English as a Second Language
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Updike, John [Updike, John]

ii Tentatively I knocked on the blank green door; I had never been here in this kind of daylight before. The morning sun stood at the end of the stripped, ...
( Category: Humor September 18,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lauren Weisberger [Weisberger, Lauren]

. . ." And with that, he thrusted his entire lower half into mine with minimal skill and his characteristic tongue lashing. Had Gwyneth really endured such treatment? Was it ...
( Category: Humorous September 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-24 | Author:test [test]

WARLOCK’S BRIDE JENNIFER RINEHART 65 “What? I wasn't even near the window!” He turned away for some quiet communication between him and his bodyguards and said, “We have to go ...
( Category: Foreign Language Study & Reference July 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1978-12-31 | Author:John Wyndham

Five I had hoped to get ashore quietly and ask Walter’s or Charles’s advice on dealing with David’s body, but there turned out to be no chance of that. Several ...
( Category: English as a Second Language July 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-15 | Author:Michael Dibdin [Dibdin, Michael]

Four As an army surgeon, I saw much of men who had sustained massive physical injuries. Those most severely wounded, strangely enough, are often the quietest. The screaming and the ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives June 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Geoffrey Leech & Jan Svartvik [Leech, Geoffrey]

In some instances, such as the passive construction (see 543, 613–18), it is impossible to keep the clause in subject position: It is said that fear in human beings produces ...
( Category: Grammar June 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 1982-12-31 | Author:Reginald Hill [Hill, Reginald]

( Category: Traditional Detectives June 20,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Karen Miller [Miller, Karen]

ONE BY ONE, Yoda looked at the holoimages of his fellow Councilors. He’d never felt so alone in this place he loved, this Council Chamber that was a home within ...
( Category: Adventure June 1,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-03 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

4.50 From Paddington II Lucy took Miss Marple home. On her way back a figure stepped out of the darkness and stood in the glare of the headlights just as ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives June 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-11 | Author:Michelle Finlay

US usage: “My father told me his life story. ‘Son, I want you to remember me’, he began.” The tendency in the UK is to place punctuation marks within quotation ...
( Category: Writing Skills May 28,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:William F. & Johnson Nolan & William F. & Johnson Nolan [Nolan, William F. & Johnson, George Clayton]

The brook was silver and cool softness over round rocks. On the shadowed moss bank, Jess dipped a cloth into the stream and carefully blotted the mangled flesh of Logan's ...
( Category: Adventure May 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1942-01-01 | Author:Pearl S. Buck

XI IN THAT YEAR WHEN the rice harvest was ripe to be cut and while the grain stood yellow in the fields, the enemy sent men everywhere to see to ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-27 | Author:Erich Maria Remarque

13. The traveling salesman Oskar Fuchs, called Weeping Oskar, is sitting in the office. "What's new, Herr Fuchs?" I ask. "How is the grippe progressing in the villages?" "Pretty harmless. ...
( Category: Military May 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |nld | 2011-05-12 | Author:Leonore Fleischer

Dokter Schilling zat nog op hen te wachten; het was pas drie over zes - niemand kon dat echt laat noemen. Charlie en de dokter stelden zich aan elkaar voor ...
( Category: English as a Second Language April 28,2014 )
mobi |nld | 1954-01-01 | Author:James A. Michener

GEMAKKELIJKE LESSEN IN ENGELS, 1879: ‘Voor altijd uw toegewijde en nederige dienaar.’ *** De volgende dagen moest ik dikwijls denken aan de verhalen die ik had gelezen over Amerikaanse en ...
( Category: War April 28,2014 )