Contemporary
epub |eng | 2008-09-04 | Author:Galt Niederhoffer [Niederhoffer, Galt]

SEVEN There were few things Tripler Pane loved more than a good emergency. Even as a child, she thrilled in a crisis, shepherding classmates during school fire drills, appointing herself ...
( Category: Women's Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Joseph Heywood

••• In the cool dawn, the beginning of a morning twilight, faint and wispy lavender feathers of clouds glowed in the east. The fire was out. I tried to move ...
( Category: Mystery September 4,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-05 | Author:

For the few weeks of the digging season, the archaeologists took up residence in the village hall, which served as refectory, social hub, Wi-Fi station and laboratory. Sometimes in the ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-17 | Author:Kevin Barry

John shakes his head and smiles. He drifts to the corner of the room where the candle burns; he looks at the flame and on the saucer of delft the ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-07-21 | Author:Mario Benedetti

Monday 24 June Esteban is ill. The doctor says it could be serious. We hope not. It’s pleuritis or some other pulmonary disease. He doesn’t know. When will the doctors ...
( Category: Short Stories September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-23 | Author:Hill, Fiona [Hill, Fiona]

Eight Whether Miss Guilfoyle herself believed the comforting prognostications she made to Maria regarding Mr. Mallinger’s return to spirits was not clear. What became all too clear, as the weeks ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Nathalie Sarraute

XII During his very well attended lectures at the Collège de France, he amused himself with all that. He enjoyed prying, with the dignity of professional gestures, with relentless, expert ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Jason F. Wright [Wright, Jason F.]

A project foreman met Thomas in the parking lot of the new sixteen-unit apartment building they’d been working on for two weeks. “No work today, sorry, Thomas.” “What do you ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 4,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-07-30 | Author:McNamara, Ali [McNamara, Ali]

He nods. ‘But it’s been five years, hasn’t it?’ ‘It could be ten for all it matters,’ he says, his forehead wrinkling with concern. ‘I just can’t. Maybe not ever… ...
( Category: Women's Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-26 | Author:Leah Fleming [Fleming, Leah]

1941 The late summer campaign into the hills was to flush out the stragglers, knowing many were being sheltered in the villages higher up in the White Mountains. How shocked ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elias Khoury

The last option is me, I told her, our footsteps striking the streets of the dark town. Clothes rustling, words spoken in silence. Cruising ahead of us, a Land-rover filled ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-02-01 | Author:Paul Bagdon [Bagdon, Paul]

* * * 7 * * * Ben sat as if he’d been poleaxed, and for a few moments he was too stunned to speak. But when he did, his ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:Christine Sneed [Sneed, Christine]

A SHORT DETOUR: A FEW NOTES ABOUT ME, YOUR GUIDE ON THIS HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME I was born in Cary, North Carolina, and for the first ten years of ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Maureen Lee [Lee, Maureen]

Valerie was leaning on the fence. She looked upset. 'They mustn't have any children.' 'Or relatives.' 'Or friends.' 'They didn't want friends,' Annie said. 'I tried talking to them over ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-28 | Author:Cox, Josephine [Cox, Josephine]

Since the brief telephone conversation, Rosie had stood at the window, patiently watching for her uncle Patrick to arrive. Equally anxious, Barney leaned over her shoulder, panting his hot breath ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )