Contemporary
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:Chester Himes [Himes, Chester]

10 White light coming from the street slanted upward past the edge of the roof and made a milky wall in the dark. Beyond the wall of light the flat ...
( Category: Mystery October 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-04 | Author:Irving Shulman [Shulman, Irving]

Chapter 8 The hum of conversation ceased as Detective Lieutenant Macon walked into the conference room at the Liberty Avenue police station. There were approximately ten uniformed policemen and thirty-five ...
( Category: Contemporary October 22,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2007-08-01 | Author:Wilcock, Penelope [Wilcock, Penelope]

SIX Esme, watching October come and go, with its church council meetings and Harvest Festival services and suppers, felt uncomfortably detached from her congregations. I shall be leaving, she thought, ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kenzaburo Oe

I was certainly captivated by Mrs. Shigeto's story. For I, too, long to lead a quiet life with Eeyore as nobodies. This was all the more reason that I, feeling ...
( Category: Contemporary October 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-08 | Author:Pendleton, Don

THE MOON was barely more than a discarded fingernail among the myriad stars that twinkled over the African plain, but the midnight sky was bright enough for Encizo to pick ...
( Category: Contemporary October 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Julie Orringer

Care Tessa knows how to cross the street with a six-year-old: You take her hand, look both ways, and wait until it’s safe. Then you stay within the crosswalk as ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies October 22,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-03-14 | Author:Mary Kay Andrews

“No,” I said. “Should I? I don’t think I’ve ever even been to Port Wentworth.” “You really should get out more,” James said. “It was all over the news in ...
( Category: Women's Fiction October 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 1997-09-15 | Author:Robert Coover [Coover, Robert]

PALAZZO DEI BALOCCHI 17. VIEW FROM THE CLOCK TOWER Across the ruffled lead-colored waters of St. Mark's Basin, poised between crenellated Gothic fantasy and High Renaissance exuberance, Andrea Palladio's masterful ...
( Category: Contemporary October 22,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-08-18 | Author:Thom, JAMES ALEXANDER [Thom, JAMES ALEXANDER]

Chapter 14 Great Falls of the Missouri June 13, 1805 A hard wind from the southwest was beating and whiffing around his ears. Yet there was another sound, something deeper ...
( Category: Contemporary October 22,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-22 | Author:Donna Ball

~*~ Cici didn’t reach her ex-husband until after supper, 7:00 eastern time, 4:00 in LA. At first, she was a little awkward. “Listen, Richard,” she said, lowering her voice so ...
( Category: Women's Fiction October 22,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:Byrd, Max [Byrd, Max]

James Hemings remembered an excellent sentence in one of his books: “Les rues sont l’image du chaos.” The streets are the picture of chaos. Swaying, he gripped the smooth iron ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 1987-10-22 | Author:Jill McCorkle

PART 4 VIRGINIA’S HOURS are all confused; when it’s dark and still, she is wide awake, tossing, turning; and when daylight appears in Gram’s window, she is too tired to ...
( Category: Contemporary October 22,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Charles Bukowski

girl in a miniskirt reading the bible outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit, church is over at the Russian Orthodox to the west. she is dark of ...
( Category: Contemporary October 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-06 | Author:Budd Schulberg [Schulberg, Budd]

THE DARE PAUL MAXWELL WAS STARING out across the light-green sea. He was watching a small white outboard plowing up the water some hundred yards off the end of the ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies October 22,2017 )
epub | | 2005-02-24 | Author:Eric Van Lustbader & Robert Ludlum [Lustbader, Eric Van & Ludlum, Robert]

Bourne awoke to the sound of practice arpeggios and the aromatic smell of coffee. For a moment he hung between sleep and consciousness. He was aware that he was lying ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense October 22,2017 )