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The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015 by Laura Furman
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Laura Furman

Naira Kuzmich The Kingsley Drive Chorus ON THE CORNER OF Kingsley and De Longpre, we lived our lives pressed against the glass. Our husbands—carpenters, jewelers, mechanics, and laborers—spent their days ...
( Category: Anthologies October 11,2015 )
Assorted Prose by Updike John
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Updike, John [Updike, John]

The Enormous Cloud Strange, that I remember it. One day, playing roof ball—and I could be six, nine, or twelve when it happened—my head was tipped back and there was ...
( Category: Anthologies October 11,2015 )
Monkey Wrench by Liza Cody
epub |eng | 1994-10-10 | Author:Liza Cody

Chapter 13 I quite like Lewinsham Sports Centre. It’s modern and fairly clean. But it isn’t very dramatic. It ain’t got the atmosphere of some of the older places. It’s ...
( Category: Mystery October 11,2015 )
The Barracks by John McGahern
epub |eng | 2009-10-10 | Author:John McGahern [John McGahern]

The white sprouts of the potato seed forced their way through the earth about the barracks, grew leaves and green as they got the light, and the slender cabbage plants ...
( Category: Contemporary October 11,2015 )
Kornwolf by Tristan Egolf
epub |eng | 2006-10-10 | Author:Tristan Egolf

Even though, afterward, the crowd at the Dogboy couldn’t agree on the grisly specifics, they would have to concur on several points. First and foremost among them being: the individual ...
( Category: Humorous October 11,2015 )
Havana Jazz Club by Mariné Lola
epub |eng | 2015-08-25 | Author:Mariné, Lola [Mariné, Lola]

CHAPTER 20 “Fucking son of a bitch!” Armando shouted, slamming his fist into the dining room table with so much force it scared Billie, who was sobbing, huddled in a ...
( Category: Contemporary October 11,2015 )
The Revolt of Aphrodite by Lawrence Durrell
epub |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Lawrence Durrell [Lawrence Durrell]

VI Human attention is fragile and finite; won’t be mastered; can’t be bribed; is always changing…. Ah, for one moment of that total vision which might reorder the whole field ...
( Category: Family Saga October 11,2015 )
The Best of the Best, Volume 1 by Gardner Dozois
epub |eng | | Author:Gardner Dozois

Paolo and Elena stood together on the edge of Satellite Pinatubo, watching one of the scout probes aim its maser at a distant point in space. Paolo thought he saw ...
( Category: Anthologies October 11,2015 )
The Incorrigible Optimists Club by Jean-Michel Guenassia
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jean-Michel Guenassia

He took from his coat pocket a sheet of paper that was filled on both sides with small handwriting. ‘I took some notes. Come on, let’s give it a try.’ ...
( Category: Contemporary October 11,2015 )
When Time Stood Still by K.S. Adkins
epub |eng | 2015-08-01 | Author:K.S. Adkins [Adkins, K.S.]

When I fell asleep on Drum last night, I knew. But I count myself lucky that I was able to see him clearly one last time. The beauty of watching ...
( Category: Contemporary October 11,2015 )
Visitants by Randolph Stow
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Randolph Stow [Stow, Randolph]

BENONI All the afternoon they sat on chairs at a table under a big tree, and on the grass in front of them the people of the village talked and ...
( Category: Contemporary October 10,2015 )
The Spider King's Daughter by Onuzo Chibundu
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Onuzo, Chibundu [Onuzo, Chibundu]

‘So what do you think?’ Wale asked as we left the room. ‘Of what?’ ‘Chief.’ ‘I don’t know. He seemed all right.’ ‘He’s better than all right. He’s the only ...
( Category: Contemporary October 10,2015 )
Sea Of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Amitav Ghosh [Amitav Ghosh]

Thirteen Zachary’s room, in the Watsongunge boarding house, was just about wide enough to turn around in, and the bed was a string pallet, on which he had spread a ...
( Category: Indian October 10,2015 )
Sea of Poppies: A Novel (The Ibis Trilogy) by Ghosh Amitav
azw3 |eng | 2008-10-10 | Author:Ghosh, Amitav [Ghosh, Amitav]

All this while, even as he was working the oars, Jodu had been listening intently to Paulette, so that Zachary was led to conclude that this was the first he’d ...
( Category: Historical October 10,2015 )
The Speed Queen by Stewart O'Nan
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-01 | Author:Stewart O'Nan

"You're not drinking again." "No," I said. "I'm all done with that." "Then what is it — drugs?" I laughed like she was being silly, and kissed her. I lied ...
( Category: Self-Help & Psychology October 10,2015 )

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