Contemporary
epub |eng | 2014-01-21 | Author:Adair, Marina [Adair, Marina]

CHAPTER 10 You want to run that by me again?” Trey asked, but even as the words left his mouth, he knew he was screwed. “Hunter said I wasn’t going ...
( Category: Contemporary October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ward Just

Joseph’s tent was identical to the other tents, twenty feet long by twelve wide, the canvas of a color similar to the hardpan underfoot. Mosquito netting covered the tent flap. ...
( Category: Contemporary October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Lawrence Hill [Hill, Lawrence]

“Has this man completely lost it?” Eric Small asked. “The ideas are interesting,” Langston said. Rose stared at her husband. “Not you, too?” “I’m not saying I believe it. But ...
( Category: United States October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-09 | Author:Paul Bailey [Paul Bailey]

On my happiest days, in those first years in England, I realized that I belonged to, and was the centre of, an unusual family. I had no mother and father ...
( Category: Contemporary October 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sarah Shun-lien Bynum [Bynum, Sarah Shun-Lien]

Archaeology WHEN SHE GAZES AT HIS BODY, crouching on the carpet, the only words that occur to her are: Orchard. Swallow. Bell. One morning her father found in their field ...
( Category: Literary October 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Benedict Freedman & Nancy Freedman [Freedman, Benedict & Freedman, Nancy]

"I don't know," she said, and fluffed up the other one. "What's happened?" I asked. She sat wearily on the bed. "In summer the deer stand in river many hours. ...
( Category: Contemporary October 15,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-07-20 | Author:Bapsi Sidhwa [Sidhwa, Bapsi]

Chapter Eleven Madhumati lay on her stomach like a sedated whale, and her arms lay against her body like limp flippers. Chuyia, holding onto a bar stretched above the bed ...
( Category: World Literature October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-10-15 | Author:Choderlos De Laclos

LETTER 86 The Maréchale de — to the Marquise de Merteuil (Note included in the preceding letter) Heavens above! What is this I hear, my dear? Can it be that ...
( Category: Classics October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Terri Blackstock [Blackstock, Terri]

7 Sam and Kate showed up at the stadium just after kick-off. Sam pushed through the crowd of people and up to the section where he and his friends always ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Barbara Parker [Parker, Barbara]

They got out of the car where the road turned to gravel and ended at a barbed-wire fence. Ahead of them lay a vast flat field of dirt, weeds, and ...
( Category: Mystery October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Barbara Parker [Parker, Barbara]

chapter TWENTY they sat on a bench in Peacock Park in Coconut Grove, a patch of trees and gray dirt that led to a dried-out baseball field, a tangle of ...
( Category: Contemporary October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 1997-10-15 | Author:Rosario Ferre [Ferre, Rosario]

TWENTY-EIGHT Aurelio Grabs Ulises by the Heel I NEVER KNEW ABUELA Adela. She died in 1930, the year my parents were married at Emajaguas. But Father had a picture of ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Domenic Stansberry [Stansberry, Domenic]

NINETEEN The next morning, about ten o’clock, Jim Rose trundled down the apartment stairs, headed for coffee. Rose was unaware, of course, that Cicero and Dante were outside, watching the ...
( Category: Contemporary October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Howard Waldrop [Waldrop, Howard]

He had draped two white blankets over the pachyderm’s sides, tied on with rope. Prorsus took a paint brush, and in a fairly good hand painted: VIDE ELEPHANTOS HANNIBALENSIS on ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 1984-03-11 | Author:Ellen Gilchrist [Gilchrist, Ellen]

*** Duncan and I went off to the real Caribbean in July. While I was gone Fanny finished the room and moved out into the hall and bathroom. “Oh, did ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies October 15,2017 )