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Legs - William Kennedy by William Kennedy
epub, mobi | | 2011-07-06 | Author:William Kennedy [Kennedy, William]

JOHN THOMSON'S MAN When the police went through Jack's house in one of their fine-combings near the end, somebody turned up a piece of plaster, one side covered with the ...
( Category: Literary December 8,2017 )
Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
mobi, epub, azw3 | | 2010-07-17 | Author:William T. Vollmann

10 To his friend Helmut Franz he once said in his typically didactic fashion: The times leave me no choice but to seek knife-edge paths and live dangerously.—That was in ...
( Category: Literary December 8,2017 )
Noah Primeval (Chronicles of the Nephilim Book 1) by Godawa Brian
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-12-05 | Author:Godawa, Brian [Godawa, Brian]

Chapter 21 Lugalanu led Ham down a circular stairwell deep into the recesses of the earth below the temple complex of E-annu. The spiral brick staircase spun downward like a ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction December 8,2017 )
Heart Like Mine by Amy Hatvany
epub |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Amy Hatvany [Hatvany, Amy]

Ava The moment I walked into homeroom on Monday morning, everyone went silent. Even Mrs. Philips stared at me as I stood in the threshold, holding my backpack across my ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 7,2017 )
The Bet by Taylor Hart
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Taylor Hart [Hart, Taylor]

Chapter 16 “Dibs?” she said, scurrying to fall into step with him. She could feel herself blushing, horribly blushing, but she was totally confused. “Is this some competitive thing?” If ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 7,2017 )
Safe With Me by Amy Hatvany
epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Amy Hatvany [Hatvany, Amy]

Olivia On Monday morning, James brings Olivia breakfast in bed. “Wake up, beautiful,” he says as he sets a tray on the bed next to her. “The breakfast fairy has ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 7,2017 )
Cally's War by Ringo John & Cochrane Julie
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Ringo, John & Cochrane, Julie [Ringo, John & Cochrane, Julie]

Chapter Ten Cally left the women's room and walked past Gra—the other cleaner, wishing him a nice day. The purple vinyl seats and purple and oatmeal carpet of the departure ...
( Category: Science Fiction December 7,2017 )
Can't Teach an Old Demon New Tricks by Lockwood Cara
epub |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Lockwood, Cara [Lockwood, Cara]

Seventeen “Rachel is one measly human woman,” Casiphia cried through gnashed teeth. “How does she keep escaping?” Casiphia flipped a long strand of dark hair off her shoulder as she ...
( Category: Contemporary December 7,2017 )
My Struggle: Book 2 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
epub |eng | | Author:Karl Ove Knausgaard

RAINMAKER TRANSLATIONS supports a series of books meant to encourage a lively reading experience of contemporary world literature drawn from diverse languages and cultures. Publication is assisted by grants from ...
( Category: Literary December 7,2017 )
My Struggle: Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
epub |eng | | Author:Karl Ove Knausgaard

PRAISE FOR My Struggle “The career of the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard had followed a fairly conventional trajectory … But with his latest project, My Struggle, whose title deliberately ...
( Category: Contemporary December 7,2017 )
Dangerous Visions 4 by Harlan Ellison
epub |eng | 1975-01-02 | Author:Harlan Ellison [Ellison, Harlan]

I first met Hensley at a Midwestern Science Fiction Convention in the middle Fifties, and we have been chums ever since. There are those who contend we are the contemporary ...
( Category: Science Fiction December 7,2017 )
So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-31 | Author:Leif Enger [Enger, Leif]

12 I would love to tell you that Darlys DeFoe turned herself in. That she came down off the roof of Marland Oil across the street, where she had climbed ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 7,2017 )
A Darker Shade of Midnight by Lynn Emery
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-30 | Author:Lynn Emery [Emery, Lynn]

Chapter 9 The next three days went by fast. LaShaun got through the hours by putting one foot in front of the other. She felt trapped in a heavy fog ...
( Category: Mystery December 7,2017 )
The Weight of Small Things by Sherri Wood Emmons
epub |eng | 2013-01-14 | Author:Sherri Wood Emmons [Emmons, Sherri Wood]

30 On Tuesday, Corrie took the day off from work. After early Mass, she drove home, dusted furniture, mopped the floors, and started dinner in the Crock-Pot. And she cried. ...
( Category: Contemporary December 7,2017 )
Masks by Fumiko Enchi
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-16 | Author:Fumiko Enchi [Enchi, Fumiko]

Grass for your pillow, on a far journey you leave; Despairing, I awake before dawn from my dream. At the time I belittled them, calling them outdated lyricism of the ...
( Category: Contemporary December 7,2017 )

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