Contemporary
epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Allan Gurganus [Gurganus, Allan]

BARKER SAT QUIET. I finally asked what’d happened to his grandfather. How about Robby and the den mother? “In jail. My granddad died. Of a broken heart, Mom said. Robby ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-05 | Author:Mary Carter [Carter, Mary]

CHAPTER 19 Ava perched on her stool and opened her laptop. London was only half-gray today. Strips of blue cut through the remainder of the sky, offering a little bit ...
( Category: Women's Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-02 | Author:Castellanos Moya, Horacio [Castellanos Moya, Horacio]

Tuesday April 18 A detachment of National Guard troops had taken up position on the street in front of the Central Prison with orders not to allow us to approach. ...
( Category: Humor & Satire September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-03 | Author:Lonely Road [Road, Lonely]

CHAPTER 8 THAT EVENING we went up to Thompson’s field and sat and I waited for the aeroplane. Mollie had gone up to her room directly after lunch, and had ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-07-22 | Author:R. F. Delderfield [Delderfield, R. F.]

II Celia’s second letter arrived towards the end of January, more than six months after Grace had left. Her first, replying to his angry demands for news of his wife’s ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-11 | Author:Valdimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Valdimir]

Naturally, I had to be always wary, fully realizing, in my lucid jealousy, the danger of those dazzling romps. I had only to turn away for a moment--to walk, say, ...
( Category: Classics September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Jodi Picoult

I guess I’m expecting a richly paneled courtroom, with a high bench that has a white-haired judge presiding. I’m pretty surprised to find out that, instead, a grand jury is ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-02 | Author:Lisa Maggiore & Jennifer McCartney [Maggiore, Lisa & McCartney, Jennifer]

Jessica spent fifteen minutes in Paul’s bathroom, afraid her father may sense something different in her look and smell when he picked her up. Paul reassured her that nothing on ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Jager, Anja de [Jager, Anja de]

Stefanie showed no interest in Wouter’s art collection and walked straight past the paintings without stopping. She had already been waiting for me outside Wouter’s apartment building. Wouter wore a ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 4,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-11-20 | Author:Adalbert Stifter

( Category: Classics September 4,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Thomas, Jodi [Thomas, Jodi]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Sloan slammed Sidney’s door and ran through the rain to the other side of his truck. He flipped the driver’s seat down and reached in the back for ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-04 | Author:Nick Alexander

Part Three: Good Thing Bad Thing I watch Tom’s buttocks moving up and down beneath his beige cotton shorts as he weaves along the path before me. They are fleshier ...
( Category: Music September 4,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-03-15 | Author:Gipe, Robert [Gipe, Robert]

“I don’t know,” I said. I made the glider squeak. “You don’t want me working for Hubert, do you?” “You know I don’t,” Mamaw said. “Then why don’t you stop ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:Tara Taylor

John didn’t meet me at my locker, and I had no idea why. Since we had started going out, he’d met me every morning. I stuck my pager in my ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-08 | Author:Gerald Kersh [Kersh, Gerald]

Another lever made it sit down. As the thighs and legs made an angle of ninety degrees, the phonograph automatically started. Choking imprecations, together with groans of pain came out ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )