Studying & Workbooks
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1979-04-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX It was with a feeling not unlike dread that Stephen followed Mrs Wogan into Franchon's hotel. The people behind the desk were talking French and this, together with ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1983-06-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SEVEN During the Niobe's return to Suez the usual northerly breezes blew with scarcely a pause; she had to beat up all the way, often tacking two or three ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Hannah Kent

Reverend Tóti left Björn Blöndal’s study with a pounding head. He could not stop thinking of Agnes’s pale face, her low voice in the dark, and the image of red-headed ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2004-09-21 | Author:Neal Stephenson

I have just been interrupted for some minutes by an acquaintance, one Mr. Threader. He is flitting and hopping about Waghorn’s and the Lobby like a sparrow whose nest has ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1991-02-28 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SEVEN "No, no. Keep your sword and give me your hand," I said; and perhaps that may sound rather like Drury Lane, when the fellow in pink breeches and ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-03-15 | Author:John Irving

"Yes, I see," Dr. Dolder said. "Are you tired now? Are you getting tired?" "It's the spelling," I told him. "The spelling and the reading." There were photographs on the ...
( Category: Classics 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 |eng | 1976-01-02 | Author:Marge Piercy

Tuesday morning she was confined to her bed, as if she were sick. The doctors were to come in the morning. Monday afternoon they had been sent through a whole ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Helen Bryan

CHAPTER 15 Las Golondrinas Convent, Spain, April 2000 The next morning Sor Teresa shrilled, “Deo gratias!” and Menina rubbed her swollen eyes, and pushed herself up. She hated the world ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Chris Bohjalian

AT THE AMERICAN COMPOUND, Hatoun sleeps soundly beside Nevart, and the woman wonders if the child is dreaming. Her breathing is slow and silent and deep. The night air feels ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:John Updike

Club Castanet was named during the war when the South American craze was on and occupies a triangular building where Warren Avenue crosses Running Horse Street at an acute angle. ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-09-01 | Author:Anne Rice

FOURTEEN AT SOME point I began drifting in and out of sleep, aware that we were in a little car, and that Mojo was with us, panting heavily by my ...
( Category: Occult March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-21 | Author:John Irving

Fritz drove us to Boston, where Franny had to shop for what Mother called “city underwear”; Lilly wept her way through the lingerie aisles; Frank and I cruised the escalators. ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-11 | Author:Megan McCafferty

* * * the fifth When I stepped off the bus from New York City yesterday, I was convinced Pineville was the nexus for Armageddon. “It's the end of the ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 1995-11-15 | Author:Patricia Briggs

CHAPTER SEVEN The stone wails of Lord Winterseine's keep loomed darkly over the party of tired riders. Moonlight glinted off the ivy gathered at the base of the outside walls, ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )