Fiction Books

Castle Gay

  [english | 1930]  

John Buchan

Summary: [The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz is a childrens book which was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1950.]
Genres: [fiction | historical] Downloads: 72

Castle Richmond

  [english | 1860]  

Anthony Trollope

Summary: [Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope. This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 327

Cat And Mouse

  [english | 1959]  

Ralph Williams

Summary: [Mouse Soup is a 1977 picture book by noted illustrator Arnold Lobel. Beginning with the simple sentence A mouse sat under a tree the book goes on to tell the story of a mouse who has to trick Weasel from turning Mouse into Mouse Soup. He does that by telling stories about Bees and the Mud Two Large Stones The Crickets and The Thorn Bush and tells Weasel to put them into his soup. It is then ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 384

Category Phoenix

  [english | 1952]  

William Clouser Boyd

Summary: [Man it would appear can adapt to any form of society... but not one in which the knowledge of extending life becomes a passport to death!]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 230

Catherine Blum

  [french | 1854]  

Alexandre Dumas

Summary: [Fort de Villers-Cotterts mai 1829. Les poux Watrin dont le mari est garde-chasse du duc dOrlans ont lev trois enfants : Bernard leur fils maintenant garde-chasse lui aussi Catherine leur nice dont le pre tait un prisonnier allemand bless recueilli par la famille et Mathieu un enfant abandonn quils ont recueilli. Catherine et Bernard ont peu peu appris saimer dabord comme frre et soeur puis ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 222

Catherine Morland

  [french | 1818]  

Jane Austen

Summary: [crit en 1803 Catherine Morland (Northanger Abbey) est le premier roman de Jane Austen mme sil na t publi quen 1818 un an aprs sa mort.La jeune et nave Catherine Morland est invite par des voisins de ses parents passer quelques semaines Bath. L elle se lie damiti avec la jeune et inconstante Isabelle Thorpe et son frre le prsomptuteux John qui se pose rapidement en prtendant de Catherine. Elle y ...]
Genres: [fiction | romance] Downloads: 215

Celebrity

  [english | 1953]  

James Mckimmey

Summary: [Celebrity Detox: The Fame Game is the second memoir written by comedian actress and talk show host Rosie ODonnell. Focusing on her departure from The Rosie ODonnell Show and later The View ODonnell expresses the struggles associated with the almost drug-like concept of fame. The book especially touches on the rift between ODonnell and Barbara Walters that occurred after ODonnell publicly berated ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 216

Celephais

  [english | 1922]  

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Summary: [Celephais is a fantasy story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft written in early November 1920 and first published in the May 1922 issue of the Rainbow. The title refers to a fictional city that later appears in H. P. Lovecraft?s Dream Cycle including his novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926).Like many of Lovecrafts stories Celephais was inspired by a dream recorded in ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 463

Cerbo En Vitra Ujo

  [english | 2006]  

Mary Robinette Kowal

Excerpts: [... humidifiers, she caught a woosh-snick as the airlock door opened. Her boyfriend barreled around Mom's prize Emperor artichoke.? Something was wrong. The ...... and waited as the comunit? scanned her retina for i.d.? If her mom knew how to hack into scanner records, Grete would get major grief for skipping school, but ...... hissed shut. Grete stared at the mute door for a moment, ...]
Genres: [fiction | horror | science fiction] Downloads: 287

Ceux De La Glebe

  [french | 1889]  

Camille Lemonnier

Summary: [Commentaire de lecteur : la lecture de la premire nouvelle jai failli refermer le livre. Y aurait-il eu une littrature gore avant terme? Puis engag par lenvie de finir ce que javais commenc jai t au bout du livre. Habitu au style je me suis attach aux rcits. Pour rester dans le genre de Lemonnier : jai vomi avant davaler. La lecture sest rvle trs intressante et le rapprochement est immanquable ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 84

Champ Of The Forecastle

  [english | 1930]  

Robert Ervin Howard

Summary: [Good short about a sailor who teaches one of his fellow ship mates how to hold his own in a fight and the trouble it brings for him.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | short stories] Downloads: 332

Chance

  [english | 1913]  

Joseph Conrad

Summary: [Last Chance to See is a 1989 BBC radio documentary series and its accompanying book written and presented by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine. In the series Adams and Carwardine travel to various locations in the hope of encountering species on the brink of extinction. The book was published in 1990. In 2009 the BBC aired a television follow-up series of the same name with Stephen Fry replacing ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 386

Charley De Milo

  [english | 1959]  

Laurence Mark Janifer

Summary: [It isnt at all obvious--at first thought--that having two perfectly good usable arms could be a real handicap to a man....]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 469

Chateau Hante

  [french | 1920]  

Maurice Renard

Summary: [Le docteur B. se rend au chteau de Sirvoise appel par le duc de Castivre qui lui demande de lui consacrer du temps pour lui prodiguer soins et attention. son arrive il se rend compte en effet que le duc nest pas dans son tat habituel. Celui-ci lui avoue quil a achet le chteau pour une bouche de pain sous prtexte quil tait hant mais depuis les gens laccusent davoir mont cette fable. Pour drider ...]
Genres: [fiction | ghost | short stories] Downloads: 406

Cheerful By Request

  [english | 1918]  

Edna Ferber

Summary: [Cheerful--by request.--The gay old dog.--The tough guy.--The eldest.--Thats marriage.--The woman who tried to be good.--The girl who went right.--The hooker-up-the-back.--The guiding Miss Gowd.--Sophy-as-she-might-have-been.--The three of them.--Shore leave.]
Genres: [fiction | humorous | short stories] Downloads: 166

Cheri Bibi Et Cecily Premieres Aventures De Cheri Bibi Tome Ii

  [french | 1913]  

Gaston Leroux

Summary: [Suite des Cages flottantes.]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 198

Child Of Storm

  [english | 1912]  

Henry Rider Haggard

Excerpts: [... in the 'seventies, or from the lips of the great Shepstone, my chief and friend, and from my colleagues Osborn, Fynney, Clarke and others, every ...... that ever I had beheld. It was a vast cleft in which granite boulders were piled up fantastically, perched one upon another in great columns, and ...... am nothing but an old Kafir cheat who pretends to a knowledge that belongs to ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 73

Children Of The Frost

  [english | 1920]  

Jack London

Summary: [Tales from the Klondike.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | short stories] Downloads: 419

Chip Of The Flying U

  [english | 1906]  

Bm Bower

Summary: [All of the boys at the Flying U grumbled -- among themselves -- when they heard that the Old Mans sister was coming to spend the summer. They didnt want a woman at the ranch and certainly not one who had just received a medical degree! But if theyd had an inkling of what was really going to happen they would have done more than grumble...]
Genres: [fiction | westerns] Downloads: 78

Chippings With A Chisel

  [english | 1837]  

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Summary: [Chippings With A Chisel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. CHIPPINGS WITH A CHISEL by Nathaniel Hawthorne Passing a summer several years since at Edgartown on the island of Martha s Vineyard I became acquainted with a certain carver of tombstones who had travelled and voyaged thither from the interior of Massachusetts in search of professional employment. The speculation had turned out so successful that my ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 422