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DECADES 2015 by Ruth Harris
epub |eng | | Author:Ruth Harris

*** Nick Bain was born Nat Baum and the story of his life seemed poignantly sad and madly exotic to Evelyn. He had grown up in a tenement on Essex ...
( Category: Contemporary January 10,2018 )
Vilnius Poker by Ricardas Gavelis
epub |eng | 2013-06-13 | Author:Ricardas Gavelis [Gavelis, Ričardas]

The studio, with its high ceiling, was as surreal as a memory. A tiny fireplace and battered antique chairs, all of them different. Lolita sat in one with her feet ...
( Category: Contemporary January 10,2018 )
Corner of a Small Town by N/A
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:N/A

* * * “Who will lend us a car?” was Joseph’s first question. “If only I hadn’t been sacked,” Lewis-boy said glumly. “Your dad might. We’d have to spin a ...
( Category: Music January 10,2018 )
Obsession, Deceit and Really Dark Chocolate by Kyra Davis
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-10 | Author:Kyra Davis

There were no messages on either one of our answering machines. While Anne Brooke worked in Livermore she lived in Lafayette, and Anatoly and I both agreed that in a ...
( Category: Mystery January 10,2018 )
The Love Letter by Cathleen Schine
epub |eng | | Author:Cathleen Schine

9 ON SUNDAY MORNING, almost one week after the morning she and Johnny had made love in his unmade bed, Helen ventured up to her attic. In the endless renovation ...
( Category: Contemporary January 10,2018 )
So Long by Lucia Berlin
epub |eng | 2016-01-10 | Author:Lucia Berlin

Dear Conchi, …I have been out several times with Joe Sanchez. He gets free tickets to events so he’ll do stories on them. I like him because he never says ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies January 10,2018 )
Snow Sisters by Carol Lovekin
epub |eng | 2017-08-17 | Author:Carol Lovekin

Thirty-two The only room in the house no longer affected by the heat was Meredith’s. She woke up night after night, shivering, knowing she had been dreaming, still with only ...
( Category: Contemporary January 10,2018 )
The Stone Flower Garden by Deborah Smith
epub |eng | 2012-03-08 | Author:Deborah Smith

Chapter Twelve I opened a pair of efficient gray suitcases and stared at only business clothes. When I’d packed for Florida the week before I’d been convinced I’d win Frog ...
( Category: Contemporary January 10,2018 )
The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Kerouac

[7] It was Saturday afternoon. The huge crowd filled the stadium and the ocean-roar of their jubilation was carried on radios all over America. The batteries of newsreel cameras clicked ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 10,2018 )
Fante by Dan Fante
epub |eng | | Author:Dan Fante

Eventually, as the investigation went deeper, Schroeder and I found ourselves in further over our heads. Several of our targets had jackets and carried weapons. We were regularly tailed now ...
( Category: Contemporary January 10,2018 )
Her Frozen Heart by Lulu Taylor
epub |eng | | Author:Lulu Taylor

Chapter Twenty-Four It was two weeks since the great storm and there was no hope of post, and the telephone lines were still down. ‘I expect they have better things ...
( Category: Contemporary January 10,2018 )
Impossible Saints by Clarissa Harwood
epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:Clarissa Harwood

Just as Paul had predicted, cathedral gossip ran rampant in the aftermath of the Sunday service. Everyone was talking about Cross and his father. Although the cathedral clergy had tried ...
( Category: British & Irish January 10,2018 )
Robicheaux: A Novel by James Lee Burke
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-01-02 | Author:James Lee Burke [Burke, James Lee]

AT ONE TIME St. Mary Parish was a fiefdom ruled by an oligarchical family who owned everything and everyone in the parish, bar none. In the 1970s, when a group ...
( Category: Mystery January 10,2018 )
Land of the Brave and the Free (Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister Book 7) by Phillips Michael
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-24 | Author:Phillips, Michael [Phillips, Michael]

I did write for the next two weeks, though I still didn’t get caught up. I wrote individual letters to everyone at home, a letter to the sisters at the ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction January 10,2018 )
Deception on All Accounts by Sara Sue Hoklotubbe
epub |eng | | Author:Sara Sue Hoklotubbe

A man sat in the front corner booth of the Blue Dumpling Café sipping coffee and thumbing through the Sycamore Springs Gazette. From his seat, he could look past the ...
( Category: Contemporary January 10,2018 )

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