Contemporary Literature & Fiction
epub |eng | 2021-03-02 | Author:Federico Moccia

Chapter 20 Paolo was sitting at the table, idly leafing through the newspaper. When he got to the business section, he focused a little more intently. Just then, a noise ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction September 8,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-11-25 | Author:Lauri Robinson

* * * Mick kept telling himself that Lisa going home would be the best thing all the way around. Believing what he told himself was a different task. He ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction September 8,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-04 | Author:Mark de Castrique

Chapter Fourteen “Well, what do you think?” I asked Nakayla the question as we pulled out of university parking lot P17. “I don’t think he sent that package or else ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction September 8,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-11 | Author:Jaap Robben

- 24 “How long were you in there with the tenant?” I jump. “Not long.” I had Selma on my mind as I walked back to the caravan, and didn’t ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction September 8,2021 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-28 | Author:Jean Richepin [Richepin, Jean]

With that, he smiled and turned to the waiter who had just come in. “In the meantime,” he said, “open us another bottle of champagne—and make the cork pop. That ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction September 8,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elena Maria Vidal

Chapter 10: Bécède By mid-morning, they were approaching the castle of Bécède. Raphaëlle was shocked to see that the fields and village surrounding the castle, which sat high on a ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction September 8,2021 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sheila Turner Johnston [Johnston, Sheila Turner]

20 AT ONE O’CLOCK in the morning David pushed the quilt back and slid out of bed to sit at his desk looking out at the moonlit garden. The flowers ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction September 8,2021 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-04 | Author:Jean-Marc Lofficier & Randy Lofficier

With her jeweled head-dress, scarlet forehead dot, exposed midriff, kohl-lined eyes, near-transparent costume and sinuous walk, “Princess Jelhi” was instantly popular, attracting a platoon of admirers in white tie and ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction September 7,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-11-04 | Author:Ami Rao

2.13 Daylight came. In some other city, the birds chirped. Outside the apartment, the sirens blared. Inside, the buzzer rang. Peggy answered the door and almost keeled backwards at the ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction September 7,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-01 | Author:Judy Duarte

* * * After feeding the dogs and making sure they were settled in the barn, Alana retreated to her room. Alone. But her mind hadn’t let her sleep. Instead, ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction September 7,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Oliver K. Langmead [Langmead, Oliver K.]

IX Magpie’s apartment is palatial, but specifically in the sense that it feels as if the contents of an entire palace have been crushed into it. There are Fabergé eggs ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction September 7,2021 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:de Maupassant, Guy; Pearson, Roger; & Roger Pearson

VIII Rosalie had left the house, and Jeanne was approaching the term of her difficult pregnancy. She felt no pleasure in her heart at the prospect of becoming a mother, ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction September 7,2021 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-21 | Author:Paul Bowles

XVIII ONE MORNING F. T. himself drove Malika to his office. Out of respect for him she had dressed with great care in a severe gray silk suit from Balenciaga. ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction September 6,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-06-14 | Author:David Peace [David Peace]

He got off another train at another station in another suburb west of Shinjuku. But he did not put on his necktie and spectacles, he did not buy any cakes. ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction September 6,2021 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-03 | Author:Paul Bowles

Ali had not gone very far before he overtook a funeral procession. The murdered neighbor was being carried to the cemetery. Catching sight of the man’s brother, Ali began to ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction September 6,2021 )