Studying & Workbooks
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Z. Z. Packer

THE DISHWASHERS always closed down the dining hall. One night, after everyone else had punched out, Heidi and I took a break, and though I wasn’t a smoker, we set ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Louise Erdrich

The Kindred ONE DAY, AS I am standing in a strip of shade, my uncle walks up and speaks to me, low, without looking at me. It’s on you, I ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-22 | Author:Yiyun Li

LUO ARRIVED TWO days before the appointment for the in vitro fertilization. When he saw Yilan waiting at the railway station, he came close and hugged her, a Western gesture ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2003-10-01 | Author:James Patterson

Alex Cross 8 - Four Blind Mice Chapter Sixty Thomas Starkey, Brownley Harris and Warren Griffin took separate flights to New York City, all leaving out of Raleigh-Durham Airport. It ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Uwem Akpan

FOR THE FIRST TIME in Jubril’s life, it did not infuriate him that there were women all over the place. He had been in the crowd a long time before ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-31 | Author:Hemingway, Ernest [Hemingway, Ernest]

The next afternoon I drove out to Fontan’s, through the shade of the town, then along the dusty road, turning up the side road and leaving the car beside the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-10-08 | Author:Agatha Christie

The Affair at the Bungalow 'I've thought of something,' said Jane Helier. Her beautiful face was lit up with the confident smile of a child expecting approbation. It was a ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-11-27 | Author:Albert Camus

Kirilov All of Dostoevsky’s heroes question themselves as to the meaning of life. In this they are modern: they do not fear ridicule. What distinguishes modern sensibility from classical sensibility ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Charles Bukowski

hard times as I got out of my car down at the docks two men started walking toward me. one looked old and mean and the other was big and ...
( Category: Themes & Styles March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-12-03 | Author:Philip K. Dick

A screech of brakes. A horn. Bob Arctor looked swiftly up at the night traffic. A sports car, engine running, by the curb; inside it, a girl waving at him. ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-03-15 | Author:Ian McEwan

PART TWO THERE WERE HORRORS enough, but it was the unexpected detail that threw him and afterward would not let him go. When they reached the level crossing, after a ...
( Category: Alternate History Science Fiction March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Donald Ray Pollock

25 IT WAS A COLD FEBRUARY MORNING in the early part of 1966, Carl and Sandy’s fifth year together. The apartment was like an icebox, but Carl was afraid if ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-07-02 | Author:Octavia E. Butler

T'Gatoi picked up the writhing grub carefully, and looked at it, somehow ignoring the terrible groans of the man. Abruptly, the man lost consciousness. "Good." T'Gatoi looked down at him. ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:Raymond Carver

Chefs House That summer Wes rented a furnished house north of Eureka from a recovered alcoholic named Chef. Then he called to ask me to forget what I had going ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-18 | Author:Kelley Armstrong

"It's recognizable, then? Always a good sign." He closed the book. "Are you done?" "I think so. Can I see?" I hesitated with my fingers outstretched toward his book, then ...
( Category: Ghosts March 25,2014 )