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Floralie, Where Are You? by Roch Carrier
epub |eng | 2013-04-24 | Author:Roch Carrier

*** On that night, when the face of the man seated close to her was as unknown, as removed from her as the moon, Floralie was sound asleep. Néron briskly ...
( Category: Contemporary April 13,2023 )
Daddy on the Way by Lois Richer
epub |eng | | Author:Lois Richer [Lois Richer]

When Amy grabbed Clay’s hand in the excitement of the 4-H light horse drill later that evening, he tenderly smiled and held on. And when she seemed to remember who ...
( Category: Contemporary April 13,2023 )
The Virgin & Her Bodyguard by Mindy Neff
epub |eng | 2011-05-27 | Author:Mindy Neff

Chapter Nine Even before he fought his way through the profusion of vines and flowers hanging from the archway above the courtyard, Cole knew something was wrong. His hand shot ...
( Category: Contemporary April 12,2023 )
Miss Chance by Simon Barnes
epub |eng | 2016-10-04 | Author:Simon Barnes

29 ‘Toilets!’ Mark sang out the word, anagrammatising brilliantly. ‘Thomas Toilets, Thomas Toilets, Thomas Toilets!’ It was his pupils’ nickname for one of the great writers they were studying. He ...
( Category: Contemporary April 12,2023 )
On Borrowed Wings by Chandra Prasad
epub |eng | 2007-04-15 | Author:Chandra Prasad

It was one of those rare winter days when the sun was so hot it could make the skin burn, when people left their overcoats and muffs and gloves inside ...
( Category: Contemporary April 12,2023 )
Slocum and the Blue-Eyed Hostage by Jake Logan
epub |eng | | Author:Jake Logan

13 Slocum on the gray, Sugar on the bay, they rode up the street of tent saloons and stores. No one was in sight except a fat dove in a ...
( Category: Contemporary April 12,2023 )
Absorbed by Kylie Whitehead
epub |eng | 2021-05-19 | Author:Kylie Whitehead

SIXTEEN I was still thinking about Helena when I woke. I had dreamed about her all night, and although I couldn’t recall anything specific, I woke feeling as if I ...
( Category: Contemporary April 12,2023 )
The Lamp of Umm Hashim by Yahya Hakki
epub |eng | 2004-04-15 | Author:Yahya Hakki

Year after year, Ismail came first in his class. When the results of the examination were announced, glasses of sherbet would be passed around the neighbors, even to the odd ...
( Category: Contemporary April 12,2023 )
If I Let You Go by Charlotte Levin
epub |eng | 2022-12-19 | Author:Charlotte Levin [Levin, Charlotte]

31 For She’s a Jolly Good Fellow Haunted by Nish’s suspicious face, even taking the route via the leisure centre cut-through isn’t enjoyable. Instead of inducing serenity, she imagines wading ...
( Category: Women's Fiction April 12,2023 )
Night's Black Agents (1980) by Fritz Leiber
pdf | | 2023-04-06 | Author:Fritz Leiber

( Category: Contemporary April 9,2023 )
True Confessions of the Stratford Park PTA by Nancy Robards Thompson
epub |eng | 2006-04-15 | Author:Nancy Robards Thompson

Elizabeth How does one recover from barfing on her boss? Or maybe the more appropriate question is does one recover—professionally, personally? It’s been ten days since that horrifying event and ...
( Category: Contemporary April 8,2023 )
Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love by Dan Rhodes
epub |eng | 2009-04-15 | Author:Dan Rhodes [Dan Rhodes]

Landfill First After the council took away his bins he had to break into the landfill site to get rid of his rubbish. He compressed about a fortnight’s dead wood ...
( Category: Contemporary April 8,2023 )
Shadows at the Fair 01 by Wait Lea
epub |eng | 2002-04-01 | Author:Wait, Lea [Wait, Lea]

Chapter 17 The First Day of the Season, a hand-colored wood engraving by John Leech, who was known for his humorous sporting illustrations, published in The Illustrated London News on ...
( Category: Contemporary April 6,2023 )
Lily the Tiller by Deborah McKinlay
epub |eng | | Author:Deborah McKinlay

Irene had kept her secret, not told anyone where she was going. She had imagined that she never would tell anyone where she had been. She could barely tell herself. ...
( Category: Women's Fiction April 6,2023 )
Love by Its First Name by Don Hanley
epub |eng | 2018-04-15 | Author:Don Hanley [Don Hanley]

CHAPTER 11 You are a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in distress, A shelter from the storm, a shade from the heat… Isaiah, 25:3-4 Jerry was ...
( Category: Contemporary April 6,2023 )

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