Foreign Language Study & Reference
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-21 | Author:Robert Harris

AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER it was Pompey’s birthday and for the third year in succession Cicero received a summons to attend a dinner in his honor. He groaned when ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2001-04-15 | Author:Patricia Highsmith

Twenty-four For the hundredth time, he examined his face in the bathroom mirror, patiently touched every scratch with the styptic pencil, and repowdered them. He ministered to his face and ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-08-15 | Author:Michael Ondaatje

There are images carved into or painted on rock—a perspective of a village seen from the height of a nearby hill, a single line depicting a woman’s back bent over ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-30 | Author:Steven Pressfield

Book V ALCIBIADES IN SPARTA XXV THE SOLDIER IN WINTER It was half a year before I reached Lacedaemon. My health broke down on the crossing to Rhegium and again ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Paulo Coelho

HERON RYAN, JOURNALIST I couldn’t admit I was in love, of course; I already had a girlfriend who loved me and shared with me both my troubles and my joys. ...
( Category: Occult March 25,2014 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-24 | Author:Pinborough, Sarah [Pinborough, Sarah]

23 London. November, 1888 Dr Bond We made a strange pair, the little hairdresser and I, on our nightly rendezvous searching the streets of London, him with his filthy skin, ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-02-14 | Author:Frederick Forsyth

By March 23 over two hundred fifty ships, the first wave of the waiting merchant fleet, were docked in the major grain ports from Lake Superior to the Gulf of ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Mary Stewart

12 . . . a divine, a ghostly confessor, A sin-absolver, and my friend profess’d. Romeo and Juliet, III, iii Next morning, as soon as I could, I went to ...
( Category: Family Life March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 | | | Author:Stephen King

Hilly: Quizá no nos veamos por un tiempo, pero quería decirte que estoy seguro de que superarás este mal rato. Si puedo ayudarte a que lo hagas, seré el abuelo ...
( Category: Ghosts March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1994-10-31 | Author:Ken Follett

CHAPTER TWO APRIL 1 THE MUSIC HALL was as hot as a Turkish bath. The air smelled of beer, shellfish and unwashed people. Onstage a young woman dressed in elaborate ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1981-05-12 | Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

He was awakened by a painful burning sensation: lines of ants were running up both his arms, leaving a trail of red marks on his skin. He slapped them dead ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-11-01 | Author:Jack Higgins

Seymour tried to rush him again and Devlin circled, driving him across the yard, giving him neither quarter nor peace, evading his great swinging punches with ease, driving his knuckles ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1981-01-02 | Author:Mario Puzo

CHAPTER 15 EVEN IN SICILY, a land where men killed each other with the same ferocious enthusiasm with which the Spaniards slaughtered bulls, the murderous madness of the citizens of ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1977-12-08 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX There were no banquets at the Cape for Jack Aubrey; there were few kind words from the Admiral, either, although the Commodore had brought in all his squadron ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1984-03-01 | Author:Danielle Steel

Harrison Winslow sent the car to Berkeley to pick Tana up at noon the next day, and they went to Trader Vic’s for lunch. The atmosphere was festive and the ...
( Category: Mothers & Children March 25,2014 )