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| K | Mary Roberts Rinehart | The Street stretched away north and south in two lines of ancient houses that seemed to meet in the distance. | Buy | |
| Kahawa | Donald E Westlake | Each ant emerged from the skull bearing an infinitesimal portion of brain. | Buy | |
| Kaleidoscope | Danielle Steel | The rains were torrential northeast of Naples on the twenty-fourth of December,1943, and Sam Walker huddled in his foxhole with his rain gear pulled tightly around him. He was twenty-one years old and he had never been in Europe before the war. It was a hell of a way to see the world, and he had seen more than he'd ever wanted. | Buy | |
| Kane And Abel | Jeffrey Archer | She only stopped streaming when she died. It was then that he started to scream. | Buy | |
| Kate Vaiden | Reynolds Price | The best thing about my life up to her is, nobody believes it. | Buy | |
| Katrine | Elinor Macartney Lane | Ravenel Plantation occupies a singular rise of wooded land in North Carolina, between Way-Home River, Loon Mountain, and the Silver Fork. | Buy | |
| Keep the Aspidistra Flying | George Orwell | The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already--lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb. | Buy | |
| Keineth | Jane Abbott | Keineth Randolph's world seemed suddenly to be turning upside down! | Buy | Read |
| Kenilworth | Walter Dill Scott | It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint. | Buy | |
| Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson | I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house. | Buy | |
| Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson | I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house. | Buy | |
| Kill the Clown | Richard S Prather | She was the only client who ever hired Sheldon Scott, Investigations--that's me--before a word was spoken. | Buy | |
| Killing Floor | Lee Child | I was arrested in Eno's diner | Buy | |
| Kim | Rudyard Kipling | He sat in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun of Zam-Zammeh on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaibgher - the Wonder House, as the natives called the Lahore Museum. | Buy | |
| Kindred of the Dust | Peter B Kyne | In the living-room of The Dreamerie, his home on Tyee Head, Hector McKaye, owner of the Tyee Lumber Company and familiarly known as "The Laird," was wont to sit in his hours of leisure, smoking and building castles in Spain--for his son Donald. | Buy | |
| King Henry the Fourth, Part I | William Shakespeare | So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in stronds afar remote. | Buy | |
| King Henry the Fourth, Part II | William Shakespeare | Open your ears, for which of you will stop The vent of hearing when loud Rumor speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth. | Buy | |
| King Henry the Sixth, Part I | William Shakespeare | Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky And with them scourge the bad revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death-- King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth. | Buy | |
| King Henry the Sixth, Part II | William Shakespeare | As by your high imperial majesty I had in charge at my depart for France, As procurator to your excellence, To marry Princess Margaret for your grace, So, in the famous ancient city Tours, In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil, The Dukes of Orleans, Calabar, Bretagne, and Alencon, Seven earls, twelve barons, and twenty reverend bishops, I have performed my mask and was espoused; . . . . | Buy | |
| King Henry the Sixth, Part III | William Shakespeare | I wonder how the king escaped our hands? | Buy | |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare | I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall. | Buy | |
| King Solomon's Mines | H Rider Haggard | It is a curious thing that at my age, fifty-five last birthday, I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a history. | Buy | |
| King Solomon's Ring | Konrad Zacharias Lorenz | Why should I tell of the darker side of life with animals? Because the degree of one's willingness to bear with this darker side is the measure of one's love for animals. I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents who only shook their heads or sighed when, as a schoolboy or young student, I once again brought home a new and probably yet more destructive pet? And what has my wife put up with, in the course of the years? | Buy | |
| King Suckerman | George Pelecanos | Wilton Cooper reached for the speaker, counterclockwised the volume. | Buy | |
| King--Of the Khyber Rifles | Talbot Mundy (pseudonym of William Lancaster Gribbon) | The men who govern India--more power to them and her!--are few. | Buy | |
| Kings Row | Henry Bellamann | Spring came late in the year 1890, so it came more violently, and the fullness of its burgeoning heightened the seasonal disturbance that made unquiet in the blood. | Buy | |
| Kingsblood Royal | Sinclair Lewis | Mr. Blingham, and may he fry in his own cooking-oil, was assistant treasurer of the Flaver-Saver Company. | Buy | |
| Kipps | H G Wells | Until he was nearly arrived at manhood, it did not become clear to Kipps how it was that he had come into the care of an aunt and uncle instead of having a father and mother like other little boys. | Buy | |
| Kiss of the Spider Woman | Manuel Puig | --Something a little strange, that's what you notice, that she's not a woman like all the others. She looks fairly young, twenty-five, maybe a little more, petite face, a little catlike, small turned-up nose. The shape of her face, it's . . . more roundish than oval, broad forehead, pronounced cheeks too but then they come down to a point, like with cats. | Buy | |
| Kit Carson, the Pioneer of the West | John S C Abbott | 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 |
| Kitty Foyle | Christopher Darlington Morley | What a grand guy. Sometimes he used to sneak a slug of whiskey in the forenoon, against doctor's orders. | Buy | |
| Kon-Tiki | Thor Heyerdahl | Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. | Buy | |
| Kramer versus Kramer | Avery Corman | He did not expect to see blood. | Buy | |
| Kristin Lavransdatter | Sigrid Undset | When the lands and goods of Ivar Gjesling the younger, of Sundbu, were divided after his death in 1306, his lands in Sil of Gudbrandsdal fell to his daughter Ragnfrid and her husband Lavrans Björngulfsön. | Buy |