Humor
epub |eng | | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

"Well," Alexandra sighed, "he's challenging us. He's stretching us." Over the phone she did sound stretched—more diffuse and distant every second, sinking into a translucent quicksand of estrangement. Sukie had ...
( Category: Occult March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

III. SKEETER, "We've been raped, we've been raped!" – BACKGROUND VOICE ABOARD SOYUZ 5 ONE DAY in September Rabbit comes home from work to find another man in the house. ...
( Category: Family Saga March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

Home FIRST, THE BOAT TRIP HOME: a downpour in Liverpool, and on the wharf two girls (harlots?) singing “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree” under a single raincoat held over ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

4 The Reacting of Richard ‘Hello?’ It was Richard’s voice. Jerry had been about to go out the door. It was after nine, time for him to return to the ...
( Category: Psychological March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-06-04 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

Hello Essie, These are the best of the bunch. You look good I think. I showed them to my editor and he couldn’t use them since the competition is an ...
( Category: Psychological March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-04 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

Two petite, groomed, curried girls met him at the airport and drove him in a pink convertible, at great speed, through the rolling, burgeoning landscape. Spring had arrived here. New ...
( Category: Family Saga March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-04 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

BECH WED THE HOUSE in Ossining was a tall mock-Tudor with an incongruous mansard roof, set on a domed lawn against a fringe of woods on an acre and a ...
( Category: Psychological March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1930-01-01 | Author:Pearl S. Buck [Buck, Pearl S.]

XII THE DAWN CAME THIS day under a still, gray sky. The air is heavy with late heat and full of dampness. The child frets, although I can find no ...
( Category: Christian Historical Fiction March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-10 | Author:John Grisham [Grisham, John]

As we return to Main Street, Clarence agrees to approach Charlie and Red and explore the idea of a meeting. I repeat the obvious: Warren does not have long to ...
( Category: Sports March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-07-23 | Author:Kyril Bonfiglioli [Bonfiglioli, Kyril]

14 Mortdecai’s interest in bird-watching falters What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of day? Sea Dreams I must say I do approve of seagulls. Most petty ...
( Category: Murder March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:John Gardner [Gardner, John]

12 STRANGE MEETING In the rapidly darkening landscape the forward lights of the grounded helicopter blazed down the main track, barring any exit there but a suicide dash. Smolin heaved ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2010-03-31 | Author:Douglas Adams [Adams, Douglas]

Section 17 The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it. Zaphod grasped him firmly by the arm and manoeuvred him into a cubicle ...
( Category: Adventure March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Susan Hill [Hill, Susan]

Thirty-five There was a blackness, but in the centre of the blackness was a swirling mass like a whirligig. Sparks came out of it now and then and she tried ...
( Category: Serial Killers March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jeremy Robinson

TWENTY-EIGHT Can this night get any worse? Zelda Baker thought to herself as King, Tremblay and Somers climbed into the van. King shouted for her to drive, a bit louder ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2010-06-05 | Author:MICHAEL CRICHTON [CRICHTON, MICHAEL]

BUNGALOW «Ancora caffè?», chiese cortesemente Hammond. «No, grazie», disse Henry Wu, appoggiandosi alla sedia. «Non posso più mangiare». Erano seduti nella sala da pranzo del bungalow di Hammond, in un ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 26,2014 )