Contemporary
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Jonathan Franzen [Franzen, Jonathan]

9 SHE HAD ONLY ONE DRESS, a ten-year-old beltless cotton print, that she considered fit to wear to lunch with Melanie Holland. The flat dancing slippers that she put on ...
( Category: Contemporary August 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Henry Miller [Miller, Henry]

3 EVERY MORNING a calliope went by in a covered wagon. Its passage filled the house with salacious sounds. And every morning, driven frantic by the monotony of its plaint, ...
( Category: Literary August 4,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Yan Lianke

`Come on,' she continued. If you drink up, I'll recite a hundred quotations by Chairman Mao. If you don't, I'll have a hundred from you.I `I'd rather hear one of ...
( Category: Satire August 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-04-01 | Author:Tom Perrotta [Perrotta, Tom]

Dream Date RONNIE WAS BEING A LOT MORE COOPERATIVE THAN MAY EXPECTED. He was ready at six-thirty, shaved and showered, looking quite presentable in the beige Dockers and jungle-print polo ...
( Category: Literary July 28,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Michael McGarrity [McGarrity, Michael]

*** Ronda lived in an apartment on the west side of El Paso within striking distance of a major shopping mall and the Interstate. Her limp blond hair was pinned ...
( Category: Contemporary July 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 1997-02-28 | Author:Spider Robinson [Robinson, Spider]

Chapter 10 The Biter Bit In paradise, Paul was in a funk. He didn't do it often, for a man. June's inclination was to let him indulge himself. But he ...
( Category: Contemporary July 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Juan Gomez-Jurado [Gomez-Jurado, Juan]

THE SAINT MATTHEW INSTITUTE Sachem Pike, Maryland May 1998 Transcription of Interview #14 Between Patient No. 3643 and Doctor Anthony Fowler Dr. Fowler: Good afternoon, Father Karosky. May I enter? ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense July 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

CHAPTER XXI A Friend Indeed STRANGERS, did I say? Let me correct that statement Father was not a stranger in Dashville, otherwise he would not have hazarded the plan of ...
( Category: Biographies July 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-17 | Author:David Hagberg [Hagberg, David]

FORTY–SEVEN McGarvey figured that Turov wouldn’t wait long to make contact, because he would want to get out of Tokyo as soon as possible. If it was going to happen ...
( Category: Murder July 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-26 | Author:David Hagberg [Hagberg, David]

FORTY-ONE CASEY KEY, FLORIDA McGarvey, dressed only in swimming trunks, a towel around his neck, slowed to a walk, and looked out across the Gulf of Mexico as a V ...
( Category: Espionage July 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 1981-01-02 | Author:Salman Rushdie [Rushdie, Salman]

The Kolynos Kid FROM AYAH TO WIDOW, I’ve been the sort of person to whom things have been done; but Saleem Sinai, perennial victim, persists in seeing himself as protagonist. ...
( Category: Family Saga July 22,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-12-26 | Author:Karen Robards

18 TERRIFYING MEMORIES CAME BACK IN A RUSH, threatening to swamp every last vestige of calm that remained to her. Julie’s pulse raced, and her breathing grew choppy. Cold sweat ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense July 22,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Karen Robards

Twenty-two The sound of laughter made him prick up his ears. The predator glanced around and saw, under the yellow security lights, not one but two beautiful blondes. They were ...
( Category: Suspense July 22,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-07-20 | Author:Marge Piercy

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR LE DÉJEUNER SUR L’HERBE AT FIRST DONNA is pleased with her new lover Charlie. He is twenty-four. (“A man ought to be a little older, Stu, because boys ...
( Category: Political July 21,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-31 | Author:Body Of Glass [Glass, Body Of]

twenty-six Shira I NEVER KNEW HER “How could they know about Yod? They were simply keeping an eye on him because he was the security,” Avram asserted, as if speaking ...
( Category: Contemporary July 21,2015 )