Studying & Workbooks
epub |eng | 1936-01-01 | Author:Maurier, Daphne Du [Maurier, Daphne Du]

10 She watched his profile in the half-light; sharp it was and clear, the prominent thin nose thrust downward like the curved beak of a bird. His lips were narrow ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-31 | Author:Hutchison, Dot [Hutchison, Dot]

We sat in silence for long enough that he grew uncomfortable, fidgeting on the rock and tugging off his sweater in the reflected heat from the glass roof. I mostly ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1966-01-03 | Author:Pynchon, Thomas [Pynchon, Thomas]

5 Though her next move should have been to contact Randolph Driblette again, she decided instead to drive up to Berkeley. She wanted to find out where Richard Wharfinger had ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1980-01-05 | Author:Coetzee, J. M. [Coetzee, J. M.]

V THE BARBARIANS COME out at night. Before darkness falls the last goat must be brought in, the gates barred, a watch set in every lookout to call the hours. ...
( Category: Studying & Workbooks November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1943-08-15 | Author:W. Somerset Maugham [Maugham, W. Somerset]

5 We had arranged to meet at the apartment and have a cocktail before starting. I arrived before Larry. I was taking them to a very smart restaurant and expected ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1992-09-26 | Author:Tartt, Donna [Tartt, Donna]

When we got back to the car it had not begun to snow, but already the woods shrank beneath the sky, hushed and waiting, as if they could sense the ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1951-01-06 | Author:Maurier, Daphne Du [Maurier, Daphne Du]

16 November and December passed very swiftly, or so it seemed to me. Usually, as the days shortened and the weather worsened, when there would be little to do outside ...
( Category: Contemporary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1979-01-01 | Author:Roth, Philip [Roth, Philip]

P.S. If you have not yet seen the Broadway production of The Diary of Anne Frank, I strongly advise that you do so. Mrs. Wapter and I were in the ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1938-01-02 | Author:Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan [Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan]

Chapter XIX The first week in September was as parched and dry as old bones. Only the weeds grew. There was a tension in the heat. The dogs were snappish. ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1955-01-23 | Author:Wyndham, John [Wyndham, John]

11 The spring inspections that year were propitious. Only two fields in the whole district were on the first cleansing schedule, and neither of them belonged to my father, or ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1951-04-14 | Author:Monsarrat, Nicholas [Monsarrat, Nicholas]

11 The two bodies lay side by side on the quarterdeck, neatly tucked in under the two ensigns. Ericson, clearing his throat to start reading the burial service, found his ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1988-01-02 | Author:Ishiguro, Kazuo [Ishiguro, Kazuo]

DAY THREE · MORNING Taunton, Somerset I lodged last night in an inn named the Coach and Horses a little way outside the town of Taunton, Somerset. This being a ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1985-01-01 | Author:Atwood, Margaret [Atwood, Margaret]

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX When the night for the Ceremony came round again, two or three weeks later, I found that things were changed. There was an awkwardness now that there hadn’t ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Grimwood, Ken [Grimwood, Ken]

They stood in fresh snow at the top of the hill where he'd been clearing out the irrigation system the week before he first saw Starsea. The Pit River was ...
( Category: Fantasy November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1952-01-25 | Author:Hemingway, Ernest [Hemingway, Ernest]

Do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one? he thought. I am sure he would and more since ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )