Contemporary
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Ferrante, Elena [Ferrante, Elena]

77. Lila had made lunch. She knew that Dede and Elsa adored orecchiette with tomato sauce and she announced this, creating a rowdy scene of enthusiasm. That wasn’t all. She ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-01 | Author:Carl Weber

Big Shirley 31 “You can barely see them anymore,” Little Momma exclaimed as she applied makeup to cover the scars on my face. Of course she was exaggerating, but I ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-29 | Author:Ellis Peters [Peters, Ellis]

7 ‘After dinner, if you’re not bored with the subject by now,’ promised Professor Penrose, switching off the record-player, ‘we’ll go on considering this odd question of historical origins, and ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives September 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:William W. Johnstone

Chapter 35 The first thing Kyle was aware of as consciousness seeped back into his brain and body was the feel of crisp, cool sheets against his skin. He was ...
( Category: Suspense September 2,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Monica Nolan [Nolan, Monica]

Chapter 15 The Dinner at Luigi’s The group of girls who straggled downheartedly into Luigi’s for dinner was a demoralized bunch. Janet and Rhoda looked up from the big round ...
( Category: Humor September 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Jean-Claude Izzo [Izzo, Jean-Claude]

Diamantis was walking fast. After leaving Le Mas, he had stopped at the Samaritaine, in a corner of the Vieux-Port, for a last drink before getting back to the Aldebaran. ...
( Category: Contemporary September 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-16 | Author:Felice Stevens [Stevens, Felice]

Chapter Fifteen ‡ Julian had never been a great believer in God, fate, or mysticism, call it what you will. He was too pragmatic a person, having been knocked down ...
( Category: LGBT September 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 2000-10-02 | Author:P. F. Chisholm [Chisholm, P. F.]

Barnabus snorted. ‘Sir Edward Fitzjohn, my arse. That was Nick the Gent.’ ‘Dodd, could I have a look at that false coin you had?’ ‘Ay.’ Dodd fished it out and ...
( Category: Historical August 29,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-06-24 | Author:Goolrick, Robert [Goolrick, Robert]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Trotmeier Takes a Drive Louis Patterson Trotmeier came up with me. He won the poker thing. It wasn’t always the same poker thing—the old man changed it every ...
( Category: Literary August 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Gabrielle Zevin

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 1865 / Mark Twain Proto-postmodernist story of a habitual gambler and his bested frog. The plot isn’t much, but it’s worth reading because ...
( Category: Suspense August 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-08-25 | Author:Sue Grafton

22 I thought about Pete as I walked the half block home. Sometimes I turn to Henry for counsel and advice, but not in this case. I’d erred, and it ...
( Category: Contemporary August 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-17 | Author:Julianna Baggott

Chapter Fifteen Harriet Wolf: Murderess Harriet Despite my greatest fears, this institution would prove the opposite of the Maryland School for Feeble Minded Children. Having shed the word “asylum” from ...
( Category: Contemporary August 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-22 | Author:Haven Kimmel

I was well known in the emergency room, but this fussing wasn’t like that other fussing. This time there was no waiting, no flirting with my dad by the nurses, ...
( Category: Contemporary August 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-09 | Author:Jean Christophe Rufin

CHAPTER VI Valentine didn’t want to go inside. She was standing by the door to the hotel. Although he was of no use to anyone before he’d had his coffee, ...
( Category: Contemporary August 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

9. Into the Fissure "Are you serious?" asked Bigman. "Quite serious," said David. "You mean"-he tried to smile-"there really are Martians?" "Would you believe me if I said there were?" ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 21,2015 )