Contemporary
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Pablo De Santis

6 Six days had passed since Darbon’s murder, and the halls of Madame Nécart’s hotel were no longer filled with leisurely waiting assistants. The armchairs were empty, and even the ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese March 22,2015 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-14 | Author:Ørstavik, Hanne [Ørstavik, Hanne]

It’s dark by the entrance to the reading rooms. I don’t know if it’s the low ceiling or there’s just too little light. I stood by the banisters at the ...
( Category: Contemporary March 22,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Campbell Armstrong

34 He moved along the lobby to the street door. He could still vaguely hear the choir at practice, but faint now. He reached for the handle, turned it. His ...
( Category: Crime March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sue Miller [Miller, Sue]

PART III CHAPTER IX In the confusing aftermath of a tragedy, of any terrible event, we sometimes try to make sense of it by finding a way to blame ourselves. ...
( Category: Love & Loss March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-03 | Author:Alexandra Brown [Alexandra Brown]

11 It’s Wednesday evening in my flat, and the atmosphere at work this week has been really buzzy, mingled with lots of anticipation. There’s a rumour going around the store ...
( Category: Contemporary March 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Marne Davis Kellogg

T W E N T Y - N I N E I didn’t sleep all night. All I did was think about Giancarlo and his kiss. It was so gentle. ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-03 | Author:Shari Goldhagen

all the words to “thunder road” It wasn’t the best method of family planning. Three months after her thirty-sixth birthday, Mona unceremoniously stopped taking the pill. She didn’t discuss it ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers March 22,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1988-03-21 | Author:Margaret Laurence [Laurence, Margaret]

Six RAIN. I waken groggily in the darkness, and for a moment I wonder if Doris has been in yet to close my window. Then, fumbling my way out of ...
( Category: Canadian March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 1999-03-21 | Author:Chris Bohjalian [Bohjalian, Chris]

When Carissa went upstairs to get dressed a little later, I sat with her cat in my lap and tried to imagine how people would see what had occurred the ...
( Category: Legal March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-13 | Author:Chad Kultgen [Kultgen, Chad]

chapter twenty-nine Post-Lunch with Carlos After eating the same lunch we eat every Saturday at the CPK in the Beverly Center, Carlos and I are across the street at the ...
( Category: Satire March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Margaret Drabble

The next day I met Daphne in the Tate. I was somewhat surprised to find myself there anyway, and even more surprised to find her. It was Sunday, of course: ...
( Category: Literary March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Claire Sandy [Sandy, Claire]

How Marie came to be on the sofa, she had no idea. A cushion was propped up behind her, her shoes were off – she always cooked Christmas lunch in ...
( Category: Contemporary March 22,2015 )
epub |eng, eng | 2006-03-21 | Author:Julia London

Seventeen A va gasped and laughed with surprise all at once, stammering her reply, but Jared would hear none of it. This would be done—the gravity of what he’d done ...
( Category: Historical March 22,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Charles Williams

Chapter Eleven THE CONVERSION OF DAMARIS TIGHE It was not the least among the vexations which interfered with Damaris Tighe’s exposition of culture that building had begun at the back ...
( Category: Horror March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-23 | Author:Rosamunde Pilcher [Pilcher, Rosamunde]

A GIRL I USED TO KNOW The cable-car, at ten o’clock in the morning, was as crammed with humanity as a London bus at rush-hour. Grinding, swaying slightly, it mounted, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 22,2015 )