| Edward S Aarons |
| | Assignment - Bangkok | He could neither stand nor sit nor lie down. | Buy | |
| | Assignment - Lili Lamaris | Durell flew from New York via an Alitalia airliner directly to the Ciampino Airport outside of Rome, and he used the regular bus service to get to his hotel on the Via Veneto, not far from the Palazzo Margherita, where the American Embassy was located. | Buy | |
| | Assignment - Sumatra | "Don't touch me," Lydia said. | Buy | |
| | Assignment--Angelina | Mark drove the Cadillac right into town. | Buy | |
| | Assignment--Peking | The man in the mask struggled in the darkness of his nonidentity. | Buy | |
| | Assignment--The Girl in the Gondola | He was dying. | Buy | |
| | Assignment--White Rajah | Durell ran and fell and picked himself up and ran again. | Buy | |
| | I Can't Stop Running | The light bothered him. | Buy | |
| | Outlander | It wasn't a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first sight. | Buy | |
| William B Aarons |
| | Assignment - 13th Princess | Durell thought he must be dreaming. | Buy | |
| | Assignment--Death Ship | Durell squinted into the Caribbean glare, searching the distance where the stricken liner Sun Rover could be expected to emerge from its shroud of salt haze. | Buy | |
| Alexander Aaronsohn |
| | With The Turks In Palestine | Thirty-five years ago, the impulse which has since been organized as the
Zionist Movement led my parents to leave their homes in Roumania and
emigrate to Palestine, where they joined a number of other Jewish
pioneers in founding Zicron-Jacob--a little village lying just south of
Mount Carmel, in that fertile coastal region close to the ancient Plains
of Armageddon. | Buy | Read |
| Edwin Abbott Abbott |
| | Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions | I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. | Buy | Read |
| | World of Wonders | "Of course he was a charming man." | Buy | |
| Ellen Hallowell Abbott |
| | Little Eve Edgarton | "But you live like such a fool—of course you're bored!" drawled the Older Man, rummaging listlessly through his pockets for the ever-elusive match. | Buy | Read |
| | Molly Make-Believe | The morning was as dark and cold as city snow could make it--a dingy whirl at the window; a smoky gust through the fire-place; a shadow black as a bear's cave under the table. Nothing in all the cavernous room, loomed really warm or familiar except a glass of stale water, and a vapid, half-eaten grape-fruit. | Buy | Read |
| | The Indiscreet Letter | The Railroad Journey was very long and slow. The Traveling Salesman was rather short and quick. And the Young Electrician who lolled across the car aisle was neither one length nor another, but most inordinately flexible, like a suit of chain armor | Buy | Read |
| | The White Linen Nurse | The White Linen Nurse was so tired that her noble expression ached.
| Buy | Read |
| Jane Abbott |
| | Keineth | Keineth Randolph's world seemed suddenly to be turning upside down!
| Buy | Read |
| John S C Abbott |
| | Kit Carson, the Pioneer of the West | Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost
every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on
the 24th of December, 1809. | Buy | Read |
| Lee K Abbott |
| | The Talk Talked Between Worms | According to the tapes, my father, then about as run-of-the-mill as Joe Blow himself, didn't want to see the thing. | Buy | |
| Edmond About |
| | The King Of The Mountains | At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing in particular, I perceived coming towards me, a tall, beardless, fair-haired young fellow, wearing a German cap and gold-rimmed spectacles. | Buy | |
| Chinua Achebe |
| | A Man Of The People | No man can deny that Chief the Honourable M.A. Nanga, M.P. was the most approachable politician in the country. | Buy | |
| | Things Fall Apart | Okonwko was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. | Buy | |
| Andy Adams |
| | Brazilian Gold Mine Mystery | "Guard this letter as you would your life!" | Buy | |
| Douglas Adams |
| | Life, The Universe And Everything | The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was. | Buy | |
| | Mostly Harmless | Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, cuases itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order though. | Buy | |
| | So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish | Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. | Buy | |
| | The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy | Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. | Buy | |
| | The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe | There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. | Buy | |
| Harold Adams |
| | When Rich Men Die | The digital clock showed 2:41 A.M. as I rolled to lift the receiver before the second ring and said, "Yeah?" | Buy | |
| Henry Brook Adams |
| | Esther | The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting in the gallery, beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down the nave, one caught an effect of autumn gardens, a suggestion of chrysanthemums and geraniums, or of October woods, dashed with scarlet oaks and yellow maples. | Buy | |
| Henry Brooks Adams |
| | Democracy | For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot
Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington. | Buy | |
| Richard Adams |
| | Watership Down | The primroses were over. | Buy | |
| David A Adler |
| | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Monster Movie | It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon. | Buy | |
| James Agee |
| | A Death in the Family | We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child | Buy | |
| M Ageyev |
| | Novel With Cocaine | Early one morning I, Vadim Maslennikov, set off for school (I was going on seventeen at the time) having forgotten the envelope with the first-semester fees Mother had left me in the dining room the day before. | Buy | |
| William Harrison Ainsworth |
| | Old St. Paul's | One night, at the latter end of April 1665, the family of a
citizen of London carrying on an extensive business as a grocer
in Wood Street, Cheapside, were assembled, according to custom,
at prayer. | Buy | |
| | The Tower Of London | On the 10th of July 1553, about two hours after noon, a loud discharge of ordnance burst from the turrets of Durham House, then the residence of the Duke of Northumberland, grandmaster of the realm, and occupying the site of the modern range of buildings known as the Adelphi; and at the signal, which was immediately answered from every point along the river where a bombard or culverin could be planted-- . . .
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