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A War of Gifts: An Ender Story by Orson Scott Card
mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Orson Scott Card

An hour later, Flip and Dink had been called in and reprimanded and the poem confiscated. “Aren’t you going to take his shoes, sir?” asked Dink. “And I’m sure we ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Helen Dunmore

Fourteen I didn’t turn when I heard the door open. Let him be the first to speak. But it wasn’t his voice. ‘Catherine!’ It was Livvy. I’d never seen her ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Steven Millhauser

The Fate of the Vanderlyn FOR THE CHRISTMAS SEASON MARTIN DIRECTED his managers to trim their windows with holly wreaths and cotton snow. They were to make room inside for ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Jennifer Egan

The bathroom was full of spotless white tile. In the medicine cabinet Phoebe found a bottle of Estée Lauder perfume and several light-brown hairpins laid neatly in a pile. A ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-05 | Author:Jayne Anne Phillips

We get to the restaurant when the lunch rush is well over and the counter is empty. I never bring Termite until later, when his chair is always free. Charlie ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-08-15 | Author:Natsume Soseki

PART III SENSEI’S TESTAMENT CHAPTER 55 I have had two or three letters from you this summer. I seem to remember that in the second or third you asked my ...
( Category: Asian American March 25,2014 )
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-11-10 | Author:David Wroblewski

Trudy IF TRUDY HADN’T BEEN PREOCCUPIED AS SHE DROVE TO MELLEN, she might have felt pleasure in the trip, for it was one of those perfectly warm June days when ...
( Category: Domestic Life March 25,2014 )
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:Rachel Kushner

12. THE SEARS MANNEQUIN STANDARD It was simply our night. People were mugged every night of the week in SoHo, where the streets were dark and empty—no streetlights, no open ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Beryl Bainbridge

Dear Ira, I’m sorry if I annoyed you in any way but I do love you. I waited for you at the station for two hours, but you did not ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
Cloudburst by VC Andrews
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-11 | Author:VC Andrews

11 A Present Jordan was so eager to hear about the Garfields that I wondered for a few moments if she hadn’t exaggerated Donald’s concern for my being home for ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
Class by Cecily Von Ziegesar
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:Cecily Von Ziegesar

Shipley hurried into her jeans, anxious to run back to her dorm room, take a scalding hot shower, and lie down beneath her beautiful clean sheets. “Yum,” Tom said, picking ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To by DC Pierson
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:DC Pierson

I get off the bus and walk back to my house, jackrabbits scattering across people’s lawns. My brother is sitting in front of my house underneath the porch light in ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-27 | Author:Willy Vlautin

Chapter 17 I drove for a long time without seeing anyone. I was out in the middle of a desert. I checked the rearview every once in a while but ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
Hick by Portes Andrea
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-06 | Author:Portes, Andrea [Portes, Andrea]

TWENTY Iswim to the shallow end and get out, trying to act casual. But I’m stumbling over my feet now, tripping my way over towards the house. Behind me Eddie’s ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
Finny by Justin Kramon
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Justin Kramon

Chapter24 La Maison des Fantaisies “So that’s my mom,” Earl said as they headed down a street called Rue Montorgueil toward the Seine. They’d walked into a market area and ...
( Category: Internet & Social Media March 25,2014 )

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