation and in possession of a regal set of wheels, I concentrated on my day-to-day activities at the school. Pleasingly, the children took ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
Faces in a Dusty Picture by Gerald Kersh
epub |eng | 1943-12-31 | Author:Gerald Kersh

Seven Sergeant Doughty bellows like a mad bull, wordless and defiant: – “Maaaaahn!” It means Come on. He hears the voice of Ben Cream raised in exhortation: – “Whither shall ...
( Category: History December 8,2014 )
Litte Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
epub |eng | 1940-12-31 | Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder

The School Board’s Visit Laura thought that Nellie Oleson looked surprised and disappointed when she and Carrie came into the schoolhouse next morning. Nellie might have expected that they would ...
( Category: Education & Teaching December 8,2014 )
The Wind from Nowhere by J.G. Ballard
epub |eng | 1961-12-31 | Author:J.G. Ballard

SIX Death in a Bunker Pausing in the doorway to allow the shower of plaster falling from the ceiling to spend itself, Marshall stepped through into the Intelligence Unit. A ...
( Category: Children's Books December 8,2014 )
Chomp by Carl Hiaasen
epub |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Carl Hiaasen

Fifteen Raven Stark had asked Wahoo to stay and eat with the crew, but he said no thanks. When he got back to camp, Tuna was sitting on a corner ...
( Category: Environment December 8,2014 )
Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
epub |eng | 1988-12-31 | Author:Oliver Sacks

The child, then, is not taught grammar; nor does he learn it; he constructs it from the ‘meager and degenerate data’ at his disposal. And this would not be possible ...
( Category: Neurology December 8,2014 )
I Know You Got Soul by Jeremy Clarkson
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Jeremy Clarkson

Flying Scotsman The Flying Scotsman is exquisite to behold, partly because he's so nicely balanced and partly because he seems to shout I AM VERY POWERFUL. Trainspotters. You still see ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
Papillon (English) by Henri Charrière
epub |eng | 1968-12-31 | Author:Henri Charrière

24 Solitary The boat was ready. Of the nineteen of us, ten were to go in the first lot. I was called. Dega said crisply, “No, he goes on the ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals December 8,2014 )
The Long Secret by Louise Fitzhugh
epub, mobi |eng | 1964-12-31 | Author:Louise Fitzhugh

Thirteen There were three mattresses on the upstairs sleeping balcony over the living room, so when there were too many children for Harriet’s room, they slept up there. When they ...
( Category: Mystery December 8,2014 )
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
epub |eng | 1984-12-31 | Author:Jeanette Winterson

6 Joshua “There,” declared my mother, laying down the vacuum cleaner. “You could keep a coffin in here without feeling guilty, not a speck of dust anywhere.” Mrs White came ...
( Category: LGBT Literary Fiction December 8,2014 )
Exiles on Asperus by John Wyndham
epub |eng | 1978-12-31 | Author:John Wyndham

The Venus Adventure 1932 Tells of an early flight to Venus and the surprising world the crew of the Fyra discover. Not only are there intelligent indigenous lifeforms, and a ...
( Category: History December 8,2014 )
Indian Summer by Will Randall
epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Will Randall

10 Let’s Go Fly a Kite Near the Osho Commune, in the small parade of shops, was a bookseller specialising in ‘Mystical and the Spiritual Books’. Owned, somewhat surprisingly, in ...
( Category: General December 8,2014 )
Micka by Frances Kay
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Frances Kay

5 April ~ Oh God, Michael! Mam shouts. I am looking out the window at a dog far down on the ground. The dog is lost or mad; it runs ...
( Category: Reference December 8,2014 )

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