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Nifft The Lean by Michael Shea
epub |eng | 1982-12-27 | Author:Michael Shea [Shea, Michael]

III Near its inland border, the city rose toward a central eminence, a great table-topped monolith crowned with its most august edifices. These surrounded a vast, colonnade-bordered plaza, in which ...
( Category: Contemporary July 8,2023 )
The Switch by Neil Bradshaw
epub |eng | 2023-06-02 | Author:Neil Bradshaw

21 A metaphorical hand grenade. Graham called Paula and invited himself down for Sunday lunch. He had carefully picked a Sunday when he knew George would be free of any ...
( Category: Contemporary July 6,2023 )
The Dead and the Damned (Warhammer Fantasy) by Jonathan Green
azw3 |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Jonathan Green [Green, Jonathan]

A MURDER OF CROWS Like the raven, the crow is associated in popular folk-mythology with battle and death, and legends abound about the bird’s alleged powers and connections with the ...
( Category: Contemporary June 10,2023 )
American Accent (1954) by Elizabeth Abell (Ed.)
pdf | | 2023-06-03 | Author:Elizabeth Abell (Ed.)

( Category: Contemporary June 8,2023 )
Carrier 11.Nuke Zone by Keith Douglass
epub |eng | 1998-10-15 | Author:Keith Douglass [Keith Douglass]

1010 Local Admiral’s Briefing Room “Sorry I’ve kept you waiting—let’s get on with it,” Magruder said as he strode into the room. It was a relief to be back among ...
( Category: Contemporary June 4,2023 )
West Side Honey by Claire Christian
epub |eng | 2023-03-09 | Author:Claire Christian [Claire Christian]

32 I sit on the front steps in a new dress I don’t need to wear a bra with. I feel positively audacious about it, which seems ridiculous, but I’m ...
( Category: Contemporary June 2,2023 )
Ice Road by Gillian Slovo
epub |eng | 2009-12-02 | Author:Gillian Slovo

The Queue (1) The wooden shutter clatters up. ‘Name?’ This is the fourth day she’s been asked this self-same question. The right day. It has to be. She cannot be ...
( Category: Contemporary June 2,2023 )
Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile by Adelle Stripe
epub |eng | 2019-06-15 | Author:Adelle Stripe

Act Two The Fine Young Cannibals play on the jukebox. Andrea is at the bar. Mo serves her. Andrea Another half when you’re ready. Mo Feeling any better? Andrea Worse. ...
( Category: Contemporary June 2,2023 )
Ron's Unexpected Salvation Formatting by Marie Jean
epub |eng | 2022-04-03 | Author:Marie, Jean

Chapter 15 He pulled me over to the bed again, this time moving to sit on the edge. His side pressed to mine, our fingers twined as he stayed quiet ...
( Category: Contemporary May 27,2023 )
In My Father’s Court by Bashevis Singer Isaac
epub |eng | 2021-11-20 | Author:Bashevis Singer, Isaac

THE MIRACLE Even though we had moved to Warsaw, Father kept up his connection with the Radzymin Rabbi, visiting him occasionally and praying at the Radzymin study house in No. ...
( Category: Contemporary May 27,2023 )
Captive Set Free by Al Lacy
epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Al Lacy [Lacy, Al]

Earlier in the evening, at the Bar T Ranch, Mae Trotter paced the kitchen floor, cursing the name of Sheriff Langan. What had Langan done with Harley and Cy? “Probably ...
( Category: Contemporary May 26,2023 )
Cellophane by Marie Arana
epub |eng | 2007-05-01 | Author:Marie Arana

Graciela flew upstairs, her sandals hardly touching wood. She headed directly for her mother’s room and opened the door gently. Doña Mariana lay alone on the big brass bed, her ...
( Category: Contemporary May 26,2023 )
The Line of the Sun by Judith Ortiz Cofer
epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Judith Ortiz Cofer

Chapter Six THEY SAY my mother, Ramona, was a beauty. Her bones were light and fine, and when nature began to clothe them in flesh she turned into an enchanting ...
( Category: Contemporary May 26,2023 )
The Wife by Sigrid Undset
epub |eng | | Author:Sigrid Undset

Erlend had promised Haftor Graut to go out to Godøy and take his sister south with him. She was married to Baard Aasulfssøn of Lensvik, who was also one of ...
( Category: Contemporary May 26,2023 )
Lennie the Leopard by Jan Latta
epub |eng | | Author:Jan Latta

SNOW LEOPARD The snow leopard is a high altitude cat living in the mountain regions of central Asia. In India, they live in the western and eastern Himalaya areas. They ...
( Category: Contemporary May 26,2023 )

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