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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 11 by Stephen Jones
epub |eng | 2000-11-29 | Author:Stephen Jones [Jones, Stephen]

Like the Librarian, I find the late twentieth century tiresome. Because of my dress and the furnishing of my house, most people assume that I affect a late Victorian style ...
( Category: Horror March 14,2016 )
The Beast God Forgot to Invent by Jim Harrison
epub |eng | 2000-03-13 | Author:Jim Harrison

In the lobby of the Westwood Marquis both guests and staff nodded and smiled at him under the careless assumption that he might be an important rock musician, many of ...
( Category: Short Stories March 14,2016 )
What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Robertson Davies [Davies, Robertson]

FRANCIS HAD ACHIEVED in a high degree the Oxford pretence of doing nothing while in fact getting through a great deal of work. He had learned how to study at ...
( Category: Biographical March 14,2016 )
The Kingdom and the Crown by Gerald N. Lund
epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Gerald N. Lund [Lund, Gerald N.]

Chapter 16 Appearances are deceiving. —Aesop’s Fables; from the story about the wolf in sheep’s clothing I In the wilderness of Judea 14 March, a.d. 31 Simeon raised his head ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2016 )
One Clear Call by Sinclair Upton;
epub |eng | | Author:Sinclair, Upton;

XIV In the morning Lanny paid his visit to the old brick building by the gasworks; he spent the day with the men who had handled the job of getting ...
( Category: Espionage March 14,2016 )
The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Robertson Davies [Davies, Robertson]

I felt cold when I read that.” “Good. And you saw how it fits Schnak’s musical fragment? So genuine Hoffmann is mated with my genuine poet, and with luck we ...
( Category: Contemporary March 14,2016 )
A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux
epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Annie Ernaux [Ernaux, Annie]

As I write, I see her sometimes as a “good,” sometimes as a “bad” mother. To get away from these contrasting views, which come from my earliest childhood, I try ...
( Category: French March 14,2016 )
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2016-02-01 | Author:Han Kang

She stands and looks out at the rain-swept road. She is at the bus stop across from Maseok terminal. Huge goods vans thunder past, speeding along in the fast lane. ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 14,2016 )
Between Two Worlds (The Lanny Budd Novels) by Sinclair Upton
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-18 | Author:Sinclair, Upton [Sinclair, Upton]

23 And Both Were Young I The Galeries Freycinet are strategically situated on the fashionable Rue de la Paix, and with money furnished by Lanny and his mother, Zoltan hired ...
( Category: Mystery March 14,2016 )
The Red Notebook by Paul Auster
epub |eng | 2002-03-13 | Author:Paul Auster

13 * * * My first novel was inspired by a wrong number. I was alone in my apartment in Brooklyn one afternoon, sitting at my desk and trying to ...
( Category: Anthologies March 14,2016 )
The Memoirs of Helen of Troy by Amanda Elyot
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-10-03 | Author:Amanda Elyot

SEVENTEEN Certain that my secret promise covered my face like a veil, I was grateful that Menelaus monopolized Paris Alexandros at the evening banquet. All he could talk about was ...
( Category: Biographical March 14,2016 )
The Good Brother by Chris Offutt
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Offutt

15 * * * Darkness and snow formed the borders of Joe’s life. He ceased to shave or bathe. He began a dozen books but never read past the first ...
( Category: Contemporary March 14,2016 )
Pieces of the Frame by John McPhee
epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:John McPhee

Firewood FIREWOOD HAS BEEN SELLING, OF LATE IN NEW YORK CITY, for one dollar a stick. Piles of it. Right off the sidewalk. Split from small logs of oak or ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction March 14,2016 )
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
epub |eng | | Author:Sara Baume

A boy, a waifish boy with prematurely skimpy hair, asks me to stand by the gate with my arms outstretched so his cows will know which way to go. He’s ...
( Category: Literary March 14,2016 )
Staying On: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction) by Scott Paul
azw3 |eng | 2013-02-10 | Author:Scott, Paul [Scott, Paul]

Chapter Nine WHEN HE SLIPPED out of the hotel half-an-hour later it was in a spirit more of desperation than of lingering rebellion. Used though he was to bad Monday ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2016 )

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