Travel Writing
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Conor Grennan

Part IV INTO THE MOUNTAINS November 2006-December 2006 Five Farid and I both lived in Kathmandu now. I had my apartment, and Farid had taken a small room—a former pantry, ...
( Category: Child Abuse March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-05-21 | Author:Khaled Hosseini

31. Mariam In the daytime, the girl was no more than a creaking bedspring, a patter of footsteps overhead. She was water splashing in the bathroom, or a teaspoon clinking ...
( Category: Family Life March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1963-01-02 | Author:John Steinbeck

The deep green pool of the Salinas River was still in the late afternoon. Already the sun had left the valley to go climbing up the slopes of the Gabilan ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Peter F. Hamilton

Paradoxically, the new strength it had gained was weakening the Orgathé as a whole. As it absorbed the life-energy contained within the stream of liquid, its once-quiescent riders began to ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1992-08-01 | Author:Raymond Chandler

I had a little trouble but not too much. Fenweather pulled too much weight. Not all of the story came out, but enough so that the City Hall boys in ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:Jonathan Kellerman

We walked her back to Butler Avenue, watched her diminish to a beet-colored speck that turned east on Santa Monica and disappeared. I said, “To paraphrase Persistent Kelly, what’s next?” ...
( Category: Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-01-28 | Author:Paul Bowles

Chapter XXI IT WAS A LONG NIGHT. They came to a bordj built into the side of a cliff. The overhead light was turned on. The young Arab just in ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Javier Marias

WHAT A DISGRACE it is to me to remember your name, though I may not know your face tomorrow, names don’t change and, when they become fixed in the memory, ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-20 | Author:Javier Marias

a kind of nostalgia perhaps It is quite possible that the main aim of ghosts, if they still exist, is to thwart the desires of mortal tenants, appearing if their ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1973-01-02 | Author:Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

The thin, short-winded and repetitive cry of the baby hardly made itself heard outside the Rose Room. The midwife no longer squatted in the hall and smoked. She was busy. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1944-01-01 | Author:Evelyn Waugh

At the beginning of May the engagement was announced. I saw the notice in the Continental Daily Mail and assumed that Rex had ‘squared the old man’. But things did ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-08-14 | Author:Evelyn Waugh

Quarter of an hour hater both Basil and Mr Youkoumian were engaged in what seemed more important business. A morning’s routine at the Ministry of Modernization. ‘Now, look, Mister, I ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-04-08 | Author:Evelyn Waugh

( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |zho | 1930-01-01 | Author:Evelyn Waugh

VIII TWO nights later Adam and Nina took Ginger to the party in the captive dirigible. It was not a really good evening. The long drive in Ginger’s car to ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-02 | Author:Vikram Seth

'Now to what do I owe this pleasure?' The Chief Minister looked from the six-year-old boy to the Nawab Sahib's thirty-year-old secretary while nodding his head slightly from side to ...
( Category: Indian March 25,2014 )