Contemporary
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

CHAPTER IV It was on a soft, dark evening of the following week that they engaged in the adventure. Tina was to meet her at a point in the highway ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-04 | Author:R. D. Blackmore [Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)]

361.jpg None Can Tell What the Labour Was Of the sheep upon the mountain, and the sheep upon the western farm, and the cattle on the upper barrows, scarcely one ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-02-01 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

'And what has it all come to?' said Alaric, whom the question of M'Buffer's temporary prosperity made rather thoughtful. 'Well, not so bad either; he has had his fling for ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-01 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir]

Still the patter of rain upon the window, and no other sound save her own sharp breathing. "Perhaps you do not know who I am!" she continued, endeavouring to assume ...
( Category: Contemporary December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 1965-03-18 | Author:Tyler, Anne [Tyler, Anne]

8 On Tuesday morning, Mr Pike was the second person awake. He arrived in the kitchen wearing his work clothes and carrying a nylon mesh cap, and when he sat ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 1969-01-04 | Author:Tyler, Anne [Tyler, Anne]

So he slept on the porch, on the heavy, flattened cushions in the wooden swing. Not just one night, but all week. Evie would lie awake until midnight or so, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 17,2017 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-16 | Author:Nicholas Royle

THE END.11 ENDNOTES 1 ‘All stories are love stories.’ So begins Robert McLiam Wilson’s 1996 novel, Eureka Street. It is a spare and haunting beginning but if you tweak it ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies December 17,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-04-06 | Author:Akhil Sharma [Sharma, Akhil]

The day Birju was supposed to be brought to our house, Mr. Narayan rang our doorbell at around eight in the morning. He stood in the doorway smiling, his face ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 17,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2008-11-11 | Author:Rowland, Laura Joh [Rowland, Laura Joh]

A sharp-edged silver moon illuminated the garden of the estate. As Etsuko crept through the shadows, her heart raced. All day she’d waited impatiently for her tryst with Egen. She ...
( Category: Mystery December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-05 | Author:Jane Hamilton

Chapter Nine At dinner that night after our trip to Wisconsin, my father was talking about the concept of moving from forty-minute class periods to block scheduling at Jesse Layton. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-01 | Author:Cathy Marie Hake [Hake, Cathy Marie]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Laney! Sis?” Josh knelt beside her and slowly turned her onto her back, then pressed his fingers to the side of her neck. Rapid, thready pulses beneath his ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Adena Halpern [Halpern, Adena]

the point of no return A moment comes in everyone’s life when they realize they’re old. I’m not talking about the day you see your first gray hair or the ...
( Category: Humor & Satire December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-26 | Author:Barbara Hambly [Hambly, Barbara]

Her dearest Tommy. Long after John drifted to sleep at her side, Abigail lay in the darkness, listening to the singing of the night-birds. Thinking about her son. Her gentle, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 16,2017 )
epub, mobi | | 1990-07-03 | Author:Arthur C Clarke [Clarke, Arthur C]

Betty and Hap were both asleep, as Commander Winters knew they would be, when he finally arrived home around eleven o’clock He walked softly past his son’s room but then ...
( Category: Science Fiction December 16,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mary Mackey [Mackey, Mary]

When he hears her voice, he turns around and sees a woman standing on the hotel steps wearing a white dress with a muddy hem. The lantern above her is ...
( Category: Contemporary December 16,2017 )