Contemporary Literature & Fiction
epub |eng | | Author:Håkan Nesser [Nesser, Håkan]

34 Assistant Detective Claes-Henrik Wennergren-Olofsson had the longest signature in Kymlinge police station, and as he also liked to add his title – before or after his actual name – ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 31,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-10-22 | Author:Teju Cole; [Cole, Teju]

Dinner Party with boxer Harry Wills, 1926 James VanDerZee Harry Wills a k a “The Black Panther,” boxer, businessman- sits with seven other men and women, mostly women with champagne ...
( Category: Art History & Criticism October 26,2021 )
epub |eng | 1985-10-14 | Author:Iain Banks [Banks, Iain]

He had been exploring alone, deep down, well underneath the level of the kitchens and the great central clock mechanism. The walls were of naked slate, blasted and scraped out ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 25,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-09-28 | Author:Dorothy St. James [St. James, Dorothy]

Chapter Eighteen After getting that troubling note, Tori insisted on coming with me to Aunt Sal’s house. Aunt Sal lived in a small brick one-story home that looked quite ordinary ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 24,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ratna Raman

V Eschewing Violence: Lessing’s Feminist Formulations of the 1980s Lessing’s fictional output after the 1960s is characterised by increasing experimentation with form, indicating her innovation with narrative techniques. Using a ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 23,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Wright [Smith, Curtis]

Kayla’s first night in the pod. Lights out, the other girls talking. Kayla listens. Her map growing. The cigarettes returned, yet the tobacco scent lingers on her pillow. Betty’s tone ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 22,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-23 | Author:Fiona Collins

CHAPTER 26 ‘I left my sunglasses.’ Kemp is at the door this morning. I’ve just seen him from the window – Converse, jeans and a white T-shirt, standing on the ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 22,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-04-08 | Author:Elizabeth de Veer

Chapter 14 Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Colleen The fire seems to inspire some fatherly instinct in Eric, because all of a sudden, he’s going out of his way to be ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 22,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-10-20 | Author:Gracie Taylor [Taylor, Gracie]

Chapter 21 Edie rarely arrived home before seven when she was working at Larkstone Farm. As she had quickly learned, there were no short days in lambing season. Tilly was ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 22,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-10 | Author:Philippe Claudel [Claudel, Philippe]

XV THE MAJORITY OF MEN ARE NOT AWARE OF THEIR DARKER side, which nevertheless everyone possesses. It is often circumstances that reveal it, wars, famines, disasters, revolutions, genocides. So when ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 22,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-06-01 | Author:Larissa Behrendt

The bus pulled up at a red-brick house called Max Gate on the outskirts of Dorchester. Lionel said it was where Thomas Hardy had lived. ‘Who was Max Gate?’ I ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 22,2021 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Rachel Pastan

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The next day Dr. Rubin called Isabel from the hospital. Isabel could hear bells chiming and pages coming in over the public address system. “I only have a ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 22,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-06-13 | Author:Grace Palmer [Palmer, Grace]

15 Mae Friday Morning—One Week Later The Sweet Island Inn would only be closed for a couple weeks, but the overflow of boxes littering the entryway suggested Mae was closing ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 22,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-07 | Author:G. L. Blackhouse [Blackhouse, G. L.]

CHAPTER 16- ROY I finished getting ready and put on a copper-colored flowing skirt and turquoise blouse. I reached into my jewelry box given to me by Jordy and put ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 22,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-09-28 | Author:Tove Alsterdal [Alsterdal, Tove]

( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 22,2021 )