Contemporary
epub |eng | 2009-05-23 | Author:Cave, Nick [Cave, Nick]

‘What’s the capital of China!?’ Bunny Junior awakes to the smell of hand cream and the retracting flutter of his mother’s fingers. His father sits beside him, panting and super-charged, ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1979-01-01 | Author:Forsyth, Frederick [Forsyth, Frederick]

By March 23 over two hundred fifty ships, the first wave of the waiting merchant fleet, were docked in the major grain ports from Lake Superior to the Gulf of ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2000-01-30 | Author:Roth, Philip [Roth, Philip]

But even earlier, after the birth of their first child, he had done something almost equally stupid and sentimental. He was a young classics professor from Adelphi down at the ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1983-01-17 | Author:Hill, Susan [Hill, Susan]

Spider I returned some four hours and thirty-odd miles later in a positive glow of well-being. I had ridden out determinedly across the countryside, seeing the very last traces of ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-11-15 | Author:Dunning, John [Dunning, John]

The courtroom was empty, except for the judge, the deputy, and a reporter. The hearing was announced and the judge peered down from on high. “Well, you’re just like Charlie ...
( Category: Mystery November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Maurier, Daphne Du [Maurier, Daphne Du]

14 I lay there waiting for the nausea and the vertigo to pass. I knew it had to be endured, and the quieter I remained the quicker it would go. ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1940-01-01 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

CHAPTER 3 A voice near his foot said, ‘Got a cigarette?’ He drew quickly back and trod on an arm. A voice said imperatively, ‘Water, quick,’ as if whoever it ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-02 | Author:Siddons, Anne Rivers [Siddons, Anne Rivers]

We did not hear from the Sheehans during that week, and except for a couple of times when Claire Swanson saw Buck drive up to the house during the day ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1995-01-24 | Author:Oates, Joyce Carol [Oates, Joyce Carol]

34 Mowing Grandma’s lawn one Saturday in July & trimming the evergreen hedge & I heard kids shouting & laughing next door in the neighbors’ swimming pool. DON’T LOOK the ...
( Category: Contemporary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1977-01-31 | Author:Roth, Philip [Roth, Philip]

Dear Arthur: You can’t have it both ways: that Debbie took “a joking tone” or, as she put it, a “purposely superficial … tone” because that best expressed her attitude ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1963-01-07 | Author:Plath, Sylvia [Plath, Sylvia]

riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.... The thick book ...
( Category: Contemporary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1994-01-28 | Author:Coetzee, J. M. [Coetzee, J. M.]

11 The walk In the week that has passed since their last intimacy, there has grown up between Anna Sergeyevna and himself a barrier of awkward formality. Her bearing toward ...
( Category: Contemporary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1954-01-15 | Author:Golding, William [William Golding]

CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees The pig-run kept close to the jumble of rocks that lay down by the water on the other side and Ralph was content to ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1895-01-01 | Author:Wells, H. G. [Wells, H. G.]

VII The Unveiling of the Stranger THE STRANGER WENT INTO the little parlour of the Coach and Horses about half-past five in the morning, and there he remained until near ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1935-01-01 | Author:Buck, Pearl S. [Buck, Pearl S.]

III EVEN AS YUAN HAD LOVED and hated his father in his childhood, so now he left that foreign country loving and hating it. He could not but love it, ...
( Category: Contemporary November 12,2018 )