Contemporary
epub |eng | | Author:Ellen Crosby

13 In the dozen years I’d been away from Washington, the city had changed, not all of it for the better. Unlike London, which seemed timeless and eternal, D.C. still ...
( Category: Espionage December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Laurie Colwin

Imagine, Francis later thought as he sat alone in his own kitchen, getting so upset about a form letter from a snake breeder. After all, it was only one of ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Erich Segal [Segal, Erich]

When the Pulitzer Prizes for 1967 were announced, there was particular joy in the Harvard University news office. While it was hardly novel that two Harvard men won awards in ...
( Category: Family Saga December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-26 | Author:Gary Jennings

LORD BYRON’S ODE TO THE MAID OF ZARAGOZA LORD BYRON WAS in Spain during part of the Spanish war against the French. After he heard the story of how María ...
( Category: Historical December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Lucinda Rosenfeld

7. Claude Duvet OR “Semester-Abroad Claude” HE’D HAVE A name like Claude Duvet. He’d be twenty-six, unemployed, and staying with a friend. He’d be a tortured artist. He’d be wearing ...
( Category: Single Women December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1988-12-26 | Author:Jack Kerouac

5. NEW YORK SCENES AT THIS TIME MY MOTHER was living alone in a little apartment in Jamaica Long Island, working in the shoe factory, waiting for me to come ...
( Category: Beat Generation December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bass

She had only one more week left of treatment. Millions of patients had been through it before—they would nearly all call it the most physically grueling and spiritual thing they’d ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-31 | Author:Williams, Joy [Williams, Joy]

There was still no coffee. She wasn’t going to waste her time looking for coffee when there wasn’t any. A moth was floating in the sheltie’s water bowl. This was ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-08 | Author:Alison Cherry [Cherry, Alison]

The next leg of the race begins for me at 1:07 a.m., and when my alarm goes off at midnight, I pack up my stuff and meet Troy in the ...
( Category: Other Media December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Laurie Colwin

the man who jumped into the water DURING THE ONLY SERIOUSLY bad year of his business, Charlie Hartz bought the old Berkely house and installed himself, Flossie his wife, and ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rebecca Curtis

YEARS LATER I was awake late at night. I was doing nothing, alone, late at night, when I saw, beyond my window, down the block, a fire I can only ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-26 | Author:David R. George III

Lieutenant Jimmy Clayton held the shuttlecraft Kepler at high altitude, as ordered. He checked the sensor readout on the main panel, verifying the position of the second shuttle, the Herschel, ...
( Category: Adventure December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:Andrea Adler

Chapter 19 Bites on dried gristly meat. Receives metal arrows. It furthers one to be mindful of difficulties … The next morning I sat up in bed wondering what to ...
( Category: Contemporary December 27,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-07-05 | Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

TO: Maxwell Perkins TLS, 3 pp. Princeton University 1307 Park Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, April 15, 1935. Dear Max: You don’t say anything about “Taps” so I gather it hasn’t caught ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1994-12-26 | Author:Ralph Lombreglia

I ran down the grassy slope and across the parking lot. Clayton answered when I knocked on the flimsy barracks door, his big-toothed smile floating in the dim entrance of ...
( Category: Contemporary December 27,2014 )