epub |eng | 2007-05-01 | Author:Colin Channer [Channer, Colin]

VIII. The road was dark and silent, and she focused on the slapping of her feet against the asphalt as she walked. In the distance, she could hear the engine ...

epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Barry Lopez [Lopez, Barry]

WHEN I WAS growing up in southern California, I formed the rudiments of a local geography—eucalyptus trees, February rains, desert cottontails. I lost much of it when my family moved ...

mobi |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:Elliot Paul [Paul, Elliot]

PART TWO The Pre-War Thirties Excerpts from a Series of Letters [Received by the writer in Madrid, Alicante, Barcelona, Palma de Majorca and Santa Eulalia, Ibiza, Spain, from residents of ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Catherine Crier [Crier, Catherine]

In San Diego, Grogan dialed the Petersons. “Lee, I caught a flight today, and I’m down here in San Diego,” Grogan told Scott’s father. “There’s something I want to talk ...

epub |eng | | Author:Bathroom Readers' Institute [ Institute, Bathroom Readers’]

•The iron industry developed in Reading in the 1750s, and by the time of the American Revolution, local factories produced more iron products than manufacturers in all of England. Reading’s ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Davis, Jennifer [Davis, Jennifer]

I hoisted myself onto the kitchen island and watched Kasey pick through the refrigerator, smiling widely. He was only wearing a pair of jeans. I was staring at his naked ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ariel Glucklich

THE TEST An ascetic once arrived at the doorstep of a king named Kushika. The king immediately recognized him as a holy man and showed him into the white stone ...

epub |eng | 1954-09-19 | Author:Richard Wright

Forty-Three I cast my accounts and found that I was near the end of my pounds. Since the 4th of June I’d been reacting to the reality of Gold Coast ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-26 | Author:Marjorie Weinman Sharmat [Weinman, Sharmat, Marjorie]

Two weeks later my doorbell rang. I opened the door. Rosamond and her cats were there. She was carrying her suitcase. “I’m home!” she shouted. “I came here first to ...

epub | | | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

IX Comment s’acheva le jour de congé de Michel Finsbury Michel était, comme je l’ai déjà dit, un excellent garçon, et qui aimait à dépenser son argent, autant et peut-être ...

epub |eng | 2009-09-19 | Author:Anita Fennelly [Fennelly, Anita]

A Day in the Weaver’s Friday was the quietest day on the Great Blasket Island during the summertime. Out on the mainland, it was changeover day. Tourists were busy loading ...

epub |eng | 1900-01-01 | Author:Lafcadio Hearn [Hearn, Lafcadio]

Curiously enough, the people spoke harshly concerning the mother of the boy—holding her to blame for the haunting. I thought it very strange at first, not because I had formed ...

epub, pdf |eng | 1907-01-01 | Author:Lafcadio Hearn [Hearn, Lafcadio]

Sec. 3 For an hour and a half the ranges to left and right alternately recede and approach. Beautiful blue shapes glide toward us, change to green, and then, slowly ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-19 | Author:Sally Bennett [Bennett, Sally]

CHAPTER 14 Sylvia and Jack It was at this time in Portugal that my Mother told me how she had come to know Jack. I knew, of course, that he ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-19 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

7 Politics and Parents 12 NOVEMBER Within the past few weeks I’ve been analysing more closely the part this camp plays in the Tibetan refugee tragedy and my conclusions have ...