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Love Among the Cannibals by Wright Morris
epub |eng | 2017-08-17 | Author:Wright Morris [Morris, Wright]

V At a quarter to ten we picked up Billie Harcum in a Bullock’s Wilshire version of the femme fatal. Also five pieces of aluminum luggage, roughly the size of ...
( Category: Contemporary August 18,2018 )
Sky's the Limit by Janie Millman
epub |eng | 2018-06-10 | Author:Janie Millman

‘He says if I don’t go there he will come here.’ ‘He would follow you to the ends of the earth,’ I said, but Gail remained silent. ‘You are going ...
( Category: Contemporary August 18,2018 )
The Reading Party by Fenella Gentleman
epub |eng | 2018-08-17 | Author:Fenella Gentleman [Fenella Gentleman]

Barnaby got his way about the bonfire. We built it after lunch once we’d inspected the remnants of an old construction betrayed by an ugly splot of darkness beyond the ...
( Category: Contemporary August 18,2018 )
The Dissent of Annie Lang by Ros Franey
epub |eng | 2018-08-17 | Author:Ros Franey [Ros Franey]

I remained in the dark about the disappeared girls for almost a week. Then it suddenly came up in domestic science, of all places. We were making pastry for our ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense August 18,2018 )
Bay Tree Cottage by Anna Jacobs
epub |eng | 2017-08-17 | Author:Anna Jacobs [Anna Jacobs]

When they pulled up outside her old home, she was astonished at how small it looked and how run-down the whole street seemed. She hadn’t been away long, but she ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 18,2018 )
Strangers on the 16:02 by Priya Basil
epub |eng | | Author:Priya Basil

Chapter Eight The train comes to a stop with a jolt and Helen loses her balance, flopping forwards onto the man seated in front of her. It’s only Kerm’s quick ...
( Category: Contemporary August 18,2018 )
The Affliction by C. Dale Young
epub |eng | | Author:C. Dale Young

VII. Jewels That Carlitos had killed his brother Pedro Blanco was never in dispute. Flora Diaz had predicted it. Javier Castillo felt a great amount of guilt about it. And ...
( Category: Contemporary August 18,2018 )
Sultana's Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
epub |eng | | Author:Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain [Hossain, Rokeya Sakhawat; Jahan, Roushan; Papanek, Hanna]

*The small Parsi community in South Asia is descended from Persian Zoroastrians, who migrated to India many centuries ago. They retain their distinctive religion, live mainly in western India, and ...
( Category: Contemporary August 18,2018 )
On Our Selection (Illustrated) by Steele Rudd
epub |eng | 2015-11-11 | Author:Steele Rudd [Rudd, Steele]

A man in a long, black coat, white collar, and new leggings rode up, spoke to Dad, and got off. Dad straightened up and looked awkward, with his arms hanging ...
( Category: Contemporary August 18,2018 )
Louisiana Catch by Sweta Srivastava Vikram
epub |eng | | Author:Sweta Srivastava Vikram

- 17 - Next morning when I woke up, it was still dark outside. I looked at my phone: 5:05 a.m. My body was sore, as if I had climbed ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 18,2018 )
Cake Time by Siel Ju
epub |eng | 2017-08-17 | Author:Siel Ju

The next morning, though, when Matt’s alarm went off at five for his opening shift, I woke up gloomy and angry. Our stopping in at the bar in itself seemed ...
( Category: United States August 18,2018 )
The Lime Tree by César Aira
epub |eng | 2017-10-04 | Author:César Aira

‌ Dear readers, As well as relying on bookshop sales, And Other Stories relies on subscriptions from people like you for many of our books, whose stories other publishers often ...
( Category: Contemporary August 18,2018 )
Charlie the Kitten Who Saved a Life by Sheila Norton
epub |eng | | Author:Sheila Norton

CHAPTER FOURTEEN There was one thing about the Chocolate Ice Cream Incident that I didn’t tell the others. Never having lived with humans, the feral boys had no understanding about ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 18,2018 )
Irish Hearts (Mills and Boon Single Titles) by Nora Roberts
mobi |eng | 2011-06-28 | Author:Nora Roberts

* * * Chapter 3 Contents - Prev | Next 1 here was a storm coming. Erin could feel it brewing inside her, just as she could see it brewing ...
( Category: Contemporary August 18,2018 )
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-10-29 | Author:Thomas Pynchon

NEXT EVENING KIT, having against his better judgment accompanied Pléiade to her suite, found himself in some perplexity, for at some point in the deep malediction of the hour she ...
( Category: Literary August 18,2018 )

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