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A Life in Letters by F. Scott Fitzgerald
epub |eng | | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

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 )
Boone's Lick by Larry McMurtry
epub |eng | 2000-12-26 | Author:Larry McMurtry

1 I EXPECT one reason most boatmen are stumpy little fellows is that there’s no great amount of room on a boat. There were four boatmen on our boat, besides ...
( Category: Westerns December 27,2014 )
The Briny Café by Susan Duncan
epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Susan Duncan

( Category: Contemporary December 27,2014 )
THE KISS OF A SEAL by Elizabeth Anne
epub |eng | 2014-11-12 | Author:Elizabeth, Anne [Elizabeth, Anne]

Chapter Six ‡ As the clock struck four, she saw a familiar person out of the corner of her eye. She nearly got whiplash as her head whipped around and ...
( Category: Contemporary December 27,2014 )
One More for the Road by Ray Bradbury
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Ray Bradbury

Ralph Fentriss entered the bedroom dragging his coat and unraveling his tie. “I am now sober,” he said. His wife looked up from turning pages in a book. “Just back ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
Rock Springs by Richard Ford
epub |eng | 2006-12-26 | Author:Richard Ford

On the morning Marge was getting ready for her first day back at the bar, the phone rang in the kitchen and Sims answered it. It was almost nine and ...
( Category: Contemporary December 27,2014 )
Gertrude by Hesse Hermann
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-01-21 | Author:Hesse, Hermann [Hesse, Hermann]

But, as it was, I distrusted her cheerfulness, and I credited the tenderness and fine understanding she showed me to that fatal sympathy. I could not rid myself of the ...
( Category: Classics December 27,2014 )
The Condition
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Haigh

FOR TWO nights in a row she ate dinner alone on her balcony. Balmy air brushed her bare arms and shoulders, lingering like a human touch. The second night the ...
( Category: Domestic Life December 27,2014 )
The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith
epub |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:Patricia Highsmith

12 Chester was hiding, or rather he had collapsed, beside a clump of bushes only thirty yards from the Knossos gate and across the road from it. He was alternately ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled December 27,2014 )
The Stormchasers: A Novel by Blum Jenna
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-27 | Author:Blum, Jenna [Blum, Jenna]

31 But then, two days later: July fourteenth, the twins’ eighteenth birthday, and Karena is in the kitchen, cubing cheese for pea salad. Normally the Hallingdahls go to the Wagon ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers December 27,2014 )
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Ho Davies

ON HER NEXT NIGHT OFF Esther tells Arthur she’s going to the pictures, cycles to the bottom of the lane, then doubles back on foot, up the slope. She tells ...
( Category: Military December 27,2014 )
The Insult by Rupert Thomson
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1996-12-26 | Author:Rupert Thomson

‘Ah, Martin,’ Visser said. ‘Still getting cable?’ I smiled, then sat down. A waitress appeared at my elbow. I ordered tea, with lemon. To arrange the meeting had taken some ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers December 27,2014 )
The Ghost of Christmas Present by Scott Abbott
epub |eng | | Author:Scott Abbott

Chapter 14 A TRUE LABORER Patrick sat by Braden’s hospital bed, but he looked out the night window instead of fixing his gaze on the boy as he’d always done. ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction December 27,2014 )
The Madman of Bergerac
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Georges Simenon

Urgent please cable Bergerac information Dr. Rivaud at Algiers hospital five years ago greetings thanks. Madame Maigret’s face spoke volumes. She did whatever he asked, but she had no faith ...
( Category: Crime December 27,2014 )
Brass in Pocket
epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:Jeff Mariotte

19 NICK AND RILEY HAD traveled less than a block from Supra Racing when a dark blue Mustang with racing stripes turned a corner and came toward them. Nick barely ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 27,2014 )

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